Michael Gorman, the current President of the American Library Association, will speak at NCCU's School of Library and Information Sciences on April 27, 2006. His lecture entitled, "Libraries Today — Challenges and Opportunities," will be presented at 6:30 P.M. in the new School of Education. A reception will follow.

Gorman has been Dean of Library Services at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno since 1988. From 1977 to 1988 he worked at the Library of the University of Illinois, Urbana 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 Britain and in the United States--most recently at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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, 4th edition (2005). His book Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, and Reality (co-written with Walt Crawford) was honored with the 1997 Blackwell’s Scholarship Award. Our Enduring Values, published by ALA in 2000, was the winner of ALA’s 2001 Highsmith award for the best book on librarianship. Gorman is the author of hundreds of articles in professional and scholarly journals and has given numerous presentations at international, national, and state conferences.

Gorman has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Margaret Mann Citation in 1979, the Melvil Dewey Medal in 1992, Blackwell’s Scholarship Award in 1997, and the California Library Association/Access, Collections, and Technical Services Section Award of Achievement in 1999.