Each year, members of the American Library Association, the world's oldest, largest library association, elects a member volunteer to serve as President-Elect. This keynote will describe how Dr. Loriene Roy and her colleagues realized her vision of celebrating community, collaboration, and culture during her year as ALA's first indigenous President.

Accomplishments during her presidential year included
- Education forums on doctoral students' work and on master's students' service engagement;
- A book contract with ALA Editions for Service Learning;
- Information architecture for a Capstone/fieldwork database;
- A Gathering of Readers online celebration of indigenous children's reading and culture;
- Selected web content featuring library services for immigrants and those incarcerated;
- A workplace wellness website;
- Wellness documents including a workplace wellness inventory, wellness passport, and staying healthy at conference plan;
- A Wellness Fair featuring exhibitors, poster sessions, a celebrity chef, and Dance Dance Revolution;
- An Exercise Pavilion with relaxation, seated yoga, Pilates, and hula classes;
- Delivery of 20,000 Lance Armstrong SURVIVORSHIP Notebooks to public libraries;
- Discussions related to youth library camps;
- Launching of a national oral history project, Capturing Our Stories;
- Meeting effectiveness tip sheets and podcasts;
- An Honor Dance, Presidential programs at the Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference, and a Many Voices, Many Nations evening of indigenous readings and performance;
- The first Presidential Citations for Gaming in Libraries;
- The first Presidential Citations on Innovation in International Librarianship;
- Collaborations with WGBH-Boston, the largest producer of public television programming.