Featured Webinar

Renowned author Renée Watson was the featured speaker for the 2023 Augusta Baker Lecture, hosted by Dr. Nicole Cooke

Anyone can learn how to bring data stories to life for library advocacy. Library data stories can help persuade decision-makers, but we need accessible tools for breaking down the dynamic process of storytelling. Based on ongoing research as part of the Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians project (IMLS), this talk presents tools anyone can use.

Bill Campbell will discuss his journey from author to publisher and Rosarium's accomplishments and continued mission to expand the fields of speculative fiction and comics.

Speaking personal truths and professional observations from 20+ years in library, archives, and special collections work, Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, Director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, challenges librarians and archivists to recenter their emotional investment in the hierarchical conflicts among themselves and honestly engage with the realities of contemporary library work and how their work as librarians is viewed by society at large.

Librarians exist within a web of relationships: to our students, to our patrons, to our peers, and to the information we broker. Indigenous worldviews tend to describe these relationships in more fulsome ways. Using the Cree concept of wâhkôhtowin provides a structure for librarians to be thoughtful and precise in how we build this kinship, especially as our collections can be sites of misinformation and trauma around Indigenous topics.

In this special presentation, Dr. Dahlen and Dr. Thomas discuss the purpose and process of co-editing their Harry Potter scholarly anthology during a period of social change in children's publishing and beyond.

2022-2023 ALA President Lessa Kanani'opua Pelayo-Lozada will share her insights on the opportunities and challenges in libraries, librarianship, and for library workers in our current world and the near future.