[Sigiii-l] Re: Global Information Village Plaza

[mcunha]

I agree with Charles Lam that one of our problems is the gap between
academics and practitioners. We live in two different worlds and an effort
from our side is welcome.
In Brazil, I think that we must try harder to be more visible to the
information science & technology community. Our visibility as professionals
is minimal (if we can say it in English).

About the impacts in my personal life I think I have much more work to do.
It is not easy to open the mail box every day
and try to cope with it. On the other side, it is wonderful to exchange
ideas with lots of people from the information community. Our work in the
Information and Library Educational Association - ABECIN, has become more
interesting and richer due to our closer contacts. In my work with the
students, Internet has open a lot of new possibilities.
Miriam Vieira da Cunha
Professor
Information Science Department,
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil