Please join us for the MLS Annual Meeting, which will be held virtually on Monday, November 1 at 1:00 PM. 

We are delighted to welcome keynote speaker Elsa Sjunneson! 

Elsa Sjunneson is a Deafblind author and editor living in Seattle, Washington. Her fiction and nonfiction writing has been praised as “eloquence and activism in lockstep" and has been published in dozens of venues around the world. She has been a Hugo Award finalist seven times, and has won Hugo, Aurora, and BFA awards for her editorial work. When she isn't writing, Sjunneson works to dismantle structural ableism and rebuild community support for disabled people everywhere. Her debut memoir, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism, releases in October of 2021 from Tiller Press.

Annual Meeting Agenda:

• 1:00 Welcome & Introductions 
• 1:15 Keynote
• 2:30- Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners Update  
• 2:40-MLA Legislative Update 
• 2:45- MLS Business Meeting 
  • MLS Business Meeting Presentation and vote of the November 2020 Meeting Minutes 
  • Presentation and vote of the FY23 Plan of Service & Budget 
  • Presentation and vote on the 2022 Slate of Candidates for the MLS Executive Board 

We hope to see you there!