MEDIA RELEASES

Ecological activist and author Stephanie Mills will present Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science’s annual McCusker Lecture, entitled “Matter and Energy—A Luddite Looks at Libraries,” on Wednesday, October 17. The lecture will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Eloise Martin Recital Hall of the Fine Arts Building, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest. A reception will follow the lecture.

In her lecture, Mills will use her naiveté of the Internet and her ecological activism as a point of reference from which to view the incredible energy that the Web now commands. Mills has been an ardent ecological activist since graduating from Mills College in 1969. Her commencement speech, which featured an anguished warning on the effects of overpopulation and American society’s destructive materialism, was covered by the New York Times and referenced in other publications. Mills has served as editor-in-chief of Earth Times in San Francisco and membership director of Friends of the Earth and is currently the president of the Traverse (MI) Area Community Currency Corporation.

Mills is the author of In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land and Whatever Happened to Ecology and edited Turning Away from Technology and In Praise of Nature. She has contributed work to The Whole Earth Catalog. She is an adjunct professor in Grand Valley (MI) State University’s Liberal Arts Program.

This free lecture is sponsored by Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science in memory of Sr. Lauretta McCusker, a former professor and dean of the school. To reserve a space, please call 708-524-6845 or e-mail 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.