Cindy Hohl to Give Opening Keynote at NISO Plus 2025 in Baltimore
NISO is pleased to announce that Cindy Hohl will deliver the opening keynote address at the NISO Plus 2025 conference in Baltimore on Tuesday, February 11, at 9:30 am ET.
Hohl is director of policy analysis and operational support at the Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library and the 2024–2025 president of the American Library Association (ALA).
She has also served in a number of other leadership roles in the library community. She is past president of the American Indian Library Association and a board member of the ALA-affiliated Freedom to Read Foundation. She also serves on the Standing Committee of the Indigenous Matters Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
A member of the Santee Sioux Nation and a 2016–2017 ALA Spectrum Scholar, Hohl strives to increase diversity in the library field through mentorship, recruitment, and advocacy. She is passionate about leadership, Indigenous Knowledge systems, decolonizing classification standards, equity in data and information, and honoring the oral-storytelling tradition of tribal communities. She has been vocal in her support for librarians in the face of book challenges and censorship and speaks to the tenets of librarianship to ensure equal access to information and materials. Hohl holds a Bachelor of Science in Organization Management and Leadership from Friends University, a Master of Library and Information Science from Wayne State University, and a Master of Business Administration from Baker University.
“Cindy Hohl is recognized nationally for her leadership in supporting diversity in libraries, advancing inclusive leadership, and championing librarians as defenders of intellectual freedom,” said Jason Griffey, NISO Director of Strategic Initiatives. “We are honored to have her join us at NISO Plus and look forward to hearing her thoughts on the year ahead and how to foster strength and perseverance in a time when libraries and the wider information community face multiple challenges.”
The 2025 NISO Plus Baltimore conference will take place in person on February 10–12 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. For more information, please visit https://niso.plus.
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Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire life cycle of information standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq@niso.org.