Connect with fellow library workers and social services providers for meaningful discussions about the unique challenges libraries face in offering social services in public libraries.

Event Highlights
• Best Practices: Have fun with a solutions-oriented activity to pair and share real life experiences facing libraries
• Peer Learning: Learn from library and social services peers about their best practices and gain practical tips.
• Networking Round Tables: Learn from and establish communication with local social service agencies.

Peer Learning will feature David Perez, bilingual Library Social Worker at the Long Branch Free Public Library and the first social worker hired by a public library in New Jersey.

Date: Friday, September 27, 2024
Time: 10 AM - 2 PM
Location: Shrewsbury Public Library

This event is co-hosted by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System. 

For more information, please contact Michelle Eberle at michelle@masslibsystem.org or Ally Dowds at Allyson.dowds@mass.gov.

Can’t make this event, join us for upcoming virtual Community Chats: Social Services Supports for Libraries.