~Soaring to
Excellence~
January 19, 2001
Human Values in
a Technological Age
With Michael Gorman
Biography
Michael Gorman is Dean of Library Services at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. From 1977 to 1988 he worked at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Library as, successively, Director of Technical Services, Director of General Services, and Acting University Librarian. From 1966 to 1977 he was, successively, Head of Cataloguing at the British national bibliography, a member of the British Library Planning Secretariat, and Head of the Office of Bibliographic Standards in the British Library. He has taught at library schools in his native Britain and in the United States--most recently as Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Library and Information Science (summer sessions).
He is the first editor of the Anglo-American cataloguing rules, second edition (1978) and of the revision of that work (1988). He is the author of The concise AACR2, 3rd edition (1999); editor of, and contributor to, Technical services today and tomorrow, 2nd edition (1998); and editor of Convergence (proceedings of 2nd National LITA Conference), and Californien, both published in 1991. Future libraries: dreams, madness, and reality, co-written with Walt Crawford, was honored with the 1997 Blackwell’s Scholarship Award. His most recent book, published by ALA in 2000, is titled Our Enduring Values. Mr. Gorman is the author of hundreds of articles in professional and scholarly journals. He has contributed chapters to a number of books and is the author or editor of other books and monographs. He has given numerous presentations at international, national, and state conferences.
Michael Gorman is a fellow of the [British] Library Association, the 1979 recipient of the Margaret Mann Citation, the 1992 recipient of the Melvil Dewey Medal, the 1997 recipient of Blackwell’s Scholarship Award, and the 1999 recipient of the California Library Association/Access, Collections, and Technical Services Section Award of Achievement.
MICHAEL GORMAN
Dean of
Library Services
California State University, Fresno
Education: FLA (Fellow of the [British] Library Association)
Expert Assignments:
President, American Library Association LITA, 1999-2000.
Contributing Editor, American Libraries, 1997-1999.
Honors:
California Library Association/Access, Collections, and Technical Services Section
Award of Achievement for 1999.
1997 Blackwell’s Scholarship Award presented by ALCTS, for Future Libraries:
Dreams, Madness,and Reality by Walt
Crawford and Michael Gorman.
Melvin Dewey Medal, American Library Association, 1992.
The Margaret Mann Citation for 1979 in Cataloguing and Classification presented
by the American Library Association, Resources and Technical
Services Division.
Selected Scholarly Activity:
Books and Monographs:
Our enduring values. Chicago: ALA, 2000.
“Seymour Lubetzky: man of principles” in The
future of cataloguing: insights
from the Lubetzky
Symposium. Chicago: ALA, 2000. pp. 12-21.
The concise AACR2. 3rd ed. Editor. Chicago: ALA, 1999.
Contributor, Speaking out! voices in celebration of
intellectual freedom,
edited by Ann K.
Symons and Sally Gardner Reed. Chicago: ALA, 1999.
Library Trends: human response to library technology, edited by Janice L.
Kirkland and Michael Gorman, University of IL, 1999.
Technical services today and tomorrow, 2nd edition, Colorado: Libraries
Unlimited, 1998.
Our singular strengths: meditations for librarians. Chicago: ALA, 1997.
Future
libraries: dreams, madness, and reality. Walt Crawford and Michael
Gorman. Chicago: ALA, 1995.
The concise AACR2. 1989 revision. Chicago: ALA, 1989.
Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed. Revised. Editor. Chicago: ALA,
1988.
Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed. Editor. Chicago: ALA, 1978.
Recent Articles and Papers:
“Values of steel in 30 days,” editorial for American libraries, April 2000.
“Wire less to wired to wireless?” California libraries, April 2000.
“A light in the gloom,” California libraries, January 2000.
Papers Presented:
Speaker, “Library values,” Association of Christian Librarians Conference, San
Diego, CA, June 2000.
Speaker, “Some thoughts on borders,” Transborder Library Forum,
Albuquerque, NM, March 2000.
Speaker, “On being good stewards,” presented at the California Academic &
Research Libraries Association, Asilomar, CA, October
1999.
Speaker, “New Libraries, Old Values,” presented at the Palmer School of
Library and Information Science, Long Island
University, December 1998;
ARLIS conference in Vancouver, March 1999; New Hampshire
Library Association annual
conference, May 1999; Appalachian State
University, November 1999.
Teaching:
Bradshaw Doctoral Seminar, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX, July 1997.
Pre and post teleconference questions
1. Has technology improved all aspects of library service?
2. Have we lost something valuable in concentrating our expenditures on technology?
3. Are we in, or moving to, a post-literate society?
4. Is this a time of unique technological change?
5. Will the library survive, as we have known it?
6. What are the good and bad effects of technology on work in libraries (professional and para-professional)?
Bibliography
Crawford, Walt and Michael Gorman. Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, and Reality. Chicago: ALA, 1995.
Gorman, Michael. Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century. Chicago: ALA, 2000.
Gorman, Michael. Our Singular Strengths: Meditations for Librarians. Chicago: ALA, 1997.
Jost, Kenneth. “The Future of Books: Will Electronic Books Change the Way We Read?” CQ Researcher 10.24 (2000): 545-568.
Kirkland , Janice L., and Michael Gorman, eds. Library Trends: Human Response to Library Technology. University of IL, 1999.
Shenk, David. Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut. San Francisco: Harper, 1998.
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