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Community Dialogues and Libraries

Vote for this video at the 2020 STEM for All Video Showcase - https://stemforall2020.videohall.com/... Community Dialogues: Empowering Libraries to Activate Partnerships and Respond to Patron Needs through Community-Focused Discussion Public libraries are vital community centers offering resources, activities, and other learning opportunities. In order to best serve their communities, libraries must look outward to discover more about how community members think and feel about important topics and to make connections with local organizations and partners that can help address these issues to achieve a common goal. This short video will showcase how one library participating in the STAR Library Network's (STAR Net) NSF-funded Project BUILD utilized Community Dialogues to more fully engage and learn from the community that it serves. A Community Dialogue is a loosely facilitated discussion that provides the opportunity for library staff and community leaders or members to discuss common, community-based challenges or aspirations. Community Dialogues can help libraries expand their understanding of patrons’ feelings about their local library and its programs, obtain meaningful feedback from the community on who visits the library and why, have a conversation about how the library can better serve ethnically, economically, and geographically underserved and underrepresented audiences, and better connect with local organizations and potential future partners that have shared interests with the library and community. These events are about more than leaving the room with a list of to-dos and answers to all the questions. Rather, they are about discussing topics and issues in an inclusive and uninhibited environment, with community representatives and stakeholders. Royalty Free Music Provided by Bensound