Librarians Present at Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference
Librarians will attend the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Annual Conference the first week of October in St. Paul to host three presentations:
Angela Beaton, Curriculum Materials Center (CMC) & Instruction Librarian, will present 10,000 Story Times: How Read Aloud Books Connect Academic, Public, and School Libraries which will discuss the Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Award program, a collaborative initiative between MSUM and local libraries and schools started in 2004 to support reading to PreK to age 12 children, and the importance of collections of children’s materials in academic libraries.
Erin Balerud, Circulation Technician, and Colleen Gordon, Communication & Outreach Librarian, will present DEI Team Policy Audit & Implementation which will discuss the audit of library policies through a DEI lens and next steps to ensure DEI work is embedded in all library areas.
Mary Muehlberg, Electronic Resources Librarian, and Cori Edgerton, Library Technician, will present Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Creating a Banned Books Reading Group on Campus which will discuss the creation, planning, and facilitating of a Banned Books Reading Group formed from campus discussions of censorship and book banning.
The theme of the 2023 MLA conference is “Library Workers Make the Library Work.”