Black Belt Librarians

SLISAA Fall Speaker Series 2010
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Time: 9:00am-4:00pm
Location: Southfield Public Library Meeting Room – 1st floor
26300 Evergreen Road Southfield, MI

Full RSVP Link: Here

Join the WSU SLIS Alumni Association and Southfield Public Library in welcoming Warren Graham, a library security expert. Mr. Graham is a dynamic speaker and author of Black Belt Librarians. He will have copies for sale at the event. This will be a worthwhile day-long training for all library staff who deal with the public. Mr. Graham is nationally renowned as an expert of day to day library security procedures. He has been a security professional for 25 years and he spent the last 17 years as the Security and Safety Manager for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, developing and overseeing their program. He retired in August 2006 to establish Warren Graham Training and Consulting. Mr. Graham has traveled across the United States helping libraries of all sizes acquire a sense of controlling their work environment. Unlike other security consultants, Mr. Graham actually worked in a library, so he is well aware of the problems the front-line, professional librarian experiences on a daily basis. Developing his techniques for handling difficult situations and patrons through the years of facing myriad security situations, Graham knows by his own experience what works and what simply does not. His “real world” approach and strategy, grounded in much trial and error, will quickly give your staff a sense of empowerment and put you well on your way to doing all you can to develop a practical, workable, security program.

$10 for currently enrolled WSU students; $20 for Wayne State Alumni Association members and $30 for others. All proceeds will go to the WSU School of Library and Information Science Endowed Scholarship on behalf of the SLIS alumni.