Perhaps now more than ever, your library needs to shape, share and sustain their identity. With the CO-VID 19 crisis on the minds of our users and community members, libraries need to be known and relied upon to help with their programs and services.

This interactive and informative program will explore how libraries have the ability to be a transformative agent within their community, gain insights in how to create partnerships to foster more outreach, inclusion and community development. As a result of this program, attendees will begin to create their own framework of how to develop a narrative for their library.

Gavin Woltjer ~ Biography

Gavin J. Woltjer is the Library Director for the Billings (MT) Public Library. When not held hostage in a good book, he enjoys exploring the wilds of Montana with his wife, Rena, and their three children. His research interests include: data analytics; library leadership; economic development and libraries; archives and record management; and, librarian as public historian.