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Ginny Moore Kruse Retirement

From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:07:42 -0500

In August Ginny Moore Kruse will retire from her position as Director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center of the School of Education at the Unviersity of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been Director of the CCBC since 1976.

Prominent statewide and nationally for her expertise in children's and young adult literature and in the area of intellectual freedom, Ginny has overseen the development of new CCBC information services for students and ways of delivering adult continuing education opportunities to librarians and teachers throughout the state and nation.

She founded the CCBC Intellectual Freedom Information Services, for which she and the CCBC have won both state and national awards. She has also chaired or served on numerous national literature award committees, including the Newbery, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King.

A formal farewell event is scheduled for the late afternoon of Friday, September 20, in the Harrison Parlor of Lathrop Hall on the UW-Madison campus. More details will be provided when they become available.


Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Tue 02 Jul 2002 10:07:42 AM CDT