Saturday is the Library of Congress National Book Festival. You can attend in person or online. You can do it tomorrow or view the live streamed talks after the event. You can even view panels and talks from past year's festivals. From their home page:
2023 National Book Festival
Join us in the nation’s capital at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday, August 12, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. (doors open at 8:30 a.m.). If you can't join us in Washington, D.C. for a day of free talks and activities, several programs will be livestreamed, and video of all talks can be viewed online after the Festival concludes.
Please go to their web page to check out everything that is being offered, no matter where you live.
You can learn about upcoming books, trends, and more. You can put the videos on your website from this year after the fact or post videos from past year's. You can use the panels and those authors appearing to help you think of display ideas. Maybe you don't use the books or authors who are there, but the titles of their panels would make great display titles.
Here is an example from last year, a panel entitled, "What Happens Next in Sequeland?" What an awesome title for a display of any and all books in a series. You can have any genre represented in this one too.And make sure the stories represent the full breadth of identities.
You can also think about the National Book Festival Programming as your programming. I mean, it actually is your programming is because it is from the Library of Congress and thus free to all Americans. Why not add the scheduled live streams to your event calendar, for example.
I have given you a lot of ideas on how to use this festival as a resource to serve your leisure readers. Go for it.
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