Library Challenges & Opportunities 2009

Teleconferences and DVDs for library professionals

Information Literacy for Life

Friday, November 21, 2008 - Noon to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time

Mary Evangeliste, Director of User Services & Outreach at Gettysburg College and co-founder of Fearless Future: Marketing & Design for things that matter, will bring together three librarians from three very different institutions and backgrounds to explore how school librarians, public librarians, and academic librarians can collaborate to create comprehensive information literacy programs that span a user’s lifetime. You’ll get the foundation for starting a local dialogue based on national principles. Mary will be joined by Alex Hodges, Assistant Director of Library Instruction at American University in Washington; Niketha McKenzie, School Librarian at the Thurgood Marshall Academy, a public charter high school in Washington, DC; and Roshin Mathew, a master’s student at University of Maryland’s iSchool and a teacher of information literacy to older adults through the public library as well as undergraduates at UM’s Freshman Writing Program.

Diversity Beyond the Obvious

Friday, April 3, 2009 - Noon to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time

Mary Evangeliste, Director of User Services & Outreach at Gettysburg College and co-founder of Fearless Future: Marketing & Design for things that matter, brings together two distinguished scholars of diversity in libraries to present their recent research and to engage in a lively conversation with you on the topic. We will discuss how diversity in all its manifestations can make the library profession stronger and more vital.

Our panel will investigate and discuss the following questions:

How can we recruit and retain diverse librarians?
How can we create inclusive library environments in which all types of employees and learners feel welcome and involved?
How do we foster an environment within our profession to include representatives of all of our constituencies?
How do our practices in libraries reflect the diverse nature of our communities?

Mary will be joined by Dr. Teresa Y. Neely, Associate Professor and Director, Access Services, University Libraries, University of New Mexico and Dr. Karen E. Downing, the Foundation and Grants Librarian at the University of Michigan. Please join us for in-depth discussion on the benefits of diversity in libraries.

Library Challenges and Opportunities 2008

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