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Julian Bond, David Penniman to speak at ACRL National Conference

Cultural diversity, research agenda key topics at conference.

Civil rights activist Julian Bond, and W. David Penniman, president of the Council on Library Resources, Inc., will speak at the ACRL 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 of more than 20 years of service in the Georgia Gen- eral Assembly, as a writer, teacher, and lecturer, Bond has been a leader of social change since he was a college student leading sit-in demonstrations in Atlanta in 1960.

Civil rights activist Julian Bond will discuss cultural diversity at ACRL's 6th National Conference.

W. David Penniman will outline a research agenda for graduate and research libraries at the conference.

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 communications director. Bond worked on voter registration drives in rural Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas.

Bond was first elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965, but members of the House voted not to seat him because of his outspoken opposition to the war in Vietnam. In 1966 the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that 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- ing experience in- cludes visiting pro- fessorships at Drexel University, Harvard University and the University of Virginia. 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 operating 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.

Before joining the Council in 1991, Penniman served as director of Information Services Group and, prior to that, as libraries and information systems 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 Columbus, 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 chairman 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 engineering 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 materials for the Sixth National Conference will be available in November. The registration rate for ACRL members is $135 and $255 for nonmembers. Additional conference information is available from the ACRL office, (800) 545- 2433, ext. 2516.