Hillary Clinton Delivers Powerful Talk

An estimated 3,200 conferencegoers arrived well before the 10 a.m. Closing General Session at the 2017 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference and Exhibition on Tuesday, June 17 to hear the former First Lady and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee speak.

When Clinton stepped out to a standing ovation, she said that she told ALA President Julie B. Todaro backstage that the term “madame president is still one of my favorites.”

Clinton touched on topics ranging from fake news to resilience to literacy and reading to censorship. And hiking. “After this election, one of the things that helped me most—aside from long walks in the woods and the occasional glass of chardonnay—was once again going back to the familiar experience of losing myself in books,” she said. Read the full post here.