Nontraditional Lending to Aid Your Community’s Environmental AND Safety Efforts

To register for this webinar please follow this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/6017453336023/WN_K4wuYLqiTLGmypiFOLb8WA. Sessions are free and available only to members of the Michigan library community. Registrants will receive instructions and a link to attend the session directly from PCI after they register.

The increasing damage and length of our severe weather events is concerning for all of us. How do we begin helping our communities to be sure they’re ready before disaster strikes? One way is with a new free kit created for the Maine State Library (MSL) by The Healing Library (THL)!

In 2020 the Maine State Library received a grant to support deepening their science programming from NASA. Join us to learn about the grant and about the kit that it created. It features three sections centered around disaster preparedness: Before Severe Weather, During Severe Weather, and After Severe Weather. Each section is filled with tips to stay as physically and emotionally safe as possible, all while instilling a love of nature in our children.

As a result of this program, attendees will learn:

• How the Maine State Library got involved in the grant
• The Maine State Libraries' thought process in striving to offer a wellness-centered initiative that included The Healing Library
• What’s inside the Severe Weather & Climate Engagement Kit to help your community and ideas for deploying the kit in your community

Who will Benefit from this Program:

• Youth Services Staff Members
• Community Engagement Staff

Instructor: Megan has worked or volunteered in libraries for almost her whole life! She’s worked in one academic and three public libraries in three different states. She is the creator and director of The Healing Library, the author of Cooking Up Programs Teens and Tweens Will Love: Recipes for Success, She’s a Library consultant, writer, speaker, nerd, and hype woman. She would definitely like to pet your dog.

PCI Webinars are recorded and available to members of the Michigan library community in the Library of Michigan's Niche Staff Skills Academy about a week after they air. New webinars will be in the New category for several weeks. You do not need to register for a webinar in order to view it later in the Staff Skills Academy.

This project is made possible by grant funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administered by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan.