LVA Directors’ Meetings

Note:  The LVA Directors Meeting is hosted each Fall by the Library of Virginia.  Some business of VPLDA is conducted at this meeting, however, the full business of VPLDA is conducted at each Spring VPLDA Meeting.  For VPLDA Meeting information please see the VPLDA page via the link below.

• • 2024 LVA Directors Meeting – September 26-27, 2024
    • Agenda
    • Icebreaker Introduction:  Directors By the Numbers - Reagen Thalacker, Library of Virginia
    • Keynote:  Librarian's Save the World - Dr. David Lankes, Virginia & Charles Bowden Professor of Librarianship, School of Information, University of Texas - Austin (Slides)
      • Recording can be found in Niche Academy (https://my.nicheacademy.com/libraryofvirginia-staff/course/77532)
      • Libraries and library staff are facing multiple challenges in an age of artificial intelligence, climate crisis, war, questions on the firmness of democracy, book bans (and literal book burning), disinformation flooding social media, social media pushing confrontation over community for greater monetization, mounting deaths of despair from growing social isolation, and pandemics. But these challenges offer libraries an opportunity to not only serve our communities wrestling with such massive issues, but to help them find optimism and room for growth.
    • Speakers:
      • Insights for Community Service - Serve Virginia
        • Alexander Vanik
        • Annalise Gammel
      • Virginia Office of Broadband Update - Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
        • Chandler Vaughan, Associate Director, Office of Broadband
        • Cameron Lewis, Digital Opportunity Coordinator, Office of Broadband
      • Linking Partnership Development to Positive Program Outcomes in Naloxone Distribution
        • Gretchen Dunne, Virginia Department of Health

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