Please note: this event with Carla Hayden is already at capacity. A standby line will be set up outside of the venue at 2:30 the day of the event on a first come, first serve. We cannot guarantee entrance to anyone in the standby line.
Join Gold Coast Book Fair for a very special event featuring the 14th Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden sitting in conversation with former Congressman Steve Israel and author Alexis Coe at the First Presbyterian Church in Oyster Bay. At this special visit to Long Island, Hayden will discuss her important work as our nation’s foremost librarian, the role that libraries and librarians play in ensuring our democracy’s freedom of speech, and why libraries have never been more important to the future of American civic life.