Roland Barksdale-Hall, library director, Quinby Street Resource Center, is a storyteller, faculty member at Writing Success, and author of Leadership Under Fire, Communicating, Teaching and Setting Communities at Liberty (Amber Books, 2016). He tells the story of a library modernization and community transformation. He contributed to Library Outreach to Writers and Poets: Interviews and Case Studies of Cooperation and Librarianship and Genealogy: Trends, Issues and Case Studies (McFarland, forthcoming).