[Libs-Or] Early-bird Registration for 2020 OLA Conference Now Open!

[Darci Hanning]

Greetings!

The Oregon Library Association conference will be held April 29th through May 2nd at the Riverhouse on the Deschutes in Bend. As we celebrate 80 years since OLA's beginnings at Timberline Lodge in June 1940, the theme for the 2020 OLA Conference will be: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion.

Early-bird registration<http://oregonlibconference.org/2020/registration/> is now open through Friday, March 20, 2020! You can view the conference program<http://oregonlibconference.org/2020/program/> and book your hotel by calling 1-866-453-4480 or visiting this unique booking link<https://riverhouse.reztrip.com/ext/promoRate?property=1334&mode=b&pm=true&sr=524372&vr=3> to reserve your room at the Riverhouse on the Deschutes at the OLA conference block rate. The block rate applies from April 28 through May 3, 2020.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Keynote Address, Thursday, April 30th, 8:30 a.m.

[Sonja Ervin]Kick off the conference with our keynote presenter Sonja Ervin, Multnomah County Library's first ever equity and inclusion manager. She leads efforts to ensure library services, programs, staffing, materials, and spaces are equitable, inclusive, and culturally responsive. Her work involves leading staff in thoughtful discussions about equity and inclusion and outlining actionable steps to improve the library's efforts both internally and for the community. She provides support and holds space for library staff who face experiences of racism and oppression. She is also the executive sponsor for the Black Cultural Library Advocate team.
Her vision for public libraries is that every person, regardless of who they are, where they come from, or their current or past experiences and circumstances, feel connected and a sense of community as they walk through the library doors.


President's Banquet, Friday, May 1st, 6:00 p.m.
OLA President Elaine Hirsch invites everyone (ticket included with full conference registration) to celebrate OLA's 80th anniversary with a look back over OLA's history from the first meeting at Timberline Lodge in 1940 to today as we meet in Bend, Oregon. Special entertainment is on the menu as well. Stay tuned.

Saturday Author, Saturday, May 2nd, 12:30 p.m.
[cid:image004.jpg at 01D5DA82.C9D2B290]Join everyone as we wrap up the conference with author David Walker. David F. Walker is an award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator. His writing career started in the 1990s with the self-published 'zine, BadAzz MoFo. In 1997 he produced and directed Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered, and Shafted, a feature length documentary on the history of blaxploitation films.

Walker is best known for his work in graphic novels and comics, which includes The Life of Frederick Douglass (Ten Speed Press), the Eisner Award-nominated series Bitter Root (Image Comics), and the critically acclaimed series Naomi (DC Comics). He has written for Marvel Comics (Luke Cage, Occupy Avengers, Power Man and Iron Fist, Nighthawk, Fury, Deadpool), DC Comics (Cyborg, Young Justice), Dynamite Entertainment (Shaft), and Dark Horse (Number 13). He also teaches part time at Portland State University.

This email is being sent on behalf of the OLA Conference Planning Committee.

Cheers,
Darci Hanning, MLIS
Public Library Consultant / CE Coordinator
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