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Early Bird Registration ends on June 13

Early bird registration for the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC), Sept. 19-23 in Kansas City, Mo., closes Wednesday June 13.

JCLC is a conference for everyone—with engaging speakers, special events and more than 70 concurrent sessions exploring issues of diversity in libraries and how they affect the ethnic communities who use our services! Early bird registration provides attendees with the best rates for this exciting event.

Conference scholarships for JCLC 2012 now available!

Applications are now open for more than 40 scholarships to attend the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, September 19-23, 2012 in Kansas City, Mo.

JCLC welcomes author and activist Jamal Joseph

Author, director and activist Jamal Joseph will join the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC), Sept. 19-23, 2012 in Kansas City, Mo., as the closing general session speaker.

In the 1960s, Jamal Joseph exhorted students at Columbia University to burn their college to the ground. Today he is an associate professor and past chair of their School of the Arts film division. His personal odyssey - from the streets of Harlem to Rikers Island and Leavenworth, to the halls of Columbia, is detailed in his book, “Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention.”

Kansas City, here we come!– JCLC registration opens March 1st

Kansas City, Mo.—“KCMO,” “the City of Fountains,” “the Paris of the Plains”—will soon be the host to the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC).  Housing and registration for the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, Sept. 19-23, 2012, will open on March 1. For complete details, visit Housing & Registration.