On Combining Social Concerns with Economic Opportunity at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Back to Practical Engagement NEXT presentation PREVIOUS presentation ALISE home	Gail McClure Vice President, Strategic Planning and Programs, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Gail McClure spoke during the closing luncheon at the ALISE '97 conference and her remarks, though brief, were filled with enthusiasm for the future role of library and information science education. McClure explained that the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has a deep interest in helping human service professions see a new way of doing things. Library and information science education is the place to invest, according to McClure, because that is where you can find the right values, the right concerns, critical dialogue, leaders who are active in policy debate--in short, schools of library and information science have great potential as incubators of professional and institutional change. McClure believes that library and information science educators can best accommodate the fluidity, openness and constant adaptation necessary to train information technology professionals who will bring both new expertise and traditional values to bear in human service, where they are needed most. It's "a future that often our students are better able to imagine than we are." Gail McClure offered her remarks as an invited speaker at the ALISE '97 conference. If you have Shockwave you'll see a player below. If not, click on the Shockwave icon and download the appropriate plug-in for your machine. Click "play" to hear the presentation Top of page || Next presentation || Previous presentation
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