43. Tracie Hall, Executive Director of the American Library Association (ALA), on Navigating Political Debates and Putting on a Great Annual Conference
How do you navigate a political topic like censorship when you have members on all sides of the debate? How do you evolve as an association when the environments that your members work in are changing so dramatically?
In this episode of Associations Thrive, host Joanna Pineda interviews Tracie Hall, Executive Director of the American Library Association (ALA). Tracie introduces ALA, talks about her journey to becoming Executive Director, and the things ALA is doing to thrive, and defend our rights to read and learn. Tracie Hall discusses:
The Five Truths of Library Science.
The diversity of…
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