CE MIG Agenda 6-30-13 Annual 2013

Libraries Foster Civic Engagement Membership Initiative Group

 Sunday, June 30, 2013, at 10:30 am, McCormick Place S504d.

AGENDA

1. Promise of Libraries Transforming Communities
2. Creating Community Solutions National Dialogue on Mental Health and other Forums
3. News from around the Country

Come and bring your colleagues!  This meeting is open to all and is enriched by a diversity of experiences and voices.

Related meetings and programs of note:

• Friday 6/28, 1:00-3:30pm  – The Friday Conversation – Gun Violence: Community Voices and Library Responses  — McCormick Place S105a-c, with CM Winters Palacio (moderator), Felicia Shakespeare, Keshia Garnett.

• Saturday 6/29, 8:30-10:00am – The Promise of Libraries Transforming Communities: A Presidential Initiative Update – McCormick Place S105a-c (with Maureen Sullivan and Rich Harwood, plus)

• Saturday 6/29. 1:00-2:30pm – Community Engagement Conversation: Advancing Library-led Community Engagement – Hyatt Regency McCormick Grant Park 12A-D,, led by Carlton Sears and Cheryl Gorman

• Sunday, 6/30, 1:00-2:30pm – EMIERT Immigrant Civic Engagement: An IMLS National Leadership Demonstration Project.  Hartford (CT) Public Library civic engagement efforts with the Welcoming America program– McCormick Place N138

Also note:

• Saturday June 29 and running through Monday July 1:  8:30-10:00am, 10:30-noon, 1:00-2:30pm, 3:00-4:30pm.–  Series of community conversations with ALA members.  Join the conversation–contact Mary Ghikas <mghikas@ala.org>

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
2.  Click on “View All Lists”
3. Scroll down to “deliberate@ala.org“
4. Click on “Subscribe” 

Meet with colleagues at the ALA Libraries Foster Civic Engagement Membership Initiative Group (MIG) at ALA conferences

Subscribe to Programming Librarian: http://www.programminglibrarian.org/newsletter_signup.html#.TywteyNaNqE

Fill out the Libraries and Civic Engagement survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LibraryCivicEngagement

View our Libraries and Civic Engagement Geo Map: http://batchgeo.com/map/4776ad2baf99af04000fa4e647599df0

Learn to convene and moderate deliberative forums at:   http://www.programminglibrarian.org/civic-engagement.html#.UHMc5vl279o

–Nancy Kranich