MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science will present Michael Gorman, past president of the American Library Association, as a speaker for its ongoing Emerging Library Leaders for the 21 ^st Century Lecture Series on Monday, November 5. Gorman’s talk, entitled “Building for Tomorrow: 21st Century Academic Library Buildings,” will be held at 4:00 p.m. in the Springer Suite, Rebecca Crown Library, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Gorman, librarian emeritus at California State University-Fresno and former dean of library services at Henry Madden Library, is the recipient of the Margaret Mann Citation (1979), the 1992 Melvil Dewey Medal, Blackwell’s Scholarship Award (1997) and the California Library Association/Access, Collections, and Technical Services Section Award of Achievement in 1999.

Gorman is the author of Our Enduring Values, which received the American Library Association’s 2001 Highsmith Award for the best book on librarianship, and served as the first editor of the second edition and the 1988 revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. He is also the author of The Concise AACR2, third edition (1999) and fourth edition (2005). He wrote Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, and Reality with Walt Crawford in 1995 and Our Own Selves: More Meditations for Librarians in 2005. 

The lecture is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended; please respond to (708) 524-6845 or gslis@dom.edu.

Accredited by the American Library Association, Dominican University’s GSLIS has been educating future library leaders and information professionals since the 1930s. The school offers master’s degrees in library and information science and in knowledge management.