Posted on behalf of the ALCTS President's Program Committee. Exlibris
member may find the creation and binding of the record-holding world's
largest book to be of interest. I have seen a copy and it really is quite
impressive!
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://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/alctspubs/alctsnewsletter/vol16no2/lettersfromalctsa/fromthepresidenta/frompres.htm.
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.
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Beth M. Russell
Assistant Professor
Head, Special Collections Cataloging
The Ohio State University Libraries
1858 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus OH 43210-1286
614-247-7463
FAX 614-292-2015
russell.363@osu.edu
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