Eleventh International Conference on Grey Literature Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA December 14-15, 2009
Special Conference Newsletter
Peter R. Young to Keynote GL11
Peter R. Young, Library of Congress
As Chief of the Asian Division at the Library of Congress since November 2008, Peter R. Young provides leadership, direction, and planning for Asian Division programs and services.The Division manages the most comprehensive library collections of materials outside of Asia representing China, Japan, Korea, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Asian Pacific Americans.With over 3.1 million items, the Asian Division collections represent a unique resource.Young is responsible for the Library’s strategy for digital information related to science and technology.Young directed the National Agricultural Library (NAL) from 2002 to 2008.With an annual budget of $22+ million and a staff of 260+, NAL’s collections total over 3.8 million items.Prior to NAL, Young served at the Library of Congress (LC) as Acting Chief of the Asian Division 2001-2002, Chief of the Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) 1997-2001, Chief of the Copyright Cataloging Division 1985-1988, Assistant Chief of the MARC Editorial Division 1984-1985, and CDS Customer Services Officer 1980-1984.From 1990 to 1997 he served as Executive Director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), an independent executive branch agency advising the President and Congress on national library and information service policies.
Previous Conferences in the GL Series
GL10 - Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature, Designing the Grey Grid for Information Society. - Science Park Amsterdam (NL), December 8-9, 2008 GL9 - Ninth International Conference on Grey Literature, Grey Foundations in Information Landscape. - Provincial House Antwerp (BE), December 10-11, 2007
GL8 - Eighth International Conference on Grey Literature, Harnessing the Power of Grey. - University of New Orleans (USA), December 4-5, 2006 GL7 - Seventh International Conference on Grey Literature, Open Access to Grey Resources. – INIST/CNRS, Nancy (FR), December 5-6, 2005
GL6 - Sixth International Conference on Grey Literature, Work on Grey in Progress. - New York Academy of Medicine (USA), December 6-7, 2004
GL5 - Fifth International Conference on Grey Literature, Grey Matters in the World of Networked Information. – KNAW Amsterdam (NL), December 4-5, 2003
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