Dr. James Carmichael will be our lunch speaker on Thursday, July 27th.
Mary Boone, the new State Librarian, will be our speaker at lunch on Friday, July 28th.
Mary Boone A native of North Carolina, Ms. Boone received her BA and MSLS degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was director of the Chapel Hill (NC) Public Library from 1978 to 1985 and was a founding member of the North Carolina Public Library Directors Association. Since 1985 she has been a Foreign Service Library/Information Resource Officer with the United States Information Agency and the U.S. Department of State, with service in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Washington, DC. Her assignments included serving as the director of the Department of State's extensive international library program from 1999 to 2002 and overseeing the planning and establishment of the Jefferson Information Center, a new Department of State initiative incorporating its existing library and a new research service, from 2002 to 2005. The UNC-CH School of Information and Library Science presented her with its Distinguished Alumni Award in December 2003.
Dr. James V. (Jim) Carmichael, Jr. is Professor of Library and Information and Library Studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has published numerous articles both within and without the library field on southern library history, gender issues, and gay and lesbian issues and has most recently edited a collection of essays entitled Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay Library History. He is an active member of ALA and the Association for Library and Information Science Education and is a frequent speaker at various forums within both associations, and beyond.
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