In late 2015, I had the honor of visiting New Zealand and Australia to share stories and ideas about public libraries with other librarians and politicians. My focus of these visits was to communicate how important it was for the modern public library to have real, authentic communication with their community members. While I did modified versions of this presentations for my audiences, the basic idea is all here in this presentation. -Keynote Speaker: LIANZA 2015 Conference, Wellington New Zealand, 2015. -Guest of the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, 2015. -Guest of the State Library of Queensland, Brisbane Australia, 2015. I also gave this presentation at the 2015 NYLA Conference in Lake Placid, NY. That was great too!

6. THESE PEOPLE!

8. THINGS THAT DRIVE LIBRARIANS CRAZY IN 2015
● TECHNOLOGY
● FUNDING
● CHANGE
● INNOVATION

13. HELLOS AND HIGH FIVES

17. NO NO NO
NO PLEASE
JUST STOP

19. HAPPY LIBRARIANS
EQUAL HAPPY
INTERACTIONS
EQUAL HAPPY
COMMUNITY

30. THE PUBLIC
LIBRARY IS
FUN

32. THE PUBLIC
LIBRARY IS
WELCOMING

36. THE PUBLIC
LIBRARY BELONGS
TO THEM

40. WHEN WHO
WHERE HOW
WHY?