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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 14:23:40 -0400
From: Nancy M. Stanley <nms@PSULIAS.PSU.EDU>
Subject: ALA Program Announcement

Please post the following announcement.  Thank you.

ALCTS President's Program at ALA Annual Meetings in San Francisco:

PROGRAM: ELLEN GOODMAN ON LIBRARIANS IN SOCIETY: Can We Change Our Ways but
Keep Our Ideals?

Monday, June 30, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Sheraton Palace, Gold Ballroom

The current popular press has been linking changes in library collecting
policies and cataloging methods with fundamental changes in the societal
roles of libraries and librarians.  Are these merely opinions of a few
disgruntled professional writers, or are they signals that we are
alienating our constituents on a broad scale?  Are the ideals that
librarians deem as important shared with the communities that we serve and
is the profession remaining true its own expectations?  Is it possible that
our profession and our organizations are changing in unintended ways?  What
should librarians expect from their futures and what is expected of us?

Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman will discuss how technology and social
change have led us in new directions, and consider our future role in
American society. Goodman is a Pulitzer prize-winner whose social
commentary appears in hundreds of newspapers across the country.

James Neal, Director, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns
Hopkins University, and Toni Carbo, Dean of the School of Information
Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, comprise the panel that will respond.
Carol Pitts Diedrichs, Head of Acquisitions, Ohio State University, will
serve as moderator.

This program has been generously supported by Baker and Taylor and Yankee
Book Peddler.

This program will follow the ALCTS membership meeting and awards ceremony.

For information contact:

        Jan Maxwell
        Wright State University
        jmaxwell@library.wright.edu
        513-873-3034

        Nancy M. Stanley
        Penn State University Libraries
        nms@psulias.psu.edu
        814-865-1858