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Cora Paul Bomar Summit

Finding the Balance between Ego and Humility

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Information, Library, and Research Sciences (ILRS) Department
Email: lis@uncg.edu
Phone: 336.334.3477
Address: School of Education Building, Room 446
1300 Spring Garden St. Greensboro, NC 27412

Each year the UNC Greensboro Department of Information, Library, and Research Sciences (ILRS), organizes a summit to fulfill the mission of Cora Paul Bomar’s generous endowment. The Cora Paul Bomar Lecture Fund was endowed in 2002 with the expressed purpose of bringing speakers of note to UNC Greensboro on an annual basis for the benefit of faculty, students, and alumni.

Past speakers have included David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States; Carol Tilley, University of Illinois; Lauren Pressley, University of Washington; Mary Scanlon, Wake Forest University; Douglas Boyd, University of Kentucky; Alex London, author; Sharon McQueen, historian of children’s literature; and Wanda Kay Brown, past president of the American Library Association and director of the C. G. O’Kelly Library at Winston-Salem State University.

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Michael Crumpton- UNCG Dean of University Libraries

A respected scholar and leader, Mike has contributed more than 100 works in the institutional repository, including chapters, articles, and presentations, and has authored or edited four monographs with a fifth in progress. He has presented internationally, contributed to four federal Library Services and Technology Act grants with UNCG’s Information, Library, and Research Sciences Department, and served as an affiliated faculty member for more than 12 years. For over a decade, he has been editor-in-chief of the open-access Journal of Learning Spaces.

Mike joined UNCG in 2006 as Assistant Dean for Administrative Services, earning tenure in 2013 and promotion to professor in 2022. He was appointed Interim Dean in February 2020 and, following a competitive search, became Dean in 2023.

Abstract: Library management skills often focus on specific traits inherent to supervision or management of processes. This presentation will discuss and engage with the larger concept of Ego vs. Humility, Ego supplying the drive to get things done vs. Humility engaging with others to find purpose and agreement. Ego provides confidence to push your own agenda while humility can open doors of trust and respect.

The Summit will be both in-person and virtually, however everyone will need to register to receive the link, registration ends April 3rd!

When: April 17th 2026 at 10:00 am
Where: The Elliot University Center- Dail Room: 507 Stirling St, Greensboro, NC 27412

This event will occur online and in-person. If you are attending online, a link will be sent closer to the date.

There is no cost to attend The Cora Paul Bomar Community Matters Summit, and lunch is included, but please consider making a donation to our program!

Visit the give to the School of Education page.
Once there, make a donation, and for designation, please select “Library & Information Studies Enrichment Fund.”
IMPORTANT: Make sure you have selected “Library & Information Studies Enrichment Fund” as your designation!
In the gift comments section, please only write “For LIS Enrichment Fund” and nothing else
You will receive an email from UNCG confirming your donation. Thank you!

Please note that this is a non-refundable donation and not a payment. If your plans change, or if you decide to attend online, then a refund will not be possible.

Cora Paul Bomar was born in Memphis, Tennessee on September 8, 1913, and died in Greensboro, North Carolina on March 18, 2008, at the age of 94.

She began her career as a teacher in rural Tennessee in 1932 and eventually became a leader and advocate for school libraries. Bomar was the recipient of numerous honors and awards on both the regional and national level. A strong advocate for libraries, she testified before the United States House of Representatives and Senate committees on six occasions.

President Lyndon B. Johnson invited her to attend the signing of pro-library legislation in 1964. Bomar served as president of the American Association of School Librarians from 1963-1964.

In 1966 she was appointed the first director of North Carolina’s Division of Educational Media. School libraries and school media programs grew tremendously under her direction and at the time of her departure in 1969, virtually every secondary and primary school in North Carolina had a central library.

In 1969, Cora Paul Bomar joined the faculty of the Library Science and Technology department at UNC Greensboro where she remained until her retirement in 1979. Bomar spent her retirement years in Greensboro, North Carolina where she remained actively involved with University and community arts and library organizations.