If you are tweeting today, use the hashtag gbf, and we need your feedback. Surveys are available at the tent and on our web site. Complete a survey for a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. Im pleased to introduce author kristen green. Shell be signing books immediately after the presentation, and copies of her books are on sale in the politics prose tent, a great partner for us this year. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event, it does help the book festival if you buy books. The more books we sell at our event, the more publishers are willing to send their authors here to the book festival. Purchasing books from politics prose does benefit the local economy. It supports local jobs, supports our book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in a position to do so, please consider buying the authors books here today. So let me introduce kristen. Kristen green is an author who grew up in farmville, virginia, and thats important because its important to
Hello, good morning welcome to the seventh annual gaithersburg book festival. My name is gene taft khedama Committee Member the festival and the policy manager of Johns Hopkins university press. Please have you here but if i did make a couple of announcements here. Gaithersburg is a wonderful city that probably supports the arts and humanities will you please to bring the stay of this event thanks in part to generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. Our if you see our sponsors and volunteers please say thank you. Please silence all devices that might make any noise. If youre trading today pleasen use hashtag gpf really need your feedback. Surveys are available here and on our web site to give youan complete a survey you enter for a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. A quick word about buying books even though this is a free event it does help if you buy a book our friends at politics and prose are here on site and we appreciate your support. Our it supports our jobs and book fe
Have a Authority Issue the rules. I think 706 has been abused. And it should be returned to the original intent we help frame years ago. So i have difficulty with that part of the equation. It makes it harder to get to the second. The fcc rules werent thrown out. I learned long ago not to try to guess what other people do in d. C. In the environment we live in. I dont have an insight what the chairman may or may not do. He articulated the authority he believes he has. The commission has and what they would like to do. So i have taken the word and see what comes from that. But i hate to guess more than that. House energy and Commerce Committee is beginning to hold hearings about a possible rewrite of the Communications Act. Im sure youve been following this closely. What advice would you give to the house energy and Commerce Committee as they look at rewriting the Communications Act. I would say first and foremost, i defer to my friend and former colleagues on the house and the senate o
School Library System s virtual conference puts digital equity in the spotlight Written by Brian Howard
The Southern Westchester BOCES School Library System s 2021 conference, “Bridging the Digital Equity Divide,” gets underway on Jan. 26 with a keynote address by Dr. Jen Cannell, School Library Program Director at St. John Fisher College and former New York Library Association President and Capital Region BOCES SLS Director.
The virtual event goes beyond what an in-person conference can provide, SLS Supervisor Eleanor Friedman says. She and her team have reinvented an annual event that has become a favorite of school librarians in this region and beyond.