President Clinton has nominated Marilyn Gell Mason to serve as a member of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.
Until she retired in 1999, Mason served as director of the Cleveland Public Library for 12 years. Before that she directed the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library for four years. She was also director of the first White House Conference on Library and Information Services, held in 1979.
Mason received her B.A. from the University of Dallas, a Master of Library Science degree from North Texas State University, and a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
NCLIS is a permanent, independent agency of the federal government charged with advising the president and Congress on national and international library and information services policies and plans.
Posted September 4, 2000.