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Sassen a n d  M cChesney
to  ad d res s ACRL's 7 th  
N a tio n a l C onference

 

Economics a n d  technology will be 
the topics discussed

Saskia Sassen and John McChesney join Jennifer James and Ronald Takaki to com­
plete the roster of them e speakers invite

address ACRL’s 7th National Conference in Pitts­
burgh, March 29-Aprill, 1995. D on’t miss this 
o p p o rtunity. Registration m aterials will be 
mailed to ACRL members this month.

Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is professor of urban planning at 
Columbia University and a former chair of the 
Urban Planning Division. She will address “So­
ciety, Economics, and
Politics” in her speech 
a t th e  c o n f e r e n c e .
Sassen’s work is focused 
o n  in te rn a tio n a l, r e ­
gional, urban economic, 
a n d  r e g u la to r y  p r o ­
cesses. She h as c o n ­
d u c te d  e m p iric a l r e ­
search on these subjects 
and written about them 
in theoretical terms. She Sask ia S a ssen
has written three books:
The Mobility o f  Labor a n d  Capital (1988), The 
Global City: New York London Tokyo (1991), 
and Cities in a World Economy (1994). She has 
also published extensively in academic jour­
nals and books. A past mem ber of several re­
search groups, among them the Japan-based 
Project on Economic Restructuring in the U.S. 
and Japan sponsored by the United Nations 
Centre on  Regional Development, Sassen is 
currently part of the Immigration and Economic 
Sociology Project sponsored by the Russell Sage

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Foundation, and the Comparative Urban Stud­
ies Project at the W oodrow Wilson Center.

Sassen received a Ph.D. from the University 
o f Notre Dame and did post-doctoral w ork at 
the Universite de Poitres and Harvard Univer­
sity. She has given over 100 invited lectures in 
the U.S. and abroad.

 tJohno  McChesney
John McChesney, a reporter and editor for Na­
tional Public Radio (NPR), will speak on “Tech­
nolo g y  an d  the Service-C entered Library.” 
M cC hesney has b e e n
w ith  NPR since 1979 
and w orked as a news 
and public affairs pro­
ducer at local NPR sta­
tions before that. Dur­
ing his years at NPR 
M cChesney has w orn 
several hats, including 
that o f national editor 
responsible for domes­
tic news, and senior for­ J o h n  M cC h esn ey
eign editor. He has trav­
eled extensively in Europe, Africa, the Middle 
East, Latin America, and Asia. He became in­
volved in technology reporting as a result of 
his coverage of Japan and the issue of national 
competitiveness. For the past several years he 
has b een  reporting from Silicon Valley on vari­
ous aspects of the information revolution—from 
microchips to multimedia. Recently his work 
has concentrated on the promise of broadband 
technologies—the so-called information super­
highway. His reports are heard on All Things 
Considered and Morning Edition.

McChesney has w on numerous awards for 
his w ork, including D artm outh’s Cham pion 
Award for business and economic reporting, 
and the Sidney Hilman Award for his series on 
manufacturing technology. ■