[Eril-l] ALCTS e-Forum: Emergency Planning: Lessons from COVID-19

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*Cross posted to multiple lists.*

ALCTS e-Forum: Emergency Planning: Lessons from COVID-19

August 11-12, 2020

Moderated by Kristi Howe, Valentine Muyumba, and Mary Beth Weber

Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!

Registration information is at the end of the message.

Each day, discussion begins and ends at:

Pacific: 7 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Mountain: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Central: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Eastern: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

This e-Forum will be an opportunity to reflect on what we learned from the
COVID-19 situation, and how to use the information in planning a response
to future emergencies. The impact and magnitude of the pandemic caught us
off guard, leading to library closures and displaced staff. Many libraries
struggled to pull together work at home plans for staff and provide the
equipment and services necessary for them to do so. Issues faced by
managers and staff faced included personnel policies regarding leave time
to care for sick relatives or children with daycare centers and schools
closed, engaging and managing staff working remotely, identifying projects,
documenting work time and progress, addressing emotional and mental needs
of staff, and preparing to return to work on-site. Additionally, ALA has
produced a pandemic preparedness page, and this is an opportunity to
promote it and other resources that participants can discuss and share.


Moderators

Kristi Howe is the Executive Director of the Vigo County Public Library –
an Indiana library system with 2 facilities and nearly 90 employees. Howe
is an elected member of the Executive Board for the Indiana Library
Federation where she leads legislative advocacy initiatives. Locally, Howe
chairs the COVID Emergency Relief Fund grant committee and engages with
organizations like the League of Women Voters, the Terre Haute Economic
Development Corporation, and the Vigo County School Corporation.

Valentine Muyumba is Chair of Technical Services at Indiana State
University’s Cunningham Memorial Library (ISU/CML). The department has 6
full-time employees, including one Metadata and cataloging librarian, and
one part time processing support staff. Technical Services at ISU is
composed of Acquisitions, Cataloging & Metadata, Government Documents,
Inter-Library Loan, and Processing & Preservation/Mending.

Mary Beth Weber is the Head of Central Technical Services at Rutgers
University Libraries. She oversees a department of twelve full-time
employees, including librarians and staff, and two part-time catalogers,
who provide MARC and non-MARC cataloging for libraries on four
geographically separate campuses.


What Is an e-Forum?

An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss matters
of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion list. The
e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register your email
address with the list, and then you will receive messages and communicate
with other participants through an email discussion. Most e-forums last two
to three days. Registration is necessary to participate, but it's free.

For information about upcoming e-forums, please visit
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum

How to Register

You must register your email address to subscribe to or access an
electronic discussion list on ALA's Mailing List Service. Once you have
registered for one e-forum, you do not need to register again, unless you
choose to leave the list. Find instructions for subscribing and
unsubscribing online. (
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum/sympa)

If you have any problems, please contact alcts-eforum-request at lists.ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.*
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