Get ready for the NC LIVE 2024 Annual Conference! This year, our day of virtual sessions will be on Monday, May 20. Registration for both days is free for our member libraries. Each day will have different sessions and programming, so we encourage you to attend both. 

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The theme of this year's conference is Wellness in Libraries. Join us to learn more about patron and staff wellness from experts and your peers around the state.

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Virtual Keynote: "Building Collective Wellness with Slow Librarianship" with Meredith G. Farkas

If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that our neoliberal and individualistic achievement society is not designed to support the common good. Achievement culture encourages us to chase external validation by putting the focus on innovation and competition over collaboration and collective care. Many of these dynamics are at play in our own profession, leading to toxic cultures of scarcity, low morale, burnout, and significant harm to BIPOC library workers and patrons. We have the power to imagine new futures that will equip us to better serve our patrons and support our collective well-being. Slow librarianship focuses on relationship-building in our communities, values-driven work, quality over quantity, solidarity, antiracism, and reflective practice. Meredith Farkas will describe slow librarianship, how it connects to wellness, and how we can adopt slow practices to create healthier organizations.