RUSA Virtual Forum

Missed the 2025 RUSA Virtual Forum "Meeting Users' Needs (EDIA)?!?!

Purchase the recordings from the 2025 RUSA Virtual Forum "Meeting Users' Needs (EDIA)". The Forum offered an economical, virtual venue to learn about reference and user services and was open to ALL librarians and library workers. 

The Forum Theme is: Meeting Users' Needs (EDIA)

Libraries serve changing and dynamic user groups that often have intersecting needs. By acknowledging these different user groups, we can better provide for our patrons and our library communities. Whether you are working with a neurodivergent student to find research for an assignment, or are interacting with a patron who is struggling to navigate technology, or you are aware that spaces in the library could be more welcoming to different groups of users - librarians work constantly to change or adapt to meet our patrons where they are. But we often do not always know how to serve these groups.

Hear presentations from our sections and interest groups that address how to meet a variety of users' needs, with a particular focus on meeting user needs under equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.

Session Titles: 

Evolving Library Services: A Holistic Approach to Patron Support and Well-being

Genealogy Research for African Americans and Asian Americans: Tools and Strategies to Support Family History Researchers

Partnering with Professors: Expanding one-off class instruction with custom course videos

Informal Learning and Community Building through Library Outreach

Helping Diver Users with Financial Literacy Resources

and More!

This virtual event is for all types of library works in reference, user services, adult readers advisory and collection development as well as resource sharing, genealogy and archives, business reference and reference technology. The Virtual Forum is open to non RUSA and ALA members as well