Leadership, Management and Organizational Development

Workshop

Telling Our Stories: Community Building and Leadership

Workshop Organizer(s)

• TT

  Tess Tobin

  Associate Professor Emerita
  New York CIty College of Technology CUNY

Workshop Presenter(s)

• LM

  Louis Muñoz, Jr.

  Reference and ILL Librarian
  Morristown and Morris Township Library
• JA

  Jacqueline Ayala

  Administrator
  San Diego County Library

REFORMA needs to nurture and develop leaders who can lead and share the value of connecting with the community. REFORMA leaders will tell their stories. Topics will include career choices, celebrating successes, overcoming obstacles, roads to leadership, and their experiences working with the Latinx community today. Presented in a world café style, the forum is intended for LIS students, young professionals and all librarians interested in sharing ideas and thinking together in a safe environment to inspire innovation, curiosity, and exploration on community building and leadership and what does this mean for REFORMA as it approaches its 50th Anniversary. At the end, participants will reconvene for a large group discussion based on sharing out of the small group work and directions for moving forward. This forum is made possible through the IMLS grant Telling Our Stories: Community Building to Recruit and Retain Latinx to the Library Profession.

Note this forum is a closed session, only open to current REFORMA IMLS Scholarship winners and invitees.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how as new professionals they can move forward in their careers and take on leadership roles, based on experiences and resources shared by presenters and fellow participants;
• Explore issues of recruitment and retention of people of color through recent REFORMA research into why numbers are still low and conversations about what led them into librarianship; and
• Build bridges with other professionals looking to serve Latinx and other underserved communities, learning from each others’ challenges and successes, as well as building formal and informal mentoring relationships.