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Presidential announcement of intention to convene the White House Conference on Library and Information Services [Ford Speech or Statement]
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Presidential announcement of intention to convene the White House Conference on Library and Information Services [Ford Speech or Statement]
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Digitized from Box 29 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 19, 1976
Office of the White House Press Sec etary
THE WHITE HOUSE
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
I am today announcing my intention to convene the
White House Conference on Library and Information Services
provided for in Public Law 93-568. Realization of the full
potential of this conference lies in the hands of dedicated
professionals working day to day in this area. These
individuals will make the White House Conference on
Libraries and Information Services a successful and
productive event.
The challenge confronting those who provide information
services to the public is one of harnessing modern technology.
Telecommunications, computers, and micrographics must be
further employed to reduce the costs of making information
more widely accessible and improving the speed and accuracy
with which source materials can be supplied. The librarian
of today's space age serves a profession and a public more
demanding and exacting than ever before.
Within the next few months I will request from the
Congress the appropriations necessary to fund the conference
and announce my appointments for the Advisory Committee to
the White House Conference on Libraries and Information
Services. It is my hope that the White House Conference
on Library and Information Services will through its State,
territorial and national assemblies provide the impetus for
advancing the quality of America's informational services.
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