2024 Core Forum

How can a renovation include marginalized and emerging communities? Can a larger collection actually limit inclusion? Learn techniques from the private sector - retail and restaurants - that help you understand the needs of diverse communities, plan space for inclusion, analyze circulation efficiency and avoid zone conflicts.

Registration:
Core Members - $119
Minnesota Library Association Members - $119
Non-Members - $149

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the significance of preserving digital materials extends beyond merely storing bits and bytes; it is about safeguarding and providing access to our cultural heritage, scientific data, and governmental records for future generations. This introductory session on digital preservation aims to provide participants with a comprehensive overview of the principles, practices, and challenges of digital preservation. Through this session, attendees will gain insights into the strategies and technologies employed to ensure the long-term accessibility and usability of digital content.
Participants will leave the session with a solid understanding of the basics of digital preservation, awareness of the challenges faced in the field, and knowledge of the tools and strategies available to tackle these challenges. They will be equipped to begin thinking critically about digital preservation in their own contexts and how they might contribute to preserving digital heritage. This proposal outlines a session designed to introduce attendees to the foundational concepts of digital preservation, highlight the challenges faced, and explore practical solutions. It aims to cater to a broad audience, providing a valuable learning experience for those new to the field as well as offering insights for professionals looking to enhance their digital preservation strategies.

Registration:
Core Members - $119
Minnesota Library Association Members - $119
Non-Members - $149

If you’re in senior or middle management, you know the necessity of effective strategic planning and implementation, but what should you do if your go-to planning model doesn’t reflect our current trends and challenges? ALA’s For Results series has an enduring, widespread impact on elevating library services, but the foremost trends of EDI, operating in a divisive sociopolitical climate, and resetting after a global pandemic are absent in its 20-year-old text. Using the Strategic Planning for Results’ methodology as a starting point, we’ll explore:

• identifying and integrating equity, diversity, and inclusion into existing process and product;
• improving clarity of messaging and services to stakeholders and your broader community, starting with strategy;
• developing infrastructure to support ethics-affirming behavior with your staff; as well as
• connecting with community and capturing feedback to build inclusive service and facilities plans

Learn how these approaches can revitalize your planning and implementation process to meet the challenges of tomorrow, starting today. Don’t abandon your strategic planning model, adapt it!

Registration:
Core Members - $119
Minnesota Library Association Members - $119
Non-Members - $149

How can you have a greater impact in your community while staying focused on the needs of your core constituents? Have the information needs of your community changed following the COVID-19 pandemic and do you believe there are new ways that libraries of all types can work together to meet those needs? Do you know how your counterparts in academic, public, school, and special libraries are approaching the same leadership challenges you are?
In this workshop, colleagues representing different library types will present a model for community-facing collaboration on information issues of concern to local communities based on their successful work together. While this model is built on a foundation of existing collaboration, it is informed by a logic model that can be adapted for use in any local environment where partners across library types are committed to making a collective impact on information issues of concern to their community, e.g., health misinformation, voter misinformation. Participants in this workshop will be introduced to case studies in collaboration and strategies for collective impact on our community emerging both from traditional forms of library collaboration as well as our new focus on strategic investment on issues of concern in our shared service community.

Registration:
Core Members - $119
Minnesota Library Association Members - $119
Non-Members - $149