Atla Annual 2024

The opening plenary address will be a hybrid event, available to all online and in-person conference registrants.

Title: Redefining the Library Experience: Looking Upwards and Outwards
Description: Library leaders and staff are focused on identifying community needs and expectations. They are reviewing and revising metadata, collections, and programming. They also are exploring ways to integrate new technologies for discovery, access, and teaching digital literacies. Meeting the expectations and needs of changing and diverse communities demonstrates library leaders’ and staff’s adaptability, creativity in cultivating and developing collaborative relationships and partnerships, and transformative thinking. Findings from several OCLC research projects and examples will highlight how library leaders and staff are redefining the library experience.