Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Carr
The planning committee is pleased to announce David Carr as our featured speaker at the 2008 ALAO conference.
David Carr is Associate Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds an M.A. from the Teachers College at Columbia University and the M.L.S and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. His research interests include cultural institutions and thinking, reading for pleasure, tools and cognition, collections, reference, and concepts of service.
A staunch advocate of library-centered reading groups, Carr has served as a member of the "Durham Reads Together" Steering Committee, provided training sessions for prospective book discussion facilitators, and has worked with communitywide reading projects in a number of locations.
He is the author of books including A Place Not a Place: Reflections and Possibilities: Reflections and Possibility in Museums and Libraries and The Promise of Cultural Institutions.