Robert D. Stueart

Our current project is to establish the square that commemorates the birth of his majesty of the King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand at Mount Auburn hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 5, 1927. For more information click here.

Dr. Robert Stueart is Professor and Dean Emeritus of Simmons College in Boston , where he was dean for 20 years. From 1994 through 1997 he served as Professor of Information Management in the School of Advanced Technologies and Executive Director of the Center for Library and Information Resources at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok , Thailand , where he developed both PhD and masters programs in Information Management. During his career he also served on faculties of the University of Denver , the University of Wales (U.K.), and the University of Pittsburgh ; and on the senior administrative staffs of libraries at both the University of Colorado and the Pennsylvania State University .

Dr. Stueart has received many honors, including the Melvil Dewey Medal for "creative professional achievement" and the Beta Phi Mu Award for service to education "nationally and internationally." Both of those awards are presented by the American Library Association. In 1994 he was presented the Humphrey/OCLC/ Forest Press International Award, given for “significant contributions to International Librarianship.” He has received Outstanding Alumni Awards from all three of his degree granting universities.

Professor Stueart has served in leadership roles in many professional organizations, including the Executive Board and the Council of the American Library Association, and the Executive Board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. He has also served as president of three library associations: the Association for Library and Information Education; Beta Phi Mu, the international library science society; and the former Library Education Division of ALA.

He received both the John F. Kennedy International Scholar Award, twice, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Thailand , helping develop information management, library and information science curricula. From 1987 until its dissolution, he chaired the joint US-USSR Commission on Library Cooperation, co-sponsored by the American Council on Learned Societies and the USSR Ministry of Culture.

Dr. Stueart has consulted and lectured for the U.S. government, UNESCO, OCLC, foundations, and other governments in many countries in Asia (including China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) and Europe (Belarus, England, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Wales). He has made professional visits to Africa , Australia , New Zealand , the Middle East and Latin America . In addition, he has conducted many workshops, facilitated strategic planning exercises, and completed management evaluations in many of those countries. He is currently working with a foundation with program development in Vietnam; serving as an “expert” for UNESCO's project on developing ICT training courses for librarians in developing countries of Asia, and serves as External Examiner for a major university in Malaysia. He also participated in a UNESCO seminar and worked on the development of “A Curriculum for an Information Society: Educating and Training Information Professionals in the Asia-Pacific Region” which was published in 1998. He is a sought-after facilitator for strategic issue identification and strategic planning.

His books include a management textbook Library and Information Center Management (6 th in prep), a two-volume award winning work on Collection Development. He has edited or written over a dozen monographs, including co-editing the reference work entitled the World Guide to Library Archive and Information Science Education. He has written over 50 refereed articles in journals and served on the editorial boards of three major international professional journals. He recently completed, along with a colleague, World Guide to Library Archive and Information Science Education.

Our current project is to establish the square that commemorates the birth of his majesty of the King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand at Mount Auburn hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 5, 1927. For more information click here.