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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-ligatures:none;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="316" height="80" style="width:3.2916in;height:.8333in" id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D9EBC2.BD784960"></span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#006666">WebJunction builds the knowledge, skills, and confidence of library staff to power strong libraries that are the heart of vibrant communities. A program
 of <a href="https://www.oclc.org/research/home.html" title="OCLC Research"><span style="color:#006666">OCLC Research</span></a>, and with financial support from the State Library of Ohio via federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds, WebJunction
 is free and welcome to all libraries to use, regardless of size, type or location.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/disaster-preparedness-community-resilience.html">Disaster Preparedness and Community
 Resilience</a>:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> Climate Action Planning requires attention in three main areas: mitigation, adaptation, and climate justice. Climate mitigation, or the reduction of greenhouse
 gas (GHG) emissions, was addressed in our previous article, $B!H(BGetting Started with Climate Action Planning.$B!I(B The next area, adaptation, requires strategies that enable personal, institutional, and community-wide preparation and adjustment in the face of the
 likely impacts of climate change on our local geography. We can no longer simply focus on our hopes that efforts will reduce the impacts of climate change on the future. Even if we did everything right to reduce GHG emissions in the next seven years, we will
 still experience increasingly severe weather patterns, heat waves, and systemic impacts on food systems, flood plains, and sea levels for the next three decades. Confronting the reality of the damage that has been done to the climate and having a realistic
 idea of what the local impacts of climate change is an essential component to future-proofing your library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/webjunction-arsl-2023.html">WebJunction at the Association for Rural & Small Libraries
 Conference</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">: It$B!G(Bs no secret that the Association for Rural & Small Libraries (ARSL) annual conference is one of our favorite conferences. WebJunction staff have been attending
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/advancing-ideas-inclusion-diversity-equity-accessibility-24-october-2023/">Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion,
 Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 24 October 2023</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">: This is the latest
<i>Hanging Together</i> blog post, part of <i>a regular </i><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/tag/IDEA/">series</a><i> on issues of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility, compiled by a team of OCLC contributors.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">These upcoming webinars are open for registration. If you can$B!G(Bt attend a live session, all WebJunction webinars are recorded and available for free in the <a href="https://learn.webjunction.org/">Course
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Tuesday, November 14, 2023
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Library communities around the country are seeing rising levels of division, distrust, and segregation. Recognizing the need for community healing,
 library staff at the Richland Library in South Carolina formed the Let$B!G(Bs Talk Race team to explore strategies for deepening community connections and engagement. Since 2016, the Let$B!G(Bs Talk Race team has facilitated more than 250 in-person or online discussions,
 community forums, and events, reaching more than 4,000 participants, and creating opportunities for civic engagement, community connections, and courageous conversations. Earlier this year, the Richland Library launched the open-source
<a href="https://www.richlandlibrary.com/lets-talk-race-curriculum" target="_blank">
Let$B!G(Bs Talk Race Curriculum</a>, providing a set of easy-to-follow resources for other libraries, museums, and related organizations to implement with their local communities. The curriculum includes facilitation best practices, conversation guides, videos,
 and more. The curriculum provides a learning pathway to help get started, build facilitation skills, and create conversation guides to hold your own circles of dialog.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> 60 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">From zero-waste events to upcycling to refreshments, how we choose to carry out our work in libraries says a lot about our values. We can$B!G(Bt
 just pay lip service to sustainability—we need to practice what we$B!G(Bre talking about! This webinar will be an inspiring discussion with a panel of practitioners who have found ways to design, implement, and evaluate library programs using frameworks that better
 represent their libraries' values, such as the triple bottom line definition of sustainability and the United Nations$B!G(B Sustainable Development Goals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Stronger Together: Collective Impact and Climate Action Programming<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Wednesday, December 13, 2023
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> 2:00 pm Eastern / 11:00 am Pacific
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">$B"!(B</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> 90 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Libraries are catalysts and conveners for climate action in our communities. This webinar will feature practitioners who are having a collective
 impact through collaborations with others in the community, to address the pressing challenges related to climate change. Join these practitioners to hear practical ideas for how to ensure that good intentions have a positive impact on our communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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