If you would like to add something to this calendar, something open to the public, please email Barbara Ball at barbara@windsorlibrary.org

VT Humanities: The Many Meanings of Maple

Description: A Vermont Humanities Council series hosted by the Hartland Public Library (Windsor County.) This presentation examines the many meanings of maple sugaring. Maple is enormously important to Vermont’s economy, ecology, and heritage. Champlain College professor Michael Lange will discuss sugaring ethnographically, based on over five years of research among sugarmakers all over the state, […]

VSLA/VLA Joint Conference: Be the Place: Libraries are for Everyone!

Save the date! The Vermont School Library Association and the Vermont Library Association are pleased to announce their joint sponsorship of a one-day conference at Doubletree by Hilton in South Burlington on April 3, 2023.  Presentations may include: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Equitable access to library services/resources Programming Activities for patrons Reaching new patrons Engaging […]

[Zoom] Fashion Production: Where Do Our Clothes Come From?

Part 1 of a 3-part webinar series on sustainable fashion and textiles. The global fashion industry is a system of production processes creating clothing, a human need.  To understand how fashion production operates is essential to seeing the scope and complexity of the problems.  In the first of the series of webinars, we will learn how […]

Free

 [Zoom] Sustainable Fashion Innovations

Zoom

Part 2 of a 3-part webinar series on sustainable fashion and textiles. Sustainable fashion, or eco-fashion, is the movement towards more "responsible" methods throughout apparel production, consumption and more. This follow up webinar will highlight sustainable solutions to combat fashion's unethical practices.  We will learn what being more "responsible" means for all the affected stakeholders. As […]

[Zoom] Clothing is Agriculture: Hemp Fiber Production in the Northeast

Zoom

Part 3 of a 3-part webinar series on sustainable fashion and textiles. There is so much ingenuity built in to fiber technology of the past that sometimes it starts to look like poetry. A far cry from the visuals of polluted rivers and toxic workplaces elicited by the Global Fast Fashion Crisis we find ourselves in […]

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VLA Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Vermont Library Association will be held on Wednesday, June 7th at 1pm via Zoom (a link will be sent out closer to the date). The purpose of this meeting is to provide a forum for sections to meet and hold their annual elections for leadership.  In addition, all members will […]