ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 626 / C&RL News B altim ore ’8 6 Four other theme speakers highlight A C R L ’s National onference.C Maya Angelou Robert Fĕ Asleson David McCullough Barbara S. Uehling B e s id e s Alan C. Kay, whose profile appeared in the October Cò-RL News, there are four other ma jor speakers on “Energies for Transition,” the theme of ACRL’s Fourth National Conference in Baltimore, April 9-12, 1986. Maya Angelou is an author, poet, playwright, professional stage and screen performer and singer. Robert F. Asleson, president of International Thomson Information, Inc., will speak on trends in publishing. David Mc Cullough, prizewinning historian and biographer and host of the popular “Smithsonian World” series on PBS, will talk from the perspective of a scholarly consumer of library collections and services and will help identify transitions in American society. Barbara S. Uehling, chancellor and professor of psychology at the University of Missouri, Colum bia, will speak from the perspective of an adminis trator in higher education. Maya Angelou Maya Angelou is a woman of many talents. She has been a singer, educator, dancer, author, histo rian, lecturer, actress, producer, editor, song writer, and playwright, and speaks six languages luently. Born in St. Louis, she spent most of her child ood with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. n 1940 she moved to San Francisco with her fam ly and worked a variety of jobs, writing poetry and tudying dance and drama at night. In 1952 she re eived a scholarship to study dance with Pearl Pri us in New York. Returning to San Francisco early n 1954, Angelou made her first professional ap earance at the Purple Onion as a singer, then oined the European touring company of Porgy nd Bess as the lead dancer. Angelou lived in Africa in the early 1960s. In 961 she became the associate editor of The Arab bserver in Cairo, at that time the only English- anguage news weekly in the Middle East. She also rote freelance articles for The Ghanaian Times nd the Ghanaian Broadcasting Corporation in ccra, and became assistant administrator of the chool of Music and Drama at the University of hana. Random House has published eight books by f h I i s c m i p j a 1 O l w a A S G December 1985 / 627 Angelou: five autobiographies, I Know W h y the Caged Bird Sings (1970), Gather Together in M y N am e (1974), Oh Pray M y Wings Are Gonna Fit Me W ell (1975), Singin and Swingin and Gettin M erry L ik e C hristm as (1976), The H eart o f a W om an (1981); and three books of poetry, Just Give M e a Cool Drink o f W ater ’fore I Diiie (1972), A n d Still I Rise (1978), Shaker, W h y D o n ’t You SingP (1984). H er first book, I K now W h y the Caged Bird Sings, was aired as a tw o-hour TV special for CBS in 1979. Angelou was w riter and producer of the film Sisters, Sisters for 20th C entury Fox TV, as well as a five-part miniseries, Three W ay Choice, for CBS. For PBS she has hosted a study course, Humanities through the Arts, filmed in th irty half- hour segments and produced at Golden State Uni versity. In 1977 she received th e G olden E agle A w ard for her PBS docum entary, Afro-American in the Arts. Robert F. Asleson President of In tern atio n al Thom son In fo rm a tion, In c., of Arlington, Virginia, since 1982, Rob ert F. Asleson attained th a t position through a ca re e r in sales, m a rk e tin g a n d a d m in is tra tio n in other firms in the inform ation business. W ith de grees from the University of Minnesota in 1958 and the George W ashington University L aw School in 1961, Asleson was first an assistant to th e president of Xerox C orporation from 1961 to 1963 and then a Xerox sales representative from 1963 to 1964. He then moved to a m arketing position at U ni versity Mirofilms, becam e vice president in 1966, and was prom oted to president in 1969, serving u n til 1975. From 1971 to 1974 he was a director of the N atio n al M icrofilm Association. F rom 1976 to 1980 Asleson was president of the R.R. Bowker C om pany and from 1980 to 1982 he was president of Inform ation H andling Services. In tern atio n al Thom son Inform ation, In c., em phasizes the use of electronic delivery systems. It has several subsidiaries. INACOM In tern ational specializes in technical inform ation services for the engineering com m unity. Research Publications, I n c ., is active in the m icropublication of records of U.S. and international patents and tradem arks, w orld newspapers and periodicals, and im p o rtan t scholarly research collections. C arrollton Press, a subsidiary of Research Publications, provides the REMARC database. Thomson and Thom son is the lead in g service o rg an izatio n for th e tra d e m a rk com m unity. CO A D E (C om puter Aids for Design Engineers and Scientists) is a softw are house for d e sign engineers. The p a re n t com pany for Asleson’s firm is the C anadian-based In tern atio n al Thom son O rg an i zation, L t d ., a m ultinational com pany w ith signif icant interests in publishing in a w ide variety of professional, ed u catio n al, an d lib ra ry services. T heir subsidiaries include Thom as Nelson In te rn a tional, V an N ostrand Reinhold, W adsw orth, and (since early in 1985) Gale Research and UTLAS. Since 1976 Asleson has been a m em ber of the Board of Directors of the Inform ation Industry As sociation. Through th a t affiliation and based upon m ore th a n tw enty years of increasingly more re sponsible positions in inform ation businesses, Asle son is an ideal person to discuss trends in publish ing. D avid M cCullough W rite r and historian D avid M cC ullough is a p o p u la r le c tu r e r , te a c h e r, television host, an d a u th o r— most recently of Mornings on Horseback, a biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt th a t was both a national bestseller an d w inner of the American Book A w ard. He is also widely know n for The Johnstown Flood and for his epic chroni cles of tw o great enterprises an d the strong-willed people w ho pushed them to completion: The Path Between the Seas, on the creation of the P an am a C a n a l, an d The Great Bridge, th e story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. The Path B etw een the Seas, a Book-of-the- M onth C lub selection and overnight bestseller in 1977, was w inner of the Francis P arkm an, the Sa muel Eliot Morison A w ard, the Cornelius Ryan A w ard, the N ational Book A w ard, and becam e one of those rare books of history th a t actually change the course of history. I t played an im p o rtan t p a rt in determ ining national policy on the futu re of the P an am a Canal. M cC ullough was born and grew up in P itts burgh and was educated at Yale University. His a r ticles, essays, and reviews have appeared in A u d u bon, The N ew Republic, The N ew York Times Magazine, Psychology Today, Smithsonian, and American Heritage, for w hich he is the senior con trib u tin g editor. H e is a m em ber of the Society of American Historians, an organization of 250 au thors w ho have dem onstrated literary distinction in th e w ritin g of history and biography. He serves on th e advisory boards for the Wesleyan University W riters Conference and the C enter for the Book at the L ib rary of Congress, and on the Yale University Council on W riting. In th e past tw o years McCullough has become know n to millions of television viewers as the far- ranging host of th e p op u lar “Smithsonian W o rld ” series on PBS. In O ctober 1985 he was seen in a one- hour PBS special, produced by Ken Burns, on the Statue of Liberty. M cCullough’s earlier PBS film w ith Ken Burns, “Brooklyn Bridge,” was an Acad emy A w ard nominee. In the “Smithsonian W o rld ” series M cCullough w on an E m m y in 1985 for his interview w ith Anne M orrow Lindbergh. He is currently at work on a biography of H arry S. T ru m an. 628 / C&RL News Barbara S. Uehling Barbara S. Uehling became chancellor and pro fessor of psychology at the University of Missouri- Columbia, the largest campus of a four-campus system, in July 1978. Her talk at the ACRL Balti more Conference will be on the changes facing higher education in the United States. Uehling was born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1932. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Wichita State University in 1954, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in experimental psychology from Northwestern University in 1956 and 1958. She was on th e fa c u lty of E m o ry U n iv ersity in 1958-1959 a n d O g le th o rp e U n iv ersity in 1959-1964. In 1964 she returned to Emory as a post-doctoral research fellow in physiological psy chology, supported by a U.S. D epartm ent of Pub lic Health research fellowship through 1966, at which time she rejoined the Psychology D epart ment at Emory until 1969. From 1970 to 1972 Uehling was on the faculty at the University of Rhode Island, and from 1972 to 1974 served as aca demic dean of Roger Williams College where she played a significant role in shaping and im ple menting a contract with the faculty collective b a r gaining association. Uehling served from 1974 to 1976 as dean of arts and sciences at Illinois State University, then was named provost of the University of Oklahoma from 1976 to 1978. Since that time she has received two distinguished alumni awards and two honorary doctorates. In 1978 the magazine Change, a publi cation of the Council on Learning, acknowledged Uehling’s leadership in education by naming her one of “100 Young Leaders of the Academy.” In 1981 she was presented the Missouri Institute of Public A dm inistration A w ard for O utstanding Contributions to Public Administration. Besides several p u b licatio n s in psychology, Uehling has written extensively on topics related to higher education in such journals as Change, The College Student Affairs Journal, Educational Rec ord, Journal of College Placement, Planning and Changing, and Vital Speeches. Two articles of spe cial interest are: “Managing Institutional Change: Evolution or Revolution?” Business Officer, Octo ber 1982; and “Innovating and Adapting: New Fi nancing Strategies for Colleges and Universities,” which she co-authored and which appeared in Se lected Proceedings, Ninth Annual Conference on Higher Education, May 1984. ■ ■ Continuation/Standing Order Service A new benchmark in… Serials Data Management and Control Systems Tomorrow’s Answer Today. • Custom er Reports • A utom atic Claiming • History Reports • Collective Claiming • M anagem ent Reports • Check-In Claiming alie Fo n r additional details write or call: Booksellers International, Inc. 66 Austin Boulevard, Com m ack, New York 11725 New York State Toll-free WATS (8 00 ) 8 3 2 -4 5 5 2 Toll-free WATS (8 00 ) 6 4 5 -5 2 3 7