General Sessions

Saturday, Oct. 3rd at 9:00 AM Synopsis: Librarians work to serve their communities every day, including through traumatic events such as natural disasters, police brutality, and school shootings.

Saturday, Oct. 3rd at 11:45 AM Synopsis: A moderated conversation between LGBTQIA children's book creators. Discussion may include how gender and sexual identity impact the stories they tell, their work with publishers, reaching readers, and finding community.

Friday, Oct. 2nd at 9:00 AM Synopsis: A panel of children’s book creators addresses family dynamics and how their lived experiences, cultural backgrounds, and personal histories inform their creative processes and the stories they tell for young people.

Saturday, Oct. 3rd at 2:45 PM Synopsis: Panelists will address the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s annual publishing statistics and how representations of Muslim characters and books by Muslim writers and illustrators fit into those statistics, as well as in the wider world of children’s books.

Friday, Oct. 2nd at 2:45 PM Synopsis: Developed through California State Library’s “Early Learning with Families”(ELF) initiative, “Touchpoints in Libraries” is a professional development training about how to effectively engage children and families.

Friday, Oct. 2nd at 11:45 AM Synopsis: Mní Wičhóni. Water is life. Join Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade for a discussion surrounding their latest text, We Are Water Protectors.