Webinar: Building Community: Strategies for Coming Together

Originally presented January 15, 2025

For some time now, many communities have been grappling with political division and conflict. How can the library be a more positive and unifying influence?

Part of the solution is "turning outward"- the shift in librarianship that sees our services as part of a web of social assets to provide coordinated responses to pressing community needs. But to make this real we need to build narratives founded on human story, on evidence, and a deliberate frame of both individual and social value.

Join Jamie LaRue to learn strategies for coming together with community.  By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to

Articulate library services in a "community building" framework.

Describe a low-cost process for gathering community wisdom.

Build protocols that help frame public meetings and services around a larger framework of shared values.

Demonstrate civic courage and institutional purpose.

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