The program includes a brief membership meeting, an update on yearly activities, featured speaker Dr. Audrey Barbakoff, and trustee recognitions. The keynote address is titled: Serve our Community Creatively by Thinking like a Designer

Resources for the event:
2022 Year In Review

About the Keynote:
Serve our Community Creatively by Thinking like a Designer
Can our programs and service be thoroughly planned AND get off the ground quickly? Keep our community at the center AND be creative. Absolutely! Design thinking, a technique taken from software and industrial design, can help us start fast and learn faster, all while keeping the community at the heart of our work. In this keynote presentation, Dr. Audrey Barbakoff will help us learn to weave empathy, flexibility, and responsiveness into our program planning to sustain and grow successfully.
Here’s a bio:

Dr. Audrey Barbakoff is the CEO of Co/Lab Capacity LLC, which provides community-centered consulting for libraries and social good organizations. She has over a decade of experience in public libraries, where she held various roles in adult services, youth services, collections, Bookmobile and outreach, and administration. Throughout, she focused on community partnerships and leadership. Her innovative and inclusive work has been recognized by Library Journal Movers & Shakers, the Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal 40 Under 40, the Freedom to Read Foundation, and the Urban Libraries Council. In addition to her MLIS from the University of Washington, Dr. Barbakoff holds an EdD in organizational change and leadership from the University of Southern California. Her dissertation research focused on building organizational capacity for equity, diversity, and inclusion in public libraries through community-led programs. She is the author of Adults Just Wanna Have Fun: Programs for Emerging Adults and the forthcoming book Twelve Steps to a Community-Led Library. In her spare time, she writes for children; her first picture book, The Schlemiels Save the Moon, is forthcoming in Spring 2024. Find her at www.colabcapacity.com.

Registration information:
We are happy to announce that we can offer a discounted rate this year to anyone who might benefit from the savings. Please feel free to choose the “friends registration” if you are a student, volunteer, retiree, first-time attendee, a library worker in your first five years of service, or experiencing financial hardship this year. 

If you have any questions about which option is for you, don’t hesitate to get in touch with Carolyn Bennett Glauda: carolyn@senylrc.org

• Regular Registration ($25.00) Includes brunch and admission to the annual meeting.
• Friends registration ($15.00) For students, volunteers, retirees, first-time annual meeting attendees, and library workers in their first five years in the profession. Includes brunch and admission to the annual meeting. 
• Livestream viewing ($0.00) We will have a non-interactive live stream video feed of the event. Use this option if you cannot attend in person but still want to hear and see the meeting.