1. Arthur Curley was an American librarian who was listed as one of the 100 most important library leaders of the 20th century by journal American Libraries.
10 Facts About Arthur Curley
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Arthur Curley was born in Boston on January 22,1938, to Irish parents.
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Arthur Curley's mother is credited with having high expectations for him, and for correctly presuming that he would attend the prestigious Boston Latin secondary school.
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In 1964, Arthur Curley was appointed as the director of the Palatine Public Library in Illinois, where he served until 1969.
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Arthur Curley was known to be politically astute, and was tremendously concerned with how the function of the library as an institution was viewed by the public.
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Arthur Curley saw libraries as embodying the best of America's hopes and as the physical "repository of their values and aspirations" for each and every community.
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Arthur Curley encouraged librarians to see their work and especially their role as a key part of the information revolution.
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Arthur Curley was a founding member of ALA's Social Responsibility Round Table which exists to make the ALA more democratic and to equip librarians to help address social inequality and other human rights issues.
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Arthur Curley was chair of the Intellectual Freedom Committee from 1991 to 1994.
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Rather than merely promoting best practices "for Arthur Curley, LAN represented the first step of a grassroots effort of the ALA's 'awaking to activism'".