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Free Core Preservation Week Webinar: Discussion with Mychal Threets and Linda Sue Park


Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025


All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.



Description:

Join Mychal Threets and Linda Sue Park, author and educator, for a discussion about preservation, libraries, and how one might inspire enthusiasm for preservation among young people.


Who should attend?

Anyone Interested in Preservation, Youth Librarians


Presenters:

Mychal Threets is the 2025 Honorary Chair of Preservation Week, April 27 – May 3. He is a librarian, literary ambassador, and the library’s number one fan (according to himself, admittedly). He grew up in Fairfield, CA, right between Sacramento and San Francisco. He was raised in his local library as a home-school kid.


Mychal got his first library card at the age of five and was hooked on libraries from there. He got his first library job as a library shelver at the library he grew up in and worked his way up to become Supervising Librarian of that very same library.


He is very open about his mental health. He talks about it in hopes that it’ll help others in their mental health journey. He is adamant about encouraging people to believe him when he says he’s happy they are here.


He considers it an honor to the library people who raised him that he is a recipient of the 2024 “I Love My Librarian” award from the American Library Association, one of School Library Journal’s 2024 Movers and Shakers, and one of TIME Magazine’s 2024 Next Generation Leaders. Follow him on Instagram @mychal3ts, Threads @mychal3ts, TikTok @mychal3ts, and Facebook mychalthreets.


Linda Sue Park is the author of many books for young readers, including the 2002 Newbery Medal winner A Single Shard and the NY Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water. Her most recent titles are Gracie Under the Waves, a contemporary middle-grade novel about a girl who loves snorkeling, illustrated by Maxine Vee; My Book and Me, a picture book about the joys of books and reading illustrated by the celebrated Caldecott-Medal artist Chris Raschka; and Smiling Eyes, a lively rhyming text picture book illustrated by Lenny Wen, a joyous celebration of eyes, featuring a variety of Asian eye shapes and hues, for a little boy whose ordinary day is filled with the joys and surprises of seeing and being seen.


Linda Sue is the founder and curator of Allida Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. She serves on the advisory boards of We Need Diverse Books and the Rabbit hOle museum project, and created the kiBooka website, www.kibooka.com<http://www.kibooka.com/>, to highlight children’s books created by the Korean diaspora. Visit her website at www.lindasuepark.com<http://www.lindasuepark.com/>; follow her on Instagram @parklindasue.


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Webinars are free to attend, but a separate registration is required for each.


For additional information and access to registration links, please go to the following website:

https://preservationweek.org/free-webinars/threets-webinar/


Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.


For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org<mailto:registration at ala.org>.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please contact Core CE staff at corece at ala.org<mailto:corece at ala.org>.

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