LACUNY Spring Membership Meeting & Oral History Program
Posted by Beth Evans on April 28, 2009
LACUNY Members, Please join us on Friday, June 19, 2009 (2:00-4:00 PM) at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Avenue, between 58th & 59th Streets in Room 630 for our annual spring membership meeting. Following a short business meeting, we will be hosting a panel on “Libraries, Librarians and Oral History.” Panelists include LACUNY librarians Austin Duffy (John Jay) and Dorothea Coiffe (BMCC), as well as Kristy Raffensberger from the New York Public Library and Dr.Benjamin Alexander from Queens College, CUNY, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. Austin and Dorothea have spent the past year working on oral histories of senior and retired CUNY librarians. Kristy has interviewed librarians for the ALA “Capturing Our Stories” project. Benjamin teaches archives and manuscripts at Queens College and has written extensively on oral history.
Please R.S.V.P. to Daisy Dominguez, ddominguez at ccny dot cuny dot edu
