You know your library could do more to connect with and respond to the systematically excluded communities you serve. But if you're starting with little or no existing connection, how do you build authentic, trust-based relationships? How do you go beyond transactional interactions and guessing at services to effective engagement and participation? This webinar will help you develop a plan for identifying, reaching, and building relationships with communities experiencing oppression.

As a result of this webinar, you will be able to:

• Articulate the connection between relationship-building and equity, diversity, inclusion and social justice (EDISJ) in library services
• Create, maintain, and utilize a simple asset map to understand your community's ecosystem
• Apply the principles of asset-based community development to your own projects

Presented by:

• Dr. Audrey Barbakoff, CEO of Co/Lab Capacity, and co-author, The Twelve Steps to a Community-Led Library
• Amita Lonial, Deputy Director, Tacoma Public Library
• Mia Henry, Founder and CEO, Freedom Lifted

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• View Webinar Recording (You will be prompted to login to our free Course Catalog.)

Webinar Attachments

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• View chat (xls)
• View captions (txt)
• Learner Guide (doc) Use alone or with others to extend your learning.
  

Related Resources and Links

• Also register for the February 27 webinar, Co-Creating Library Services for Transformative Impact
• Recent articles by Audrey Barbakoff
  
• OCLC Next blog, Co-create authentically with your community
• WebJunction article, Easy as ABCD: Using Asset-Based Community Development as a Lens for Authentic Relationship-Building
  
• WebJunction article, Align Library Services with Community Aspirations
  
• Co/Lab Capacity
• The Twelve Steps to a Community-Led Library, by Audrey Barbakoff and Noah Lenstra
• Other WebJunction webinars with Dr Barbakoff
• Growing Digital Equity Through Community Partnerships
• Taking Community Partnerships to the Next Level
• Beyond Book Groups: Fun Library Programs for Adult Readers
• Community Archives Center at Tacoma Public Library
  
• Community Archives Toolkit (pdf), Tacoma Public Library
• Archives in Context Podcast, on the Community Archives Center Toolkit
• What is Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) (pdf), Collaborative for Neighborhood Transformation
  
• The Community Tool Box, University of Kansas
• Justice at Work in Public Libraries, a course offered by Freedom Uplifted
• Additinal links shared in chat
• Example of social services offered at library: Open Window Hub
• Resources for helping unhoused patrons, WebJunction
• Native Stories, Native Peoples: Opportunities for Library Engagement, WebJunction webinar
  
• Building Equity Based Summers