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Agenda draft

Day Time Agenda item Facilitator
Friday All day Arrivals - check in to rooms, get name badges, snacks and drinks to kitchens. Shared supplies to Labadorf second floor (likely).
Friday Mid-afternoon Some kind of social activity like an easy group hike, or multiple options
Friday 5:30 pm Dinner
Friday After dinner Zine display gallery show upstairs, or similar
Day Time Agenda item Facilitator
Saturday 8:15 am Breakfast
Saturday 9:00 am Introductions, icebreaker activity with prompts, goal and intention setting, community agreements, agenda review. We will each share what we are most looking forward to discussing and doing over the weekend.
Saturday 10:00 am 15 minute break
Saturday 10:15 am Morning plenary: Library work in crisis times: discussing the big picture and strategizing about how to support ourselves, our communities, and our libraries.
Saturday 12:30 pm Lunch
Saturday 1:15 pm Breakout session 1
Saturday 2:30 pm Breakout session 2
Saturday 3:45 pm Breakout session 3
Saturday 5 pm Brief reflections on the day
Saturday 5:30 pm Dinner
Saturday After dinner Party :)
Day Time Agenda item Facilitator
Sunday 8:15 am Breakfast
Sunday 9:30 am Opening plenary (with quick re-introductions): Countering library neutrality


Sunday 11:15 am Breakout session 4


Sunday 12:30 pm Lunch
Sunday 1:15 pm Breakout session 5
Sunday 2:30 pm Breakout session 6
Sunday 3:45 pm Reflection/action items activity
Sunday 5:30 pm Dinner
Sunday Evening Evening activity TBD
Day Time Agenda item Facilitator
Monday 8:15 am Breakfast
Monday Morning Free time/departures
Monday 12:30 pm Lunch
Monday Afternoon Free time/departures
Full list of session ideas (ideas on the agenda represent the highest number of votes from our session poll):
  • Countering extremist/fascist attacks on libraries, supporting our communities, protecting ourselves, and promoting our own positive agenda
  • Powermapping: a tool used to understand who has power in our communities and workplaces, and how we can move them on the issues we care about
  • Privacy 101 basics
  • AI, algorithmic literacy, and libraries
  • Supporting rural libraries
  • Countering library neutrality
  • Labor organizing in libraries
  • Privacy for reproductive care seekers
  • Making connections between academic and public
  • Library safety without cops
  • Sharing our instruction materials and programming ideas on privacy and intellectual freedom
  • All about LFP for newcomers
  • Library vendors and their discontents: privacy, big data, vendors being bought by private equity, consolidating into huge companies, etc
  • Student and other activist safety, anti-doxxing and anti-harassment
  • Teaching privacy and tech literacy in a library environment using a critical/abolitionist/social justice lens
  • Networking with other advocacy and activist groups, including those in the library world
  • How to run a meeting, including building community agreements and consensus
  • Some sort of overview about privacy laws and how to find them both federal/state?
  • Dealing with first amendment auditors/video harassment
  • Burnout, vocational awe, and choosing your battles
  • LFP organization and culture discussion (strategic plan implementation and more)
  • LFP members applying to future IMLS rounds: Alison
  • Connecting big issues of the moment to surveillance and privacy
  • How to tie in to other library programming adjunct to LFP initiatives/privacy/security- maybe Computer Literacy, Health Literacy, Media Literacy, Financial Literacy
  • Keeping the focus on Gaza/Palestine in libraries
  • Many many censorship convos to have - social media (having to type things like g3n0c1d3), anti-DEI and "anti-woke" censorship, book banning, censorship at legislative level, doxxing, etc
  • LFP research/scholarship conversation
  • Anti-Palestinian racism, different forms of repression regarding occupied Palestine
  • Building sustainable communities of care
  • Figuring out what then-current laws on subject/materials restrictions actually say.
  • Library patron privacy policies (IP address tracking/storing
  • Contract negotiation with vendors
  • Making state/local/regional support networks
  • Divestment from ExLibris
  • Trans freedom
  • Community-centered approaches
  • Protecting patron rights
  • Working with sensitive materials
  • Generative AI and media literacy
  • Impact of new technologies
  • Training and knowledge sharing approaches
  • Gaza/Palestine resources and programs
  • Dealing with library administrations
  • Voter Education in Adult Education
  • DEIA for all ages
  • The fine edge between targeted & data-driven marketing to serve the community, while keeping data privacy in mind (resources, tools, policy, etc.)
  • Tech tools for privacy and surveillance
  • Data security during protests
  • General hactivism
  • Digital direct action
  • Copyright and open access
  • Fostering collaboration across different library types
  • Digital equity, tech access, and education
  • Current privacy news/issues/strategies
  • Latest updates on facial recognition
  • Working within/with municipal/county/state government
  • Coalition building
  • Collective impact
  • IMLS funding opportunities
  • Burnout, vocational awe, and choosing your battles
  • Talking coworkers through privacy fears & into radicalization -- e.g. if people at work are hesitant to take a stance on Palestine
  • Info activism
  • Prison library services and increased censorship/surveillance of info access inside
  • Zines
  • Freedom of speech & TikTok (referring to the congressional bill to force TikTok to sell or get banned)
  • Vendor relationships: can libraries adopt open source ILS (ex: Kona) or other software? What does it mean to be bound to specific vendors and the values they hold?
Timeslot Breakout session topic Facilitator
Breakout session 1 Broader censorship convo about social media, legislation, anti-DEI/anti-woke (Category: Intellectual freedom, censorship, and attacks on libraries) Facilitator name
Breakout session 1 Info activism (Category: Activism and organizing tools) Facilitator name
Breakout session 1 Anti-Palestinian racism, different forms of repression regarding occupied Palestine (Category: Palestine) Facilitator name
Breakout session 2 Powermapping: a tool used to understand who has power in our communities and workplaces, and how we can move them on the issues we care about (Category: Activism and organizing tools) Facilitator name
Breakout session 2 Talking coworkers through privacy fears & into radicalization -- e.g. if people at work are hesitant to take a stance on Palestine (Category: Palestine and Category: Privacy and surveillance) Facilitator name
Breakout session 2 Student and other activist safety, anti-doxxing and anti-harassment (Category: Privacy and surveillance) Facilitator name
Breakout session 3 Coalition building with other advocacy and activist groups, including those in the library world (Category: Activism and organizing tools) Facilitator name
Breakout session 3 Teaching privacy and tech literacy in a library environment using a critical/abolitionist/social justice lens (Category: Privacy and surveillance) Facilitator name
Breakout session 3 Building sustainable communities of care (Category: Taking care of ourselves and each other) Facilitator name
Breakout session 4 Prison library services and increased censorship/surveillance of info access inside (Category: Intellectual freedom, censorship, and attacks on libraries) Facilitator name
Breakout session 4 AI, algorithmic literacy, and libraries (Category: Privacy and surveillance) Facilitator name
Breakout session 4 Burnout, vocational awe, and choosing your battles (Category: Taking care of ourselves and each other) Facilitator name
Breakout session 5 Data security during protests (Category: Privacy and surveillance) Facilitator name
Breakout session 5 LFP research/scholarship conversation (Category: General library stuff) Facilitator name
Breakout session 5 Community-centered approaches (Category: Taking care of ourselves and each other) Facilitator name
Breakout session 6 Library safety without cops (Category: General library stuff (doesn't easily fit in other categories)) Facilitator name
Breakout session 6 Making state/local/regional support networks (Category: Taking care of ourselves and each other) Facilitator name
Breakout session 6 Library vendors and their discontents: privacy, big data, vendors being bought by private equity, consolidating into huge companies, etc (Category: Library vendors) Facilitator name