Best-selling author Traci Sorell will serve as the 2024 honorary chair of Preservation Week, to be held April 28–May 4. The theme of this year’s Preservation Week, organized by ALA’s Core division, is Preserving Identities. This reflects the role of libraries in preserving materials and knowledge key to understanding one’s identity and sharing them in ways that are responsive to their communities. Sorell’s experiences highlight the importance of this commitment. “As a child, I enjoyed visiting my school and public libraries,” she says. “But I didn’t have my Cherokee identity in books offered in either one.”