The Art of Facilitation: Creating Healthy Library Spaces in Programs & Beyond Online
Description:
Regardless of your audience, successful programs require careful planning. Clearly communicating expectations helps everyone at a time when libraries serve many functions across diverse groups.
Learning outcomes:
- Learn about different types of facilitation.
- Describe the importance of unified messaging.
- Implement realistic guidelines and boundaries.
- Design communication scripts.
- Apply feedback and self-reflection to improve.
Consistent facilitation supports program quality and morale, and is an accessible skill that applies across all library services.
In this 90-minute session, an adult services librarian and a children’s services librarian will speak for 50 minutes and then answer questions.
Presented by Heath Umbreit, Adult Services Librarian, and Kate Tigue, Head of Youth Services, Morrill Memorial Library
This is the first of four webinars in the MLS Member Webinar series. Webinars are recorded and posted to the MLS Vimeo channel.
Related LibGuide: MLS Member Webinars by Jane Stimpson
- Date:
- Thursday, May 22, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Format:
- Webinar
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Categories:
- Community Leadership & Management Marketing & Communications Special Topics User Services Youth Services MLS Member Webinar
