Outreach

Want to unlock the secrets of connecting with the members of your community who aren't coming through your doors? Outdoor outreach might be the tool for you! Alumni from the Camrose Book Bike program discuss how existing in outdoor spaces can improve your connection to your patrons, and open doors to a new world of opportunities.

Stettler Public Library has developed several strategies to build relationships and develop meaningful services to Hutterite communities in their area. In this presentation, learn how they identified strategies for building relations with Hutterite Colonies through the School Outreach Program. and discover how you can maximize opportunities for outreach in Hutterite Colony Schools in your area.

Being kind is a deliberate choice that the library decided should be its theme for 2019. Though it sounds broad, we made an intentional decision to instill kindness into several different initiatives in the library through four separate facets: self-kindness, kindness for others, kindness for the environment, and kindness in the community. This presentation details the various ways we accomplished these acts, highlights the outcomes, and demonstrates the positive effects of kindness that can be achieved no matter how small the act. Though we continue to infuse kindness into everything we do at the library, our theme culminated in our Stories of Kindness event on World Kindness Day (Nov. 13): we asked the community to contribute short stories to the library, and published them in a book to be remembered and cherished by generations to come.

A talk by Hailey McCullough, Head of Adult Services, Grande Prairie Public Library Libraries are the hearts of their communities. Librarians are passionate about serving their communities. But how do we do that? Find out by attending this session, which focuses on the success story of Project: Full Stop at Grande Prairie Public Library, and how one librarian found her passion project. This presentation will focus on period poverty and the role libraries can play in fighting it, how you can implement a similar project in your library, and ways in which you can develop your project in a way to help it shine and fund it for years to come.