It's been a long, busy day!
Author Chris Crutcher was the keynote speaker, and there is no way I can do his presentation justice. One of the key points was at the end, when he talked about intellectual freedom and kids and teens, and their emotioanal development. Some say the want to protect teens but they really are preventing them from talking about issues and questions they (or their friends) are dealing with. Books can help them, if they can find a haracter who is like them, or can speak to them when no one else will talk about it, then they don't feel so alone. When we censor books about topics that teens are facing or have questions about then we are telling them that those feelings or questions aren't important, that they aren't important.
I did 2 presentations so can't objectively make observations about them, but I did attend a session on boomers and their future in and for libraries. I'm going to have to absorb and do more reading and followup. An institute that she talked about sounds enticing....I'll have to see.
Off to the banquet; more tomorrow. -Karen
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