Creating welcoming spaces for members of the LGBTQ+ community is easier than you might think. In this session you’ll learn some of the small and big things you can do to help create those spaces for not just patrons, but also your coworkers and employees.
Date Recorded: 9/17/21
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Jayne Walters, Indianapolis Public Library
Athens (Georgia) Regional Library is one of the first public libraries to refocus a social work program toward a trauma-informed framework. This session presents replicable steps in providing library services, designing and implementing policies, and supplying holistic training for staff utilizing a trauma-informed lens. As libraries are asked to do more with less, this session highlights easily attained methods of becoming trauma-informed and establishing a system which reflects the assets of the community and organizational values. 1hr / 1 LEU.
Date Recorded: 6/30/21
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenters: Trudi Green / Assistant Director for Public Services, Athens Regional Library System; Jennifer Elkins / Associate Professor, University of Georgia School of Social Work; Sarah List / Information Services Librarian, Athens Regional Library System.
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Whether you’re new to TeachingBooks or it is your go-to database for book and author resources, we are constantly evolving and would love to share both staple and new tools with you. In this webinar, we will highlight top TeachingBooks features that teachers find useful for in-class instruction as well as guiding student-paced learning. Discover ready-to-use lessons and activities, engaging resources like book trailers and other contactless book previewing tools, and more.
Date Recorded: 1/21/2021
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenters: Alyssa Yokota-Bryon, M.Ed., Implementation & Training Specialist and Kym Davick, Director of Implementation & Educational Support / TeachingBooks
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When teens walk into the library, does your staff view them as a problem or an opportunity? Libraries are positioned to have a huge impact on teen lives with just a little intentionality. This session will introduce directors (and anyone else interested) to the developmental needs of teens and the ways in which libraries can support teens in their communities by utilizing Connected Learning—yes, even during the pandemic! We’ll discuss what this looks like in the library setting and how to encourage staff to look at teens and teen programs in a different way.
Date Recorded: 12/22/2020
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenters: Beth Yates, Indiana State Library / Christy Franzman, Hamilton East Public Library
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Jayne Walters of the Indianapolis Public Library presents a collection of broad and inclusive LGBTQIA+ titles for teen and tween readers. Books representing many identities and orientations are presented with an eye to presenting a fuller picture of the queer experience– and most importantly, toward the inclusion of multiple voices on each topic
Date Recorded: 10/27/20
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Jayne Walters / West Indianapolis Branch Manager
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LGBTQIA+ literature is not just for Pride Month! Librarians from the Indianapolis Public Library will share their top LGBTQIA+ literature picks for youth. They will introduce titles across multiple genres and age groups that can be easily incorporated into every day displays and reader’s advisory. Books from every aspect of the rainbow for parents and youth ages 12 and younger to read together or on their own will be shared.
Date Recorded: 10/29/20
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenters: Jayne Walters / West Indianapolis Branch Manager and Maggie Ward / Outreach Services Manager – Indianapolis Public Library.
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Klem-Marí Cajigas is the Family Literacy Coordinator for Bringing Books to Life!, Nashville Public Library’s award-winning early literacy outreach program. She has been with Nashville Public Library since 2012, after more than a decade of academic training in Religious Studies and Ministry, including doctoral work at Vanderbilt University.
Lindsey Patrick-Wright was formerly the Youth Services and Continuing Education Coordinator for TSLA. She has been at Nashville Public Library for 9 years now, first managing the Children’s Department and is currently managing the Southeast Branch.
Date Recorded: 8/25/20
Format: Archived YouTube Video
“Resilience,” while an over-used term, is a very important scientific concept. Far from being rare, it is common for families to display resilience when faced with adversity. Nonetheless, threats to resilience, trauma among them, are also common. This webinar will review the scientific definitions of resilience and family resilience, and consider factors that may threaten or promote resilience. A new program created at Purdue to support family resilience during the pandemic will be introduced.
Date Recorded: 7/08/20
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth – Distinguished Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University
As public libraries continue to strive towards deeper connections with their community, effective and mutually beneficial partnerships are essential. Unfortunately, all too often, instead of being “made in heaven,” many partnerships feel more like “shotgun marriages.” This session will examine the ingredients necessary for healthy, mutually beneficial, and sustainable library-community partnerships, and provide a number of suggestions as to where to start.
Date Recorded: 2/17/20
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Kelly Krieg-Sigman / Retired Director of LaCrosse Public Library, WI
How do you serve people in your community who are unable get in to your library? How do you find those people? What kind of programs or services could be offered to them? These questions plague libraries everywhere. Learn how we identified our target patron groups, partnered with community agencies to identify patrons, young and not so young, who would benefit from outreach programming, and how we used materials and staff on hand to add outreach to our service repertoire.
Angie Bates is currently the Assistant Director of Perry Memorial Library in Henderson, North Carolina, but she’s not always been a librarian. She taught in elementary schools all across the United States from 1986–2009. In 2010, she graduated from North Carolina Central University with my MLS and began her new career as a youth librarian. She has been blessed to experience many sides of public librarianship; youth and adult services, cataloging, and now administration. Her next adventure is to go beyond her library’s walls through outreach services.
Date Recorded: 2/26/20
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Angie Bates / Perry Memorial Library, Assistant Director (Henderson, North Carolina)