Breakout Block 1 Sessions

Sunday, March 9, 2024 - 12:50 – 2:20pm

  • Intellectual Freedom - Train the Trainer
    • Presenter(s): Ashley Fletcher

    • Description: Are you ready to refresh your front-line staff on intellectual freedom foundations? Presenters will break down IF topics and empower you to teach the hows and whys of this vital library practice to your staff and volunteers, in addition to gaining new expertise yourself. The first half of the session will be informative and the second half will involve practice communication/role-play.

  • ACE Interface: Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences and Building a Self-Healing Community

    • Presenter(s): Jessica Herzog-Hall

    • Description: In this session, we will discuss the importance of the neurobiology of trauma, and sensitive areas of thebrain during development. We will dive deeper into the original ACE study withimportant findings, how we help foster resilience, and the steps tobuilding a self-healing community. The ACE Interface presentation helps us understand that trauma affects all of us. In that commonality, we can join together as a community and feel empowered in our journey to healing.

  • Teen Advisory Boards from Start to Finish: Engaging Youth to Be the Future Voices for our Professions

    • Presenter(s): Rachel Milburn

    • Description: This presentations will share tips on the starting a Teen Advisory Board from start to finish, including what we did to make our program desirable to local youth. The program will be begin with a complete T.A.B. Marketing/Program Plan and press releases that will be shared with participants to take home and edit for their own library. Our program was picked up by local press on many occasions, including our T.A.B. speaking on the radio to promote their own programs. Next, I will describe how we gathered applications, interviewed participants, and held T.A.B. initiation ceremonies. A sample script for initiation ceremonies will also be shared. I will describe what our T.A.B. teams did, their advocacy, and the culmination of our T.A.B. members aging to become Library employees, going on to Library School, and winning our Friends' Volunteer of the Year Award.

  • 40+ Ways to Spark a Love of Reading

    • Presenter(s): Shannon Anderson

    • Description: Reading for pleasure leads to improved reading comprehension, writing skills, vocabulary development, spelling, and grammar usage, but how do we instill a love for reading for the sake of reading? How do we get kids excited about the actual act of experiencing stories and texts? Learn how to Implement dozens of strategies that inspire kids to read. Walk away with ideas for momentum-building activities to help kids see themselves as readers. And lastly, discover opportunities for kids to get free access to books and reading mentors.