ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries September 1991 / 511 Julian Bond, David Penniman to speak at ACRL National Conference Cultural diversity, research agenda key topics at conference. C ivil rights activist Julian Bond, and W. David Penniman, president of the Council on Library Resources, Inc., will speak at the Sixth National Con­ ference, April 12- 14, 1992, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since his college days, Julian Bond has been an active participant in the movements for civil rights, economic justice, and peace, and an aggressive spokesman for the disinherited. As an activist who has faced jail for his con­ victions, as a veteran o f more than 20 years of service in Civil rights activist the Georgia Gen­ Julian Bond will discuss eral Assembly, as a cultural diversity at writer, teacher, and ACRL's 6th National lecturer, Bond has Conference. been a leader of so­ cial change since he was a college student leading sit-in demonstrations in Atlanta in 1960. As a student at Morehouse College, Bond joined several hundred students from across the South to help form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and became SNCC’s commu­ nications director. Bond worked on voter registra­ tion drives in rural Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Bond was first elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965, but members ofthe House voted not to seat him because of his outspoken A opposition to the war in Vietnam. In 1966 the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously thCRLat the Georgia House had violated Bond’s rights in refusing to seat him. Bond was elected to the State Senate in 1974. When he left the office in Janu­ ary 1987, he had been elected to pub­ lic office more times than any other black Georgian, living or dead. Bond received a bachelor of arts de­ gree from More­ house College and holds honorary de­ grees from 14 schools. His teach­ W. David Penniman ing experience in­ will outline a research cludes visiting pro­ agenda f o r graduate fessorships at and research libraries Drexel University, a t the conference. Harvard University and the University ofVirginia. His essays, articles, and poems have been widely published and he has served as a radio and television commentator. W. David Penniman is president of the Council on Library Resources, Inc., a not-for-profit operat­ ing foundation committed to funding projects that enhance library operations. Its focus has been on major research libraries, but its scope includes a wide range of library activities including management, technology, and economic issues. (continued on page 515) The complete reference collection. 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Spiegel has been an ALA employee for five years, beginning as apro- duction assistant for ALA Books, then becoming editorial assistant for C irR L News, where she worked for ayear in 1988- 89 before leaving to have a baby (a girl named Pam Spiegel Julia). She has also done extensive freelance edi­ torial work for many ALA departments, and for several other Chicago-area publishers. Ted Bales has been named classified ads man­ ager of C&RL News and he will be responsible for the flow of all ad copy, layout, and billing. He has worked at C &RL News for over a year as edito­ rial assistant. Bales is also a professional actor who is curxendy starring in two Chicago productions: the innovative, audience- participation piece called Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, and a new two-act comedy called Portrait o f a Shiksa. He also appeared in the Hollywood film My Bodyguard. Ted Bales Both Spiegel and Bales are half-time employees sharing the position last held by Karen Christopher, who left in May. F o r m e r A C R L staffer Nelson to d ire c t OLOS Mattye L. Nelson, formerly education officer for ACRL, is the new director of the Office for Library Outreach Services (OLOS). Her appointment was effective on July 15, 1991. OLOS promotes the provision of library service to the urban and rural poor and to those who may be discriminated against, encourages the development of special materials for such service, and supports librarians in develop­ ing effective outreach programs. ■ ■ (continued fr o m page 511) Before joining the Council in 1991, Penniman served as director of Information Services Group and, prior to that, as libraries and information sys­ tems director at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He has served as vice president for planning and research for OCLC, where he also established the Research Department in 1978. He has worked as a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria and as an information scientist at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Co­ lumbus, Ohio, where he was also associate manager of the Information Systems Section responsible for the development of the BASIS online retrieval and data management system. His professional activities include being chair­ man of the board of Engineering Information, Inc. ‚ and past-president of the American Society for Information Science. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is a member of ALA, the Special Libraries Association, and the Association for Computing Machinery. Penniman holds an undergraduate degree in en­ gineering and a Ph. D . in behavioral science, and has published over 50 articles and papers in the areas of information systems research, development, and operation. ■ ■ Register in November Preliminary program and registration mate­ rials for the Sixth National Conference will be available in November. The registration rate for ACRL members is $135 and $255 for non­ members. Additional conference information is available from the ACRL office, (800) 545- 2433, ext. 2516.