Connecting with Immigrant and Refugee Youth in Your Community

Thursday, 4/21/2016
  • 2:00 PM-3:00 PM (Eastern)
  • 1:00 PM-2:00 PM (Central)
  • 12:00 PM-1:00 PM (Mountain)
  • 11:00 AM-12:00 PM (Pacific)

Join Ady Huertas and colleagues for a program on how library workers can serve the needs of Spanish-speaking immigrant and refugee youth in their communities. Participants will learn about forming partnerships with social service organizations that work with immigrant communities and will receive information on serving and developing programming relevant to those youth who visit libraries, as well as those in more mobile communities.

Takeaways

  • Learn about resources that library workers can use to make immigrant teens feel more welcomed in the library
  • Learn how to form partnerships with social service organizations in the immigrant community
  • Hear about innovative approaches to serving and developing relevant programming for immigrant and refugee youth visiting libraries as well a mobile immigrant community

Who Should Attend

  • Teen Services Librarians
  • Library staff who work with teens
  • Volunteers and community members who work with teens

Presenter

Ady Huertas

Registration

Cost

YALSA members: Free
Non-Members: Available for purchase on-demand, beginning May 21.

How to Register

YALSA members may register for this webinar using the registration link provided in their weekly YALSA e-news. For questions regarding e-news distribution, please contact Anna Lam, Communications Specialist, at alam@ala.org.

Non-Members may register for the on-demand webinar using the registration link which will be provided in this space beginning May 21.

Tech Requirements

Windows

  • Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2; Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise; or Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate (32-bit edition, or 64-bit edition with 32-bit browser)
  • 1.4GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or faster processor (or equivalent) for Microsoft® Windows® XP or Windows 7; 2GHz Intel Pentium 4 or faster processor (or equivalent) for Windows Vista®
  • Mozilla Firefox 2.x or 3.x (first choice); Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8; or Google Chrome (last choice, as it occasionally interferes with speaker microphones)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.1 or later

Mac

  • 500MHz PowerPC® G3 or faster or 1.83GHz Intel Core™ Duo or faster processor
  • Mac OS X v10.4–10.6 (Intel); Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC)
  • 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
  • Mozilla Firefox 2.x or 3x; Safari 2.x; or Google Chrome
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.1

    Mobile

  • Apple devices: iOS 3 or 4, created for Apple iPhone; compatible with Apple iPad and iPod Touch (3G or 4G connection recommended)
  • Android™ devices: Android 2.2; Adobe AIR® for Android; compatible with HTC Nexus One and Motorola Droid (3G or 4G connection recommended)

Plug-Ins

Adobe Connect runs off a Flash platform.  Meeting participants need to set their computer settings to allow plug-ins.

Audio

Audio for Connect meetings is provided using VOIP. Meeting participants need to have a computer headset with microphone.  Microphones and speakers that are built into computers are usable, but if they are used then other webinar participants in Connect will actually be able to hear people speaking through the computer's speakers as well as through the microphone of the person speaking, which creates an echo or makes the sound quality fuzzy. Here are some better options to explore:

  • YALSA staff use this for webinars:  http://tinyurl.com/34vueqz
  • If you have a head set you use with your phone, this may work, but you’ll want to test it out prior to any official webinar to be sure.

Test Your Connection

Conduct a test to ensure your computer is set up with the appropriate tools to participate in YALSA’s webinar. To do this, click on the Test Meeting Connection URL located here: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

If you have never participated in a webinar before, you can watch an overview of a webinar.

Contact

Contact yalsa@ala.org or 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4390.