Sustainably Grow Your Summer Library Program

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Looking for ways to keep your summer library program (SLP) energized and relevant? This webinar will help you rework your programming in accordance with ALA’s sustainability guidelines, bringing environmentally sound, economically feasible, and socially equitable policies to your library. Learn tips and strategies to actualize a sustainability mindset and ways the unique characteristics of your community can transform your SLP endeavors and bring resilience, potential, and change to your community. Then apply this knowledge and a wealth of ideas on nature-based programming, sustainably-minded incentive strategies, innovative community collaborations, and beyond to develop a program that will fit into your upcoming SLP plan.

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand sustainability as a core library value and its impact on their summer learning program (SLP) strategy;
• Evaluate the unique characteristics and possibilities of their location to determine innovative programming possibilities and partnerships; and
• Create a sustainable summer program plan rooted in their community’s needs to help ensure their SLP thrives now and in the future.

Who Should Attend

This webinar is intended for public library staff working in youth services.

Panelists

Dawn Tevis (she/her) holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MLS in place-based literary nonfiction from the University of Minnesota. She serves as youth services coordinator for La Crosse County (WI) Library’s five locations. Dawn is a member of the Sustainable Library Initiative and the ALA Sustainability Round Table’s Public Advocacy and Awareness Committee. A Minnesota Master Naturalist, she participated in the 2022 Creative Community Leadership Institute cohort and regularly leads programs designed to foster connection between participants and the natural world.

Important Registration Information

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Accommodations

This live webinar will be captioned in English (United States). Zoom desktop client or mobile app is required to access captions.

Attendees using screen readers are advised to turn off speech prior to joining the Zoom event because PLA webinars make extensive use of chat functionality. Attendees who find chat distracting may wish to disable it in the Zoom event, as PLA moderators will verbally highlight important topics raised in chat and chat transcripts will be provided post-webinar.

If you have a physical or communication need that may affect your participation in this webinar, please contact us at plawebinars@ala.org or 800-545-2433 ext. 5PLA (5752) at least two weeks prior to the webinar. Without prior notification of need, we may not be able to provide appropriate accommodations for the live event.

Archived Recording

If you're unable to attend this live webinar, an archived recording will be available to all registrants typically within 1–3 business of the live event. Access to closed captions will be provided in the webinar recording.

Tech Requirements

This webinar will be presented using the Zoom platform. Please review Zoom technical requirements and support information, and test your connection.

Once you've joined the webinar, there are two ways to connect your audio: via computer (VoIP) or via telephone. No microphone is required. PLA works with its webinar platform provider to assure the highest quality audio is being delivered to attendees. However, variables over which PLA has no control—such as the speed of your Internet connection or traffic on your local network—can affect the end quality of the webinar audio delivered by your computer. Each webinar’s audio is also available by telephone via a toll number, so we recommend you have access to a long-distance enabled phone as a backup in case you experience audio issues with VoIP. If you do encounter any problems during the webinar, you will receive a link to its archived recording within a week of the live event and can review anything you missed.

Contact

This webinar is presented by the Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Questions about this webinar? Please contact us at plawebinars@ala.org or 800-545-2433 ext. 5PLA (5752).