Keynote Speaker: Susan Brown

Susan Brown took her first library job to earn beer money while in college, never thinking it would turn into a career. After several years in academic and government libraries, she found her true home at a public library. In 2013, she become the Director of the Chapel Hill Public Library in Chapel Hill, NC, after stints in Virginia and Kansas. While she was the Marketing Director at Lawrence Public Library in Lawrence, KS, she spearheaded the Banned Books Trading Card Project, which won a John Cotton Dana Award from the American Library Association. Susan holds a B.A. from Virginia Tech and an M.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was named Distinguished Alumna in 2014. She writes about marketing, management, leadership, and libraries at www.658point8.com.