May 15
- 8:30 – 9:30 Breakfast and welcome session
- 9:30 – 10:30 Casey Johnson: Addiction and Recovery through the lens of harm reduction
- 10:30 – 11:30 Breakout 1: framing out how libraries are working in the addiction and recovery sphere; reconvene and draw key points and questions from breakout session
- 11:30 – 12:00 – working lunch (catered/on-site)
- 12:00 – 1:00 Keren Dali, “It’s not in the book”: The Promise and the Shortfall of Bibliotherapy and the Power of Human Connection”
- 1:00 – 1:15 Break
- 1:15 – 2 Breakout 2 and Reconvening
- 2:00 – 3:00 Kaite Stover, Reading With Feeling: Using Library Collections and Reading Groups to Foster Connection
- 3:00 – 3:45 Breakout 3 Small group discussion, followed by key points and questions from breakout
- 3:45 – 4:00 Wrap-up Summarize day and distribute anything needed for day 2
- Late afternoon: Optional Dine-Around (details TBA)
May 16:
- 8:30 – 9:30 Breakfast, welcome, housekeeping
- 9:30 – 10:30 Beth Hill and Mirna Herrera: Outreach and Marketing. How can you increase the appeal of these programs to different demographic groups?
- 10:30 – 12:00 Breakout 4 Discussion on Outreach, Marketing, and Partnerships, and barriers, followed by reconvening (key points and questions from breakout)
- 12:00 – 1:00 Working catered lunch On-site
- 1:00 – 2:00: Keynote: Brooke Doyle: Libraries and Social Connections.
- 2:00 – 3:30 Breakout 5: how can libraries increase opportunities for social connections, especially for vulnerable populations?
- 3:30 – 5:00 Wrapping it up–brainstorming session: plan for the toolkit and will, discuss next steps (feedback, timeline, updating website)