Building Successful Collaborations with Communities: Collective Impact

Program Type:

Webinar

Event Details

 

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Two-week course | March 31 - April 11, 2025

This 2-week online course describes the essential elements of Collective Impact approach to community engagement, based on design theory.

This online course is part of the "Building Successful Collaborations with Communities" series, which addresses four topics in community engagement:

  1. Community-Based Librarianship
  2. Asset-Based Community Development
  3. Collective Impact  (i.e., this course)
  4. Grassroots Librarianship

The series integrates concepts of community engagement with application tools for practicing librarians. Community engagement begins with librarians themselves as members of the community having ownership and vested interest in its success. The community defines the library. The library is the backbone infrastructure to engage community members and agencies for desired changes. Participants will learn to use tools of appreciative inquiry and Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) with the goal to facilitate positive changes in the local community.

Objectives:

  1. To conduct environmental scans for the desired change
  2. To construct a framework for a community proposal

Presenter:

The course is led by Dr. Ling Hwey Jeng, Director of the Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Studies.

This content is provided by the National Library of Medicine. You will need to create a free account to access the training.

 

Referral: National Library of Medicine