[SCLA] LILRC: The American Revolution: A Screening with Sam Helmick, ALA President

[Anthony Giansante]

*Shared on behalf of LILRC*

*The American Revolution: A Screening with Sam Helmick, ALA President
<https://lilrc.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1984458&group=> (click to
register)*


Friday, September 26
10:00am - 12:00pm
 627 N Sunrise Service Rd, Bellport
Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Auditorium


Please join LILRC and ALA President Sam Helmick for an in-person advanced
screening of select portions of the new PBS documentary series, *The
American Revolution, *directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David
Schmidt. The series explores America’s founding struggle and its eight-year
War for Independence. *The American Revolution *is an expansive look at the
virtues and contradictions of the war and the birth of the United States of
America; the film follows dozens of figures, giving viewers a chance to
experience the war through the memories of the men and women who lived
through it.

Opening remarks will be delivered by Sam Helmick,
President, American Library Association.

Sam Helmick (they/them) is the 2025-2026 ALA President. Helmick served as a
member on the ALA Executive Board and a past president of the Iowa Library
Association. They previously served as former chair-elect on the
Intellectual Freedom Round Table and chair of the Iowa Governor’s
Commission of Libraries. They have served on committees for the Network of
the National Library of Medicine, the Stonewall Book Awards, the ALA Policy
Monitoring Committee, Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
Michael L. Printz Committee, the Reference and User Services Association
(RUSA) Sophie Brody Award Committee and the YALSA Fundraising Task Force.
Helmick is a 2016 Emerging Leader, as well as an author, consultant, and
instructor for social media marketing and graphic design.

Helmick holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Services from Iowa Wesleyan
University and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from
the University of Illinois.

Light refreshments will be provided.

This program is provided in cooperation with PBS WETA.



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Sally Stieglitz (she/her)

Communications & Outreach Coordinator | Long Island Library Resources
Council

Sustainability Team Member

Editor-in-Chief, *Association of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews*


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