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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;font-weight:normal">Join tomorrow for a continuation of the “</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">What is a Library
if the Building is Closed?” series from Gigabit Libraries. This round focuses on Libraries in Recovery. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;font-weight:normal">On Friday, September 18, at 11am Eastern you can hear from an all-star panel with internet "co-father", Vint Cerf; IMLS Director, Crosby Kemper; and University of South Carolina’s David
Lankes to help us begin longer term thinking and planning for libraries in months and even years ahead.</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
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Register here: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-with-vint-crosby-david-tickets-120652919129">
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-with-vint-crosby-david-tickets-120652919129</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">When might we expect to get “back to normal?” Recent Scientific American <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-about-the-pandemic-were-not-getting-back-to-normal-any-time-soon/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#007C89">article</span></a> predicts
that, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“it might be not until 2023-2024 when we get a sufficiently safe and effective vaccine.</span></em>” More predictable is the need to prepare for waves of restrictions and loosenings for the long haul.
How to plan for that kind of operating environment? Well, the libraries<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> are</span></em> open. It’s just the buildings that are mostly closed. But what does that mean going forward and for how long?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">Tomorrow’s powerhouse </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;font-weight:normal">panel with Vint, Crosby & David</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020"> will
help us anticipate what might be ahead for libraries as we kick off </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;font-weight:normal">Round Three in the series as: <i>Libraries in Recovery</i></span></strong><strong><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">.</span></i></strong><em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020"> </span></em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020"> What
form will library services, if not library spaces, take in the years ahead? While also taking into account an array of potential if not probable disruptions like increasingly severe and more frequent extreme weather events due to climate change. What new skills
will be expected of librarians themselves? Greater ICT expertise seems one safe bet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">Our current era of digital transformation was already rapidly accelerating before the virus struck. Now the pandemic has put that phenomenon into overdrive. What will that mean for whatever the “next
normal” may look like? The shift from libraries as a 3rd place to becoming more aset of virtual services has taken hold. Designing new dedicated special function library spaces has been driving library design for over a decade. Now what? What impact on a now
intolerable digital divide?<br>
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“<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Public libraries will always adapt to and reflect the communities they serve,</span></em>” -Marian Morgan-Bindon, city librarian for Gold Coast, Australia. In context of our theme
<em><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“What’s a Library if the Building is Closed?</span></b></em></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">”</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">,
how might libraries rethink services and roles in: </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">internet access, digital services, physical materials </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">and </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">social
infrastructure </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">in the longer term?<br>
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Before the virus, ~80,000,000 people in the US accessed the internet at a library. But they all had to go to a library. Now what? How can a library deliver services to its community without a safe or reliably open building? Can they turn inside out? Find ways
to deliver existing and even new services out across their communities? Which services and how? <br>
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Join us as we take up these questions and more over this next round of sessions. Starting tomorrow. </span><strong><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">Please share!</span></i></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
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</span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">Tune in and help out! Send your questions in advance! To:
<a href="mailto:info@giglibraries.net"><span style="font-weight:normal">info@giglibraries.net</span></a> Use Subject line: “Question for… Vint, Crosby, David or All"</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Library of Michigan, 702 W. Kalamazoo, Lansing, MI 48909<br>
<a href="mailto:Whites29@michigan.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">Whites29@michigan.gov</span></a> 517-335-1507 |
<a href="http://www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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