Click on the link for a list of civic engagement organizations and their websites, revised 1/31/12 by Nancy Kranich.
Civic Engagement Websites/Links REVISED
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Monthly Archives: January 2012
JOIN the Conversation at ALA, Dallas, January 21, 22, 2012
The Conversation Begins Here…
ALA Midwinter Meeting, January 19-23, 2012
World Café Conversations with Professor David Lankes
- Communities We Serve (Saturday, January 21, 1:00 – 3:00, Dallas Convention Center Room A1). Continue the conversation at: http://connect.ala.org/node/164466
- Transforming the Library Profession (Sunday, January 22, 1:00 – 3:00, DCC Room A1) Continue the conversation at: http://connect.ala.org/node/164467
ALA President’s Program Speaker, Richard Harwood of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation (Sunday, January 22, 3:30, DCC Theater)
Libraries Foster Civic Engagement Membership Initiative Group (Sunday, January 22, 11:00 – 12:30, DCC D169)
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Continue the Conversation…
In your community:
- Deliberative Forums: How to Convene and Moderate – A free webinar presented by the ALA Center for Civic Life and ProgrammingLibrarian.org on Tuesday, February 28, 4 pm EST. More information: www.programminglibrarian.org
- Make Your Library a Community Leader: Community Building through Civic Dialogue - A preconference to be held at the PLA National Conference, March 13-14, 2012. More information: www.placonference.org
- Civic Reflection Builds Community Connections: A Program Model for Libraries – A preconference to be held at the ALA Annual Conference, June 21-22, 2012. More information: www.alaannual.org
With your peers:
- “Who Do I Trust to Protect My Privacy?” Deliberative Dialogue and Moderator Training, IFRT/ALA Center for Civic Life Preconference, ALA 2012 Anaheim, Thursday, June 21, 1 – 5 pm, Convention Center.
- ALA Center for Civic Life Blog – http://discuss.ala.org/civicengagement/
- Libraries Foster Civic Engagement – http://connect.ala.org/node/64933
- ALA’s Civic Engagement listserv: deliberate@ala.org – To subscribe, visit lists.ala.org.
- Libraries and Civic Engagement survey – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LibraryCivicEngagement
- www.programminglibrarian.org – Online resources for making your library the center for civic and cultural life in your community.
ALA Libraries Foster Civic Engagement Membership Initiative Group, Meeting, DALLAS, January 22, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, DCC D169
Libraries Foster Civic Engagement Membership Initiative Group
Sunday, January 22, 2012, 11:00 – 12:30 pm
2012 ALA Midwinter Conference – Dallas, TX
Dallas Convention Center. Room D169
AGENDA
- The IMLS Strategic Plan and Civic Engagement, Guest: Susan Hildreth, IMLS Director
- Libraries as Conversation Catalysts
- Harwood Institute Public Innovator’s Lab
- Public Insight Network LibrariUS
- National Conference on Citizenship Civic Health Initiative Partnerships
- Training Opportunities, Civic Reflection and Deliberative Dialogue, Privacy Pre-conference ALA Annual
- NIFI Online and Face to Face Dialogue Opportunities
- Civic Engagement Activities Around the Country
- Other
(Send Suggestions to Nancy Kranich nancy.kranich@rutgers.edu)
Join Us. Bring Your Colleagues
Follow the ALA Center for Civic Life Blog: http://discuss.ala.org/civicengagement/
ALA Connect: http://connect.ala.org/node/64933
Subscribe to ALA’s Civic Engagement listserv:
1. Go to: http://lists.ala.org/wws, and click on “View All Lists”
3. Scroll down to deliberate@ala.org and click on “Subscribe”
Libraries Foster Civic Engagement Membership Initiative Group
Fill out the Libraries and Civic Engagement survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LibraryCivicEngagement