Michael Gorman (librarian)

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Michael Gorman (b. 1941), is a librarian and is currently (in 2006) Dean of Library Services at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno, where he has been since 1988. From 1977 to 1988 he worked at the Library of the University of Illinois as, successively, Director of Technical Services, Director of General Services, and Acting University Librarian. From 1966 to 1977 he was, successively, Head of Cataloguing at the British National Bibliography, a member of the British Library Planning Secretariat, and Head of the Office of Bibliographic Standards in the British Library. He has taught at library schools in Britain and in the United States - most recently at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Gorman was president of the American Library Association (ALA) for 2005-2006.

[edit] Publications

Gorman is the first editor of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed, and is the author of The Concise AACR2, the fourth edition of which was published in 2005.

He is also the co-author (with Walt Crawford) of Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, and Reality, which was was honored with the 1997 Blackwell’s Scholarship Award. He has written two books about the profession of librarianship and the value of traditional librarianship: Our Enduring Values, published by ALA in 2000, and Our Own Selves: More Meditations for Librarians (2005). Our Enduring Values won the ALA’s 2001 Highsmith award for the best book on librarianship.

Gorman is also the author of a number of articles about librarianship.

[edit] Awards

Gorman has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Margaret Mann Citation in 1979, the 1992 Melvil Dewey Medal, Blackwell’s Scholarship Award in 1997, and the California Library Association/Access, Collections, and Technical Services Section Award of Achievement in 1999. He is a member of the ALA's council (1991-1995 and 2002-2006) and the ALA Executive Board through to 2007. He was made a fellow of the British Library Association in 1979 and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in 2005.