Co-sponsored
by the Commission of the Future of Libraries and the Book
Thursday, September 25, 2003, 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
The Ogilvie Lecture is an NCLA conference tradition devoted to addressing professional issues in librarianship. It is named in honor of former State Librarian of North Carolina, Phil Ogilvie.
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The 2003 Ogilvie Lecturer is Walt Crawford who is a senior analyst at RLG in Mountain View, CA. He has been a full time professional in library automation since 1968 and at RLG since 1979. He is currently lead designer for Eureka, an end-user search service. He served as President of ALA’s Library and Information Technology Association in 1992/93. He is an award-winning writer and speaker, having penned more than 13 books and more than 300 articles and columns on libraries, technology, media, publishing and personal computing. |
| He speaks frequently on the future of libraries and the profession. He writes “The Crawford Files” in American Libraries and “The PC Monitor” in Online Magazine, and the “disContent” column in EContent Magazine. He also writes and publishes “Cities and Insights: Crawford at Large”, a web distributed print zine, which begin in December 2000. His most recent book is First Have Something to Say, published in 2003. | |
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS:
*Membership (3) Awards
Presented by Teresa Wherli, Wake Technical Community College
*Marilyn Miller Award for Professional Commitment ---Roundtable on the Status of Women
Presented by Mary McAfee, Forsyth County Public Library