Yakima Valley Regional Libraries Plath Forum - 1989, tape 4A.
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1989
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Abstract
First part of a talk by Gary Strong entitled Let's Look Into the Stacks. Strong started serving as the director of the Queens Borough (N.Y.) Public Library in 1994 and stayed over 10 years.He has won the Distinguished Service Award from the Chinese-American Librarians Association (1996) and has been named to the New York State Board of Regents Advisory Council for Libraries. He serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO) and was elected treasurer of that organization in October 1996. He also serves on the IFLA Committee on Copyright and Other Legal Matters, and the Board of the section of Services to People with Disabilities. He is Co-Chief Executive Officer of the IFLA Boston 2001 NOC and serves as the IFLA Representative to the United Nations. He is an active member of INTAMEL. He has initiated International Cooperation Agreements with the National Library of China and the Shanghai Library. Before coming to Queens, he was the State Librarian of California, the top administrative post in the California State Library system, from 1980 to 1994. He was a founder and member of the Board of Directors of the California State Library Foundation and is now a Director Emeritus of that body. While with the California Library, he also served as the Chief Executive Officer of the California Library Services Board; Chairperson of the California Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act Board; member of the California Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act Finance Committee; Executive Director and ex-officio member of the Board of Directors of the California State Library Foundation; Chairperson of the Governor's State Literacy Collaborative Council; and member of the Family Impact Seminars Advisory Board. He started the California Literacy Campaign and the Families for Literacy Program as State Librarian. Prior to that he spent four years with the Washington State Library system, as Deputy State Librarian (1979-1980) and Associate Director for Services (1976-1979). His career in library management has included positions as Director of the Everett (WA) Public Library, 1973-1976; Director of the Lake Oswego (OR) Public Library, 1967-1973; and Head Librarian of the Markeley Residence Library at the University of Michigan, 1966-1967. His earlier career as a librarian included service with the Latah County (ID) Free Library, 1966; and the University of Idaho Library, 1963-1966.Mr. Strong's honors include the Librarian of the Year award from the California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners (1994); the John Cotton Dana award from the Library Administration and Management Association (1994); the Advancement of Literacy award from the Public Library Association (1994); and the Exceptional Achievement Award (1992) from the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies. Throughout his career Mr. Strong has served on a number of leading policy panels, including the Government Technology Conference Advisory Board (1993-1994), for which he received the [California] Governor's Award for Exceptional Achievement, and the White House Conference on Libraries (1992). He has served as a consultant and advisor to the Library of Congress. Mr. Strong is the author/editor of numerous journal articles on library and literacy issues, and in 1988 won the H.W. Wilson Periodical Award for his work on the California State Library Foundation Bulletin, which he edited from 1982 to 1994. He authored a chapter "Queens Library: Global Reach to Serve Diverse Communities" in Libraries: - Global Reach - Local Touch (published by the American Library Association, 1998). In 1984 he was named a Distinguished Alumnus by the University of Michigan, from which he earned a Master of Library Science degree (MLS) in 1967. He received a Bachelor's degree in Education (B.S. Ed.) from the University of Idaho in 1966.He ended his career after 10 years as UCLA’s university librarian.
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Originally recorded on cassette tape, the audio has also been transferred to wav and mp3 formats. 46 minutes and 34 seconds.
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Speeches, Audio file, Library--Plath Forum