Learn how to use Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) combined with a justice, equity and inclusion lens to help libraries reflect and embrace diversity.  The panel will discuss the difference between cultural competence and cultural humility; who libraries are missing with their services, outreach, and management structure; and what pragmatic tools might be used to fill […]

Middlebury Library User Experience and Digital Scholarship Librarian Leanne Galletly will discuss the library’s six-month collaboration between library staff, college communications staff, and information technology services staff to completely redesign the library’s website. Although the new site launched in summer 2019, it will, by design, never be finished. Galletly will describe the phased approach to […]

Libraries are part of a unique moment in history, working to unite broad technology adoption, readily-available technical training, and widespread use of the internet, while supporting open and equitable access. Robert Cartolano and James English believe open standards and open source initiatives, like SimplyE, New York Public Library’s free, open-source e-reader app, allow all involved […]

Sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council in partnership with the Vermont Department of Libraries, with funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, Partnerships for Literacy and Learning, the Vermont Library Association, and the Vermont School Library Association.  Register for this free event at An Evening with Angie Thomas Registration. You do not need […]

As members of the Racial Equity Alliance of Lamoille (REAL) schools committee, Emily Nielsen and Amy Olsen will share the format created for using the book “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds as a community read.   Project details will include touchstones for respectful listening, themes for a close-read format, […]

From repair cafes to seed libraries, time exchanges to craft supply swaps, Vermont libraries can be the vanguard of promoting sustainability. Come learn what different libraries are doing, and how to incorporate these ideas into your own community.  Presented by Windsor Public Library Director Barbara Ball, Charlotte Public Library Director Margaret Woodruff, Carpenter-Carse Library Director […]

Paul Costello, executive director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development, will discuss the Vermont Proposition initiative to develop transformational goals designed to optimize the best of Vermont’s economy, environment, communities, and people. A VLA Conference event. More info here!

The University of Vermont’s Silver Special Collections Library transcription team will describe the project they undertook while working remotely during the pandemic. Using the 20th century diaries of Mary Jean Simpson, UVM Dean of Women from 1937 to 1953, they will discuss how they crafted the project guidelines, developed a shared workflow, and planned to make the […]

Lara Keenan, Vermont Department of Libraries’ statewide consultant for Governance and Management, invites you to reconsider the traditional view of strategic planning and see it as a process of meaningful community engagement that can energize the board and staff. Join her for a discussion of how COVID-19 has changed thoughts on the future of libraries […]