Lesley Farmer to Keynote Library Spaces for All Ages Online Conference – Save the Date!

Lesley Farmer will deliver her keynote address, “Optimizing Library Space through Data Analytics,” at the February 16 Amigos online conference, Library Spaces for All Ages.

Dr. Lesley Farmer is a Professor at California State University (CSU) Long Beach and coordinates their librarianship program. In addition, she manages the CSU ICT Literacy Project. Dr. Farmer earned her M.S. in Library Science at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and received her doctorate in Adult Education from Temple University. She has worked as a teacher-librarian in K-12 school settings as well as in public, special, and academic libraries. She chairs the IFLA's School Libraries Section and CSLA's curriculum and research committees. Dr. Farmer, a frequent presenter and writer for the profession, has won American Library Association’s 2011 Phi Beta Mu Award for library education and the 2016 International Association of School Librarianship Commendation Award. Her research interests include digital citizenship, information literacy, collaboration, assessment and data analysis; she is also a Fulbright scholar. Her most recent books are Library Improvement through Data Analytics (ALA, 2016) and Information and Digital Literacies: A Curricular Guide for Middle and High School Librarians (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Registration for this conference will be open soon. Check the conference website for updates.