Guest speaker sessions via Zoom:
Tuesdays, March 29, April 5, and 12, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm ET (recordings available)
Workshop:
Asynchronous, facilitator-led workshop over 3 weeks
Effectively serving the needs of your community requires an understanding of how to support their social and emotional needs in addition to their information and practical needs. It also requires self-care strategies and engagement tools for yourself, colleagues, and staff. You need to put on your own oxygen mask before you can help others!
Join us for this guest speaker program and online workshop, where you’ll learn from experts how to support the ‘whole patron’ in your practice, programs, partnerships and services.
You’ll complete assignments to create your own initiative over 3+ weeks in an interactive online classroom environment with personal coaching from an expert in the field. In addition, you’ll have access to bonus content—rich supporting materials you can explore at your own pace, including a series of webinars from Library Journal and School Library Journal contributors, readings, activities, and videos.
The live sessions run on Tuesday, March 29, April 5 and April 12, from 2:00-4:00 pm ET with an ongoing facilitator-led workshop over 3 weeks. All sessions will be recorded and can be viewed at your convenience. Don’t miss this opportunity!
Tools for supporting the emotional well-being and self-care of staff and colleagues
Methods for dealing with conflict resolution
The building blocks for incorporating Social Emotional Learning (SEL) into your practice and programs
Strategies for identifying and securing supportive community partners to help deliver needed services
Any librarian or educator who wants to bring a whole person approach to their practice and institution.
Can’t make a live session? All guest speaker sessions are recorded and available on demand following the initial broadcast.
15 professional development credits are available
For support with online courses, please contact libraryjournal@edmaker.co
Engage with presenters via live video stream, visual presentations, and chats, and workshop practical solutions and personal work in a group environment, with guidance from an advisor.
Instructor-led online course features personalized interaction over 3+ weeks
Real-time guest speakers and conversation via live video stream (with recordings available afterward)
Workshop assignments to help you make progress on your goals
Individualized attention from course facilitators who work with you in a coaching environment in the workshop to help sort out challenges
Ongoing group conversation via discussion forums
Supporting resources (articles, videos, worksheets) in the online classroom to provide a foundation for your work
Access all course content for six months after the course ends
Bonus: Register early and get immediate access to archival video recordings from related courses and other bonus content
Megan Emery Schadlich
MLIS, Author, Speaker, and Creator of The Healing Library
Discounted registration fees are available for groups of 3 or more.
To get details on group pricing, contact us.
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For support with online courses, please contact libraryjournal@edmaker.co.
Session 1 | 2:00-2:45 pm ET
Hierarchies, silos, vocational awe, toxic positivity, imposter syndrome, low morale, theatrical listening…. As we evolve in our profession, more and more new terms related to dissatisfaction seem to pop up. Meaningful support of staff should be rooted in recognizing our issues and then participating in genuine teamwork through solidarity and communication.
In this session, you’ll learn how to be an advocate and ally for yourself and staff members or colleagues by setting clear, value-driven intentions directly into your institution’s driving documents at multiple levels: strategic plans, vision statements, needs assessments, and action plans.
Speaker:
Callan Bignoli, Director of the Library, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering |
An introduction to this week’s assignment and an overview of what to expect from the online workshop in this course
Session 2 | 3:00-3:45 pm ET
Strong leadership skills ideally extend to all library staff as they take ownership of their individual roles and contributions to the library at large. Best-in-class communication practices benefit from strong social-emotional skills and can be the ticket to reaching patrons and colleagues during challenging times. In this session, library director Sonia Alcantara-Antoine (Baltimore County Public) shares her strategies for communicating openly and honestly as she works to shift organizational culture, connect with over 600 employees, and engage the Baltimore community in her second role as a director. She’ll share lessons learned from participatory decision making and tips for communication strategies you can adopt as an individual or as part of your department or team.
Speaker:
Sonia Alcantara-Antoine, Director, Baltimore County Public Library |
Session 1 | 2:00-2:45 pm ET
In this rapid-fire session, you’ll hear from several minds behind new initiatives that address the needs of community well being. Each panelist will present a short snapshot of their latest work, and the group will host an extended Q+A session to answer your questions about partnerships, parameters of success, budgeting, and whatever else you want to know!
Projects:
The Healing Library
Learn about The Healing Library, a series of kits to help ease healing from trauma, and the way Anne Arundel County Public Library adapted the unique lending program to meet their community’s SEL needs.
Presented by Megan Schadlich, creator of The Healing Library, and Laura Efrom, Assistant Branch Manager, Anne Arundel County Public Library (MD)
Bicycle Lending Initiative
Get a behind-the-scenes look at how community need for transportation grew into a bike lending program and wellness initiative at Anythink Libraries in Colorado. Presented by Ricardo Cardenas, Commerce City Branch Manager, Anythink Libraries
Intergenerational Community Circles
Learn about this Restorative Justice based program that combines peace circles and intergenerational community reads–building community, offering support, and more. The program is led by trained library staff, community partners, college students, and local middle grade students who all act as guides through thought-provoking and challenging discussions of titles like Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You and the March series at Oak Park Public Library in Illinois. Originally intended to be in-person, the program launched during the pandemic and has been a success in a virtual setting. Presented by Tatiana Swancy, Restorative Practices Coordinator at Oak Park Public Library (IL)
Speakers:
Megan Schadlich, MLIS, Author, Speaker, and Creator of The Healing Library | |
Laura Efrom, Assistant Branch Manager at Anne Arundel County Public Library | |
Ricardo Cardenas, Manager at Anythink Commerce City library | |
Tatiana Swancy, Restorative Practices Coordinator at Oak Park Public Library (IL) |
An introduction to this week’s assignment and an overview of what to expect from the online workshop in this course
Session 2 | 3:00-3:45 pm ET
Restorative justice is practice that focuses on repairing harm, healing for the people directly involved, and for the community at large. The restorative approach relies on proven techniques of forgiveness and empowerment rather than punishment. Oak Park Public Library (IL) has been a leader in restorative practices to strengthen families, schools, and communities, as it has led conferences and other programs on the topic. In this session, you’ll learn how restorative justice can also guide a powerful shift within an organizational culture. There will be actionable takeaways, like de-escalation techniques, that you can include in your practice immediately, as well as resources to measure the success of outcomes, ways to continue learning about restorative justice and how to engage with other libraries already doing this work.
Speaker:
Stephen Jackson, Director of Equity and Antiracism, Oak Park Public Library |
Session 1 | 2:00-2:45 pm ET
Learn ways that small, rural or underfunded libraries can partner with social workers or social service organizations to address needs in the library community. Licensed social worker Tiffany Russell was the first Social Services Manager at Niles District Library (MI). She’ll share insights into the transformational program, The Social Workers in Rural and Small Libraries Project, which has helped connect librarians and patrons to available resources and deepen their understanding of social services available to patrons. She’ll help spark ideas for wide ranging community partners and provide grant writing tips to support this work.
Speaker:
Tiffany Russell, Social Workers in Rural and Small Libraries Project |
An introduction to this week’s assignment and an overview of what to expect from the online workshop in this course
Session 2 | 3:00-3:45 pm ET
Partnerships aren’t a possibility for every library, but the lessons learned from social-work-library collaborations can bring profound change to the practice of librarianship.
In this session, you’ll learn about Whole Person Librarianship – the application of social work to improve library public service – and how it can serve you. Author, librarian and instructor Sara Zettervall will share examples of the evolution of social work partnerships in libraries, discuss how to strategically choose and prepare for these types of partnerships, and how to set healthy, supportive boundaries to grow personally, professionally, and as a community.
Speaker:
Sara Zettervall, author of Whole Person Librarianship |
Sonia Alcantara-Antoine, Director, Baltimore County Public Library | |
Callan Bignoli, Director of the Library, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering | |
Ricardo Cardenas, Manager at Anythink Commerce City library | |
Laura Efrom, Library Associate at Anne Arundel County Public Library | |
Stephen Jackson, Director of Equity and Antiracism, Oak Park Public Library | |
Tiffany Russell, Social Workers in Rural and Small Libraries Project | |
Megan Schadlich, MLIS, Author, Speaker, and Creator of The Healing Library | |
Tatiana Swancy, Restorative Practices Coordinator at Oak Park Public Library (IL) | |
Sara Zettervall, Whole Person Librarianship author and MN librarian |
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