On-Demand Webinar was held on Wednesday, March 16, 2022
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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:
At 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
· 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.
Tech Requirements
Core Webinars are held in Zoom. Speakers or a headset for listening to the presentation are required. You may interact with the presenter and ask questions through text-based chat. Closed captioning is available in the Zoom platform. The webcast will be recorded and the link to the recording shared with registrants shortly after the live event.
Contact
If you have a question or need to make arrangements for special assistance or additional accessibility, please contact Tom Ferren (tferren@ala.org).
