[Michlib-l] WebJunction content and upcoming webinars

[Lancaster, Cathy (MDE)]

WebJunction content and upcoming webinars - July 24, 2024



Highlighted Content

A Community-Centered Approach to Digital Collections<https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/community-centered-approach-digital-collections.html> As you develop digital collections that share and preserve local history, culture, stories, and artifacts, it’s important to pause and take stock of narratives that might have been left out of the popular stories in your community. To best represent the many community voices and narratives in your digital collections, you’ll need to build and sustain respectful relationships that focus on mutual support and trust. This course describes approaches that have proven successful for other libraries, archives, and museums, and illuminates a path forward to build collections that center the voices of many different communities. Whether you’re brand-new to digital collections or ready to further your learning, this course can support your efforts to collaborate with your community as you build your collections. Read this article to learn more, and visit the Course Catalog<https://learn.webjunction.org/course/view.php?id=769> to enroll in the course.

Social Library goes wild: Library wildlife education programs<https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/social-library-goes-wild.html> For this edition of the Social Library, we’re exploring how libraries are bringing nature indoors for their community members through wildlife education programs. Through hands-on activities, expert talks, and interactive displays, libraries are helping inspire curiosity and appreciation for the animals that share our environment.

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 23 July 2024<https://hangingtogether.org/advancing-ideas-inclusion-diversity-equity-accessibility-23-july-2024/> This is the latest Hanging Together blog post, part of a regular series<https://hangingtogether.org/tag/IDEA/> on issues of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility, compiled by a team of OCLC contributors.

WebJunction Webinars

This upcoming webinar is open for registration. If you can’t attend a live session, all WebJunction webinars are recorded and available for free in the Course Catalog<https://learn.webjunction.org/>.

Work It Out @ Your Library with the Wombats!
Thursday, August 8, 2024 ◆ 3:00 pm Eastern / 12:00 pm Pacific ◆ 60 minutes
Registration: https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/work-it-out-wombats.html
This webinar will introduce you to Work It Out @ Your Library!<https://www.wgbh.org/foundation/gbh-education/early-learning/work-it-out-your-library> a new program for families in your community, built around Work it Out Wombats!,<https://pbskids.org/wombats> a national PBS KIDS television series for 4- to 6-year-olds. Through hands-on activities, library storytime sessions, animated videos, and a family app, this flexible program helps library staff guide families through the exploration of computational thinking. Computational thinking is a creative way of solving problems in more organized ways. When children make believe they're running a restaurant, they explore sequencing by figuring out the steps for serving a customer a meal. When they play with blocks to make a castle, they can practice the design process by creating, testing, and improving the structure. Library staff are uniquely suited to promote this learning with their library families. The webinar will cover why computational thinking skills are important for young children, how the free resources have been used to run fun and engaging programs in libraries, and how you can, too.

This program is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Thank you,
Cathy Lancaster
Youth Services Coordinator
Library of Michigan
702 W. Kalamazoo St.
Lansing, MI 48915
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