Since joining the Library Speakers Consortium in the summer of 2022, the Summit County Library has brought dozens of acclaimed authors into local homes — virtually.

The partnership, which connects public libraries across the country, allows small and mid-sized systems like Summit County’s to access major literary voices that might otherwise be out of reach.

“We love having author events, but we often can’t afford a lot of the bigger named authors on our limited budgets,” said Summit County Library Director Daniel Compton. “The idea of this group was to form a consortium with libraries all across the country and have virtual author talks. The consortium does a lot of the heavy lifting — they schedule the talks, handle the moderators — and we get the benefit of offering them to our communi

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