Building Community: Strategies for  Coming Together

Respond to Community Needs

Jamie LaRue shares strategies for coming together to provide coordinated responses to pressing community needs.

For some time now, many communities have been grappling with political division and conflict. How can the library be a more positive and unifying influence?

Part of the solution is "turning outward"- the shift in librarianship that sees our services as part of a web of social assets to provide coordinated responses to pressing community needs. But to make this real we need to build narratives founded on human story, on evidence, and a deliberate frame of both individual and social value.

Join Jamie LaRue to learn strategies for coming together with community.  By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to

* Articulate library services in a "community building" framework.

* Describe a low-cost process for gathering community wisdom.

* Build protocols that help frame public meetings and services around a larger framework of shared values.

* Demonstrate civic courage and institutional purpose.