John Lubans

John Lubans Jr. writes about leadership and teamwork. He blogs at http://blog.lubans.org/

Born in Cesis, Latvia he has lived in the USA since arriving on a cold and stormy night in Boston harbor on a refugee ship in December, 1949.

In early 2011 he returns to Latvia as a Fulbright Scholar to teach at the University of Latvia.

The author of numerous journal articles, his first book was Library Systems Analysis Guidelines, co-authored with Edward A. Chapman and Paul St.Pierre, published by Wiley in 1971. R. R. Bowker published his second book, Educating the Library User, an anthology edited by him. Before going out of print, ELU sold over 6000 copies and helped define user eduction (now information literacy) in the academic library.

Little known is that he was the anonymous Suggestion Answer Person at the University of Colorado Library and elsewhere for two decades. Besides numerous marriage proposals prompted by his ripostes, the Suggestion Answer Books provided practical information to improve library services and mirth for generations of readers of the book (a loose leaf notebook of over 3000 pages).

Semi-retired, he and his wife live in North Carolina. Currently, he is an online instructor for Rutgers University. He enjoys the works of P.G. Wodehouse.