Connecting Academic and Public Libraries for Future POC in LIS: Discussion of a Partnership Between the Los Angeles Public Library and Loyola Marymount University\u27s William H. Hannon Library

At the inaugural 2018 POC in LIS Summit, Jené Brown (LAPL Principal Librarian, Engagement & Outreach) and Ray Andrade (LMU Student Engagement Librarian) crossed paths and learned about their respective institutions\u27 outreach initiatives. Ray learned about LAPL\u27s Diversity and Inclusion Apprenticeship (DAIA) program to support LAPL library staff and high school and college students interested in librarianship, and Jené learned about LMU Library Outreach programs such as tours, orientations, and Careers in Academic Librarianship panels. The following summer (2019) they joined forces for a summer program featuring a back-to-back LMU Library Tour and Careers in Academic Librarianship panel, and in 2020 they successfully transitioned both events to an online format - including a live, virtual 360° LMU Library Tour. Based on survey results and participant feedback, this partnership between a public and academic library has been a success! For anyone interested in learning about LAPL’s DAIA program and/or how to partner with LMU’s library for similar ventures (or how to leverage 360° technology for virtual tours) this roundtable discussion is for you

CLA Ursula Meyer Advocacy Fund Training: Diversity/Equity/Inclusion/Justice for Library Advocacy

Description: Diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice remain critically important elements of our library advocacy efforts; they also are interwoven themes with which we struggle within our organizations and within the communities we serve. This highly-interactive, discussion-focused session, featuring a panel of library advocates, will explore the hopes and challenges that drive advocacy, unconscious bias, and ways to be effective in fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Goals: By participating in this session, you will explore ways to incorporate positive action into your work as a library advocate committed to diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice; identify and find ways to decrease unconscious bias within yourself, your peers, and members of the communities you serve; and identify actions you and your partners in advocacy can immediately begin taking to increase diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice within the communities you serve. During the session, you will identify: - At least three examples of what advocates within libraries are doing to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice within their communities so you can adapt them to your own situation - An approach you can incorporate into your work to reduce unconscious bias which is interfering with your ability to support diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice through your advocacy efforts - At least one step you will take within the week following the session to foster diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice within your organization and/or the community you serv