I am excited to announce that our 2022 Technology Conference: The IT Factor is now open for registration. This one-day conference, planned in coordination with the Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN), will be held on Tuesday, October 25^th, 2022.  

Our Keynote Speaker has changed since our last conference update. The day will now open with Tom Siu, Chief Information Security Officer at Michigan State University. Tom leads the Security Engineering; Security Operations; Incident Response; Governance, Risk and Compliance; and Resilience teams within the Information Security department and is responsible for the university-wide information security strategy. Tom joined MSU in the fall of 2020, after having served for 14 years as CISO for Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. Using lessons learned from a series of security incidents impacting libraries and research in higher-education, Tom will discuss how library leaders can understand how to prepare for ransomware risk by developing their incident/crisis management frameworks, protective technologies, as well as resilience. This practical and interactive keynote comes just in time for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! 

Breakouts will have something for everyone with topics such as working and collaborating with your IT department, technology literacy programs for patrons, advanced cybersecurity, technology training for staff, technology management solutions roundtable, and community outreach efforts centered on technology access.   

Our closing speaker is Michael Peter Edison, a digital strategist working at the intersection of tech, culture, and democracy around the world. He was Co-founder of the newly emerging Museum for the United Nations - UN Live and formerly was the Director of Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution. In his presentation, The Work of Librarians in a World on Fire, Michael will draw from 30 years of work in the library and museum sector to argue that librarians and their supporters at all levels need to adjust and expand our concept of librarianship if we are to respond to today’s most important questions about culture, society, and change.  

We hope you will join us for this exciting day! 
If you are interested in attending or would like more information, visit the event page. 

Ragan Snead 

We would like to highlight FOLLETT as our participating vendor this week.
The outline of the discount for NEO-RLS members is as follows:

• Receive a 3% discount
• Online catalog is accessible at Titlewave | Follett Content Solutions

 For more information, contact Debbie Blair.