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United for Libraries Learning Live * Let's Move in Libraries: How Library Trustees/Boards, Friends, and Foundations Can Support Community Health Tues., May 14 at 2 p.m. ET * United for Libraries Learning Live: Friends of the Library and the Right to Read: Getting Ready for Banned Books Week Tues., June 11 at 2 p.m. ET Law and the Right to Read: What Your Trustees Need to Know (presented by United for Libraries and the Freedom to Read Foundation) Wed., June 5, 2 p.m. ET Jillian Wentworth (she/hers) Deputy Director, Strategy & Engagement United for Libraries: The Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations A division of the American Library Association 312-280-2160 Website: www.ala.org/united<http://www.ala.org/united> News & Updates: united.ala.org<http://united.ala.org/> [Learning Live logo]<https://www.ala.org/united/training/learning-live> Let's Move in Libraries: How Library Trustees/Boards, Friends, and Foundations Can Support Community Health Tues., May 14 at 2 p.m. ET Library Trustees/Board Members, Friends of the Library groups, and library Foundations can be valuable partners in supporting community health in libraries. During How Library Trustees/Boards, Friends, and Foundations Can Support Community Health, Join Dr. Noah Lenstra of Let's Move in Libraries<https://letsmovelibraries.org/> and Christine Weinreich of Memphis Library Foundation<https://memphislibraryfoundation.org/> to learn how to work with the library on community health, get ideas for events, get funding, and develop, sustain, and expand partnerships. Chris Chanyasulkit, Trustee at Brookline (Mass.) Public Library, will moderate. We'll talk about everything from addressing social isolation to supporting physical literacy. We'll offer practical strategies and tools to help you connect with and work with funders, while also providing strategies that you can use to support library staff who want to try something new, like a StoryWalk or a creative aging dance class for older adults. Noah will provide the big picture, while Christine will provide an in-depth look at how Memphis Library Foundation works with both the Memphis Public Libraries and the Friends of the Memphis Public Library to support this topic. Learning Live is free to United personal members and those in MA, MD, MI, ND, NE, OR, SC, SD, & VA. [headshot of Noah Lenstra] Dr. Noah Lenstra, MS.LIS., is an associate professor of Library & Information Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He brings a community organizing approach to the research and teaching of public librarianship. His books include Healthy Living at the Library (2020, Bloomsbury) and 12 Steps to a Community-Led Library (2023, American Library Association Editions, co-author Audrey Barbakoff). Since 2016, Dr. Lenstra has managed the Let's Move in Libraries initiative, which he started. [headshot of Christine Weinreich] Christine Weinreich, JD, has been the executive director of the Memphis Library Foundation since 2019. She had almost fourteen years of legal practice before transitioning into grants & development in 2012. Since joining Memphis Public Library Foundation, Christine has worked to support the library as a place of equity, where people from every walk of life can find resources, information, connection, art, and a true civic commons. Register <https://airtable.com/apphf4sCdaVrFi9dH/shrXca38ncol9yU5f> Coming up... [https://americanlibraryassociation.informz.net/americanlibraryassociation/da...] Friends of the Library and the Right to Read: Getting Ready for Banned Books Week Tues., June 11 at 2 p.m. ET Banned Books Week<https://bannedbooksweek.org/> (Sept. 22-28, 2024) is an opportunity for Friends of the Library and library Foundations to support the freedom to read. Learn programming ideas and what Friends groups across the country are planning for the week. Learning Live is free to United personal members and those in MA, MD, MI, ND, NE, OR, SC, SD, & VA. [headshot of Christine Weinreich] Betsy Gomez is the Assistant Director of Communications and Public Outreach for the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, where she is a coordinator for Banned Books Week and Unite Against Book Bans<https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/>. She has been coordinator for the Banned Books Week Coalition, a diverse group of organizations dedicated to defending intellectual freedom during Banned Books Week and beyond, since 2018. Register <https://airtable.com/apphf4sCdaVrFi9dH/shrXca38ncol9yU5f> United for Libraries and Freedom to Read Foundation to present June 5 webinar on 'Law and the Right to Read' [Text - Fund Libraries: Tell Congress to invest in libraries.]<https://airtable.com/apphf4sCdaVrFi9dH/pagB8G9nJd6ukYjzj/form> United for Libraries and the Freedom to Read Foundation will present Law and the Right to Read: What Your Trustees Need to Know on Wed., June 5, 2 p.m. Eastern. In this session, attendees will learn the basics of intellectual freedom related to their role, and how First Amendment rights are related to policies and access in public- and public-school libraries. Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Director of ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom and Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, and Theresa Chmara, General Counsel of the Freedom to Read Foundation, will be the featured speakers. This webinar is FREE to members of the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) and FREE to those in MA, MD, MI, MS, ND, NE, OR, SC, SD, VA. Register <https://airtable.com/apphf4sCdaVrFi9dH/pagB8G9nJd6ukYjzj/form> [https://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/UFL/ufl-newsletter-template/190403-ufl-enews-footer-logo.png?cb=287480]<http://www.ala.org/united>