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Makerspace Next Steps: New Ideas and Strategies for Community Engagement, a full-day workshop designed for staff from libraries of all types who have already developed makerspace strategies and programming. Registration is open!

Makerspace Next Steps: New Ideas and Strategies for Community Engagement

Date & Location: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM at the Monroe Township Public Library (Middlesex County)

Audience: Staff from all library types who are actively involved in directing the initiatives of their library’s makerspace. Libraries are welcome to send up to two participants.

Cost: $25 per participant

Space is strictly limited to 50 participants. We’ll be happy to put you on a waitlist, but register early to secure your spot!

Workshop Description:
Join colleagues facilitating makerspaces in libraries of all types from around the state for a day of collaboration, reflection, and idea development to bring your space and community connections to the next level. We’ll meet at the Monroe Township Public Library to network, develop strategies for community partnerships, reflect, and build a community of practice.

Learning Objectives:
By participating in this workshop, you’ll be able to:

  • Implement new strategies, tools, and initiatives learned from other libraries and gain ideas for potential partnerships and connections to your service community.
  • Articulate the value of library makerspaces to both your community and management team.
  • Reflect with clarity on challenges, successes, and outcomes of your library’s makerspace experiences to date.
  • Build a statewide community of practice among fellow library makerspace managers.

Presented by P'unk Ave

 


Webinar Archives: Learn At Your Leisure!

We know attending live webinars isn’t always possible, so we archive them all for your convenience. No login or registration necessary - just click and learn when it’s convenient for you.

Making Makerspaces More Welcoming, presented by Casey McCoy, San Jose Public Library

You can look forward to learning how to:

  • Identify needs and assets of underrepresented populations in your communities
  • Implement plans and policies to create a welcoming space for girls and people of color to "make"
  • Initiate ongoing reflections and dialogue with staff, community leaders and participants

Fresh Lit: Crossovers & Crossunders in Middle Grade & YA, presented by Sarah Bean Thompson, Springfield-Greene County Public Library System

Fresh Lit: Crossovers & Crossunders in Middle Grade & YA

You can look forward to learning how to:

  • Develop talking points for current, backlist and forthcoming middle grade and YA titles in a variety of genres to use in readers’ advisory and booktalks
  • Identify and share great older titles to use in simple reader's advisory for middle grade readers
  • Discuss current trends in middle grade fiction and nonfiction
  • Identify and share young adult titles suitable for middle grade

Keep It Social, Stupid! Social Media Strategy Real Talk, presented by Maryann James-Daley, DC Public Library

You can look forward to learning how to:

  • Create a strategic document for your library’s social spaces
  • Audit tools to increase employee social productivity and monitor user engagement
  • Create a framework for keeping up on social posts during absences, emergencies and times of low staffing
  • Establish a rubric for branching out into new social spaces – and determining which to ditch