| Live Interactive Sessions: Wednesdays:
October 14, 21, and 28
2:00 - 4:00 PM ET Part 1: Wednesday, October 14, 2020
2:00 - 4:45 pm ET Session 1 | 2:00-2:45 pm ET
Getting Started With Your School and Public Library Collaboration In this session, you’ll learn how to get your school and public library collaboration up and running. From connecting with a partner to deciding on a plan, to enacting it, you’ll learn what you need to know from a librarian who has done it with success. This session will also touch on how to approach funding, achieve buy-in from stakeholders, and optimize your partnership in response to COVID-19.
Speaker:
Katie Cerqua, Youth and Family Services Manager, Virginia Beach Public Library (VA) Intermission | 2:45-3:00 pm ET Session 2 | 3:00-3:45 pm ET
Equity-Based School and Public Library Partnerships
Learn how a successful partnership helped bring increased equity to the community in this session with Diana Lopez of the Marin City Library. You’ll hear how the Marin County Free Library came together with Bayside Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy to advocate for its youth, increasing access and engagement, and reimagining their school library and its role in student’s lives.
Speakers:
Diana Lopez, Manager, Marin City Library, Marin County (CA), LJ Mover and Shaker 2019
David Finnane, Principal, Bayside Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy (CA) Intermission | 3:45-4:00 pm ET Session 3 | 4:00-4:45 pm ET
Coming Together to Tackle the Digital Divide
There has always been a digital divide for library users, but now more than ever is the time to address this complex issue. This session will explore how libraries can take on the digital divide, including increasing access to tools, tech support, hot spots, and more, leveraging school and public partnerships to increase their impact on their communities.
Speaker:
Jarrod Wilson, Head of Technical Services, Kalamazoo Public Library (MI) Part 2: Wednesday, October 21, 2020
2:00 - 4:00 pm ET OFFICE HOURS | 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Join Bridget Quinn-Carey, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hartford Library and Kelli Shimabukuro, Chief, Programs and Outreach at Enoch Pratt Free Library & Maryland State Library Resource Center, in this live q+a session, where you’ll get to share your specific questions, concerns, and ideas for collaboration and get real-time feedback and guidance. Intermission | 3:00-3:15 pm ET Sponsored Session 1 | 3:15-3:45 pm ET
Get Connected: How Public Library and School Partnerships Increase 24/7 Access to Books
Whether students are at home or in the classroom, it’s critical that they have 24/7 access to a wide assortment of age-appropriate reading options - especially as districts explore remote learning solutions for the 2020 school year and beyond. How can public libraries and schools work together to meet this need? Find out in an eye-opening presentation featuring the Fresno County Public Library and OverDrive. You’ll learn the simple steps to activate public library and school partnerships and how these partnerships provide students access to additional instructional and independent reading titles that can help slow the summer slide and overcome remote learning challenges - all without requiring a library card. You’ll also learn about how you can leverage these partnerships to foster the next generation of loyal public library users, increase circulation of juvenile & young adult titles and gain data-driven insights into how students are using the library’s digital collection.
Speakers:
Kevin Coon, Account Executive, OverDrive
Thomas Wood, Librarian, Fresno County Public Library Sponsored Session 2 | 3:45-4:00 pm ET
How the San Jose Public Library is increasing access to books with school partnerships
Whether students are at home or in the classroom, it’s critical that they have 24/7 access to a wide assortment of age-appropriate reading options. How can public libraries and schools work together to meet this need and increase literacy and educational success? Find out in an eye-opening presentation featuring San Jose Public Library Division Manager Michelle Amores. You’ll learn the simple steps SJPL has taken to activate partnerships with 10 (and counting) area school districts, how these partnerships provide students access to additional instructional and independent reading titles that can help slow the summer slide and overcome remote learning challenges, and how these partnerships help foster the next generation of loyal public library users and increase circulation of juvenile & young adult titles.
Speaker:
Michelle Amores, Division Manager, San Jose Public Library Be sure to stick around for a raffle at the end of the presentation! Part 3 - Wednesday, October 28, 2020
2:00 - 4:15 pm ET Session 1 | 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Running a School and Public Partnership At Scale
Learn how public and school libraries can collaborate to create robust, dynamic partnerships at scale. You’ll hear how Brian Bannon, Merryl and James Tisch Director at The New York Public Library, and Melissa Jacobs, Director of Library Services for NYC Public Schools, come together on initiatives like MyLibraryNYC to increase access to materials and services for student library users. Speakers:
PART 1 (2:00-2:30): Brian Bannon, Merryl and James Tisch Director, NYPL
PART 2 (2:30-3:00): Melissa Jacobs, Director of Library Services, NYCDOE Intermission | 3:00-3:15 pm ET Session 2 | 3:15-4:15 pm ET
Closing Keynote:
Transformative Partnerships: How Starting Small Can Ignite Big Change
In this session, you’ll learn how the small things that school and public libraries do in partnership with one another can open the door to larger, meaningful initiatives. You’ll hear from Cicely Lewis and Jan Wilson from Gwinnett Public Schools, along with Donald Giacomini from Gwinnett Public Library, on how their organizations have worked together to promote each other’s work, provide professional development opportunities for each other's staff base, and ensure that communication occurs on a regular basis, and find out how those small connections created the expectations and the space for the amazing Read Woke Initiative to ignite the library and school community. Speakers:
Cicely Lewis, Media Specialist at Gwinnett County Public Schools (GA), LJ Mover and Shaker 2019
Donald Giacomini, Youth Services Specialist, Gwinnett Public Library (GA)
Jan Wilson, Coordination of Media Instruction, Gwinnett County Public Schools (GA) | 
