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<p><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/empowering-informed-communities.html"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Empowering informed communities: Resources for building community trust around information</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
Public libraries are uniquely positioned to help their patrons navigate information-related challenges. To do this, library workers need research-based resources and tools on information literacy and misinformation. WebJunction is partnering with researchers
at the University of Washington$B!G(Bs Center for an Informed Public to offer public libraries up-to-date information literacy resources, sustainable professional development, and tools to refine, expand, and assess these resources and practices for their staff.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/seasonal-selections-book-display-roundup.html"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Seasonal selections: Summer reading list and book display roundup</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">:
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Libraries in the northern hemisphere are diving into a vibrant season of summer reading, and we want to spotlight some of your creative book displays, reading lists, and other reading
initiatives. Check out how other libraries are commemorating Audiobook Appreciation Month, Juneteenth, Pride Month, the anniversary of D-Day, and more events—and creating fun and whimsical themed displays to help their communities get excited about reading.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/advancing-ideas-inclusion-diversity-equity-accessibility-25-june-2024/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 25 June 2024</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">:
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"> on
issues of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility, compiled by a team of OCLC contributors.
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<p><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>
<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">Why do we fall for misinformation?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wednesday, July 10, 2024
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> 3:00 pm Eastern / 12:00 pm Pacific
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> 60 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/why-do-we-fall-for-misinformation.html"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/why-do-we-fall-for-misinformation.html</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From falling for cheap fakes to trusting the credibility of AI-generated references, we can all be vulnerable to online misinformation. In this webinar, learn about several research-based strategies
that can supplement and expand on your existing information literacy approaches with patrons. Researchers from the University of Washington$B!G(Bs
</span><a href="https://www.cip.uw.edu/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Center for an Informed Public</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (CIP) will unpack how online information environments influence what we see and believe
online. Come explore opportunities to increase capacity for public library staff and community members to address and navigate problematic information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cultural humility in library work<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wednesday, July 17, 2024
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> 3:00 pm Eastern / 12:00 pm Pacific
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> 60 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/cultural-humility-in-library-work.html"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/cultural-humility-in-library-work.html</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cultural humility offers a renewing and transformative framework for navigating interpersonal interactions in libraries, whether between patrons and staff or staff members with one another. But
what is cultural humility, and what does it look like in practice? Join the editors of
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hopeful visions, practical actions: Cultural humility in library work</span></em>, (ALA Editions 2023) as they define and explore the concept of cultural humility, its strengths and limitations, and strategies
for applying more inclusive practices to library customer service, policies, and collection development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Work It Out @ Your Library with the Wombats!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thursday, August 8, 2024
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> 3:00 pm Eastern / 12:00 pm Pacific
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> 60 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/work-it-out-wombats.html"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/work-it-out-wombats.html</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This webinar will introduce you to
</span><a href="https://www.wgbh.org/foundation/gbh-education/early-learning/work-it-out-your-library"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Work It Out @ Your Library!</span></i></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> a new program for
families in your community, built around </span><a href="https://pbskids.org/wombats"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Work it Out Wombats!</span></i><em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">,</span></em></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
a national PBS KIDS television series for 4- to 6-year-olds. Through hands-on activities, library storytime sessions, animated videos, and a family app, this flexible program helps library staff guide families through the exploration of computational thinking.
Computational thinking is a creative way of solving problems in more organized ways. When children make believe they're running a restaurant, they explore
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">sequencing</span></em> by figuring out the steps for serving a customer a meal. When they play with blocks to make a castle, they can practice the
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">design</span></em> process by creating, testing, and improving the structure. Library staff are uniquely suited to promote this learning with their library families. The webinar will cover why computational thinking
skills are important for young children, how the free resources have been used to run fun and engaging programs in libraries, and how you can, too.<b><o:p></o:p></b></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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