Couldn’t make it to National Library Legislative Day in Washington, DC, May 1-2, 2007? View the PowerPoint presentation and listen, below, to an interview with the speaker at ACRL’s luncheon during the briefing day. George L. Mehaffy, Vice President for Academic Leadership and Change at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, spoke to academic librarians on, “Developing Informed and Engaged Citizens: The Imperative for Higher Education.” Hear about his work on campuses through the American Democracy Project and why he sees academic libraries as, “citizenship centers” and “more relevant now than ever in history.”

Time: 12:15

 

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