Past Directors Meetings
2024 meeting
Inspirational speaker Patti Dobrowolski helped the 2024 Directors Meeting illustrate their desired new reality.
Keynote speaker:
- Patty Dobrowolski from Up Your Creative Genius
Handouts from the 2024 meeting
Partner updates
- Friends of the State Library and Archives of Florida (PDF)
- Dementia-Friendly Library Opportunities: Elder Affairs (PDF)
- Sunshine State Digital Network (PDF)
- SEFLIN Library Step UP (PDF)
The Library Has What!?
- The Florida Bureau of Braille and Talking Book Library Services (PDF)
- North Miami Beach Library Community Impact (PDF)
- Storytelling, Marion County Public Library System (PDF)
- Social Workers in Libraries: Pedal Forward Project, Volusia County (PDF)
- Short Story Machine at the Palm Harbor Library (PDF)
- Paranormal Activity Bundle, Martin County Public Library System (PDF)
- Trick or Treat Story Walk and Library Animals, Wakulla County (PDF)
2023 meeting
Keynote speakers included:
- Steve Hughes from Hit Your Stride
- Meridith Elliott Powell
Handouts from the 2023 meeting
Partner updates
- New Worlds Reading Initiative (PDF)
- Braille and Talking Book Library (PDF)
- Florida Department of Corrections (PDF)
- Right Service at the Right Time (PDF)
- Right Service at the Right Time bookmarks (PDF)
The Library Has What?!
- Home Delivery: Miami-Dade (PDF)
- Creative Edge Studio: Boynton Beach
- Digital media lab: Jacksonville (PDF)
- Tool library: Safety Harbor (PDF)
- Sensory kits and more: Leon County (PDF)
- Cybrarium: Homestead (PDF)
- Makerspaces: Pasco County (PDF)
- Library of things: St. Johns County (PDF)
- Touch A Truck: Boca Raton (PDF)
- Visibility beyond the library's website: Lee County (PDF)
2022 meeting
David Lankes took a 360 degree photograph during his Library Renaissance presentation.
Handouts and presentations
- Florida Libraries' Marketing Solutions (PDF), by Cordelia Anderson
- The Social Work Approach in Public Libraries (PDF), by Dr. Don Latham
- Timely Topics: iSmart (PDF), by Marcia Mardis
- The Library Has What?! NED (PDF), by Brad Ward
- Pinellas Talking Book Library Video (2:25), by Cheryl Morales
- Leon County Public Library Has What?! (PDF), by Pamela Munroe
- Lit City Slide Show (PDF), by Cindy Ansel
- Partner Update: Florida Virtual Campus Library Services (PDF), by Elijah Scott
- Navigating Florida's Aging Network (PDF), by Kira Houge
- A Library Renaissance (PDF), by Dr. R. David Lankes
- Florida Humanities Funding Opportunities Flyer (PDF)
- Opioid Crisis Free Resources for Rural Libraries (PDF)
- Umatilla Caboose Postcard (PDF)
Past agendas
You can review agendas from past Directors Meetings to see session topics, speakers and more.
