Events for November 2020

Watch Recorded Webinar View Presentation Slides Download Link Bank Community Dialogues to Support Equitable Programming, Access, and Action in YOUR Library Community Dialogues are informal conversations with your community leaders and members that aim to uncover disparities in participation, identify new partnership opportunities, and begin planning for collaborative and creative solutions to equity concerns in your library and community. This interactive webinar will include a brief description of Dialogues and available resources, with most of the hour devoted to an open mic where you can ask questions and “dialogue about dialogue” with other library staff, including those who have led successful [...]

Watch Recorded Webinar (Day 1) Watch Recorded Webinar (Day 2) Universal Design for Learning for Library Staff: Inquiry-Based, Active, Remote Learning Using UDL As library staff look ahead to summer 2021, they are beginning to consider how they will adapt summer reading plans to reach as many patrons as possible, whether virtual or in-person. Library staff have found themselves in a sea of tools and resources to facilitate virtual programming during the COVID-19 crisis to simulate the in-person environment, with each tool and resource producing a different result. One methodology, if implemented properly, has the capacity to not only create inquiry-based, [...]