Building Community: Strategies for Coming Together
Respond to Community Needs
Jamie LaRue shares strategies for coming together to provide coordinated responses to pressing community needs.
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.
Join us on Wednesday, January 15, 2025
at 2:00 pm US Eastern, 11:00 am US Pacific
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About Jamie
Jamie LaRue is the director of the Garfield County (Colorado) Public Library District. Author of "The New Inquisition: Understanding and Managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges," LaRue has been a public library director for many years, as well as a weekly newspaper columnist and cable TV host.
From January of 2016 to November of 2018, he was director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, and ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. He has written, spoken, and consulted extensively on intellectual freedom issues, leadership and organizational development, community engagement, and the future of libraries.
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Learn strategies for coming together to provide coordinated responses to pressing community needs.