Cyberspace lecture is published

The Faculty of Arts marked the filling of the Chair of Library and Information Studies by the publication of an Inaugural Lecture by Professor Mary Burke. The lecture entitled Challenges of Cyberspace was delivered at UCD on 23 April 1998. Professor Burke is the second holder of this Professorship which dates back to 1977 when Professor John Dean became the foundation professor. 

In setting up his new department, Professor Dean secured Dr Mary Burke as its first permanent lecturer. Dr Burke had secured her BSc and her PhD in Chemistry from UCD and at the same time was developing a parallel professional and academic interest in the field of Information Studies. In 1993 she succeeded John Dean as the Head of the Department and later became only the second holder of the Chair of Library and Information Studies in succession to him. As Head and Professor she was responsible for introducing Information Studies as a major Humanities subject in the Faculty of Arts. The publication has a foreword by Professor Fergus D’Arcy, dean, Faculty of Arts. The lecture is also printed in Irish in the same booklet.