[Eril-l] Cindy Hohl to Give Opening Keynote at NISO Plus 2025 in Baltimore

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*Baltimore, MD—November 21, 2024*—NISO is pleased to announce that Cindy
Hohl will deliver the opening keynote address at the NISO Plus 2025
conference in Baltimore <https://niso.plus/niso-plus-2025-baltimore/> on
Tuesday, February 11, at 9:30 am ET.

Hohl is director of policy analysis and operational support at the Kansas
City (Mo.) Public Library and the 2024–2025 president of the American
Library Association (ALA). She has also served in a number of other
leadership roles in the library community. She is past president of the
American Indian Library Association and a board member of the
ALA-affiliated Freedom to Read Foundation. She also serves on the Standing
Committee of the Indigenous Matters Section of the International Federation
of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

A member of the Santee Sioux Nation and a 2016–2017 ALA Spectrum Scholar,
Hohl strives to increase diversity in the library field through mentorship,
recruitment, and advocacy. She is passionate about leadership, Indigenous
Knowledge systems, decolonizing classification standards, equity in data
and information, and honoring the oral-storytelling tradition of tribal
communities. She has been vocal in her support for librarians in the face
of book challenges and censorship and speaks to the tenets of librarianship
to ensure equal access to information and materials. Hohl holds a Bachelor
of Science in Organization Management and Leadership from Friends
University, a Master of Library and Information Science from Wayne State
University, and a Master of Business Administration from Baker University.

“Cindy Hohl is recognized nationally for her leadership in supporting
diversity in libraries, advancing inclusive leadership, and championing
librarians as defenders of intellectual freedom,” said Jason Griffey, NISO
Director of Strategic Initiatives. “We are honored to have her join us at
NISO Plus and look forward to hearing her thoughts on the year ahead and
how to foster strength and perseverance in a time when libraries and the
wider information community face multiple challenges.”

The 2025 NISO Plus Baltimore conference will take place in person on
February 10–12 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. For more information,
please visit https://niso.plus.

About NISO

Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster
discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional
communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire life cycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org.



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