What kind of training would make your work-life better? CALL wants to know! Please, take a few minutes to respond to our survey at https://t.co/ViUnfLQkOs. Thank you!
Libraries: Do you do any work with VR and neurodiversity? Or are you aware of a library that does? Let us know, we'd love to know more!
And mark your calendars for this awesome @SJSUiSchool#Library20 event on March 29!
There's still time to register for our upcoming course: Asset-Based Community Development in Practice.
@AprilRoving will explore ways to deepen community connections and forge new relationships that amplify existing assets, talents and power!
https://t.co/2khMuH9TD0
This #InternationalWomensDay explore and transcribe the beautiful words and calligraphy of groundbreaking painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Her letters in our newest @librarycongress transcription campaign reveal her ambitions, vulnerabilities, & sensibilities: https://t.co/6hbmF5pUfs
Are you interested in making connections to expand your library's reach? Excited to work with organizations in the community that share the library's goals? There's still time to register for our course: Developing Partnerships to Provide Social Services!
https://t.co/AxKP0sVeoh
An update on the @UW_iSchool Misinformation Escape Room project, including libraries participating, and an opportunity to play at #PLA2022. Join other librarians to see if you can solve the misinformation mystery! @taschagroup@uwcip#IMLSgrant https://t.co/LOkbGCgFDF
Today I gave a talk to 100+ people on Holding Space in Uneasy Times. We stopped multiple times to journal and process together. I thought I'd share a few of those journal prompts with you in case you need them today.
To build trust within a community, it can't be a "one and done" thing. You need to keep returning to the community and participating. Bobbi Luster at Truckee Library. #CalHumanities#LibraryInnovationLab#LibraryLove
"I'm coming to your safe space to show that [our library] branch can also be your safe space." - Denise Lopez Gomez on building trust with community members. #CalHumanities#LibraryInnovationLab#LibraryLove
Working with a local bookstore to find a storyteller for Arab culture story time was INSPIRED. Good job to Curita Tinker at Anaheim Public Library. So fantastic that the story times have continued after the end of the program! #CalHumanities#LibraryInnovationLab#LibraryLove
Are you as inspired as we are by these incredible @Cal_Humanities #LibraryInnovationLab participants?!
If you're in California and want to apply, there's still time! Deadline is March 1: https://t.co/RqC4QG7b18
Parents were concerned about their children losing the sense of WHY certain traditions and celebrations happen in their culture. Denise Lopez Gomez from Coachella Library through the #LibraryInnovationLab program helped inspire pride in their heritage for the younger generations.
"From the beginning of the program to the end of the programming we were becoming a community. It was very cool that the library was able to be that middle ground."
"What the open mic allowed was for people from the community to come out and share their own immigrant experience." - Denise Lopez Gomez, Coachella Library
@Cal_Humanities #LibraryInnovationLab#LibraryLove