If you’re attending the California Library Association Annual Conference on October 17-19, 2024, in Pasadena, take advantage of the plentiful CALL offerings! Learn more from the conference schedule.
It’s Supersession Thursday for CALL on October 17. We hope to see you at the Pasadena Convention Center for one or more of these terrific trainings.
Meet members of the first Catalyst leadership cohort in a morning session, Community-Driven Libraries: Exploring Co-Design with Catalyst Leaders. Imagine a library where community members are active partners in designing the services they use– where their voices are heard, valued, and integrated into the very fabric of library offerings. If this vision excites you, then join this interactive program that will explore the power of co-design to transform library services, enhance equity, and alleviate the burden on library workers to have all the answers.
Be Sensitive, Be Brave for Mental Health (BSBB for MH) training, which is offered in the morning and again in the afternoon, infuses culture and diversity throughout a foundational workshop on mental health and mental health conditions. This workshop prepares community members to help friends and loved ones of all ages during times of mental health distress. This session is offered as a preview for library staff interested in becoming BSBB for MH trainers, or in offering BSBB for MH at their libraries.
In the afternoon, CALL is sponsoring New Library Directors Jump Start designed for public library directors who want a safe session for discussion and a behind-the-scenes look with experienced colleagues.
CALL favorite Beth Wahler offers a morning supersession on Caring for Ourselves and One Another: Supporting Sustainable Practice for Library Staff. Explore new strategies for caring for yourself in the face of stress as well as caring for colleagues and contributing to a healthy, psychologically safe workplace. Wahler follows up with an afternoon supersession on Effective Library Leadership Strategies for Reducing Staff Stress and Trauma, designed for participants who are in supervisory or management positions in their libraries.
There’s much more from other State Library-supported projects, too.
- The Building Equity-Based Summers team brings a full-day workshop (no conference registration required) on Equitable Summers: Reimagining Long-Held Traditions & Your Library’s Summer “Why.”
- California Library Literacy Services offers two morning sessions on Supporting English Language Learners and Family Literacy Overview: Promising Practices and Ideas for California Library Literacy Services, plus an afternoon session on A Trauma-Informed Approach to Adult Literacy Services: 25+ Social-Emotional Learning Strategies to Empower Your Transformational Learners.
- The community-centered libraries project provides a morning supersession on Meeting Mental Health Needs of Your Community Through Culturally Inclusive Community Engagement.
- In the afternoon, the Sustainable California Libraries project offers 2024-2025 LSTA Grantee Super Session: A Collaborative Workshop, where you can meet and learn from successful state-funded grant projects from the past year.