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GESCHKE LECTURE: MITZI PERDUE (International Correspondence)
Reporting from Ukraine, with strong contacts in Kyiv, Perdue regularly moderates sessions with Russian dissidents. She was poisoned within the last year and barely survived. Aside: Mitzi is a self described, “library person to the core,” and penned a 2005 article for the American Library Association (ALA) Journal about libraries as a resource for those dealing with substance abuse.