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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 – 12:30 working catered lunch/on-site
- 12:30 – 1:30 Keren Dali, “It’s not in the book”: The Promise and the Shortfall of Bibliotherapy and the Power of Human Connection”
- 2:00 – 3:00 Breakout 2 and Reconvening
- 3:00 – 3:15 Break
- 3:15 – 4:15 Kaite Stover, Collection Development and Reading Groups
- 4:15 – 5:15 Breakout 3 Small group discussion, followed by key points and questions from breakout
- 5:15 – 5:30 Wrap-up Summarize day and distribute anything needed for day 2
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)
