Silver Jubilee Celebration-   Luncheon Keynote Speaker

Sarah Long, ALA President and ALAO@25 Keynote Speaker:

In July 1999, Sarah assumed the office of President of the American Library Association. She has been active in state and national library organizations for many years. Long has adopted the theme "Libraries Build Communities" for her tenure as president. Since 1989, Sarah Long has been the Director of the North Suburban Library System, an organization of 660 academic, public, school and special libraries in the north/northwest suburbs of Chicago. Prior to this position, she was the Director of the Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon. She also directed the Dauphin County Library System in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and the Fairfield County District Library in Lancaster, Ohio. She was a consultant at the state Library of Ohio and was an academic librarian in England. Sarah began her career as a school librarian. Sarah received a B.A. in Education from Oglethorpe University in 1966. She received her MLS in 1967 from Emory University.