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Accelerator

Library Programs and Services

Data in Support of Equitable Summers

Sunday, January 21, 2024
2:00pm – 5:00pm EST
Location: Baltimore Convention Center, 331-332
Take a minute to reflect - has anything major changed about your summer services in the past 3 years, apart from the theme or title? Do you know if these services actually reach systemically marginalized youth and families? In this accelerator session we will dig deeper into summer services by focusing on the why and re-imagining long-held traditions. You will learn about the Building Equity-Based Summers (BEBS) initiative funded by IMLS and interpret findings from the perspective of your own library services and local community. Through this lens, the session will support you to generate questions you want to answer in order to better serve systemically marginalized populations and assess how well your current data and data collection strategies answer those questions. Plus, you’ll get a chance to learn about tools for data gathering, that when used, will give you a chance to gain new insights into your community. It’s all about making your summer services a genuine reflection of your community, and making sure equity is the foundation of those services.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will identify 3 data collection techniques that can be used to better understand communities and assess equity in summer services
  • Participants will describe 3 to 5 strategies for engaging with communities around data, analysis, and interpretation toward design of summer services
  • Participants will be able to describe how 3 sources of summer services data helps in designing and iterating new services that reach systemically marginalized community members