Project READY (Reimagining Equity and Access for Diverse Youth) is an online racial equity curriculum freely accessible for libraries at ready.web.unc.edu.
The curriculum consists of 27 modules, organized into three sequential sections:
Foundations focuses on basic...
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Prioritizing Accessibility and Disability Inclusion at Your Library: Putting a focus on accessibility helps create a library that can be enjoyed by more people and can connect more people to the information and resources they need. Opportunities...
The Northeast, Wilkes-Barre and Pottsville Library Districts will be presenting RA for All: Diversity & Inclusion through Reader’s Advisory workshop featuring Becky Spratford of RA for All (http://raforall.blogspot.com/). Spratford will present 4 modules detailed below –...
A partnership between Library Journal and the Gerald M. Kline Family Foundation has created the Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize. Learn more and apply by August 1, 2019.
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Great Stories Club Grants on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation
Learn about the American Library Association’s Great Stories Club series on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT), a thematic reading and discussion program that engages underserved teens...
2019-21 TRL Application Announcement
Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC) invites public libraries to apply to be part of a special two-year Teen Reading Lounge project with the goals of increasing participation of youth ages 12 -18 in quality humanities experiences and increasing...
InfoPeople is offering the following FREE webinars:
Creating A Crisis Communications Plan That Works –Presented by Kim Thursday,
March 27, 2019 @ 3pm EST
In world with a 24-hour news cycle, libraries must be ready to communicate quickly about any crisis that may impact their...
InfoPeople is offering the following FREE webinars:
Balancing Books and Social Issues: Homelessness and Trauma
Date: Wednesday February 6, 2019
Presented by Elissa Hardy
With numerous budget cuts to social services programs, public libraries are encountering more individuals experiencing...
The NASIG Diversity and Inclusion Award is open to members of an unrepresented group in the NASIG community who are in a position of a professional nature with primary responsibilities for some aspect of information resource management (e.g., serials and/or e-resources acquisitions,...
