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McCusker Memorial Lecture

The McCusker Memorial Lecture is presented annually each fall and celebrates the life and contributions of Sister Lauretta McCusker, O.P., the first dean of 91Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½'s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, now the School of Information Studies.

Past McCusker Lectures

  • 2019: Skye Patrick, director, Los Angeles County Library, Library Journal Librarian of the Year, 2019
  • 2018: James LaRue, director, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom
  • 2017: Linda Hofschire, director, Library Research Service, Colorado State Library
  • 2016: Sari Feldman, ALA past president
  • 2015: John Chrastka, executive director of 
  • 2014: Howard Besser, professor of cinema studies and director of the Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program at NYU's Tisch School for the Arts 
  • 2013: Sister Mary Paynter, O.P., presented "Educational Essentials on the American Frontier" on October 16, 2013
  • 2012: Renowned author and intellectual freedom advocate Sara Paretsky, "Another Turn of the Screw" on October 24, 2012, archived in World Libraries, vol. 20 no.1