APLIC Celebrities

Celebrities – Bates Buckner
As the first librarian at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina, Bates not only collected population data and publications for CPC, she obtained a grant from the Population Council to strengthen other libraries around the world by starting APLIC-I in 1968, producing training manuals for population information network libraries (POPIN) and contributing to POPLINE at JHUCCP. She planned and taught at several international POPLIN conferences overseas.

Founder of APLIC-I in 1968

Bates Buchner, Caroline Population Center, University of North Carolina