Registration is OPEN for LSLS 2024! This year’s conference will be held in-person on Friday, June 7 on at the Kathryn A. Martin Library on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth.
This year’s theme, “Persevere: Carrying Out Our Mission,” will inspire you to stay the course, hold true to your values, and persevere!
For just $70, you’ll experience a keynote by Tess Wilson from the Library Freedom Project, 11 inspiring presentations, and a Thursday evening pre-conference trivia and social event. Stay tuned for details!
Register by May 24 to ensure that any dietary requests can be accommodated.
Sometimes you need a break from the average conference: you need an UNCONFERENCE! At the LSLS Unsymposium, you determine the conversation.
Our 12th annual Lake Superior Libraries Unsymposium will be held in-person on Friday, January 12, 2024 from 1-4:30 p.m. at Superior Public Library in Superior, Wisconsin. We hope you’ll join us for an afternoon of conversation, collaboration, and connection!
“I appreciate the opportunity to meet and talk about the nitty-gritty of ideas that we might all struggle with, rather than formal conferences where we listen to people talk about big ideas that I may not be able to scale to my situation.”
Participants brainstorm a host of topics, which are then selected in a bottom-up, democratic manner. Rather than listening to a single speaker, you get to ask questions, interact, and offer your own expertise on a topic chosen by the whole group. So . . . everyone wants to talk about diversity in collection development? Done. You’re the only one who wants to talk about library-themed cupcakes? Maybe we’ll talk about them next time! Together, we’ll discover our common challenges and develop solutions collaboratively. You’ll come away from the Unsymposium invigorated by lively discussions and ready to take that excitement back to your library.
Previous discussion topics include:
Climate change and libraries
Displays/marketing
Learning analytics
Office supplies
and much more!
The Unsymposium is free and open to everyone.
WHEN: 1:00-4:30 pm, Friday, January 12th, 2024 (Join us for a pre-unsymposium lunch at 11:30 am at Bucktales Cantina & Grill in Superior. Participants are responsible for purchasing their own meals and drinks.)
Our tenth annual Lake Superior Libraries Symposium will be held virtually on Friday, June 10, 2022. This year’s theme is “Thrive,” and our keynote speaker will be Nisha Mody.
Nisha Mody is a Feminist Healing Coach, Writer, and Librarian. Most recently, she was Associate Director of the Pacific Southwest Region for NNLM, previous a Health & Life Sciences Librarian at UCLA. Before that, Nisha worked as a speech therapist and consultant. Throughout her work, Nisha has consistently valued connection, compassion, curiosity, humility, vulnerability, unlearning, and liberation, all of which led her to becoming a healing coach with a trauma-informed lens. Nisha coaches people individually and in groups, and you can find out more about her at www.nishaland.com and on Instagram @healinghypegirl.
The organizers of the Lake Superior Libraries Symposium (LSLS) invite breakout session proposals for our tenth conference, which will be held virtually on Friday, June 10, 2022. The registration cost for this year’s conference is $20.
This year’s theme is Thrive. This theme was developed based on feedback from past LSLS attendees about topics they want to learn about combined with current library and world challenges. We’re interested in a conference focused on what library workers and libraries need and what we can do to Thrive.
The organizers of the Lake Superior Libraries Symposium (LSLS) invite breakout session proposals for our ninth conference, which will be held virtually on June 11, 2021. There will be no registration cost for this year’s conference.
This year’s theme, Mapping Our Identity, invites attendees to explore the varied identities of libraries and library workers and how those identities shift in response to external events, personal development, changes in communities, and more. At LSLS21 we will ask, and hopefully start to answer, the questions of “Who are we?,” “Who do we want to become?,” and “How are we getting there?”
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