Communitarian Summit will take place in conjunction with the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. She will recall the important role that libraries have played in our past and envision the role of libraries in the future.
Libraries are the gathering place both of ideas and of people.
NSLS is an organization of over 600 libraries in four counties in the metropolitan Chicago area. She also envisioned an online community network with 24 hour, free access to educational, cultural, governmental and recreational information. Long has been elected President of the ALA for the 1999-2000 term. The Chicago-based ALA is a nonprofit educational institution with over 57,000 members nationwide. It is the oldest and largest library organization in the world.