Joan R. Challinor

Joan R. Challinor

Joan Ridder Challinor is the former chairperson of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science in the United States.

Joan Challinor was appointed to the commission by President Bill Clinton in 1995. She was designated as its chairperson on July 20, 2003 and served until January 28, 2004.

Dr. Challinor served as vice chairperson of the commission from 2000 to 2003. She was succeeded as Chairperson by Beth Dustan Fitzsimmons.

Background

Challinor serves as the Chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe College, and she is a member of the Madison Council at the Library of Congress. She is a founding member of the Louis Round Wilson Academy. In addition, she is a director of media conglomerate Knight-Ridder.

References

* "Original text based on": US National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Meeting the Information Needs of the American People: Past Actions and Future Initiatives (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, March 2008), pages B-6 and D-3, http://www.nclis.gov/about/MeetingtheInformationNeedsoftheAmericanPeople-NCLISFinalReport.pdf. [This publication is in the public domain as defined under Title 17 USC §105.]
* The Louis Round Wilson Academy formed; Creating trust in the digital age (Press Release, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science, November 2005), http://sils.unc.edu/news/releases/2005/10_LRWA.htm. [Joan Challinor is noted as one of the founding members.]

Publications

* Joan R. Challinor,Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams: The Price of Ambition (Ph.D. dissertation, American University, 1982), 178 pages. [In his article 'Henry Adams and the Making of America' (New York Times, September 11, 2005), Garry Wills says, "Joan Challinor...has written the most complete account of Louisa's life..." Louisa Catherine (Johnson) Adams was the wife of John Quincy Adams. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/books/chapters/0911-1st-wills.html?pagewanted=print]
* Joan R. Challinor and Robert L. Beisner, editors, Arms at rest: Peacemaking and peacekeeping in American history (New York : Greenwood Press, 1987).
* Allan J. Lichtman and Joan R. Challinor, editors, Kin and communities: families in America (Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979).


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