Copley Connects - Spring 2017

Chance Encounter You never know who you will run into at a library conference. This January, Dean of the University Library Theresa Byrd had a chance meeting with US Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis (pictured here with Dean Byrd) at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Lewis, the representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district, was presented with the ALA’s Coretta Scott King Award for best African-American author for the graphic memoir, March: Book Three , co-written with Andrew Aydin, creator of the March comics trilogy about the Civil Rights Movement.

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