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Close Window Pictured: IRC Director Andrushenkova and Regional Information Officer Laura Hohmann address Northwest Russian librarians at the North West Academy of Public Administration.
Pictured: IRC Director Andrushenkova and Regional Information Officer Laura Hohmann address Northwest Russian librarians at the North West Academy of Public Administration.
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Pictured: IRC Director Andrushenkova and Regional Information Officer Laura Hohmann address Northwest Russian librarians at the North West Academy of Public Administration.
Pictured: IRC Director Andrushenkova and Regional Information Officer Laura Hohmann address Northwest Russian librarians at the North West Academy of Public Administration.

Outreach to Northwest Russian Librarians

The week of December 3rd, Laura Kaspari Hohmann, State Department Regional Information Officer based in Warsaw, visited St. Petersburg and participated at five professional library events, sharing her library experience with local colleagues. Her presentation "Web 2.0 Technologies: Application in the Library World" was met with great interest by 45 library students and lecturers at the Academy of Culture and Arts and by 30 academic librarians from seventeen university libraries at the North West Academy of Public Administration. Another presentation on "Graphic Novels and Comics" sparked a debate at the Lermontov Public Library. She also participated at a library seminar at Petrovskiy College, where she talked to 25 participants from several secondary school and college libraries on "Collection Development Trends in Academic Libraries." Following each of Laura Hohmann's talks, Yelena Andrushenkova made a presentation on services available to librarians at the Information Resource Center of the Consulate's Public Affairs Section.