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Information Outreach in Your Community
By Donna DiMichele | August 26, 2019
Getting Started with Information Outreach in Your Community: An Introduction
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine is offering a free interactive online class that will provide a background in cultural competence and outreach skills to support librarians as they make outreach efforts to underserved, underrepresented minority populations in their community. The goal of the course is to offer concrete ideas to enable librarians to initiate outreach programs with these populations. Topics to be covered include:
- locating community demographics,
- the importance of developing relationships,
- the basics of building and developing community-based partnerships,
- recognition and acceptance of cultural differences, and
- the importance of cultural competency.
Some basic concepts of program planning and evaluation within a culturally diverse environment will be covered. Participants will engage in group discussions to explore models for developing their own programs.
September 12, 2019 2:00PM – 3:00PM ET
This program complements the Office of Library and Information Services objective of supporting equity, diversity and inclusion in RI libraries.
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