“The College Library in a Changing World”

Release date: September 09, 2009 |

Goucher College is holding a symposium titled “The College Library in a Changing World” on Wednesday, September 9, at 1:30 p.m., in the Hyman Forum of the Athenaeum.

This event is free and open to the public. Please call 410-337-6364 for more information. To view a campus map, go to http://www.goucher.edu/documents/campusmaplow.pdf.

The following distinguished panelists will discuss the future of the college library:

• Carla Diane Hayden, chief executive officer of the Enoch Pratt Free Library and Goucher College Board of Trustee member
• Kathryn Allamong Jacob ’72, curator of manuscripts at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University
• James Neal, vice president for information services and university librarian at Columbia University
• Joseph Rizzo, principal and library specialist for the RMJM Athenaeum project team
• Roberta Stevens, the outreach projects and partnerships officer at the Library of Congress, the project manager for the National Book Festival, and the president-elect of the American Library Association

A dessert reception will follow the discussion at 3 p.m. Tours of the library and Athenaeum will be given at 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

This program is part of a series of events to celebrate the opening of the Athenaeum and to launch the 125th anniversary of the college.

For other public events celebrating the opening of the Athenaeum, please visit www.goucher.edu/library.