Program Type:
Online CourseProgram Description
Event Details
Three-week Course | January 30 - February 13, 2025
Time Commitment: approximately 15 hours
Learn to create library collections that are inclusive and reflect a diverse range of people, stories, and experiences.
Create library collections that are inclusive and reflect a diverse range of people, stories, and experiences by learning how to conduct a diversity audit and ensure representation across lived experiences.
Library collections must be diverse and inclusive, offering windows into and reflections of the vast array of people, stories and experiences that make up our world. In this course, you’ll learn from live session recordings from an outstanding group of experts as they explore key concepts essential to cultivating and promoting inclusive and equitable collections. In the three-week workshop, you’ll conduct a diversity and inclusion audit of your collections, and hear from your group facilitator about ways to include wider perspectives from and about LGBTQIA+ people, Black, indigenous, and people of color, and historically underrepresented ethnicities, cultures, and religions. You’ll learn how to ensure that your collections are more reflective of the diversity of your community and the larger world.
This is an on-demand course made up of recorded instructional presentations plus an instructor-led asynchronous workshop over three weeks (with all materials accessible for six months). The workshop includes written feedback on assignments from an expert, as well as peer-to-peer interaction via discussion forum. Don’t miss this opportunity!
Course Features
This is an on-demand course made up of recorded instructional presentations plus an instructor-led asynchronous workshop over three weeks. The workshop includes written feedback on assignments from an expert, as well as peer-to-peer interaction via discussion forum.
This will be an on-demand online course and will include:
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Recorded sessions: Guest speaker presentations by leaders in their field. (All session recordings have on-demand access for six months.)
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Asynchronous workshop: Project-based weekly assignments to connect what you’re learning to your professional life. Includes written feedback from an expert in the field who functions as the workshop facilitator, as well as peer conversation via discussion forums.
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Early access on-demand resources: Access to a series of past live session archives from Library Journal and School Library Journal courses to explore at your own pace.
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Online Classroom: The virtual learning platform that holds all course content and is accessible for six months after the course ends.
*Note: You do not have to complete the asynchronous work during these three weeks; it will be open to you for six months. However, the feedback from facilitators will only be available from January 30 - February 13.
Expected time commitment
If you attend or watch the recordings of all live sessions and participate fully in the asynchronous workshop, you'll spend approximately 2-4 hours per week on this course. You'll earn 15 hours of PD credit and a Library Journal certificate of completion.
CALL Training Partner for this Event: Library Journal
Additional Information
Enrollment Statement
I understand that a space will be reserved for me in this learning opportunity at a cost to CALL, and if I am unable to attend this learning opportunity, I will cancel my enrollment as soon as possible and before the start date.