CALCON 2020

Three topics, 60 minutes - fun, informative, and energizing!

PopUp Library: Driven by Community Needs (18 min)
Kimmie DePinto & Caroline Wickes
In 2018, High Plains Library District began planning a PopUp Library - a new type of library vehicle that would promote library awareness and provide more opportunities to connect our community with library services, programming, and information. Fast forward to 2020, and the PopUp Library is on the road! In this informational session, we will share what we’ve learned during the PopUp Library’s debut years, from planning the schematics of the vehicle and getting board approval to developing PopUp events and bringing community feedback to the library branches. If you’re interested in purchasing a new library vehicle or learning about a unique community-centered library service, this is the session for you!

Learning outcomes:

1. Attendees will be able to adapt HPLD’s concept of a PopUp Library to fit within their own library’s service models.
2. Attendees will understand the unique marketing and outreach functions that a PopUp Library can serve in their communities.

 LGBTQ+ education for health professionals: the role of the library in equitable access to care (18 min)
Lorrie Spoering & Elizabeth Spoering
Despite recent interest and attention in the LGBTQ+ community, health professionals continue to lack basic knowledge and understanding of their LGBTQ+ patients, leading to a large disparity in quality of healthcare. Access to equitable care starts with information and instruction at the base level: the library. This session will discuss the historical and current gaps in LGBTQ+ healthcare, collection development in a nursing school library setting, and the impact of continual education on not just those seeking healthcare, but LGBTQ+ individuals throughout our communities.

Learning outcomes:

1. Attendees will understand current and historical issues in LGBTQ+ healthcare as well as obstacles and barriers faced by the LGBTQ+ community when seeking care.
2. Attendees will explore the role that incomplete education has played in creating these issues, as well as education and the library’s role as a potential solution.
3. Attendees will be able to apply this understanding of the need for LGBTQ+ equitable access to healthcare in the development of their collection in an academic library setting.

Community Connections: Upping the Programming Game (18 min)
Monique Rodriguez
Learn the best ways to make the connections you have in your community work for you and your library. We will go over how to create fun collaborative virtual and in person programs that patrons will love and remember. Through examples, we will also explore what has and hasn't worked when collaborating with other businesses, educational programs, and non-profits. How do you collaborate professionally with a business when your best friend runs it? How do you create a program with a former boss? Questions like these and more will be answered.

Learning outcomes:

1. Attendees will be able to collaborate professionally with other businesses in the community.
2. Attendees will be able to understand how to create a program that benefits both the library and the other businesses in the community.
3. Attendees will learn to approach businesses in the community first with confidence and grace.