This webinar will give you tools to address concerns, dispel myths, and show the benefits that comics and graphic novels bring to classrooms and libraries.
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Learn how to ensure that your library is a welcoming place for all customers with sensory needs.
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With concrete goals and plans for collection diversity audit data, it can help create inclusive public library collections.
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How can cultural intelligence shape library policies, services, and programs to bridge cultural gaps? (2nd in a series)
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Understand how a trauma-informed service philosophy can reduce harm for library staff and patrons (3rd in a series).
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Hear how one library created an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access roadmap with engagement across the organization.
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Brave Voices, Brave Choices is a public promise to learn, grow, and act to create the reality we want for all people.
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Identify best practices to create and maintain a BIPOC library workers’ affinity group that empowers members.
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Learn to define cultural intelligence and the impacts of holding different values from majority culture.
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Positioning library values--equity, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom--at the center of the academic program benefits all learners.
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What training and preparation does your Board of Trustees need to be prepared for a crisis? Learn how to be proactive in developing a well-prepared board, and what best practices, policies, and procedures need to be developed or revisited.
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Learn best practices for providing safe, appropriate, compassionate outreach services based on healthy boundaries.
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Learn to identify opportunities for authentically collaborative community partnerships focused on local history.
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The presenters share ways they have implemented change in their library spaces and will engage participants in critical discussions and reflection about how we can further improve our practices to achieve social justice within our sphere of influence.
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Hear the process, results, and learnings from Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Public Library’s first diversity audit of YA materials.
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These two webinars will help you function effectively across national, ethnic, and organizational cultural boundaries.
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Curating a school library collection extends beyond selecting popular titles, and the roles that school librarians fill have evolved well past maintaining materials. Explore all the aspects of the Curate Shared Foundation in the National School Library S
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Learn to identify potential barriers to library use in your community and how to develop policy solutions.
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Examine how to build and safeguard LGBTQ+-inclusive collections, instruction, and spaces using AASL’s resource guide, Defending Intellectual Freedom: LGBTQ+ Materials in School Libraries.
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In this on-demand webinar, learn best practices for providing disability services. Be guided through the process to create or expand these services in your library, for all ages and for any budget. Also learn about assistive technology options, and how to advocate with your administration and staff for inclusion of these services.
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Learn how to best serve patrons with disabilities by understanding their community, culture, and needs.
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Learn about strategies to empower institutions and communities historically marginalized, underserved, and underrepresented.
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Presenters provide an overview of the consequences of implicit bias and the impact of microaggressions and outline strategies for addressing specific actions that may create uncomfortable spaces for black, indigenous, and people of color.
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This session focuses on the collaborative efforts to bring authentic conversations about current issues directly relating to underrepresented student populations into the classroom.
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This session will provide proven tips and tools on how to make your library a welcoming place and an information hub for Newcomer students.
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Do your apps, social media, and website make your library less inviting to visitors with limited abilities? Technology Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
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This virtual training series includes examples of library services for incarcerated people and people who are previously incarcerated.
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Talking about issues related to racial justice is difficult in today's political climate. Given the uptick of reported incidents of racism that students of color are experiencing in schools, alongside recent developments with state laws, educational policies and instructional practices connected to anti-racism and equity, this webinar will focus on children's literature that supports racial literacy development.
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Learn how to start serving formerly incarcerated patrons from the staff of Tacoma Public Library.
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How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive
We know why diversity is important, but how do we drive real change at work? Diversity and inclusion expert Jennifer Brown, author of author of How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive, provides a step-by-step guide for the personal and emotional journey we must undertake to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
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