Vote for Our Intellectual Freedom Taskforce at SXSW
Penguin Random House is in the running for various panels at SXSW, the annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. This time around, you can stand up for the freedom to read when you cast your vote for panels featuring our very own Dan Novack, General Counsel, Penguin Random House and Skip Dye, SVP, Library Sales and Digital Strategy, Penguin Random House.
Help our team get to SXSW and discover the panels below.
PanelPicker® , the official SXSW user-generated session proposal platform, is an easy, two-step online process allows the SXSW community to have a voice in what sessions are programmed at SXSW. Learn more about each panel and cast your vote at the featured links.
Defending the Right to Read: Working Together
The panel features Dan Novack, General Counsel, Penguin Random House; Becky Calzada, District Library Coordinator, Leander ISD & AASL President; Emily Kirkpatrick, Executive Director, National Council of Teacher’s of English and award-winning author, David Levithan.
Vote for Defending the Right to Read here.
Guardians of Democracy: Libraries Ensure Information Access
This panel features Lisa Varga, Executive Director, Virginia Library Association, Amber Seely, Division Director, Collections & Technical Services, Harris County Public Library, and Skip Dye, SVP, Library Sales and Digital Strategy, Penguin Random House.
Vote for Guardians of Democracy here.
Voting has started and runs through August 18th. Please vote and share within your groups.