| Program 10:00-10:30 AM ET | 7:00-7:30 AM PST
Visit Architects and Sponsors in the Exhibit Hall 10:30-10:40 AM ET| 7:30-7:40 AM PST
Welcome Address and presentation of The Year in Architecture: Meredith Schwartz, Editor-In-Chief, Library Journal 10:40-11:05 AM ET| 7:40-8:05 AM PST
Keynote: Pam Sandlian-Smith, Director, Anythink Libraries 11:05-11:45 AM ET| 8:05-8:45 AM PST
Designing for Learning
More and more, communities are looking to libraries as places of learning. In response, libraries are incorporating learning centers into their designs to serve patrons of all ages, as well as being the host site for continuing education to corporate and community partners. Meeting the educational and social emotional learning needs of a diverse group of learners requires more than maker spaces and multipurpose rooms. In this session, participants will hear about how libraries are creating inspiring and functional spaces that place them at the center of learning in their communities.
Moderator: Pam Sandlian-Smith, Director, Anythink Libraries
Panelists: Jeffrey M. Hoover, Principal, Tappé Architects and Erin Jennings, Associate Partner, KRM Architecture 11:50 AM - 12:30 PM ET| | 8:50 - 9:30 AM PST
Small Changes for Big Impact
Today's libraries are being renovated and built to lead communities as models of sustainability. While solar panels and smart HVAC systems save resources for the buildings and their communities, not every library needs (or has the resources) to make major infrastructure changes to realize a more green, sustainable, and energy efficient environment. Staff and patron behavioral changes, and small upgrades to lighting, windows, faucets, and furniture purchases can yield big results. By using buildings as ‘learning labs’, libraries can also help demonstrate the benefits of sustainability to their communities. In this session, our panel of architects will offer insights on how libraries can implement practical and resourceful interventions for big impact.
Moderator: Matthew Bollerman, Chief Executive Officer, Hauppauge Public Library
Panelists: Jefferey Davis, Senior Principal, Arch Nexus and Dennis Humphries, Principal, Ratio Design Architects 12:30-1:00 PM ET| 9:30-10:00 AM PST
Break / Visit the Exhibit Hall 1:00-2:30 PM ET| 10:00-11:30 AM PST
Concurrent Architect Breakouts
Join one of five, interactive, architect-led breakout sessions featuring design challenges submitted by our attendees and take away actionable ideas and inspiration to help guide you to your own solutions. Follow-up with the architects in their booths after the break-out to ask them your questions or discuss your own project. 2:30-3:00 PM ET| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PST
Break / Visit the Exhibit Hall 3:00-3:40 PM ET| 12:00-12:40 PM PST
Designing for Community Development
Libraries are at the center of their communities and remain the trusted source of information for their patrons. They are also the centers of knowledge on what their communities need in the way of services. Through data analysis, government support, and deep partnerships with businesses, educational institutions and other local organizations, many libraries are designing innovative spaces that support the specific social, cultural and economic needs of their communities, centering them as engines for development. In this session, we'll hear examples of how libraries identified community needs, connected with partners, established design requirements in order to build tailored spaces and resources, and engaged their communities throughout the process to ensure buy-in.
Moderator: Honore Bray, Library Director, Missoula Public Library
Panelists: Jeffrey M. Hoover, Principal, Tappé Architects and Dennis Humphries, Principal, Ratio Design Architects 3:45-4:25 PM ET| 12:45-1:25 PM PST
Designing for Equity and Inclusion
For the past decade, libraries have been engaging their communities in the process of designing and building or renovating spaces, with much focus given to flexible spaces that can serve the diverse and ever-changing needs of the community. Today, more intention is being given to equity and inclusion in the design process, with design being used to engage in social justice and impact work, often creatively using materiality, design, and art that reflects the community's people, past and future. Often working with local partners, libraries are creating spaces that can be more fully owned and used by their communities. In this session, participants will learn more about design strategies and solutions that incorporate community co-creation as a means to engage in equity, justice, and inclusion efforts, and anchor growth in their cities, towns, and neighborhoods.
Moderator: Richard Kong, Director, Skokie Public Library
Panelists: Jefferey Davis, Senior Principal, Arch Nexus and Erin Jennings, Associate Partner, KRM Architecture 4:25-5:00 PM ET| 1:25-2:00 PM PST
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