Ten Steps to Successful Lifelong Learning in Advocacy August 9, 2023 10AM - 11:30AM

In an ever-evolving world, lifelong learning and advocacy go hand in hand, but many of us remain unaware of how to design effective, engaging learning opportunities for ourselves, our colleagues, and the communities we serve. Join this highly-interactive session to explore how to develop learning opportunities for yourself and your colleagues who are interested in honing their skills as advocates for libraries and their communities.
N.B. - This workshop is an expanded version of a session presented at the California Library Association 2023 annual conference in Sacramento. While content is focused on lifelong learning for advocates, the principles explored can be applied to any training program you develop and sustain.
Goal:
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
Identify and describe at least three ways you can develop an ongoing, self-guided lifelong-learning plan to support your efforts as an advocate on behalf of libraries and the communities they serve
Craft a basic training/learning plan for yourself and your colleagues in advocacy
Cite at least three resources you can use to further your efforts to develop and implement learning opportunities for yourself and your colleagues in advocacy.
Session Facilitator:
Paul Signorelli, CLA Library Advocacy Training Project Manager and author of Change the World Using Social Media (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), is a writer/trainer-facilitator/presenter/consultant immersed in lifelong learning. He develops and facilitates learning opportunities onsite, online, and in hybrid settings, and recently helped design and co-facilitate #etmooc2, the Educational Technology & Media massive open online course that explored artificial intelligence in lifelong learning.
About the Ursula Meyer Advocacy Fund Training Series
This program is part of an ongoing series of monthly online sessions organized offered through the Ursula Meyer Advocacy Fund Training Series; sessions are generally held online on the second Wednesday of each month, beginning at 10 am PT. The series honors the memory of Ursula Meyer, 1977-78 CLA President, California Library Hall of Fame inductee, longtime director of the Stockton-San Joaquin Public Library, and fierce advocate for library services and intellectual freedom. The Ursula Meyer Fund was established to provide for the training of librarians in all stages of their careers, and library supporters, in political advocacy and political action, in honor of Ursula’s belief that librarians need effective political skills to advocate for library support at all levels of government. Archived recordings of previous sessions are available on the California Library Association RUclips channel at www.youtube.co....