Learn about the popular and award-winning Voices of Race series, winner of the 2016 ALA Excellence in Library Programming Award.
Find out how a school librarian and a history teacher created an interactive research project that engaged their entire school community in learning about the 1960 Greensboro (N.C.) lunch counter sit-ins, a seminal part of the Civil Rights Movement. In this webinar, Constance Vidor, director of library services at the Friends Seminary, a K-12 independent Quaker school in New York City, will share how how a research project can become a community event that offers opportunities for discussion, reflection and discovery.
The 2018 class of ALA Emerging Leaders was charged with identifying data competency training resources for the Public Library Association. It has become increasingly important for library professionals to be able to gather, analyze and communicate data in order to navigate a data-rich world and make data-driven decisions related to funding, policies and other resources needed to support the communities you serve. Learn how the website created by the Emerging Leaders serves as a professional development guide that can help move library staff toward becoming more data competent.
Kristin Boyett, a librarian at the University of North Texas Wills Library, offers a snapshot of Edible Books events from years past at the university as well as provides tips for how to conduct a successful program, including how to alter programs to suit various audiences and facilities. Learn how much fun it can be to attend and host!
The Engage! Teens, Art & Civic Participation webinar series will introduce a program model that targets young adults, using visual art as a springboard to civic engagement. In this first session, learn more about this program model for young adults that uses visual art as a springboard to civic engagement.
The Engage! Teens, Art & Civic Participation webinar series will introduce a program model that targets young adults, using visual art as a springboard to civic engagement. This second session will delve in to how to present and look at art.
The Engage! Teens, Art & Civic Participation webinar series will introduce a program model that targets young adults, using visual art as a springboard to civic engagement. This session will focus on issues based discussions for teen audiences, using the Engage! Teens, Art & Civic Participation model.
What hot trend gets people working together, solving problems, sparks creativity and rewards innovation? Escape rooms! Join us for this free one-hour webinar for ideas on how to create and implement an escape room at your library.
Aspects of culture and history are disappearing every day — whether it is a language on the verge of extinction, a craft form that is now forgotten, or the history of a town that no one remembers.
Learn how Pilot Mountain (N.C.) Elementary School, winner of ALA's 2017 Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award, taught third-graders about cultural and historic preservation with a yearlong multimedia school library program.
The first step in making change is talking to your community. Three public libraries explain how to get started using The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation's "turning outward" approach.