 Thank you very much Carol. Thank you Amanda and congratulations to the Pacific Library Partnerships Staff Development Committee I always say that this is one of the the best days of the year Because we really do showcase the great talent as I look in the room The lot of rock stars in the audience a lot of people that do great work on behalf of all of our libraries in the Peninsula Bay Area, so congratulations, and I know you're gonna have a fantastic day I did want to take a moment to say that We're very proud to be in San Francisco Every day is a good day to be in San Francisco, but today is particularly good because it's farmers market day So there's a great farmers market that I hope you take advantage of the great eats there We also have a fabulous summer of love 50th anniversary exhibit Right around the corner here in the the gallery, so please avail yourselves for that I do want to offer a couple of remarks because I think that future readiness is so important I mean, I've always been a strong Advocate of heavy libraries be responsive to our community making sure that that we always push the envelope in Making sure that we build our communities and strengthen them and in looking at the the amazing array of programs today What I notice is that you really are looking at Whether it's teen services or new outreach models Ways of civic engagement and partnerships. That's really what it's about and here at the San Francisco Public Library over the last Year year and a half we convened a group of thought leaders and influencers That we call the future library forum and the the whole idea was that we really look at how do we position our libraries? How do we take the best of what's happening throughout our country and beyond? And really make our library the best it can possibly be similar to what all of you are doing in your respective libraries And there's four themes that that I want to just share briefly because it's a work in progress like like the future is always about a work in progress right, but the first area focuses on Kind of impact and the theory of change. So we've got a whole group convened on I'm really looking at Early literacy and some of the programs on that front And and talk about what difference will we make if we really look at? Change and responding to our community. So that's one group that's doing fabulous work. It's challenging. It's difficult But great talent to to push that envelope the second area We're calling Optimizing public service and it's really a euphemism for saying let's really look at the work We're doing look at what is the future of work look like for us because it's changing right whether we're librarians whether we're paraprofessionals Any job description you need to look at it look at revising it look at tweaking that and it's difficult in our environment in our industry so optimizing public service really means that we have to focus on Looking at traditional classification and job description and really define the work that we do on behalf of our community The third area is all about user experience. How many of you've heard that term now user experience It's all about the lens of the user not what we think they should be doing a learning But really learning from them and that's been kind of a game-changer And it will be for us in terms of looking at our reference models looking at at the various Service that we deliver so user experience keep that in mind in all the work that you do It's about them not about us And it's difficult because we're great in terms of our the staff and the talent that we have But we learn so much from our our users and then the last one which is an entire team working on what we're calling a learning Organization think about that. We are in fact always learning the reason that you invest an entire day today Is because you want to learn you want to really focus on new skills Engaging staff and one of the things that I've learned in my four decades of doing this is that it's not a top-down Proposition it's a bottom-up. It's staff that does the work on behalf of community that we can learn from So I hope that you keep that in mind and when we talk about learning organizations Libraries are always adapting and so when we look at the future That's what it's going to be all about about how we are so organic and being able to change To really reflect our communities and never to forget that there's an equity proposition that we serve all of our communities Equitably and keep in mind that value of social justice as well So with that I just want to welcome all of you and have a fabulous day If there's anything we can do to make your stay enjoyable, please call on us. Thank you