

Revisiting Our Entrepreneurial Roots: Libraries as a Renaissance of Black Invention
A Session by Tony Zanders and Valerie Hawkins
About this Session
Tony Zanders is an award-winning software entrepreneur and library technology executive. He is the Founder and CEO of Skilltype - a software company developing talent management tools for libraries. He also served as the inaugural entrepreneur in residence at the Boston University Libraries, where he advised the University Librarian on talent management while designing new solutions in recruitment and retention for the university and its libraries. Prior to BU, Zanders served in executive roles at EBSCO and Ex Libris for over 10 years. He currently lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with his wife and three children.