Before the pandemic, there was a frisson of excitement coursing through many of us in the library field feeling the first shaking of what is possible when we engage with the imagination of libraries for children and young people. With no access to children and youth in groups, no access to spaces for gathering together and millions of our community on the ‘other’ side of the digital divide, where do we go from here? What do we imagine is our role and vision for library work? Live from Lockdown Library is a series of short interviews with leading lights on the library - literacy billboard.