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In case you missed this, I wanted to push out again on Michlib-L!
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Share these 10 amazing author talks with your library communities ahead of the 2023 festival
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I am delighted to once again share with you about the 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival. If you missed last week's webinar, please watch
it
here; it discusses ways to take advantage of the book festival and share it with your community.
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Crossposting Opportunity! Engage your community with this unique literary series of TEN VIRTUAL
AUTHOR TALKS by sharing the livestream events from PBS
Books.org and the PBS Books Facebook page
to your library’s digital platforms.
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Access the ENGAGEMENT
TOOLKIT for promotional assets: Press Release and Graphics
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PBS Books will stream ten VIRTUAL
AUTHOR TALKS mid-July through August showcasing celebrated
authors featured in the 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival focused around this year's theme, "Everyone Has A Story."
PBS Books invites you to participate in and share these compelling,
cultural conversations with your community by promoting the author talks available through PBS Books media platforms—and crossposting the literary events to your library’s website and social network.
The engagement toolkit provides valuable, turnkey assets to help your library promote the ten virtual author
conversations and help make the National Book Festival accessible to all!
Last year's VIRTUAL AUTHOR TALKS were a HUGE SUCCESS yielding
the following metrics:
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Total Reach: 3.2 Million Viewers
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696 Crossposting Partners
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362K Digital Views
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75K Digital Engagements
These ten virtual author talks are an easy and enlightening opportunity to cultivate knowledge
and engage your digital viewers and social followers in literary works. Here's a peek at this year's stellar author line-up!
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PBS Books: 10 VIRTUAL AUTHOR TALKS*
2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival: Featured Guests & Station Partners
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Claribel A. Ortega, Thursday, July 20 (WNET)
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Shelby Van Pelt, Thursday, July 27 (WGBH)
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Tananarive Due, Wednesday, August 2 (GPB)
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S.A. Cosby, Thursday, August 3 (VPM & WHRO)
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Luis Alberto Urrea, Wednesday, August 9 (MPT)
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Beverly Gage, Thursday, August 10 (WETA)
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TJ Klune, Wednesday, August 23 (South Florida PBS)
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Matthew Desmond, Thursday, August 24 (WTTW)
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Héctor Tobar, Wednesday, August 30 (PBS SoCal)
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Angeline Boulley & Trang Thanh Tran, Thursday, August 31 (Kansas City PBS & KERA)
*Events start at 8pm, Eastern Time Zone (5pm PT). All events will be available on-demand at PBS
Books and the National Book Festival website at loc.gov/bookfest.
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ABOUT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL:
The
Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States—and extensive materials from around the world—both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home
of the U.S. Copyright Office. The Library of Congress National Book Festival is a highly anticipated annual event, which draws the young, old and any age in between, appealing to a wide palette of tastes and preferences in genres ranging from adult fiction
to fantasy, kid lit to political nonfiction. Free to the public, the 23rd annual Library of Congress National Book Festival one-day event will be held on August 12, from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. at the Walter E. Washington
Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The festival will feature 100+ authors, poets and writers under the theme of “Everyone Has a Story” celebrating the storyteller in us all. A selection of programs will be livestreamed online, and videos
of all programs will be available shortly after the Festival. For more information, visit loc.gov/bookfest.
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PBS
Books is
a multi-platform initiative celebrating PBS programming. Virtual Events are
available on demand to
share anytime with your audience.
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If you have any questions or need additional resources to make these virtual events a success, please don't hesitate to reach out.
National Director, PBS Books
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Heather-Marie Montilla
Riley Broadcast Center, 1 Clover Court,
Wixom,
MI 48393
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