ALA/ALCTS President's Program Meeting Announcement

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005
From: Julia Gammon (Univ. of Akron) <jgammon_at_uakron.edu>
Subject: ALA/ALCTS President's Program Meeting Announcement

Please pardon any duplication:

Join ALCTS President Carol Pitts Diedrichs for her President's Program 
during the ALA Annual Meeting in Chicago on Monday, June 27 from
10:30am-
noon in Red Lacquer Room at the Palmer House. The title of the program
is 
"Librarians, Learning and Creativity: A Boundary-Breaking Perspective". 
Michael Hawley, an extraordinary innovator, educator, and explorer, is
the 
featured speaker. (Information about Dr. Hawley can be found at 
http://leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=82 and at 
http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/.)  Karen Calhoun, Associate University 
Librarian for Technical Services at Cornell University, will address the

changing context for librarians in the interconnected world of the Web. 
(Information about Cornell's technical services is available at 
http://www.library.cornell.edu/cts/; information about Karen and the
text of 
her papers can be found at
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/calhoun.html.)  
Further information about the program and Dr. Hawley's Guinness World
Record 
holding book, Bhutan, is available in Carol's column in the Vol. 16, no.
2 of 
the ALCTS Newsletter, http://tinyurl.com/7wmof.   A copy of the giant
version 
of Bhutan will be donated to the Field Museum at the program. ALCTS
thanks 
Elsevier for its support of the program and an anonymous donor for the
book.

The members of the President's Program Planning Committee encourage
ALCTS 
members to attend not only the program but also the ALCTS Award Ceremony
at 
5:00 on Sunday, June 26, in the Adams Ball Room at the Palmer House. A
copy 
of the coffee table sized version of Bhutan will be given away as a door
prize 
at that event. The ALCTS membership reception immediately follows in the
Red 
Lacquer Room.

Julia Gammon
Head, Acquisitions Dept.
University Libraries
University of Akro
Akron, OH  44325-1708
330.972.6254 (P)
330.972.5132 (F)
jgammon_at_uakron.edu

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