LILRC Annual Membership Meeting

LILRC is excited to invite you to our 

2024 Annual Membership Meeting

Farmingdale State College

Agenda

9:00am Check-in and Breakfast

10:00am Welcome 

10:05am Business Meeting

Break

10:35am Keynote Address: Patrick Sweeney, Political Director, EveryLibrary

Break

11:45am 2024 Digitization & Innovation Grant Recipients 

12:30pm Farewell

Keynote Presentation:

Patrick will be talking about advocacy techniques and approaches to book ban efforts.

Patrick Sweeney is a tireless and innovative advocate for libraries. A 2007 graduate of the San Jose School of Library and Information Sciences, Patrick is the former Administrative Librarian of the Sunnyvale (CA) Public Library and was Executive Director of EveryLibrary California, a statewide initiative to support library propositions. He was awarded Library Journal’s “Movers and Shakers” award in 2015 for his library advocacy work. He is co-author of “Winning Elections and Influencing Politicians for Library Funding” as well as “Before the Ballot; Building Support for Library Funding.” He was recently recognized with a “40 Under 40” award by the American Association of Political Consultants for his work fighting for libraries at EveryLibrary. He is a lecturer at the San Jose Information School where he teaches courses on politics and libraries. He is active across social media as PC Sweeney.

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Code of Conduct

For questions, please email Eliscia Cirrone, ecirrone@lilrc.org.

Professional Development Hours: 2.5 (.25 CEUs)

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