Dominican University GSLIS McCusker Lecture

Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) will host Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, at its 15th annual McCusker Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, October 26. The lecture, “Names and Lives in the Cultural Record” will be held at 6:00 p.m. in the Martin Recital Hall, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest, followed by a reception from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Lynch will discuss how widespread content creation and sharing on the internet has driven demands for new approaches to the management of names and name authority in the digital age. He will also speak to how genealogists and historians have traditionally been concerned with the nature of names included in public records. 

“It is common to have multiple names for the same individual in this age of digitization. To avoid confusion, there needs to be one location to go for name information,” said Ed Valauskas, lecturer in the GSLIS.

Lynch holds a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.  He is both a past president and recipient of the Award of Merit from the American Society for Information Science and Technology and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization.  He also serves on a number of advisory boards including the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress and Microsoft Corporation’s Technical Computer Science Advisory Board.

The McCusker lecture is held annually in memory of Sr. Lauretta McCusker, a former professor and founding dean of the school. The event is free and open to the public. Reservations are encouraged as seating is limited. To register email gslis@dom.edu or call (708) 524-6845.

Accredited by the American Library Association, Dominican University’s GSLIS has been educating future library leaders and information professionals since the 1930s. The school offers master’s degrees in library and information science and in knowledge management, and a doctoral degree in library and information science.