Good evening and welcome to the live author event. Iam from greenlight and we are thrilled to host tonights event with perri klass and the new book a good time to be born. And before we start i want to say a huge thanks to the team at norton for making this happen. And with the theaters are still here. We are grateful for your support and thank you for your connection. Now just a couple of housekeeping things you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you. And those at the bottom of your window. And youre welcome to post your comments in the chat. And then to interact with fellow attendees. Please post that on the module and with the q a. And we are recording tonights event and it will be on the channel later on. And then we encourage you to shop at the actual location new and through 7 00 oclock p. M. And many others onsite. And the green light bookstore. Com or for shipping anywhere in the us. If you care about supporting authors and independent bookstores tonights
Website at archives foundation. Org before we began, i want to make sure that everyone knows our distinguished speaker will be taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know but im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out to a shot out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. You do not have to wait until the end to ask your question. Your questionut and, and we will have them queued up for only get to that point. I had the fortune of visiting the Ronald Reagan president ial library a number of times. In my current role, ive had the chance to partner with my current guest. About. Learn quite a lot duke is the president and dean of the library directors. He has been with the library for 20 years. To give you some sense
And to all of you for showing up. So we are not able to host events in our store spaces, our community of authors and reader is still here. Were grateful for your support and for the chance to make this space for conversation and connection. In our webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you. They can see youre here, though and you can see a count of your fellow listeners at the top of your zoom screen. A couple of functions that well be using throughout the event you can find at the bottom of your zoom window. One is an icon labeled chat win one speech bubble. Youre welcome to post comments and thoughts in the chat. Thats great way to show your appreciation for the author and to enter act with fellow attendees. If you have a specific question youd like to have answered by the author, please post that in the q a module. You can fine it by clicking on the icon label q a that looks like two speech bubbles. Well be pulling questions only from the q a
Taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know what im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. We are going to have a blast. Duke are you with us out there, in a secure occasion . Duke i cannot tell you where i am. But it is secure. Thank you for the wonderful introduction. Patrick you can tell that you know someone well by the introduction. It has been a difficult time. How is the staff doing out there . Duke i think the staff is doing a great job of being productive, staying mentally healthy. We concern ourselves with that as the leadership at the library, trying to reach out to them, weekly, if not daily to make sure that everyone is fine. There been some losses that we have
For we start i just want to say a huge thanks to perri, andrew and the team at norton for making this happen and all of you for showing up. So were not able to host eventsin our store spaces , Community Authors and readers. Were thankful for your support andfor the chance to make the space for conversation and connection. Now just a couple of housekeeping things. In our dual webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers. They cannot see or hearyou. You can see a count of the top of yourscreen. Theres a couple of functions youll be using throughoutthe event. You can find at the bottom of your resume and down, theres an event labeled chat. Youre welcome to post your thoughts in the chat. Its a great way to show your appreciation for the author and interact with yourfellow attendees. If you have specific questions that cant be answered by the author please come to the q and a module and click on the icon labeled q and they that looks like two speech bubbles. Well be pulling questions