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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">WebJunction content and upcoming webinars – October 25, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<h2><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/disaster-preparedness-community-resilience.html"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Climate Action Planning requires attention in three main areas: mitigation, adaptation, and climate justice. Climate mitigation, or the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,
was addressed in our previous article, $B!H(BGetting Started with Climate Action Planning.$B!I(B The next area, adaptation, requires strategies that enable personal, institutional, and community-wide preparation and adjustment in the face of the likely impacts of climate
change on our local geography. We can no longer simply focus on our hopes that efforts will reduce the impacts of climate change on the future. Even if we did everything right to reduce GHG emissions in the next seven years, we will still experience increasingly
severe weather patterns, heat waves, and systemic impacts on food systems, flood plains, and sea levels for the next three decades. Confronting the reality of the damage that has been done to the climate and having a realistic idea of what the local impacts
of climate change is an essential component to future-proofing your library.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<h2><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/webjunction-arsl-2023.html"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">WebJunction at the Association for Rural & Small Libraries Conference</span></b></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">:
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">It$B!G(Bs no secret that the Association for Rural & Small Libraries (ARSL) annual conference is one of our favorite conferences. WebJunction staff have been attending the
conference since 2006, and we$B!G(Bre grateful to have been able to partner with ARSL on numerous projects and events over the years. Three members of our team had the opportunity to travel to this year$B!G(Bs conference, hosted in Wichita, Kansas in September. Read
about the Inaugural ARSL Award Winners and our session on $B!H(BLibraries as Social Connectors.$B!I(B<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<h2><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/advancing-ideas-inclusion-diversity-equity-accessibility-24-october-2023/"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 24 October 2023</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">This is the latest
<i>Hanging Together</i> blog post, part of <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">a regular </span></em></span><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/tag/IDEA/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">series</span></a><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> on
issues of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility, compiled by a team of OCLC contributors.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">WebJunction Webinars</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0in;mso-add-space:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">These upcoming webinars are open for registration. If you can$B!G(Bt attend a live session, all WebJunction webinars are recorded and available
for free in the </span><a href="https://learn.webjunction.org/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Course Catalog</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Let$B!G(Bs Talk Race: Community Healing through Conversation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Tuesday, November 14, 2023
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;mso-ligatures:none">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> 2:00 pm Eastern / 11:00 am Pacific
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;mso-ligatures:none">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> 60 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Registration:
</span><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/lets-talk-race.html"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/lets-talk-race.html</span></a>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Library communities around the country are seeing rising levels of division, distrust, and segregation. Recognizing the need for community healing, library staff at the Richland Library in South
Carolina formed the Let$B!G(Bs Talk Race team to explore strategies for deepening community connections and engagement. Since 2016, the Let$B!G(Bs Talk Race team has facilitated more than 250 in-person or online discussions, community forums, and events, reaching more
than 4,000 participants, and creating opportunities for civic engagement, community connections, and courageous conversations. Earlier this year, the Richland Library launched the open-source
</span><a href="https://www.richlandlibrary.com/lets-talk-race-curriculum" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Let$B!G(Bs Talk Race Curriculum</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, providing
a set of easy-to-follow resources for other libraries, museums, and related organizations to implement with their local communities. The curriculum includes facilitation best practices, conversation guides, videos, and more. The curriculum provides a learning
pathway to help get started, build facilitation skills, and create conversation guides to hold your own circles of dialog.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Living Our Values Out Loud: Programs that Walk the Talk<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Tuesday, November 28, 2023
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;mso-ligatures:none">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> 2:00 pm Eastern / 11:00 am Pacific
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;mso-ligatures:none">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> 60 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Registration:
</span><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/living-our-values-out-loud.html"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/living-our-values-out-loud.html</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From zero-waste events to upcycling to refreshments, how we choose to carry out our work in libraries says a lot about our values. We can$B!G(Bt just pay lip service to sustainability—we need to practice
what we$B!G(Bre talking about! This webinar will be an inspiring discussion with a panel of practitioners who have found ways to design, implement, and evaluate library programs using frameworks that better represent their libraries' values, such as the triple
bottom line definition of sustainability and the United Nations$B!G(B Sustainable Development Goals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Stronger Together: Collective Impact and Climate Action Programming<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Wednesday, December 13, 2023
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;mso-ligatures:none">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> 2:00 pm Eastern / 11:00 am Pacific
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;mso-ligatures:none">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> 90 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Registration:
</span><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/collective-impact-climate-action.html"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/collective-impact-climate-action.html</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Libraries are catalysts and conveners for climate action in our communities. This webinar will feature practitioners who are having a collective impact through collaborations with others in the
community, to address the pressing challenges related to climate change. Join these practitioners to hear practical ideas for how to ensure that good intentions have a positive impact on our communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="mso-ligatures:none">This program is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5;mso-ligatures:none">Cathy Lancaster</span></b><span style="color:#2E74B5;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Youth Services Coordinator</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Lansing, MI 48915</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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