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.