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Hello Tom: Many congratulations for the honour. I think that many of us
agree that you deserve it and I thank you for sharing the information with
us.
Joaquina


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From: "Tom Wilson" <t.d.wilson@sheffield.ac.uk>
To: "irweblog.irweblog" <irweblog-site@free-conversant.com>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 11:37 AM
Subject: IR-WEBLOG An interesting event


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> I was involved in an interesting event on Saturday afternoon, when I
> received an honorary degree (Filosofie Hedersdoktor) from Gothenburg
> University. The ceremony, covering a number of other 'hedersdoktorna'
> (including a roller-coaster designer and a Swedish poet, playwright and
> actor) and all new doctorates of the University, was held in the
> convention hall of the Svenska Massen - the main exhibition hall in
> Gothenburg and lasted for three hours, with musical interludes of a
> variety of kinds from Scottish Gaelic 'mouth music' to a jazz trio and
> Thelonius Monk's 'Blue Monk'. At a rough guess there were close to 100
> graduates and about 1,000 people in the audience.
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> In case you are wondering :-) - the cited reason for giving me an hon.
> doc. was that I have been visiting Sweden for the past 25 years, giving
> lectures on research, running workshops, etc., etc. and for the past few
> years I've been Visiting Professor at the Swedish School of Library and
> Information Science, which is a joint institution of the Gothenburg
> University and the Hogskolan i Boras
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