Keynote Address by Gene Ambaum
​Thursday , March  30, 2017   |   7:15  -  8:45  PM    |  Red Room

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Library
If you work in libraries you know that sometimes you have to laugh or else you'll cry. In this 50 minute keynote we deliver the laughs as we take you on a tour of the world's only library comic strip. The staff and patrons of the Mallville Public Library are instantly recognizable, and give your audience a unique opportunity to gently laugh at themselves and the people they work with on both sides of the desk. We deconstruct some of our greatest hits, and Gene tells some of the true-life stories that inspired them, as well as a few he had to leave out. ​

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Author Presentation by Maureen Johnson
Saturday, April 1, 2017  |    8:45 AM   |  Nigerian Room

The  Author is in Hiding
Authors are famously reclusive. Many of us have taken an unexpected journey in the last ten or so years, as social media has come into the fore. Maureen Johnson discusses how she came to be a very online author, and how that has affected the job in ways good, bad, and entirely unexpected.