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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 – July 10, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/creating-community-led-library.html"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Creating a community-led library: Loveland Public Library's u-lab initiative in action</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
Libraries are increasingly turning to community-led approaches to ensure that their services and resources meet local needs effectively. This process involves actively including community members in decision-making processes, but the path to getting there
can look different from library to library. We spoke with Loveland Public Library (Colorado) Director Amy Phillips to learn more about how her library is using a method called u-lab to guide their efforts to better understand community needs and align them
with planned outreach efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/library-guide-civic-engagement.html"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Library guide to civic engagement: Tools and strategies for voter education</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">Many people already turn to libraries as sources of trusted information ahead of elections, and organizations like the American Libraries Association and the League of Women Voters
are hoping to expand those numbers. We$B!G(Bve curated a selection of resources, tools, and ideas to help inform your library$B!G(Bs approach to this important work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/advancing-ideas-inclusion-diversity-equity-accessibility-9-july-2024/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 9 July 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$B!G(Bt attend a live session, all WebJunction webinars are recorded and available
for free in the </span><a href="https://learn.webjunction.org/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Course Catalog</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cultural humility in library work<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wednesday, July 17, 2024
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">$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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<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>
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