June 3, 1998
Contact:
Press Contact: Craig D'Ooge (202) 707-9189
Library History Round Table Marks 50th Anniversary
Fifty years of promoting library history will be
celebrated at the Library of Congress on Saturday, June 27,
in a program at 2-5:30 p.m. in Dining Room A on the sixth
floor of the James Madison Memorial Building. Several
prominent library historians will present remarks about the
development of library history since the American Library
Association's Library History Round Table was established in
1947. The event, which is sponsored by the Round Table and
the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, is free
and open to the public.
"Long Life to the Library History Round Table: Fifty
Years of Promoting Library History, 1947-1997² will include
participants Donald G. Davis Jr., University of Texas at
Austin; Lee Shiflett, Louisiana State University; John David
Marshall, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro;
Edward G. Holley, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill; Laurel Grotzinger, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo; Phyllis Dain, professor emerita, Columbia
University; Arthur P. Young, Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb; Mary Niles Maack, University of California at Los
Angeles; Louise Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison;
Andrew B. Wertheimer, doctoral student, University of
Wisconsin-Madison; and John Y. Cole, Director, Center for
the Book, Library of Congress.
For further information contact the Center for the
Book, telephone (202) 707-5221, fax (202) 707-0269.
The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress was
established in 1977 to stimulate public interest in books,
reading, literacy, and libraries. For information about its
activities, visit its site on the World Wide Web at
http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/.
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PR 98-093
6/03/98
ISSN 0731-3527