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Hello –

We're getting excited about the upcoming LJ Directors' Summit in Sacramento, December 1-2. We have been following all of your important work and are looking forward to what the future will bring. We also want to make sure you are future ready. This year's Directors' Summit—Futureproof: Empowering Resilient Communities, will focus on just that—sustainability in its most expansive sense. We have an exciting, dynamic group of speakers including keynote speakers Jim Osgood, CEO & President of Klean Kanteen, and Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation.

The goal of this two-day strategic event is to ensure that you and your peer library directors can share your thinking, learn together, and head home ready to apply sustainability practices at your libraries, big and small.

Please join me at Sacramento Public Library December 1-2 for what is sure to be an important and engaging event for all of us.

Rebecca T. Miller
Editorial Director, Library Journal and School Library Journal

Register today for the 2016 annual Library Journal Directors' Summit, December 1-2 at the Sacramento Public Library, Sacramento, CA.

Futureproof: Empowering Resilient Communities will focus on sustainability in its most expansive sense. This key group of leaders will grapple with how to use this vital institution—the library—as a driver of community-wide sustainability to ensure a robust local future in the face of historic challenges from climate warming, political swings, and rapidly changing demographics.

Join 100+ library leaders and strategic thinkers from beyond libraries to re-think, re-engage, and re-position their libraries as themselves futureproof, and primary drivers of futureproof communities. Reserve your complimentary place today and be part of this dynamic group of leaders.

Learn how to put corporate responsibility in practice from keynote speaker Jim Osgood, CEO & President of Klean Kanteen.

Listen to experts from outside the library world, including Patti Southard, Program Manager for GreenTools in King County, WA discuss effective collaboration between libraries, government, and beyond.

Participate in an engaging "Do-Tank" on sustainability led by Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, Coordinator for Library Sustainability at Mid-Hudson Library System in NY with Matthew Bollerman, Director of Hauppauge Public Library in NY.

Prepare to be future ready from closing speaker Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation.

Plenty of time will be allotted for networking during an evening reception and breaks.

An exciting local tour is in development for Thursday, December 1, 9:00 am – 11:30 am. As soon as details are available, we will share it with registrants.