[aisle] Libcomix Webinar: Preparing for Challenges - How to be ready before you get one

[Eti Berland]

I hope you have had a restful winter break and a successful return back to
school.

I wanted to share a FREE learning opportunity from the American Library
Association’s Graphic Novels and Comics Roundtable’s Addressing Challenges
Committee. We will be hosting a webinar, “Preparing for Challenges - How to
be Ready Before you get one” on Wednesday, January 18 at 4pm CST! (It will
also be recorded, so register to access it afterwards.)

Topic: Preparing for Challenges - How to be ready before you get one.

Description: Our panelists will discuss how to prepare for challenges - the
importance of being proactive, creating strong policies, gathering
advocates, etc. Attendees will leave with actionable information on how to
build an arsenal of tools to deflect or defend against challenges.

Join to also share your own tools and resources you’ve developed and ways
we can all support each other to protect the right to read.

Speakers:

Shauntee Burns-Simpson is the Associate Director of the Center for
Educators & Schools at the New York Public Library.

Mary Grahame Hunter is a youth services librarian at the Ferndale Area
District Library in Ferndale Michigan. She serves on the Michigan Library
Association's Intellectual Freedom Task Force.

Carla Riemer is a school librarian and current member of the Addressing
Challenges Committee of ALA's Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table. She
has presented on topics related to comics for young people, including
censorship, collection development and publishing trends. She blogs about
young adult comics and books at Books I Can't Shut Up About.com

Candice (Wing-yee) Mack manages system-wide Young Adult Services at the Los
Angeles Public Library. She is humbled and thrilled to be a Member-at-Large
on the Public Library Association’s (PLA) Board of Directors, the current
Chair of YALSA’s Morris Debut Award Committee, and a past President of the
Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) and the Young Adult
Library Services Association (YALSA). Candice co-authored the “Civics in
Society” chapter in Media Literacy for Justice: Lessons for Changing the
World (2022), based on the Teens Leading Change civic engagement initiative
she created at her library. Candice has taught at UCLA’s Graduate School of
Education and Information Studies since 2014, is a former member of San
José State University’s Youth Services Program Advisory Committee, a former
reviewer for Kirkus and Booklist.

Register here: www.bit.ly/PreparingForChallenges

Check out the Addressing Challenges Committee's Be Prepared! “What to do
when a challenge comes” checklist:

https://www.ala.org/rt/gncrt/preparing-and-addressing-challenges-comics-library-committee

Please share with your networks, colleagues, etc. who would find this
experience valuable.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

-Eti
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