Michael Gorman
Michael Gorman was Dean of Library Services at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno, from 1988 to 2007. He previously worked at the Library of the University of Illinois (Urbana), the British National Bibliography, the British Library Planning Secretariat, and 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 seven books, including Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century. He has given numerous presentations at international, national, and state conferences.
Michael has been the recipient of numerous awards. He is a member of the American Library Association's governing Council (1991-1995 and 2002-2007), the ALA Executive Board through 2007, and was president of ALA (2005-2006). He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in 2005.
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