Becky's Annual Year in Review Program is Today and Here Are the Slides/Resources for All

I have mentioned it a few times, especially toward the end of 2025, but each year I create a brand new program to debut in February where I compile all of the year end data, sift through it, and present it in a 60 minute program where I make some large pronouncements about the year we just lived through and help us move into the next year with educated guess predictions.

This program takes months to compile. Grabbing all of the year end reports is the easy part. It is figuring out how to narrow down the glut of information that comes at us at the end of the year to find the pieces that are most pertinent to all of us and then assess what they are saying when taken all together, that is where the work is. 

I have done this for over 10 years now, on different platforms. This year it is through PCI. Many library systems and state libraries offer access to their programs live and archived. It will have a very wide reach and for that I am happy.

This is also a program that I allow those I present for to keep up indefinitely. (Normally I require my presentations be taken down a year after the live event.)

Why?

Because it is when you can view a few years of these programs in a row that you can watch trends emerge and see how the situation we find ourselves in at the present came to be. Nothing looks like it "came out of nowhere" when you take the time to look back each year.

I love taking a moment with all of you, a few weeks into a new year, to look back together,

While I am paid to give this program every year, I would do this work for myself-- and all of you-- even without a presentation event. And that is also why I make sure that the slides are very text and link heavy-- so that the information for all of you is here and free. It is all too important to not get out to as many people as possible.

If you are attending the program, please note, I had to send in the PDF of the slides 2 weeks ago, but if you use this link to the live slides, you will get the fully updated version.

Click the image to access the slides