We’re excited to announce
CNN’s Don Lemon
as our Keynote Speaker!

Make sure to tune in at 3:00 PM ET on February 23 to hear Lemon discuss his years as a breaking news television reporter and anchor, as well as his forthcoming title, This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism. 

Speakers and Featured Topics Include:

• Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, Executive Director of the Mid-Hudson Library System, will discuss how to reassess library policy and practice with an eye to sustainability and social justice.
• Co-Founders Greg Peverill-Conti and Adam Zand from the Library Land Project will demonstrate the value of assessing the library through a patron’s eyes. 
• Librarian Reserve Corps Founder and LJ's 2021 Librarian of the Year Elaine Hicks will present on how to fight the “infodemic” to help patrons safeguard their and their loved one’s health.
• Library leaders will discuss the future of collection strategy and reader’s advisory; service models and transformational changes to meet the needs of patrons and staff; improved management and communication methods to support frontline workers, and setting and achieving concrete Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion goals. 

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