Name: It's a Three-Winged Circus! Collaborating Across Town Yields Efficiencies, Programming Opportunities, and Expanded Notions of How Best to Meet Patron Needs
Start: 2024-05-10T14:30:00-0600
End: 2024-05-10T15:20:00-0600

Welcome to the 2024 joint conference for the Utah Library Association and Mountain Plains Library Association!

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It's a Three-Winged Circus! Collaborating Across Town Yields Efficiencies, Programming Opportunities, and Expanded Notions of How Best to Meet Patron Needs

Trusted relationships allow for informal, fluid, nimble, responsive, collaborative work. When librarians in a medium-sized city collaborate to better support their shared patrons, great things happen! While academic and public library missions and means are different, their ultimate goals are often compatible; pursuing them collaboratively can be rewarding, cost-effective, even fun! Learn about the positive and negative outcomes of nearly ten years of neighborly collaboration and partnership in northern Colorado, and the innovative assessment methods developed to sustain these relationships.

Speakers

Annie Epperson

Teaching 'n Learning Librarian, University of Northern Colorado

Professional interests: Programming, Assessment, Community Engagement, Higher Education, Adapting to Change, Mentoring. Personal interests: bees, beer, gardens, food, remote locations, social justice, and sleep.

Elena Rosenfeld

Community Engagement & Strategies Manager, High Plains Library District

My focus is to help us keep us discovering new ways the Library can help our community members grow and thrive. This means looking to partner with organizations that might be ones that we never considered before as well as supporting new ways of making services and programs available... Read More →