The Vermont Library Association (VLA) annual conference committee is responsible for all aspects of planning, promoting, and executing this spring event.
2024 Conference Planning Committee Co-Chairs
Dena Marger, she/her
Director, Lydia Taft Pratt Library
150 West Street
Dummerston, VT 05357
802-258-9878
dummerstonvtlibrary@gmail.com
Maria Avery, she/her
Community Outreach Manager, University of Vermont Libraries
Maria.Avery@uvm.edu
2024 Conference Planning Committee Members
Oceana Wilson, she/her, Dean of the Library, Bennington College
Randal Smathers, he/him, Director, Rutland Free Library
Emma Parks, she/her, Library Support Senior and GIS Consultant, University of Vermont Dana Health Sciences Library
Mary Danko, she/her, Director, Fletcher Free Library
Cory Stephenson, she/her, Director, Moretown Memorial Library
Erin Davison, she/her, Youth Services Librarian, Norwich Public Library
Kelly L. McCagg, she/her, Director, Burnham Memorial Library
Susan Ujka Larson, she/they, Vermont Library Association Digital Communications Team
2024 Annual Conference
Monday, May 20, at the Killington Grand Resort Hotel and Conference Center, 228 E Mountain Road, in Killington, Vermont.
This year’s conference title is Libraries Empowering Communities: Standing Together in Uncertain Times.
VLA began archiving conference webpages in 2014. You can view them here:
- 2023 – Be the Place: Libraries Are for Everyone
- 2022 – Better Together
- 2021 – Emerging Energized
- 2020 – Libraries Are For Everyone: The E’s of Vermont Libraries (Cancelled due to COVID)
- 2019 – Cultivate Resilience
- 2018 – Reaching Greater Heights Together
- 2017 – Let Your Voice Be Heard
- 2016 – Sustainable Thinking for the Future of Libraries
- 2015 – Reveal Your Superpower! (Tights and Cape Optional)
- 2014 – Story Time: Advocate, Celebrate, and Be Heard
Last update January 5, 2024.