Greetings Colleagues, I trust you're well and in good spirits. The HBCU Library Alliance is featured in the March 15th issue of Forbes.com. https://www.forbes.com/sites/marybethgasman/2024/03/15/why-supporting-hbcu-libraries-is-essential/?sh=5642e4df1c19 [https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/65ef646fd2c9a8e3556946bf/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds]<https://www.forbes.com/sites/marybethgasman/2024/03/15/why-supporting-hbcu-libraries-is-essential/?sh=5642e4df1c19> Why Supporting HBCU Libraries Is Essential<https://www.forbes.com/sites/marybethgasman/2024/03/15/why-supporting-hbcu-libraries-is-essential/?sh=5642e4df1c19> Libraries are vitally important and fundamentally important to all of us. They provide us with the freedom to learn about anything we desire. www.forbes.com<http://www.forbes.com> Thanks to Marybeth Gasman, Rutgers University (NJ) for the article. Marybeth will keynote the HBCU Library Alliance 10th Membership Meeting<https://hbculibraries.org/old-site/meeting-2024.html> and graciously offered to write the article after learning about our work to advance HBCUs. Please read, comment and share broadly. This is EXCITING!!! Respectfully, Sandra Sandra Phoenix Executive Director at HBCU Library Alliance<http://hbculibraries.org/> Office: (678) 210-5801 ext. 101 Mobile: (404) 702-5854 600 Westridge Parkway, Suite 714, PMB 1100 McDonough, GA 30253 Web: hbculibraries.org<http://hbculibraries.org/> Email: sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> Seek justice, honor the ancestors, honor the children and those yet to come. [cid:image001.gif@01DA7910.FEE6B0E0]<https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/> [cid:image002.gif@01DA7910.FEE6B0E0] <https://twitter.com/HBCULibAlliance> [cid:image003.png@01DA7910.FEE6B0E0] <https://www.instagram.com/hbcu_library_alliance/> [cid:image004.gif@01DA7910.FEE6B0E0] <https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/>