(via the American Library Association)
In this free webinar, “Living Room Conversations: Connecting Your Library Community Through Conversation”, participants will learn why it is important for libraries to be hubs for dialogue and strategies for implementing community conversations in all library types and sizes.
Living Room Conversations are a simple, easy, and effective way to bring your community together through community conversations and civic dialogue programming. Living Room Conversations offers a plug-and-play library program that allows both small and rural as well as large and urban libraries to hold community conversations on a wide range of topics. This webinar will guide participants through the Living Room Conversations dialogue model and offer examples of how libraries across the country have brought their communities together to engage in thoughtful, respectful, and transformative conversations.
When: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 1:00 PM CDT
REGISTER NOW: here
In this webinar, attendees will:
- Learn how to access free dialogue resources, including conversation guides on over 160 topics
- Be introduced to the Living Room Conversations dialogue model and plug-and-play library program
- Explore how to deepen their library’s role as an inclusive and engaging community center
- Learn techniques for launching community conversations at your library
This webinar will be presented online via Zoom. Closed captions will be enabled during the presentation, and we will email a copy of the slide deck to all registered attendees 24 hours before the presentation. The chat transcript and recording will be provided to all attendees within 48 hours of the webinar. If you need other reasonable accommodations, please reach out to us via email at publicprograms@ala.org by February 13, 2024. Requests made after that date may not be able to be accommodated.