Ancel Glink attorneys Julie Tappendorf and Erin Monforti will be speaking at multiple sessions at this year’s Illinois Library Association (ILA) conference taking place October 14-16 in Rosemont. If you will be at the ILA conference, we hope you can stop in to one (or more) of our sessions and say hi.

Ready for Anything: Responding to
First Amendment Audits

  • Tuesday, October 14, 2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
  • Speakers: Erin Monforti, Ancel Glink; Dustin Smaby, Vernon Area
    Public Library District 

Courageous Belonging: Navigating Public
Backlash and the First Amendment with Care 

  • Wednesday, October 15, 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
  • Speakers: Holly Bartecki, Jasculca Terman Strategic Communications;
    Kelly Durov, Northbrook Public Library; Kate Hall, Northbrook Public
    Library; Stacy Oliver, Northbrook Public Library; Elizabeth Rupert,
    Joffe Emergency Services; Julie Tappendorf, Ancel Glink; Linda Vering,
    Northbrook Public Library 

Book Bans and Intellectual Freedom
for Trustees 

  • Thursday, October 16, 11:00 a.m. – noon
  • Speakers: Sheri Doniger, Lincolnwood Public Library District;
    Becky Keane, Niles-Maine District Library; Elizabeth Lynch,
    Addison Public Library; Erin Monforti, Ancel Glink 
  • Presented by the Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC)

Keeping it Legal on Social Media

  • Thursday, October 16, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
  • Speaker: Julie Tappendorf, Ancel Glink
  • Presented by the Library Trustee Forum (LTF)