University of Alabama

5:00 – 7:00 PM

Reception, University of Alabama, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, 2nd floor lobby

9:00 – 11:30 AM

Honors day program, School of Library and Information Services, room 503.

Awards presented to students for outstanding academic achievements and professional promise.

Special Library  Legislation Commemorative Awards will be presented this year to students who have written the best paper or developed the best Web site on topics related to LSA, federal funding for libraries, Alabama’s contributions to the enactment of legislation benefiting libraries and education or case studies of how Alabama’s libraries have benefited from federal support.

Special guest:  Lenora Elliott Cannon will present the Library legislation commemorative awards

Guest speaker:  Mary Jolley, LSA, NDEA, and Carl Elliott's legacy to education (Ms. Jolley will also speak at the afternoon program, see below)

12:00 – 1:30 PM

Luncheon

2:00 – 4:45

Program, University of Alabama, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, Room 200, Henry E. Jacobs Reading Area

2:00 – 2:10

Greetings, Dean Louis Pitschmann

2:10 – 2:30

Greetings and reflections on life of Carl Elliott, Dean Culpepper Clark

2:30 – 2:45

Greetings and program introduction, Dr. Elizabeth Aversa

2:45 – 3:00

History and development of LSA, LSCA and LSTA; and federal funding for libraries, Dr. Jeff Weddle

3:00 – 3:30

Federal aid to libraries; personal experience with an LSCA funded project; the continuing fight for federal funding for libraries and education, Major R. Owens, Congressman, New York, 11th Congressional District

3:30 – 4:00

Break

4:00 – 4:30

Events associated with the drafting and enactment by Congress of LSA, and her own recollections of Carl Elliott, Mary Jolley, former legislative assistant to Congressman Carl Elliott.

4:30 – 4:45

LSA and the establishment of the Alabama Public Library Service; and federal funding programs and Alabama’s libraries, Rebecca Mitchell, Director, Alabama Public Library Service