​Libraries for Peace and Social Justice (9am MT, 10am CT, 11am ET​)
Presented by Dr. Clara Chu
​What role can libraries play in advancing a more peaceful and informed society? How can librarians contribute to peace building and become agents of social change? By enhancing our understanding of peace in our local communities and globally, library workers and stakeholders will see their role in contributing to community building and social change locally. The keynote explores libraries and librarians as peace builders and skills in peace building, and helps create consciousness about librarians’ possibilities and impact in building healthy and just communities.
​Inclusiveness Panel (10am MT, 11am CT, 12pm ET)
Panelists: Touger Vang, Tara Bannon, Asha Hagood, and Jackie Jordan
​Join us as we discuss ways libraries connect with our communities more inclusively. We will hear from library staff working with refugees, seniors, people experiencing homelessness, and food insecurity. 
Girls Who Code (11am MT, 12pm CT, 1pm ET)
Presented by Pat B. Ball 
This presentation will discuss some of the challenges of setting up a coding program in a public library, with a focus on the experiences of setting up a “Girls Who Code Club,” at a branch in Cobb County Public Library System in Georgia. The presenter will discuss issues to consider when considering a coding club for youth in the library.  Issues that include:  1. Volunteers/Staff/Facilitator  (Qualifications) ;  2. Identifying interested youth/parent involvement; 3.  What type of coding program to introduce to your community (Girls Who Code/ Black Girls Code/Teens Who Code); 4. What age group do you want to reach and; 5. Keeping youth interested (after-school program, summer program, semester etc.).
​Pondering Ritual and the Future of Libraries  (12pm MT, 1pm CT, 2pm ET)
Presented by Stacey Aldrich
​Libraries are about making connections between people and ideas. Rituals are ways that we connect as humans. Join me in thinking about what is ritual and why it is important as we continue to build the future of libraries.  
​Community-Library Inter-Action (CLIA): Libraries as Community Anchors Promoting Peaceful and Sustainable Communities (1pm MT, 2pm CT, 3pm ET)
​Presented by CLIA
​Libraries are community anchors, playing a key role in developing peaceful and sustainable communities. Across the world, local communities may be experiencing challenges and conflict, and need a space to raise and identify common concerns, formulate action and tackle systemic barriers. Libraries are in a position to develop community capacity building processes to advance community knowledge, intercultural understanding, empowerment and solutions. The Community-Library Inter-Action (CLIA) Project responds to this need by supporting libraries to facilitate local dialogue and community action. In this context libraries contribute to the collective action and impact on the part of libraries worldwide to advance peaceful and sustainable communities. CLIA engages three core elements:
  1. democratic dialogue
  2. social cohesion, inclusion, equality and diversity
  3. informed civil and civic action
CLIA is a Mortenson Center for International Library Programs Project (University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, USA) http://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/ in partnership with Take Part Research Cluster (Lincoln University, UK) http://takepartresearchcluster.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/. The CLIA Guide, being co-developed in the United States and Colombia, presents processes that enable libraries to strengthen their role as community anchors by working WITH, not just FOR communities. Libraries practicing Community-Library Inter-Action play a meaningful role in supporting community capacity building for social transformation.
​#Choose2BKind: Building Community Through the Exchange of Empathy
​(2pm MT, 3pm CT, 4pm ET)
Presented by Allison Jessing
​​Allison Jessing, Events and Seminars Manager at Howard County Library System, will discuss HCLS' Choose Civility initiative and the ongoing campaign to build community through open dialogue and the exchange of empathy. She will discuss HCLS' experience of producing a successful Human Library event and other key current elements of the Choose Civility campaign.