Paul Sturges
Professor Emeritus, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, UK;Professor Extraordinary, University of Pretoria, South Africa
His central professional commitment since the mid 1990s has been to Intellectual Freedom issues. Consultant to the Council of Europe on freedom of expression and public access points to networked information, and also on library legislation, 1997-2001. Chair of the IFLA FAIFE Committee since August 2003.
He drew up the Council of Europe guidelines on Public access and freedom of expression in networked information (Council of Europe Publishing, 2001). Was Project Leader for the Privacy in the Digital Library Environment project, financed by UK Re:source 2000-2001 (Paul Sturges et al. User privacy in the digital library environment: an investigation of policies and preparedness. Library Management 24, 2003, 44-50). Is author of Public Internet access in libraries and information services (Facet, 2002).
He has travelled widely throughout the world, giving lectures and conference presentations, and leading workshops on Intellectual Freedom topics. His more than 150 articles, reports and books deal with a variety of issues in information science, with a strong emphasis on the developing world and Africa in particular. He is joint author with Richard Neill of The quiet struggle: information and libraries for the people of Africa (Mansell, 2nd ed., 1998); and joint editor (with John Feather) of the International encyclopedia of information and library science, (Routledge, 2nd ed., 2003).