Chicago-area Meetup: Blue Line Lounge & Grill

This year, 2017 Scholar Jaime Bravo is working with the Spectrum Advisory Committee and staff to help organize and strengthen the Chicago-area network of POC librarians/library workers. Part of our activities include organizing a few local meet-ups, and we’d like to invite you to join us for our first of 2019 on Friday, February 8, 2019 at 5:30pm at Blue Line Lounge & Grill, 1548 N Damen. Please join us for food/drinks and connecting with other area librarians of color. It will be pay your own way, and guests are welcome! Please share this with POC librarians in your networks who may be interested and RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/xtYzXcVUpjFwar2o1.

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February 08, 2019

11:30am - 1:30pm CST

Blue Line Lounge & Grill: 1548 N. Damen, Chicago

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