Welcome Back: Encouraging Collaboration and Student Engagement
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Online (Zoom)
This webinar explores the creation, implementation, and post-event analysis of the “Library Crawl” activity. As part of a large campus, there are often gaps in collaborative opportunities across library units. This joint passport stamp activity developed by the University Library and advertised as a “Library Crawl,” supports and advocates for each unit’s environment and services by boosting awareness.
The Library Crawl aims to reintroduce students to services and study spaces while motivating them to visit each location in person. It was also an opportunity for a united active influence during this high-traffic period.
Join the presenters in discussing learning lessons, future plans, and suggestions for implementing a similar program at your library.
All ILA Noon Network webinars are free. The webinar recordings are available to ILA personal members shortly after the webinars. Registration for all live webinars is limited to Illinois libraries.
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About the Speakers
Celenia Graves (she/they) is a diversity resident at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign and is currently the Experimental Learning and Engagement Librarian. She leads comprehensive programming and outreach efforts in the Grainger Engineering Library and Information Center IDEA Lab makerspace to help bridge the digital and technical divide by focusing on educational engagement program and initiatives to underserved and underrepresented communities.
She has a background in public librarianship, metadata for special collections, and education. Celenia is a first-generation scholar whose research interests include accessibility, user experience (UX) design, metadata, and website design.
Janis Shearer (she/her) is the Public Services and Engagement Librarian for the Funk Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES) Library at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. She serves as Head of the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center as well as liaison to Illinois Extension and Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communications.
Her research interests include engagement practices of academic libraries with specific attention to where STEMM libraries intersect with diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. She has a plant and environmental science background and enjoys growing unique mutually beneficial relationships with underserved communities.
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