Richardson's Travel Abroad
The profession of librarianship has afforded me quite a few unexpected opportunities
to travel in the first,
second, and third worlds:
and I do believe that "you have to see the world to understand it:"
- Summer 1969 England, Belgium, Germany, France
- Year 1975 Europe Including Yugoslavia, Greece, and Egypt
- Fall 1984 England Research for Biography of Pierce Butler
- Fall 1985 Germany Research for Biography of Pierce Butler
- Fall 1986 Wales Education for Librarianship (Lancour Scholar)
- Fall 1988 Switzerland, France, and Italy
- August 1989 France Paper Presentation at IFLA Conference
- Summer 1990 Australia Visiting Fellow, Charles Sturt University
- June 1991 Central Am. Belize and Guatemala
- July 1993 S.E. Asia Singapore
- September 1993 France (Dordogne, Bordeaux) and Switzerland
- September 1994 Turkey (Istanbul, Cappadocia, Antalya, Ephesus, Troy)
- April 1996 Russia (St. Petersburg and Moscow)
- September 1996 France (Paris, Brittany and Normandy)
- August and September 1997 Russia (St. Petersburg and Moscow)
- August and September 1998 Tuscany, the Bernese Oberland and Russia (St.
Petersburg and Moscow)
- October 1999, Moscow, Russia
- November 2000, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk (Courtesy of the U.S. Department
of State)
- August 2001, Switzerland
- October 2001, Zambia and Uganda (Keynote Address to Uganda Library Association
meeting)
- March-April 2003, Eritrea (Courtesy of U.S. Department of State)
- August-September 2003, Switzerland and France
- October 2003, Sakhlin Island and Vladivostok (Courtesy of U.S. Department
of State)
- August-September 2004, Ireland
- April 2005, Vladiovstok State University of Economics (Fulbright Scholar,
Senior Specialist)
- August 2005, Canadian Rockies
- September 2006, Moscow, Russia; Berlin, Germany; and Czech Republic
- March 2008, Costa Rica and Nicaragua
- June 2008, Crimea, Ukraine (2008 ILIAC Library Conference)
- August and September 2008, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Hungary (pending)
- Summer 2009, DIS 598 "Field Study to Russia" (St. Petersburg and
Moscow), pending
Extensive travel in western Canada (Alberta and British Columbia) and Mexican
states: Baja California Norte, Mexico City D.F., Sonora, Chihuahua, Quintana
Roo, and Yucatan.