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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We are excited to announce the keynote speaker for the Tri-State Summer Summit! Save-the-Dates February 10 and 11. Join us Wednesday afternoon on Feb. 10 for Keynote speaker Abdul-Razak Zachariah, author of
<i>The Night is Yours</i>. Abdul-Razak Zachariah grew up in West Haven, Connecticut, and is a children's book writer and youth worker now based in Cambridge, MA. He graduated from Yale University in 2017 where he was deeply involved in diversity and inclusion
advocacy and he received the Mellon Mays Research Fellowship and the Nakanishi Prize. Abdul's first book,
<i>The Night is Yours</i>, was released in July 2019 by Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The keynote will be followed by a conversation with Statewide Summer Library Program staff from RI, CT, & MA. We’ll explain how our programs work and what you need to know to have a fun, successful, and stress-free
summer! We are still working on the exact timing for the 10th. <b>All sessions will be recorded!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Sessions on Thursday the 11th will cover topics such as school partnerships, burnout, podcasting, and flexibility & responsiveness (2020 anyone?!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The Tri-State Summer Summit is a
<b>free</b>, virtual event hosted by the Connecticut State Library, the Massachusetts Library System, and the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services. Sign up for updates
<b><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/tinyurl.com/tristatesummer__;!!KKphUJtCzQ!agMGf_7PDtwISaekMR-GExwkTKjrO9sGdlcHO-TzegCgthTK1MRBYCRuORj0xxgzA6V1Ko-ByQ$"><span style="color:#0563C1;background:white;font-weight:normal">https://tinyurl.com/tristatesummer</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Danielle Margarida, Youth Services Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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