Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan

Save the date,  baby!  Author and artist supreme Neil Gaiman will be speaking for National Library Week for ALA in a live online event.  From the official press release:

Libraries and their communities are invited to a live Internet event, “An Evening with Neil Gaiman,” from 6 to 8 p.m. April 12. This event, which kicks off National Library Week (April 11-17), is coordinated by the American Library Association’s Campaign for America’s Libraries and the Jessamine County (Ky.) Public Library (JCPL).

As Honorary Chair of National Library Week, Gaiman, the 2009 Newbery Medal winner for “The Graveyard Book,” will speak to his lifelong love of libraries and the role they play in a democratic society by supporting intellectual freedom and privacy. Gaiman will virtually join a live audience at JCPL from the University of Minnesota using high definition videoconferencing technology supported by Internet2 to enable an interactive discussion with the author.

Librarians across the country who would like to project a live stream of the talk for an event at their library are encouraged to register at http://gaimanatjcpl.org.