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Registration\u00a0is now open\u00a0for this year’s ILA Annual Conference, themed “Breaking Down Barriers: Building Up Communities”.\u00a0The conference, scheduled for\u00a0October 12-14 (Tuesday-Thursday)<\/strong>, will include virtual networking, an exhibit hall, top notch sessions on the latest topics in librarianship, and incredible speakers. All live sessions will be recorded and available for viewing later.<\/p>\n Awarding-winning author Clint Smith will be our keynote speaker and\u00a0the first 190 people to register for the conference will receive a free copy of his #1\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>Bestseller\u00a0How the Word is Passed: a Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Additional\u00a0speakers<\/a>\u00a0include ALA Executive Director Tracie D. Hall; St. Louis based cartoonist, editor, and professor Steenz; and\u00a0Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Librarian at the University of Florida Libraries Twanna K. Hodge.<\/p>\n The early-bird rate deadline is\u00a0Monday,\u00a0September 13<\/strong>. So, don’t\u00a0wait,\u00a0view the schedule<\/a>\u00a0on the ILA website and\u00a0register today<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (via the Illinois Library Association) Registration\u00a0is now open\u00a0for this year’s ILA Annual Conference, themed “Breaking Down Barriers: Building Up Communities”.\u00a0The conference, scheduled for\u00a0October 12-14 (Tuesday-Thursday), will include virtual networking, an exhibit hall, top notch sessions on the latest topics in librarianship, and incredible speakers. All live sessions will be recorded and available for viewing later….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,60,18,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-and-meetings-non-hsli","category-illinois-library-association","category-library-associations-non-hsli","category-webinars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}