Exciting news! Tomorrow, I will be presenting a program about reel librarians at the 2016 Oregon Library Association Annual Conference, taking place in beautiful Bend, Oregon, April 20-22, 2016. This year’s conference theme is “Tell Your Story,” and my presentation is titled “When Others Tell Our Story: Librarian Portrayals in Film.”

Here’s my program write-up on the online conference schedule:

This program will highlight how librarians are portrayed in film. What can we learn about our own profession by the way others tell our story on the big screen? Culled from years of film analysis and research, as showcased on the presenter’s site Reel Librarians (http://reel-librarians.com), this program will feature both female and male “reel” librarian portrayals, illustrated with cinematic examples. How might these portrayals help (or inhibit) connections between librarians and our communities? Let’s all come together to identify and laugh – or groan! – at how we are portrayed in the “reel” world.

So tomorrow, Thursday, April 21, from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., that’s where I’ll be. Hopefully, I’ll see y’all there — if not in person, then definitely in spirit. 😀

Next week, I hope to have some pics to share from the program and conference.

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Sources used:

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• Snoek-Brown, Jennifer. “When Others Tell Our Story: Librarian Portrayals in Film.” Tell Your Story: 2016 OLA Annual Conference, 2016.