Career
Valauskas is an instructor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University of Illinois. He teaches a variety of graduate classes including Internet Publishing, Internet Fundamentals and Design, Information Policy, History of the Book, Descriptive Bibliography, Digital Media and Collections, and Scholarly Communication in the Sciences. Students in Internet Publishing classes have been converting the School's print journal, World Libraries, into an openly accessible Internet-based journal at World Libraries.
Valauskas has taught at the School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University; International Centre for Information Management Systems and Services, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland; Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; UC Berkeley Extension; University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies; and, Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Since 1998, he has also worked at the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden. He is currently Curator of Rare Books at the Library of the Garden. He is the curator of the traveling exhibit, Plants in Print: The Age of Botanical Discovery; see http://www.plantsinprint.org. The exhibit opened on 1 April 2004 at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. and has since appeared at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Milton Hershey School Art Museum in Hershey, Pa., and Cherokee Garden Library at the Atlanta History Center.
Edward uses a variety of rare herbals from the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden for lectures on Renaissance science as reflected in the Harry Potter series. These talks, entitled "Harry Potter's Herbology," have occurred at the Chicago Botanic Garden. and elsewhere.
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