Pricing
- Lyrasis Member: $0
- Group Member: $75
- Nonmember: $95
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Class Description
In order to protect patrons’ right to information and essential resources, librarians serve as advocates for the communities they serve. Drawing from their advocacy research on behalf of the Association for Library Services (ALSC) and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), Jessica Grider, Kirbie Sondreal, and Samantha Streeter will share advocacy practices and strategies they utilize in their own work as school, public, and academic librarians, respectively. Librarians and administrators will learn how to get their communities involved and how best to support ongoing advocacy efforts.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this class, students will be able to:
- Identify and understand key challenges facing libraries in the current advocacy landscape.
- Define the rights inherent to library users in academic, school, and public libraries.
- Identify advocacy resources to support their work and their communities.
- Recognize opportunities for library advocacy in their communities.
- Develop communication strategies for effectively sharing advocacy initiatives and tools.
Instructors
Jessica Grider is a library media specialist at Park Hill High School in Kansas City, Missouri. With 15 years of teaching experience and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science, Jessica is dedicated to fostering literacy in adolescents, providing equitable access, and curating inclusive educational practices.
Kirbie Sondreal is the Assistant Children’s Services Director at the Grand Forks Public Library in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She was a 2025 American Library Association Emerging Leader and served on the 2024 Robert F. Sibert Award Committee. She is passionate about early literacy, community partnerships, and language access.
Samantha Streeter is a Research Librarian at the University of Texas at Arlington, an R1 institution in North Texas. She works as a liaison to multiple departments, including Sociology and Business, providing research and information literacy support to a diverse student body with a wide array of needs. A former public children’s librarian, she cares deeply about protecting the rights of all library patrons.
Lyrasis Learning events are delivered using the Zoom videoconferencing platform and will have AI-generated captions available. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation is available upon request. If you need ASL or other accommodations to support your participation in the course, please contact us at es@lyrasis.org at least 2 weeks in advance of the event or as soon as possible.