Class Recordings

Yoga, Social Justice, Redefining Body Image and Personal Power (Session 2)

Yoga, Social Justice, Redefining Body Image and Personal Power:
In this series you'll learn how to deconstruct the values, norms, and perceptions that guide the current western view of yoga, beauty and success. We will explore these poignant topics through in-depth, open forum discussions, practical hands-on asana labs, and interactive yoga practices.

The sessions will be lead by Dianne Bondy, a social justice activist, author, accessible yoga teacher, and the leader of the Yoga For All movement. …
Date: February 16, 2022

Grants and Proposal Writing

Grants and Proposal Writing is a 1-hour live webinar worth 1 MLA Continuing Education credit. Designed for beginning grant proposal writers interested in NNLM funding, this class presents a general overview of grant and funding processes, as well as the level of detail required for a successful proposal.

Each component of the grant writing process will be addressed, including:

• Documenting the need
• Identifying the target population
• Writing measurable objectives
• Developing a work plan
• An evaluation plan
• A…
  Date: February 10, 2022

Yoga, Social Justice, Redefining Body Image and Personal Power (Session 1)

Yoga, Social Justice, Redefining Body Image and Personal Power:
In this series you'll learn how to deconstruct the values, norms, and perceptions that guide the current western view of yoga, beauty and success. We will explore these poignant topics through in-depth, open forum discussions, practical hands-on asana labs, and interactive yoga practices.

The sessions will be lead by Dianne Bondy, a social justice activist, author, accessible yoga teacher, and the leader of the Yoga For All movement. …
Date: February 9, 2022

Making the Most Out of Your Grant Application

Applying for a grant can be stressful and intimidating at times.  This webinar is designed to demystify the grant application process. From understanding the parts of the grant to completing the details of the budget, this webinar provides all information needed to prepare clear goals, objectives, a competitive project proposal. Participants will learn where to find available funding, important documents to include in the proposal, where to go for data to support the proposal, how the application is scored, and post-award reporting requirements.…
Date: January 11, 2022

Library responses to COVID-19: Impacts on ongoing low-morale experiences

As the COVID-19 Pandemic develops and libraries create immediate, short-term, and long-term responses, Kendrick has been tracking these responses’ impact on already established low-morale experiences. Kendrick will summarize the markers and impacts of low-morale experiences, share the latest results of her survey, and answer attendees’ questions about the survey and/or low morale experiences. Countermeasures to workplace abuse and neglect will also be discussed. Presenter Kaetrena Davis Kendrick earned her MSLS from the historic Clark Atlanta University School of Library and Information…
Date: June 11, 2020

Putting the Self back in Self-Care: Wellness in the time of COVID-19

Whether you are working remotely or within the library building, COVID-19 has changed the way we work and live. In a profession where the desire to serve the public often subsumes the needs of library workers, our panelists will share strategies for self-care as well as tips for overcoming challenges related to (re)creating a work-life balance that can be done for free, remotely or in the building.   Panelists Amanda M. Leftwich (she/her/hers) is currently the Online Learning Librarian & Faculty Diversity Fellow at Montgomery County Community College. Leftwich has a Master of Science…
Date: April 28, 2020

Leading with Compassion during the COVID-19 Crisis

Leading is hard. Global pandemics are harder still. Leading during a global pandemic is not only hard, but it is also traumatic, upending and confusing with competing priorities, community needs, personal values and more. Let’s spend time learning together. Library leaders will join us to discuss how they are leading with compassion. Learn how they are making decisions, what is influencing them and the challenges they have experienced along the way. Participate with your questions and ideas – we are all in this together.   Panelists Beth Gallaway is the director at the Grafton (MA) Public…
Date: April 22, 2020

What Works for Health? Using County Health Rankings and Roadmaps in Grant Writing

This session will provide an overview of What Works for Health, a resource from County Health Rankings and Roadmaps (CHRR), a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. What Works for Health rates the evidence of a broad range of strategies (i.e., policies, programs, systems & environmental changes) that can affect health through changes to: health behaviors; clinical care; social and environmental factors; and the physical environment. Our Guest speaker from the National Network of Public Health…
Date: February 19, 2020