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PROGRAMS AND EVENTS:
The Marvelous Middle: Finding ways to Grow and Thrive in Middle Management - August 30*
Climate Action Planning (Part 2): Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience - September 26*
Law on the Frontlines: Legal Reference for Public Libraries – Fall 2023
Library Administrators EDI Summit - SAVE THE DATE - November 8*
RESOURCES, PUBLICATIONS AND NEWS:
Rural Library Network E-Summit Accepting Proposals - Applications Due September 7*
Maryland New Start Grant Program - Workforce Development & Adult Learning - Deadline Extended - September 15*
Pathways to Success: Professional Development for Skilled New Americans library cohort - Application Due September 22*
OCLC/WebJunction Resources
Reminder of Topics in the Previous Digest:
The Marvelous Middle: Finding ways to Grow and Thrive in Middle Management - August 30*
Wednesday, August 30; 2 -3 p.m.
From the American Library Association (ALA) Core Continuing Education Committee:
Do you ever feel stuck in the middle? You might have manager in your title, but it has assistant before it, and often you can’t actually make decisions. Many people dread middle management. Instead of just surviving being a middle manager learn how to grow, thrive, and spread influence in your role. Come for a candid discussion with three middle managers while they discuss their roles, their struggles, and strategies they use to develop staff and gain influence in their organization.
Our panel features three middle managers with different titles, responsibilities, experience and time on the job. We will discuss ways we have worked to improve our own organizations as well as other opportunities we created as middle managers.
Library workers considering management roles and current middle managers. Management and director-level library workers may also find this session helpful and engaging in learning how to better support middle managers they supervise.
Registration fees for webinar: Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10; Non-member $79.00
Learn more and register here.
Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please contact Core CE staff at corece@ala.org.
Climate Action Planning (Part 2): Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience - September 26*
Tuesday, September 26; 2 - 3:30 p.m.
This panel discussion will feature practitioners with deep experience in preparing both their libraries, and their communities, for the impacts of climate change. Our panel will speak to traditional disaster preparedness, business continuity planning, community resilience work, and preparing communities for severe weather events and the increased likelihood of food supply interruptions. While libraries are not first responders, they should be connected with the emergency management community and be positioned as part of both the short-term and long-term “first restorer” network as disruptions amplified by climate change happen with more frequency.
Learn more and register here.
Library Administrators EDI Summit - SAVE THE DATE - November 8*
On behalf of the Maryland Libraries EDI Committee, you are invited to a Library Administrators EDI Summit "From Ideas to Action" on November 8, 2023. Directors, Assistant Directors, Chiefs and other decision makers at libraries of all types in Maryland are invited to attend this day of sharing best practices and collaborative strategizing. Topics were curated as a result of director and staff needs assessment surveys conducted in 2022.
Please contact co-chairs Kelsey Hughes and Lu Bangura with questions.
Rural Library Network E-Summit Accepting Proposals - Applications Due September 7*
Follow this link to fill out the proposal form for the following opportunity.
Maryland New Start Grant Program - Workforce Development & Adult Learning - Deadline Extended - September 15*
For Marylanders transitioning back to the community from incarceration, employment and financial security are two important steps on the journey home. Entrepreneurship is a powerful tool that can help returning citizens find both, while also creating new jobs and new opportunities across the state.
The Maryland New Start Act of 2022 established the New Start Grant Program within the Maryland Department of Labor (MD Labor). This program works to empower returning citizens by connecting them to meaningful entrepreneurship development training. As a component of training, students will also be made aware of different small business financing opportunities, including the Maryland Department of Commerce’s Microloan Program, which is expected to launch in early 2024. For additional information about those loans, please visit Commerce's website.
The New Start Grant Program provides financial support for organizations which serve certain populations of returning citizens and incarcerated Marylanders with nationally recognized entrepreneurship development programming. Grants, which are capped at $60,000. Successful applicants will have one year to spend funding. Interested applicants must respond to a competitive solicitation and meet all requirements established in the program policy.
Applying for a New Start Grant
Organizations which meet the basic eligibility criteria established in the program policy are invited to respond to the competitive solicitation for funding. New Start Grants may be used to support a number of programmatic and administrative costs. In order to be considered for funding, programs must generally provide eligible participants with at least the following opportunities:
- A nationally recognized entrepreneurship development curriculum,
- Executive mentoring opportunities with local business leaders,
- A business plan competition program for incarcerated participants, and
- Re-entry services.
Applicants must also be able to demonstrate that their proposed program has secured at least 25% of the requested award amount from non-State sources, including indirect and in-kind contributions.
Learn more and apply here.
Law on the Frontlines: Legal Reference for Public Libraries – Fall 2023
As a specialized area of knowledge and resources, law and legal reference can be a challenging area for providers of general reference. Frontlines: Legal Reference for Public Libraries, enables and empowers public library staff across Maryland to provide quality legal reference in their local communities, ensuring that the law is accessible to every Marylander who needs it.
The 2023 Fall session begins in September with the Basics and will be followed with topical sessions on Family Law, Consumer Law, and Legal Forms. Frontlines topics help develop recognition of law topics through terminology, resources, and referrals specifically related to that topic.
There will be a follow-up Lab session for each topic. Lab sessions provide an opportunity for learners to work collaboratively with law librarians to investigate real-world resources. Attendees are invited to provide legal reference questions in advance or bring a question to the session. The Lab participants will choose which questions to learn from; law librarian facilitators demonstrate gathering information and referrals to address each question.
For each completed training, a Certificate of Completion indicating Contact hours will be provided.
Frontlines sessions address:
- The role of public libraries in advancing Access to Justice
- Best Practices for legal reference interviews
- Legal resources in a variety of subjects
- Basics on the structure of law
- Recognizing the difference between information and advice
- Where to refer forward
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 9-10am, Frontlines Lab: Focus on Family Law This Lab is a follow-up to the Family Law topical session held on October 4, 2023. As a high degree of participation will be expected of attendees, it is strongly recommended that attendees have viewed or attended a Basics session in addition to the Family Law topical session prior to coming to the Lab.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 9-10am, Frontlines Lab: Focus on Consumer Law This Lab is a follow-up to the Consumer Law topical session held on November 8, 2023. As a high degree of participation will be expected of attendees, it is strongly recommended that attendees have viewed or attended a Basics session in addition to the Consumer Law topical session prior to coming to the Lab.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 9-10am, Frontlines Lab: Focus on Forms This Lab is a follow-up to the Session on Legal Forms held on December 5, 2023. Attendees are invited to provide legal reference questions in advance or bring a question to the session. As a high degree of participation will be expected of attendees, it is strongly recommended that attendees have viewed or attended a Basics session in addition to the Legal Forms session prior to coming to the Lab.
Brought to Maryland's public libraries through a partnership of the Thurgood Marshall State Library, the Maryland Access to Justice Commission, and the Conference of Maryland Court Law Library Directors.
Pathways to Success: Professional Development for Skilled New Americans library cohort - Application Due September 22*
Would your library like to join Howard County Library System’s Pathways to Success: Professional Development for Skilled New Americans library cohort? Pathways to Success mitigates unemployment and underemployment by expanding services customized for skilled immigrants. The secondary goal of the program is to train other libraries to adapt this model (or parts thereof) to start their own program serving New Americans in their communities.
If your library is located in a diverse community, Pathways to Success is an opportunity for you to improve services for that community. More information and how to apply can be found here.
OCLC/WebJunction Resources
Sustainability 101: As we think about the future of our libraries and how we, as library leaders, help to make a difference in the lives of our neighbors, we must confront the realities of climate change. No corner of the world will be left untouched by climate change. The 2019 report of the Lancet Countdown, a widely respected publication in the medical community, noted that “The life of every child born today will be profoundly affected by climate change. Without accelerated intervention, this new era will come to define the health of people at every stage of their lives.” This article is part of the series of resources and webinars created by the Sustainable Libraries Initiative team, in collaboration with WebJunction, to support libraries in creating a more sustainable future.
Tackling Children’s Food Insecurity with Community Partners: The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) in Little Rock, Arkansas, adopted a strategic plan in 2019 to help identify and eliminate barriers faced by people throughout the communities they served. The City of Little Rock had been simultaneously exploring grant opportunities to help feed underserved children in the local area. CALS, in partnership with city directors, the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, won a National League of Cities grant to initiate the project. Together, they partnered with vendors and feeding site sponsors to supply lunch to those who qualify, and the program expanded from there.
Media and Information Literacy: Resources that Address Misinformation: At a time when the concept of truth is frequently being challenged, media and information literacy enables people to question critically what they have read, heard, and learned. Media and information literacy includes having the knowledge, skills, and confidence to search, evaluate, use, and contribute information and media content.
- Maryland State Archive's Virtual Lunch & Learn - August 10*
- Stories Beyond Borders: Championing Chinese American Stories -Aug 17*
- Civic Engagement for Racial Justice in Public Libraries (RJ@PL) Strategic Planning - August 31*
- A Place for Everyone: Improving Library Accessibility for Disabled Patrons and Staff - September 14*
- Service Members, Veterans, and Families (SMVF) Fall Reconvene - October 26*
- Project Enable Speaker Series (December 2023-April 2024) - Save the Date!
- Save the Date - LibLearnX in Baltimore - January 19-22*
- Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services (ABOS) Survey
- Newly Awarded IMLS Discretionary Grants to State Libraries and Partners
- Navigating the Transition Years: A Handbook for Families of Young Adults with Mental Health Needs
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Summer Newsletter Now Available
- OVERDUE Podcast: Weeding Out Oppression in Libraries
- Earn Your Consumer Health Information Specialization for Free
- Maryland Libraries in the News
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