Partnerships & collaboration
When the library builds partnerships, it strengthens the ties to its community, shares resources, and builds positive relationships with diverse stakeholders. Reaching out to initiate community partnerships begins with identifying both traditional and non-traditional partners and exploring new ways to work together. Effective collaborations are sustained through a shared commitment to serving the ever-changing needs of the community.
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Most Recently Added
Living Our Values Out Loud: Programs that Walk the Talk
Publish Date: Webinar / 28 November 2023
This webinar with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative features practitioners who have found ways to design, implement, and evaluate programs using frameworks that better represent their library’s values.
Let’s Talk Race: Community Healing through Conversation
Publish Date: Webinar / 14 November 2023
Richland Library launched the open-source Let’s Talk Race Curriculum, providing a set of easy-to-follow resources for other organizations to implement locally to deepen community connections.
Climate Justice
Publish Date: News / 14 November 2023
While everyone is affected by climate change, the impacts of climate change are not evenly distributed. That’s why it’s so crucial to consider the social and economic impact of our environmental choices in our responses to climate change. This articl...
Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience
Publish Date: News / 24 October 2023
Climate Action Planning requires attention in three main areas: mitigation, adaptation, and climate justice.
Building Community Relationships for Better Library Services
Publish Date: Webinar / 24 October 2023
Explore strategies for finding community partners and building relationships with them with the goal of truly working in collaboration with people they serve.
New Courses for Library, Archive, and Museum Staff
Publish Date: News / 3 October 2023
Library, archive, and museum staff face similar challenges when it comes to responding to a crisis, de-escalating conflict, and addressing burnout. Four new on-demand courses provide staff in cultural heritage institutions with information and tools ...
Climate Justice
Publish Date: Webinar / 3 October 2023
This webinar with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative will explore the disproportional impacts of climate change on systematically oppressed communities.
Climate Action Planning (Part 2): Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience
Publish Date: Webinar / 26 September 2023
This webinar with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative features library and partner organizations on how they have prepared both libraries and communities for the impacts of climate change.
Bridgebuilding: Fostering Community Engagement and Dialogue
Publish Date: Webinar / 14 September 2023
Learn about the free tools in the Bridgebuilding Resource Hub and hear from public library staff who have offered bridgebuilding programs for deeper engagement with their communities.
Getting Started with Climate Action Planning
Publish Date: News / 12 September 2023
The Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI) provides library leaders with a proven path forward to co-create libraries and communities that will thrive in the coming years. As we contend with the realities of climate change, we must act faster, with m...
Community engagement
Where do you go for inspiration? Invigorate your community engagement efforts with advice from library leaders.