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Core webinar: Reaching People in Juvenile Detention Centers
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2022
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.
This is the final session in a four-part series regarding Technology
Description: This presentation considers an underserved population that has likely been further left behind during the pandemic–young people in juvenile detention centers. In a collaboration between two public libraries serving very different communities in the same county—a county with numerous juvenile detention facilities—the librarians identified the opportunity to provide programming for these young people in person prior to the pandemic and to re-imagine and redesign the programming for a virtual format. The project provides the opportunity for the librarians to tailor programming, combining technology, team building, problem solving, reading and writing for individuals in a particularly isolated setting.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this webinar, attendees will gain:
- enhanced understanding of the young people in juvenile detention centers, who disproportionately experience negative outcomes educationally and otherwise;
- increased awareness of one example of the use of virtual programming to foster engagement and learning among a group of young people, who experience a particular level of isolation and other challenges; and
- expanded familiarity with one educational model that uses technology, selected reading and writing content and examples, and customized, hands-on activities to foster engagement and learning.
Who should attend?
Anyone with an interest in the topic can benefit from this session and is welcome to participate.
Presenters:
Mark Winston is the Executive Director of the J. Lewis Crozer Library, in Chester, Pennsylvania. He has spent most of his career in library management and university faculty positions. His library and academic affairs roles have included the positions of Development Officer and Head of Adult Services, Engagement Officer, Assistant University Librarian, and Assistant Chancellor and Library Director, as well as full-time teaching faculty member. He has also served as a leadership, organizational development, and diversity consultant and trainer, working with a range of academic, corporate, and public sector client organizations. His research and publications, focusing on various aspects of leadership, diversity, ethics, access to information, and economic inequality, have included three books and more than forty authored or co-authored journal articles and book chapters.
Mary Gazdik has over 25 years of experience providing library services to the community. She is the Director of the Middletown Free Library in Media, PA. Mary founded the library’s makerspace, CreateSpace@MFL in 2013, to provide hands-on creative learning experiences to children and teens. She has published two books on maker learning in libraries and is a frequent speaker at conferences and Maker Faires. Mary’s library experience includes work at a Teen and Children’s Librarian at the New York Public Library and Free Library of Philadelphia. She received her Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Minnesota and her Master of Library Science from Rutgers University School of Communication and Information. She has received two Best Practices Awards from the Pennsylvania Library Association’s Youth Services Division for her Minecraft in Real Life Club and TechniGals Summer STEAM Camp.
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Registration Fees:
Registration fees for single webinar: Core Member $57.67; ALA-member $71; Non-member $79
Registration fees for 4-webinar series: Core Member $174.47; ALA-member $215.10; Non-member $239
For additional information and access to registration links, see:
https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=249
Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.
If you have a question or need to make arrangements for special assistance or additional accessibility, please contact Tom Ferren (tferren@ala.org).
Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.
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Julene Jones
Director of Library Assessment and Organizational Effectiveness
University of Kentucky
julene.jones@uky.edu------------------------------