{"id":15986,"date":"2017-06-24T14:54:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T18:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=15986"},"modified":"2017-06-25T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T13:32:00","slug":"alaac2017-libraries-transform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/alaac2017-libraries-transform\/","title":{"rendered":"#alaac2017 Libraries Transform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My session on Libraries Transforming Communities was insightful and helped me learn a few tips to became a facilitator to promote change on an issue your community might need help. <!--more-->For example, you can ask yoursel: are your older preschoolers attending Storytimes kindergarten ready? Is your collection satisfying your community&#8217;s needs and reaching users? Is access to food compromising students&#8217; achievement and ability to learn? And more importantly, should you as a librarian have a role in looking for solutions to these and other similar issues? Libraries Transform invite us to make a difference in our communities, but gathering input from our community members on how we can help make this difference might be difficult. Here you have a few tips to start your process.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plan ahead and select a topic that might interest your community and present it to community organizations. Explain outcomes and ways to achieve these outcomes. Remember to ask for their participation.<\/li>\n<li>Ask for staff support. You would like to have a Recorder. You need somebody taking notes and documenting your sessions.<\/li>\n<li>Invite community members to a multi session gathering (meet once a week for a couple of weeks) to discuss this topic of interest.<\/li>\n<li>Be intentional inclusive (everyone is welcome)<\/li>\n<li>Learn what people are interested in discussing.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure the role of your organization matches the change you are seeking and adapt your resources to those needs.<\/li>\n<li>As a Facilitator, let your community drive the process, if they are not on board with change, it will not happen.<\/li>\n<li>Have listening ears to capture the information.<\/li>\n<li>Keep neutrality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My session on Libraries Transforming Communities was insightful and helped me learn a few tips to became a facilitator to promote change on an issue your community might need help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[913,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2017","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}