Services
Consulting
This suite of services focuses on planning, facilitation, guidance, and feedback:
Strategic Planning
Community strengths and aspirations assessments
Community analysis guidance
Project management
Project reviews and coaching
Commissioned edits
Program/Initiative development guidance
Leadership coaching for library professionals
Teaching/Training
This service brings participants together to deep-dive into current best practices, research, national trends, and core frameworks on a particular topic. May be done as a one-time keynote, lecture, or talk, or as a multi-session workshop, often in a learning cohort or community-of-practice format.
Recent topics have included:
Community-led programming
Sprucing up Summer Reading
STEM and Maker programming
Evaluation methods with kids and families
Reader identity in youth audiences
Kindergarten readiness support in libraries
The role of reading levels in the public library
Story times and play-based learning
Interest-based programming for teens
Intergenerational programming
Programming for multilingual communities
Serving unstably housed youth