Power, Privilege, Identity, and Allyship

You likely have heard a lot about privilege, oppression, and how our identities shape our lived experiences in the world, but you may still have questions about what these concepts really mean, and why some identities are salient over others in our society. Furthermore, when you learn you have privilege, what comes next? How can you use your privilege to act in allyship with marginalized/targeted/oppressed groups, and what does good allyship even look like, especially when working with a diverse library population? Join us for a keynote conversation with Regan Byrd of Regan Byrd Consulting to explore some of these critical questions. 

Presenter: Regan Byrd, Regan Byrd Consulting

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Brown Bag Lunch Session

On the Spot Yoga

How to Recharge and Refresh for Desk Dwellers.

Yoga Instructor: Amy Hardwick, Embody Wellness

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Catalog Cleanup with Sierra DNA and Google Sheets

Google Sheets customized to work with Sierra DNA and Create Lists to quickly identify and correct cataloging errors in LOCATION, ITYPE, ICODE2, and CALL NUMBER.

Presenter: Andy Helck, Wilkinson Public Library

3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Here's the best takeaway for your one-on-one research appointment!

Gayle Gunderson, Dean of the Library at Colorado Christian University, shares what their librarians do and what we feel is a best practice for one-on-one research appointments. What this is, is a template that the librarians use for a follow-up email that is sent to the patron. We use the template to share our search tips and search results, we go over it with the patron during our meeting, and then we send it to the patron following the appointment. The "best" of the best practice is that patrons don't need to scramble to take notes during the session, they'll have the links that were shown to them in the appointment time, the email has our evaluation survey linked to it, it helps us to prepare for a good meeting, and when we have repeat questions we already have good notes.

Presenter: Gayle Gunderson, Colorado Christian University

Brown Bag Lunch Session 

Best Reads During COVID
 
Did you read lots of great books during 2020 thanks to more free time? If not, do you wish you could have? Come and share your favorite 2020 reads and hear about everyone else's favorites!
 
Monterator: Elizabeth (Liz) vonTauffkirchen, Pine River Library

Create Lists Consortium Standards and Tips

Lisa and Lloyd will review methods everyone from beginners to experts can use to work within the shared consortium environment of Create Lists including how to move, lock, and release review files; how to use saved searches, sorts, and exports; and other tips for effective and organized use of Create Lists.

Come to have your voice heard in an open discussion relating to new guidelines for file naming standards, how long review files are allowed to remain in the limited available space, what happens when review files remain after this timeframe, and a proposed one time cleanup of saved searches, sorts, and exports. 

Presenters: Lisa Solko, Mesa County Public Library District and Lloyd Chittenden, Marmot Library Network

Project ReShare Demo

The ReShare Community is a group of libraries, consortia, information organizations and developers (including Marmot!), with both commercial and non-commercial interests, who came together in 2018 to create Project ReShare – a new and open approach to library resource sharing. The ReShare Community has a bold vision for building a user-centered, app-based, community-owned resource-sharing platform for libraries to set a new standard for how we connect library patrons to the resources and information they require.  This vision is of interest to Marmot, as we look beyond existing commercial resource sharing platforms to the future of resource sharing in Colorado.

On August 12, 2021, the PALCI consortium - more than 50 diverse academic libraries located in PA, NY, NJ, and WV - became the first library consortium to launch what is now the world’s first community-owned open source consortial borrowing system.

This session is a demo of the ReShare Returnables functionality, given by a PACLI member.

Presenter: PALCI member library staff

From Tomes to Terabytes OR A Lightning Round-Style Digital Archive Presentation

Members of the Digital Archive Committee will share content and stories from the archive. The objective is to improve awareness and inspire other libraries to digitally preserve their local history collections, and make the same accessible the world over. 

Enjoy some of the newest and most interesting digital collections our libraries have to offer, and learn about how collaborations with community partners and other library staff help make what was formerly dusty digital. What was once bound, binary.  

Presenters: John Major, Bud Werner Memorial Library; Matthew Mickelson, Eagle Valley Library District; Elizabeth Bush, and Noel Kalenian, Mesa County Public Library District