Libraries in Response
Libraries in Response is a webinar series began March 2020 on how libraries are responding to a wide range of crises: health, social, economic, political and especially climate.
Gigabit Libraries Network strives to support libraries in expanding digital access equity and to increase community resilience against crises and disasters.
Hosted and recorded by IFLA.org, all session videos can also be found on the Libraries in Response Youtube channel. 
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Nurse Scientist @ UVA Health Ph.D. Nursing,
Manager of Information Services at East Brunswick NJ Public Library
Literacy and Learning Director at Cuyahoga County Public Library
Deputy State Librarian for Library Development, New Jersey State Library
Manager of Information Services at East Brunswick NJ Public Library
Convener, IFLA AI Special Interest Group (SIG); Senior lecturer, Digital Societies Research Group, U. Sheffield School, UK
President of GLIA Foundation, tech law and policy entrepreneur; strategic advisor to tech startups; Xoogler
POTs and PANs: Broadband for All Owner and President CCG Consulting
Executive Director, Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB)
Bob Bocher
Library Technology Consultant with the Wisconsin State Library Agency
Debra Kreite
Chairperson of the State E-rate Coordinators’ Alliance (SECA)
Operations Director, Information Technology Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC.org)
Scholar | Speaker | Writer | Teacher | Advocate, Professor, UT iSchool, Austin, TX
Executive Director, Kellogg-Hubbard Library
e-Rate Administrator, Public Libraries, Arizona State Library
PhD candidate, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Director, Policy and Advocacy, International Federation of Library Institutions and Associations
Senior Lecturer, Digital Societies Research Group
Senior Advisor, National Library of the Netherlands
Author: Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America; Dreaming in Chinese.
Director, Institute for Museum and Library Services
science fiction author, activist and journalist.
Panel:
Director, Policy and Advocacy, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Researcher, Library and Information Institute (IIBI) at National Autonomous University of Mexico
Director, Internet and Technology research at Pew Research Center
President, Boston Public Library
Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions (AiFLA)
g Entrepreneur, Technology Expert, Blockchain Enthusiast, Senior Policy Advisor
Professor of Information Systems at California State University
POTs and PANs: Broadband for All Owner and President CCG Consulting
Executive Director, Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB)
Scholar | Speaker | Writer | Teacher | Advocate
Senior Advisor, National Library of the Netherlands
Professor and Associate Dean, School of Information, UT Austin
Climate Activist, Co-founder 350.org
President, Advisory Board American Library Association's Sustainable Libraries Initiative
Scott Kiser, Director of Technology, Wise County Public Schools
Jack Kennedy, Central Appalachian Mountains of Virginia
Colby Hall, Executive Director, Soar Kentucky
Director, Pottsboro, TX Library
Deputy State Librarian, NJ State Library
Erica Myers, Senior Manager, Global Government Affairs, SpaceX
Senior Manager, Public Policy at Amazon
writer “Internet for the People”
President, NetsEdge LLC, Ethical Data Governance for Web Companies: The Virtual Trust Layer
Director - Internet Trust, Internet Society, Policy Brief: Principles for Responsible Data Handling
Eli Guinee: New Mexico State Librarian
Maryland State Librarian
Maine State Librarian
New Jersey State Librarian
Michigan State Librarian
Colorado State Librarian
Arizona State Librarian
Missouri State Librarian
Montana State Librarian
Stephanie Baily-White: Idaho State Librarian
Indiana State Librarian
Ohio State Librarian
State Librarian at State of Washington
Gloria Marez: State Librarian Texas
State Librarian at Delaware Division of Libraries
Editor and Publisher of Broadbandbreakfast.com
Managing Director of BroadbandNow.com
Chief Executive Officer, Columbus Metropolitan Library
Library Director at Helsinborg City
Professor Sophia Shu:
Director of Teaching, Learning, and Tech, and Senior Advisor on Early & Elementary Ed Policy at New America
Nicole Barnes: Business Director, Australian Library Association
Delaware State Librarian
Pottsboro, TX Super Librarian
Nicole Barnes: Business Director, Australian Library Association
Delaware State Librarian
Pottsboro, TX Super Librarian
Delaware State Librarian
Emerging Tech & Telehealth Consultant for the Delaware Division of Libraries
Pottsboro, TX Super Librarian
Author / Consultant Telehealth
Senior Associate, Gensler
CEO, Principal, MSR Design & co-chair of the American Library Association's Architecture for Public Libraries
City Librarian of Santa Monica Public Library and President-Elect of the ALA for the 2021-2022 term
IFLA Manager Policy and Advocacy
Director of Library Development for Maine State Library
Director and Librarian for Texas State Library and Archives Commission
CEO, Funds for Learning, LLC
Partner, Telecommunications Practice, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Senior Fellow at Technology Policy Institute
Executive Director at National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA)
Bob Bocher: ALA Fellow on e-Rate and Broadband
CEO, FUNDS for Learning LLC
Executive Director, SHLB Coalition
Connectivity Geek & Director, Information Disaster Resource Center, ITDRC.org
Director of Telecommunications Strategy Voqal voqal.org
Director, Gigabit Libraries Network
Bob Bocher: ALA Fellow on e-Rate and Broadband
CEO, Funds for Learning, LLC
Partner in the Telecommunications Practice Group at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP.
Ireland Head, Libraries Development at Local Government Management Agency
State Librarian at Missouri Secretary Of State
SolarSPELL, ASU Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS)
ASU - Co-Director - SolarSPELL Initiative
Directeur Technique Bibliothèques Sans Frontières / Libraries Without Borders
President, Merit Network
VP, Community Engagement, Merit Network
CEO of , the Quilt
How state Research and Education Networks are innovating with wireless to expand library connectivity.
Director, Service Development and Innovation, Toronto Public Library
Fellow in Residence at Mozilla Foundation and President Glia Foundation
Director University of South Carolina iSchool
“AI is happening faster than most people think, and the public is not adequately prepared for it. Everything we do will somehow be impacted by AI. The public library, in our teaching role, can play a very important part in preparing the public for what lies ahead.” - Monique de Conge Zeisenhenne, Fmr. Director, Palo Alto City Library
President,, Funds for Learning
Information & Technology Literacy Manager, Cuyahoga County Public Library
"First Friday 2021: Middle Mile - Fiber to the Library"
Sr. Fellow Benton Institute
Research Associate, Benton
President, CTC Technology and Energy
""Final Friday 2020: Social Infrastructure and Wireless Infrastructure - 2021”
Director, Denver Public Library and current President, Public Libraries Association.
State Librarian for the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS).
Brookings Institute and FMR. Chairman at FCC
Director, Wireless Future Project: part of New America's Open Technology Institute.
Winner of the 2020 Manhattan Institute Civil Society Award as one of the founders of the Embudo Valley Library.
Executive Director of the Federation of Ontario Public(12/4 slides)
Chief Communication Officer at GÉANT, the leading collaboration on e-infrastructure and services for global research and education
Chief Technology Officer, Utah Education & Telehealth Network (UETN)
Founder and co-Chair of Libraries 2.0, a virtual and physical event online communities with over 150,000 members.
Associate Dean of Academics at San Jose State University, former head of the SJSU iSchool and co-Chair of Library 2.0
Sr. Fellow at Brookings Institute, former FCC Chief of Staff and head of the FCC's 2009 National Broadband Plan.
Executive Director of the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
Internet Society Teddy Woodhouse, Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)/ Web Foundation
People Centered Internet
Bibliothéques Sans Frontières Ramune Petuchovaite: EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries)
Association for Progressive Communications
Gigabit Libraries Network (GLN)
Architect at Tappé Architects, Boston
Assistant Director of Suffolk Public Library
Principal at Quinn Evans Architects Barbara Weedman: Henrico County Public Library
Clean Economy Innovator
Executive Director at Las Vegas Clark County Library District
Former mayor of Ft. Wayne, IN joins with Broward County Library Director to lead discussion on emerging library roles and service models.
New round kicks off with an All-Star panel: Explore the future of the internet and the role of libraries as digital service providers!.
Chief Internet Evangelist at Google
Director at The Kansas City Public Library
Professor and Director of University of South Carolina iSchool
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, IFLA.org "The global voice of the library and information profession."
Maine State Library "helps people, makes Maine libraries stronger and transforms information into knowledge."
President at Dynamic Spectrum Alliance
Sr. VP, Internet Growth at Internet Society
Executive Director, Digital Public Library of America - Emerging trends for digitalization
Executive Director of the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries - Libraries delivering services about in communities
President at Carson Block Consulting Inc. and has created a "Broadband Toolkit" for Internet2 and "Toward Gigabit Libraries " project, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Director of Library Services at the Directorate General for Books, Archives and Libraries in Portugal. "(DGLAB) is a public body " "(DGLAB) is a public body under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture."
Join to help us revisit the basics of: “What is a Library if the Building is Closed?” - internet access, digital services, physical materials, social infrastructure
Director of Lifelong Learning at The Drucker Institute
St. Joseph County Library, discussing their breakthrough project:, . " Bendable " a new lifelong learning system.
UK CEO of Libraries Connected will update on happenings in the UK over past 5 months and describe the many innovative ways libraries there are responding to the crisis.
Heather Lamb:
Castleberry ISD Lead Librarian
Castleberry ISD ICT Director share the district's strategy to build its own wide area wireless system to connect students and their larger inside out approach to serving learners where they are.
Director at Millinocket Memorial Library, Millinocket ME
Library Director at Huron, SD Library
Milledgeville, GA Library Bob Bocher, ALA Fellow on e-Rate and Broadband
Texas 2020 Librarian of the Year, and Abilene Library Consortia Director. Eddy is a state leader on broadband as part of the state broadband commission. Libraries at the table. Imagine! – keywords: CIPA, eRate, rural connectivity, WiFi, COVID-19
Mobile Beacon: EBS, FCC, tribal areas
Rural Special Projects Librarian of Pottsboro Library has a compelling plan to partner with a local wireless provider to use EBS to reach students at home who otherwise lack access. Pottsboro just scored #1 in state CARES grant out of 116 applicants! How'd they do that? – keywords: rural connectivity, low-income students, devices, CARES Act, partnerships
TekWav: 2.5GHz, WiFi, rural connectivity
Co-Executive Producer at Reinventing.School and creator "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" Before the virus more than a billion children and teenagers relied upon school for learning. With the virus basic assumptions about school and education are no longer reliable.
President & CEO at CENIC: discussing uses of every tool in the box from fiber to high performance wireless in a mix of technologies and business models to serve the connectivity needs of learners of all ages and stages in every community.
New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute gives a high level overview on a range of comparatively low cost wireless options for libraries and their communities to utilize.
Electronic Information For Libraries on how the more than 230, 000 public libraries in developing and transition economy countries but where many struggle to integrate ICT into their services.
Director, Broward County Libraries on challenges of reopening and on their success partnering with other community anchors.
Author, Palaces for the People on how to design a library environment outside of the building.
Silke Niermann: CEO of Stadtbibliothek Gütersloh GmbH (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) since 2015; 30 years working as an librarian in German public libraries.
Information & Technology Literacy Manager for the Cuyahoga County Public Library, oversees innovation implementation and training.
WA Librarian updates on a state-wide hotspot project and other happenings.
Director of Telecommunications Strategy at Voqal gives high level view on how libraries and other anchor institutions can utilize and preserve precious spectrum in the 2.5 GHz range known as Educational Broadcast Services (EBS. See Federal Broadband Strategy at an Inflection Point.
Sr. Fellow with the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society gives an updated perspective on his groundbreaking report Broadband for America’s Future: A Vision for the 2020s now in the context of the pandemic.
Digital Services Director at Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library talked about his experience, suggesting that with the lockdown, he had had the busiest month of his life
Head of Libraries Development for Ireland, started by sharing figures on the experience of public libraries in Ireland over the period of lock-down.
Sharon Strover: Professor in Communication at UT and fmr Chair of the Radio-TV-Film Department provides an overview of library hotspot lending study she led for IMLS.
Marin County Library Director: talks about a check out hotspot program to benefit students and a proposed project to build a Student (mesh) WiFi Network in a high density, lower income neighborhood.
Deputy Director, Public Library Association (US): provides details on newly announced partnership with Microsoft for Public WiFi Access Micro Grant Program where in “April 2020, Microsoft will provide $120,000 to help public libraries in rural communities with hardware and support to install public WiFi access points on or near library grounds.”
Senator Ed Markey (MA) Sr. Policy Advisor: discusses prospects for passage of new bill for "a $4 billion emergency connectivity fund to strengthen a Federal Communications Commission program so qualifying schools and libraries can purchase Wi-Fi hotspots modems routers and other connected devices for students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Executive Director - Ghana Library Authority: Africa part 1 story
IMLS Director, gives a high level view of and objectives for new stimulus funds.
GA Librarian, provides updates and shares new data on recent access usage.
Relations Internationales, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et Bibliothèques(ENSIB) - Lyon, France - shares activities and possible reopening strategies
Digital Inclusion Library Consultant at Arizona State Library
Director at Anambra State Library Board
Director of Technology at Educational Service Unit 5: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Director of Libraries and Citizen Services at Roskilde Kommune
Senior Advisor at Center for Research Libraries
Director at West Georgia Regional Library System
Carrie Coogan
Head of Libraries Development at Local Government Management Agency (LGMA)
Head of IT Services at Schlow Centre Region Library
Professor and University Librarian at Arizona State University
Head of Libraries Development at Local Government Management Agency (LGMA)
President and Co-Founder of Nothing2Hide
Director of Technology at Educational Service Unit 5 - University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Head of IT Services at Schlow Centre Region Library
Maine State Library
Director of Network Engineering and Design at CENIC
Libraries, partnering with other anchor institutions as second responders in disaster, installing WWAN's with open spectrum #TVWS #WiFi and other open frequency wireless #IMLS
