10:30 AM - 11:00PM ET| Visit our Exhibitors 11:00 AM - 11:45PM ET| Welcome & Opening Keynote: Crisis as Catalyst Rivkah Sass, who led her team to win the inaugural Library Journal/Jerry Kline Community Impact Award in 2019, discusses how the pandemic has given us the opportunity to creatively rethink our spaces, services, and staff and urges us to move away from the idea of the library as monument to library as accessible community asset. Meredith Schwartz, Editor-in-Chief, Library Journal Rivkah Sass, Director/CEO, Sacramento Public Library, CA 11:50 AM - 12:30PM ET| Architect Panel: Moving from Crisis to Innovation Panelists: Jeff Davis, Senior Principal, Arch | Nexus Jeff Hoover, Principal, Tappé Architects Jim Kovach, Senior Associate, VMDO Architects 12:40 PM - 1:20PM ET| Architect Panel: Building Community Beyond COVID Panelists: Pamela Anderson-Brulé, President, Anderson Brulé Architects Peter Bolek, President, HBM Architects Andrea Gifford, Principal, Group 4 Architecture Ray Johnston, Founding Partner, Johnston Associates Moderator: Richard Reyes-Gavilan, Executive Director, District of Columbia Public Library 1:20 PM - 1:50PM | Break to Visit our Exhibitors 1:50 PM - 3:20PM ET | Concurrent Architect Breakouts The interactive architect-led breakouts feature Design Challenges submitted by attendees. You can select one based on its similarity to your own project, in size, scope, etc., or choose to go farther afield. You may also be able to participate in a case study/design critique. In addition to brainstorming ideas, architects will help guide you to solutions. 3:20 PM - 3:50PM ET| Break to Visit our Exhibitors 3:50 PM - 4:30PM ET| Architect Panel: Future Forward Our architects will call out the two or three things they’ve learned during the pandemic that will inform library design over the next five to ten years. Panelists: Pamela Anderson-Brulé, President, Anderson Brulé Architects Jack Chaffin, Partner, Johnston Architects Jeff Davis, Senior Principal, Arch | Nexus Jeff Hoover, Principal, Tappé Architects Jim Kovach, Senior Associate, VMDO Architects David Schnee, Principal, Group 4 Architecture 4:30 PM - 5:10PM ET| Closing Keynote: Taking the Political Temperature John Chrastka, founder of EveryLibrary, the first nationwide library PAC, addresses how to gauge your community’s priorities and put the library at the top of the list, even in a down economy. John Chrastka, Executive Director, EveryLibrary and the EveryLibrary Institute 5:10 PM - 5:40PM ET| Visit our Exhibitors |