How to Build a Library Culture of Belonging

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Online Course
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Program Description

Event Details

Two-week course & workshop | Live sessions on September 17 & September 24, 2024

Time Commitment: Approximately 9 hours

Transform your library culture and services by learning how to build and maintain a people-centered culture of belonging. 

Through this course, you’ll learn about the concrete actions library experts are taking to help cultivate belonging in their libraries. You will also be guided through sensitivity training to help better equip you to serve your local community with cultural humility and compassion.

You will leave this two-week online course with tools and resources that will help you understand and redistribute power dynamics, center people and relationships, and increase accessibility for everyone in your library.

The live sessions run on Tuesdays, Sept. 17 and 24, 2024 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PST (recorded for on demand viewing) with an asynchronous workshop over 2 weeks. Don’t miss this opportunity!

Course Features 

This will be a 2-week online course and will include:

  • Live sessions: Guest speaker presentations by leaders in their field. (All sessions are recorded for on demand access for six months after the course ends.) 

  • Facilitated discussions: Audience participation in Q&A and discussion with guest speakers.

  • Interactive working sessions: Optional breakout groups during live sessions to practice skills with peers.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • Online Classroom: The virtual learning platform that holds all course content and is accessible for six months after the course ends. 

 

Course Presenter

Christina Fuller-Gregory, Assistant Director of Libraries, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville

 

 

CALL Training Partner for this Event: Library Journal

*Please note that access information for this learning event will be sent by Library Journal, the provider of this learning event, shortly before the start date.

 

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.