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Keynote speech by Dr. Carla Hayden, Lifetime Achievement Award, workshops on library profession and services to special needs patrons. Closing by Andrew P. Jackson.
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BCALA-CT Diversity Conference, October 29, 2005 by Phara Bayonne and S.D. Harris
Dr. Ed Harris, Dean SCSU’s School of Library Science, welcomes guest to BCALA's first Diversity Conference
Keynote Speaker - Dr. Carla Hayden, Director, Enoch Pratt Free Public Library
Audience, including Norwalk Public Library Board’s Secretary Stan Siegel (far left), listens to Dr. Hayden
Dr. Hayden and Josephine Fulcher-Anderson watch as Dr. Shaw receives BCALA-CT Lifetime Achievement Award from S.D. Harris, BCALA-CT President
Dr. Spencer G. Shaw, professor emeritus in the University of Washington’s Information School, gives Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech.
Dr. Shaw and W. Michael Havener, Professor and Director, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Rhode Island
Dr. Shaw and Linda Payne, Quinnipiac University Library, Hamden, CT perusing the book “And don’t call me a racist! A Treasury of quotes on the past, present and future of the color line in America” handed out at the conference
Dr. Shaw and Blanche Parker, Darien Library and BCALA-CT Assistant Treasurer
Dr. Havener and Dr. Jane Moore McGinn, SCSU Associate Professor, Dept. Info. & Lib. Science , co-presenters for the WORKSHOP “Preparing for the Library Profession”
Dr. Havener instructs the audience on preparing for the library profession
Dr. McGinn and Elise Browne, Eastern Connecticut University, share a moment
Carol A. Taylor, Director, Connecticut State Library-Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Carol A. Taylor, presenter for the WORKSHOP “Services to Special Needs Patrons”
Carol A. Taylor, shows examples of materials to use with special needs patrons
Judite Maldonado (Pennsylvania) shares a moment with REFORMA NE WORKSHOP presenters Loida Febo-Garcia, President /Queens Library Spanish Collections Cultural Arts Manager and Monica Caruso REFORMA NE CT State Coordinator/Community Librarian for Hartford Public Library
Astoria Ridley, BCALA-CT member/New Haven Courthouse Law Librarian talks about Government Documents during the Public Libraries WORSHOP
Astoria Ridley and Ida McGhee, BCALA-CT Immediate Past President
BCALA-CT Secretary Phara Bayonne and BCALA-CT Treasurer Debra Williams
Dr. Selase Williams, SCSU Provost (center) takes the conference seriously
….and Executive Director, Langston Hughes Community and Cultural Center, Queensborough Public Library, NY
Dr. Hayden and Andrew P. Jackson proudly hold up the book “And don’t call me a racist! A Treasury of quotes on the past, present, and future of the color line in America” handed out at the conference