President & CEO Premier Wireless Business Technology Solutions
Are you looking for ways to improve community engagement, increase equity, and enhance digital literacy? Learn how urban, suburban and rural library representatives are strategically leveraging technology and the library of things to achieve these goals. Learn how the library of things is extending services beyond traditional books and e-books to become a centralized service center for the entire community. Provide tools and resources to access library-based subscriptions such as LinkedIn Learning, streaming services, language learning, online databases, and other resources. You will leave this session with new ideas to strengthen engagement and enhance digital literacy throughout your community. Connect with underserved individuals and families to provide digital equity and help them reach their full potential. Provide workforce development and career readiness to help your patrons level up. Assist refugees and other immigrants to help them successfully resettle in their new community. Engage primary learners and their families to embrace digital literacy. Provide support to effectively deliver resources for veterans. Connect with seniors to reduce isolation and combat dementia. Help end homelessness, with new techniques to connect individuals with critical, life-changing resources. Learn about recent developments in the library of things and how it can improve equity and inclusion for your underserved community. Partner with schools and other local organizations to provide access to critical resources for high-risk and other vulnerable populations. Leverage technology to address your patrons’ basic needs, level up and succeed. Discover strategies to increase the efficiency of your library checkout program and increase your library’s ability to attract visitors and better accommodate their needs. Help your library conceptualize and effectuate methods to enable it to remain agile and positioned to meet future needs. In summary, this session will offer transformational strategies that will allow your library to enhance its offerings and raise your community’s digital inclusion.
Learning Objectives:
After this session, the attendee will be able to identify at least three strategies for increasing engagement throughout their community, including students, seniors, stay-at-home parents, veterans, homeless and other populations.
Given a traditional library checkout process, the attendee will be able to detail common pitfalls in the library of things checkout process and accurately recommend three viable solutions for improvement.
After this session, the attendee will be able to accurately identify the three stages of focus for increasing digital literacy and workforce development leveraging the library of things.
