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Luminary Lectures @ Your Library present
Barbara Quint 12/4/02 & Toni Carbo 12/9/02

Wednesday, December 4
Barbara Quint is the Editor-in-Chief of "Searcher: The Magazine for
Database Professionals" (at
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/default.htm).  Quint will be presenting a
lecture entitled, "'No Guts, No Glory': Information Professionals March
Into the 22nd Century" in a teleconference at the Library of Congress on
Wednesday, December 4, from 10:30am-12:00pm in the National Digital
Library, Learning Center Theater of the James Madison Building, located at
First Street and Independence Avenue S.E., Washington, D.C.  Seating at
this event will be limited to 45, so please allow time to arrive early.

Barbara Quint's lecture addresses the changing roles of information
professionals in the 3rd millennium. Tasks and the skill sets to perform
them once regarded as critical elements defining librarians changed
dramatically over the last few decades of the 20th century. Basic skills -
like LC/MARC cataloging - became niche market tasks for some librarians,
while former specialty functions, such as online searching by intermediary
professional searchers, became basic to all. But the changes that have gone
before are as nothing to the ones under way and looming larger every day.
What tasks and skills will define librarianship in the Internet Age? How
will we continue to perform our "protect and serve" mission for clients
everywhere? What can we and must we do today to ensure that our profession
will, to paraphrase Steinbeck, "nor merely survive...but prevail"?

Monday, December 9
Toni Carbo is currently a Madison Council Fellow in Library and Information
Science, at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress.  She is also a
Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.  Carbo will be presenting her
lecture entitled, "Information Ethics: Challenges for Library and
Information Science Professionals" at the Library of Congress on Monday,
December 9, from 10:30am-12:00pm in the Pickford Theater of the Library of
Congress' James Madison Building, located at First Street and Independence
Avenue S.E., Washington, D.C.  Seating at this event will be limited to 65,
so please allow time to arrive early.

As the roles of LIS professionals continue to evolve, new challenges face
us in balancing the many roles demanded of us. Increasingly, we are called
up to serve as educators and "translators" to teach the many publics we
serve, to continue to educate ourselves, and to translate among the many
groups with whom we interact, increasingly across institutional boundaries
and national borders. We are also called upon to develop and implement
policies throughout the entire life-cycle of information. Among the
greatest challenges facing us is the need to earn trust in the information
we provide, in the organizations for which we work, and in ourselves.
Understanding our own sense of ethics and calling upon that sense
throughout all aspects of our work is the greatest challenge we face. This
presentation will address these issues and seek to stimulate discussion on
them.

No reservations are necessary.  All lectures are free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library series, which
began last spring.  The Public Service Collections Directorate of the
Library of Congress sponsors this speaker series.  Please check the
Luminary Lectures @ Your Library web site for more information about the
lecturers and this lecture series: <http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/>.

Other events coming in the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library series this
winter include:
"Avenues to Library Services: User Preferences"
Dr. Neal Kaske, Manager of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Library at
the University of Maryland Libraries in College Park, adjunct faculty
member in the College of Information Studies on Wednesday, January 15,
2003, @ Dining Room A from 10:30-12:00noon

And Dr. Joseph Janes, Founding Director of the Internet Public Library
(http://www.ipl.org), and Assistant Professor at the Information School of
the University of Washington on Monday February 10, 2003, @ Dining Room A
from 10:30am-12:00noon


For more information, please see
<http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/>.  For special assistance, please
contact: Alison Foster, Library of Congress, Phone: (202) 707-1183, Email:
afos@loc.gov.

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