*Cross posted to multiple lists*
Core webinar: Community Connection for Health Information Access
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 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 second session in a three-part series regarding Access and Equity
Description: Service is at the heart of community outreach and engagement. “Community” can take many different forms, from the public to non-profit organizations and others. It takes special skill and knowledge to effectively build relationships and partnership with community organizations and individuals in order to serve them. It takes additional skill and knowledge to lead teams engaged in these activities. The experience of health science librarians can serve as an example of knowledge and skills needed in serving the community through outreach and engagement. The experience of health science libraries offers insight that leaders in any organization can learn from.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Define leadership skills needed for person-centered community engagement in their own words;
- Explain processes and best practices for community engagement; and
- Identify one or more areas in which they can implement person-centered leadership concepts into their community engagement work.
Who should attend?
Anyone with an interest in the topic can benefit from this session and is welcome to participate.
Presenters:
Martha Meacham is the Project Director of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) (https://nnlm.gov/), which is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Previously, Martha was the Associate Director of the NNLM New England Region (NNLM NER). She has also managed two VA Medical Center libraries, worked with Association of American Medical Colleges, and was involved with patient education at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Martha is passionate about and has done research in the areas of library advocacy, marketing, and leadership development. Martha has a B.S. in psychology and was a mental health counselor before going on to earn a Master of Library and Information Science and a Master of Arts in History from Simmons College. Martha is currently a PhD candidate at Simmons University.
Tess Wilson, MLIS, MFA, is Program Manager of the Network of the National Library of Medicine's Training and Education Center, housed at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a librarian who loves talking loudly about digital literacy, equitable access, and citizen science. Most recently, she was a co-author of an ALA United for Libraries Action Planner and contributed a chapter to ACRL's forthcoming Data Literacy Cookbook.
Tony Nguyen, MLIS, AHIP, is the Executive Director at the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) in the Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Tony oversees the planning, implementation, management, and evaluation of the overall regional medical library program, office operations, and identifies regional opportunities, partnerships, and collaborations to support NLM priorities and NNLM initiatives.
Abby Mann spent over a decade as a professor of English before seeing the light and returning to UNC-CH for her MLIS. As a librarian, she can continue the foundational work she did in teaching information literacy at the general education level, but do so in ways that think about cross-campus initiatives and lifelong outcomes for learners. She is currently the Online Learning Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University, where she focuses on both creating online learning objects and helping faculty envision and design digital scholarship projects for pedagogical purposes.
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Registration Fees:
Registration fees for single webinar: Core Member $57.67; ALA-member $71; Non-member $79
Registration fees for 3-webinar series: Core Member $139; ALA-member $170; Non-member $189
For additional information and access to registration links, see:
https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=245
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------------------------------