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GSLIS Presents Follett Lecture

Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science will present its annual Follett Lecture on Wednesday, February 28 at 6:00 p.m. in the Eloise Martin Recital Hall, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest. Edward Valauskas, holder of the Follett Chair and assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, will deliver a lecture titled “ The Library is Dead: Long Live the Library.

Valauskas will address the changing role of libraries in today’s technological society.

The modern library is less about place and space and more about customized services and personalized attention to patrons’ information needs. Librarians are increasingly working in both virtual and real spaces to meet the diverse needs of their clientele.

Valuaskas is chief editor of First Monday, one of the first openly accessible, peer-reviewed journals on the Internet. Author and editor of several books related to the Internet and computing, including The Internet for Teachers and School Media Specialists, and Internet Initiative: Libraries Providing Internet Services and How They Plan, Pay and Manage, Valauskas has served as assistant director of the library for the Charles E. Merriam Center for Public Administration at the University of Chicago, and head of public services for library and information services at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory in Texas.

He is the second holder of Dominican University’s prestigious Follett Chair in Library and Information Science, one of only four such chairs in the country. The position is endowed through a gift of the Follett Corporation, a leading provider of education solutions, services and products that empower schools, libraries, students and lifelong learners. The chair links GSLIS more closely to the professional community through educational and service activities.

For more information on this lecture, please call the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at (708) 524-6845.

Accredited by the American Library Association, Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science has been educating future librarians and information professionals in the Chicago area since the 1930s. GSLIS offers master’s degrees in library and information science and in knowledge management.