[Eril-l] Best of Core Forum: When the Tools are Broken: (Re)Building Community

Tue Apr 23 05:00:00 PDT 2024

*Cross posted to multiple lists*

Best of Core Forum: When the Tools are Broken: (Re)Building Community

Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2024

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.

Description: Building toolboxes, refining skills, and developing frameworks
are only a handful of methods library professionals are using—and learning
to use—in their everyday workplace. The necessity grows with each challenge
faced, whether it's censorship and book banning, navigating workplace
conflict, or maintaining the organization’s commitment to social justice.
Those who lead and manage teams, departments, and libraries work to find
the means to best serve their organization’s diversity, equity, and
inclusion needs. Busy schedules, small budgets, and fewer resources create
further barriers. And for many, this work is done alone and without a
community to support needed changes. The tools and skills that were given
and taught by their organization, and profession, are broken.

In this interactive session focusing on building a community, participants
will share learned experiences, develop accountability partners, and
actively learn potential responses to an array of workplace challenges.
Participants will crowdsource solutions and options to challenging
situations at their libraries. This results in practices that build
professional networks and enhance leadership capacity.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of this webinar, the attendees will be able to:

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   Develop accountability partners and allies to sustain leadership and
   service.
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   Build community through shared experiences of identifying barriers to
   accomplish goals.
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   Practice navigating challenging scenarios to develop a routine for
   handling them.

Who should attend?

The primary audience for this webinar is for folks invested in diversity
and access in their library, but may be feeling at a loss at how to make
change.

Presenter:

Dr. Melia Fritch is a Professor and Academic Services librarian at Kansas
State University. Leading the Learning Experience and Design team, Melia
assists with creating learning environments and consults in the development
of innovative services and intuitive interfaces for both internal and
external users. She is the co-coordinator of the Dow Center for
Multicultural and Community Studies housed within Hale Library; serving as
the Libraries’ Diversity Point Person for the university, Melia fosters a
commitment to diversity, equity, inclusivity, and belonging within the
university community. Her research interests include critical information
literacy/library instruction, curriculum development, critical pedagogy,
instruction assessment, and qualitative research, with a central focus on
diversity and equity. She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, Master
of Library Science, Master of Arts in English with an emphasis in Cultural
Studies, and a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies.

Tara Coleman, recipient of the 2023 I Love My Librarian Award, is a
Professor and the Program Services Coordinator for the Sunderland
Foundation Innovation Lab at Kansas State University Libraries. She
co-coordinates the Libraries’ Dow Center for Multicultural and Community
Studies; serves as a university ombudsperson, and is the coordinator for
the university’s common reading program, the K-State First Book.

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Registration fees for webinar:  Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10;
Non-member $79.00

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:

https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1094

Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece at ala.org.

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

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