Faculty Bulletin

Meggan Houlihan, Coordinator of Instruction/Reference in the Main Library, and Carolyn Runyon, Digital Collections Archivist in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library, will participate in the International Papers Session at the annual meeting of the American Libraries Association on June 23, 2012 in Anaheim, California. Their presentation will be entitled “Revolutionary Libraries: Building Collections and Promoting Research about the January 25th Uprising in Egypt.”

Carolyn will also participate in a program entitled “Dancing at the Revolution?: Libraries and the Arab Spring Uprisings” sponsored by the Subcommittee for the Near East and South Asia at the annual meeting of the American Libraries Association on June 24, 2012 in Anaheim, California. Carolyn’s presentation will be entitled “Harnessing the Power of Social Media: Crowdsourcing Acquisitions and Marketing Revolutionary Collections at the American University in Cairo.”