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2008-09 Lecture Opportunities
This October
Terry Belanger, founding director of the Rare Book School (RBS) and University
Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia will present
the 2008 McCusker Lecture. In 2005 Belanger became only the second librarian to become a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for his work as "a rare book preservationist raising the profile of the book as one
of humankind's greatest inventions."
Founded as an institute in New York City in 1983 the Rare Book School
has been located at the University of Virginia since 1992, when Belanger accepted an academic
appointment there. Reflecting on the mission to conserve rare books to
Library Journal shortly after being named a MacArthur Fellow Belanger stated, “We
must not deprive the future of the past. We have no right to hand the future a CD-ROM and call it
Monticello. Because it's not. It's been a predisposition of the profession for 100 years to think
that photography or film or microfiche or digitization completely satisfies our need for the
original…We've lost all sorts of original copies of major papers. I hope we can do better with the
rest of it.”
Belanger will present the 2008 McCusker Lecture, “Bibliography by Any
Other Name: Things You Can Pick Up and Hold in Your Hand!” on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 6 pm
in the Eloise Martin Recital Hall (Fine Arts Building) on Dominican University’s River Forest
campus. The lecture is open to all and will be followed by a reception in the Slate Lobby. Call
(708) 524-6845 to RSVP.
The Annual McCusker Lecture honors Sr. Lauretta McCusker who served
as founding dean of Dominican’s Master of Arts in Library Science program’s transformation into the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
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Following the success of
eChicago
2008, its 2nd Annual Community Informatics Symposium held in
2008, the Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science invites you
to
Save
the Date
for the:
Third Annual eChicago 2009
Community Informatics Symposium
Thursday, April 2 - Friday, April 3, 2009
Dominican University
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
7900 West Division Street, River Forest, IL 60305
(eight miles west of Chicago)
This forum brings together librarians, community technology center
providers, activists, e-government officials and policymakers for open dialogue and the
sharing of new research on how information technologies can and are being used to
create community growth, spur economic mobility, inform collective identity, and support
community advocacy.
Look for further details to be announced
later this year. For more information in the interim contact:
Dr. Chris Hagar
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Library & Information Science
Dominican University
7900 West Division St.
River Forest, IL 60305
(708) 366-6482
"Our graduate program gives students the skills to build both a solid foundation on the core values of librarianship and a thorough knowledge of emerging technologies, trends and innovation in the field."
Michael Stephens
Assistant Professor
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