{"id":2284,"date":"2007-09-13T14:41:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T19:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2007-09-13T14:41:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T19:41:03","slug":"monday-in-praise-of-reading-dr-vartan-gregorian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/monday-in-praise-of-reading-dr-vartan-gregorian\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday: &#8220;In Praise of Reading&#8221; Dr. Vartan Gregorian"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>SILS&#8217; 75th Anniversary Grand Finale set for Sept. 17<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sils.unc.edu\/images\/slideshow\/gregorian.jpg\" alt=\"Vartan Gregorian\" width=\"148\" height=\"148\" class=\"left\">Sept. 6, 2007 &ndash; The grand finale of the School of Information and Library Science&#8217;s (SILS) 75th anniversary is set to take place on Sept. 17, 2007, which coincides with the date the school first began teaching classes in 1931. The finale will begin at 3 p.m. in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill&#8217;s Memorial Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Our distinguished keynote presenter will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegie.org\/sub\/about\/vgregorian.html\">Dr. Vartan Gregorian<\/a>, president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegie.org\/\">Carnegie Corporation of New York<\/a>. He will present, &quot;In Praise of Reading.&quot;  Dr. Gregorian is the 12th president of the corporation, a post he assumed in 1997. Prior to this position, he was president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/\">Brown University<\/a> for nine years. For eight years prior to his work at Brown University, he was president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypl.org\/\">New York Public Library<\/a>. Dr. Gregorian is the recipient of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/whoweare\/awards.html\">National Humanities Medal<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medaloffreedom.com\/\">Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/a>, the nation&#8217;s highest civilian honor.<\/p>\n<p>The Carnegie Corporation provided SILS with its first grant of $100,000 to enable the school to operate for three years and to make permanent its conditional accreditation from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/\">American Library Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gregorian will be joined at the finale by James Moeser, chancellor of UNC- at Chapel Hill, and James B. Hunt, Jr., former governor of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Please plan to join us at Memorial Hall on Sept. 17. It is sure to be a grand finale!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SILS&#8217; 75th Anniversary Grand Finale set for Sept. 17 Sept. 6, 2007 &ndash; The grand finale of the School of Information and Library Science&#8217;s (SILS) 75th anniversary is set to take place on Sept. 17, 2007, which coincides with the date the school first began teaching classes in 1931. The finale will begin at 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}