Susan Perry to speak at winter commencement ceremony

Susan Perry, senior advisor to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, director of Programs for the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) and SILS alum (MSLS '66) will speak at the School of Information and Library Science winter commencement ceremony. The event will be held at 10 a.m. Dec. 18 in the Pleasants Room of the Louis Round Wilson Library on the UNC at Chapel Hill campus.

Perry is a senior advisor to the Andrew W.Mellon Foundation, working libraries and with the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, a Mellon-supported initiative to help Mellon-supported liberal arts colleges with issues regarding teaching and learning with technology. She is also director of Programs for the Council on Library and Information Resources. At CLIR, she works with liberal arts college library directors and serves as one of the deans of The Frye Institute.

Perry has served on the American Libraries Association Council, the EDUCAUSE Board, the New Media Centers Board, the Seminars on Academic Computing Board and the Coalition for Networked Information Steering Committee. She is currently serving on the InCommon Executive Committee and the National Advisory Board for a two year grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services to study the future of librarians and information professions in the workforce.