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Caption: Dedication - Grainger Engineering Library Symposium
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—y R O B E R T E. A L L E N CHAIRMAN AND C I O OF AT&T Bob Wedgeworth and I are old friends. We went to college together at Wabash College in Indiana — more years ago than i care to admit. He was a much better basketball player, but we were about even in our one-on-ones in the library. Back then, our library card file was literally that — a card file. This was before the days that students would tap into a computer to find sources for their research. Over the years I've watched with interest and respect as Bob's career in the library world has advanced. (You're very fortunate to have his talents working for you.) At the same time, I've observed how library science itself is advancing. The Grainger Center Is a very visible testament to these dramatic changes. Books and journals and printed materials are still the crux of the library. But the computer and the computer network have become the new tools of the trade. Librarians use them. So do the thousands of students, faculty members, and engineers who access the library's resources. I'm pleased that AT&T has helped equip the Grainger Center with the latest in computers, software, and networking services. We're proud to have helped the University of Illinois create the country's largest, and perhaps best, engineering library with the most up-to-date technology. "Robert E. Allen, chairman and CEO of AT&T, is a native ofIndiana whose name has becomefamiliar from the impact of one achievement after another Accord^ ing to Business Week, "He's no technology whiz.. .but in his quiet, determined way he has... succeeded where dozens of other CEOs have filled. He has taken one of the world's most entrenched corporate cultures and turned it around,... infusing a sprawling empire with a simple, overarching vision of the future* * - Robert Wedgeworth - PAGE 5
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