Partnerships & Collaboration

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When the library builds partnerships, it strengthens the ties to its community, shares resources, and builds positive relationships with diverse stakeholders. Reaching out to initiate community partnerships begins with identifying both traditional and non-traditional partners and exploring new ways to work together. Effective collaborations are sustained through a shared commitment to serving the ever-changing needs of the community.

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October 3, Living Our Values Out Loud: Programs that Walk the Talk

Publish Date: News / 28 November 2023

Part of a series, this webinar with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative will feature practitioners who have found ways to design, implement, and evaluate programs using frameworks that better represent their library’s values.

October 3, Climate Justice

Publish Date: News / 3 October 2023

Part of a series, this webinar with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative will explore the disproportional impacts of climate change on systematically oppressed communities.

July 18, Sustainability 101

Publish Date: News / 18 July 2023

Part of a series, this webinar with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative will introduce characteristics of a sustainable library.

A Delicious Library Collaboration

Publish Date: News / 23 May 2023

Running a restaurant is no easy task. And while libraries do a lot of things amazingly well, being a restaurant operator on top of all that is a tricky proposition. But when has a challenge ever stopped a library? This is certainly the case for Toled...