[Libs-Or] posting? ACRL panel webinar

[Laural Winter]

Please join the ACRL Arts Conference Programming Committee on Monday, April
28, 2025, from 3pm-4:30pm EST for an engaging panel discussion featuring
five experienced librarians as they share their expertise on implementing,
organizing, and maximizing the impact of comics, graphic novels, and zines
in academic, public, and specialized library settings.

This panel will cover successful practices in zine collection development
and programming, graphic medicine for mental health support, reader’s
advisory training for comics and manga, running zine libraries with student
interns, and using comics' structural elements to enhance accessibility in
library instruction.

Panelists will cover topics such as collection development, programming,
organizing zine festivals, integrating comics into the classroom, and
innovative pedagogical approaches across academic, public, and school
library settings.

This session offers valuable takeaways for librarians at all career stages
interested in visual storytelling formats and their applications across
library environments and diverse patron populations.

Please register for this event at this link
<https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/55KkkCqhRsWj4pilsGoYvg>. Have
questions please contact Megan Lotts at megan.lotts at rutgers.edu.

Order of speakers and bios below:

Laural Winter, currently works at Multnomah County Library as a Staff
training librarian. She is also one of the virtual personalized services
librarians called the My Librarians <https://multcolib.org/my-librarian>.
She has presented on various training topics at multiple Oregon Library
Association Conferences, Public Library Association Conferences, Rose City
Comic Con and the Portland Zine Symposium. She has made zines and poetry
chapbooks.

Soline Holmes is a librarian and the Information Services Department Chair
at Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the
Secretary for the American Library Association's Graphic Novels and Comics
Roundtable, co-chair of Association for Library Service to Children's
"Children and Libraries" Editorial Advisory Committee, a member of ALSC's
Public Awareness and Advocacy committee, and is co-chair of the 2026 Astrid
Lindgren Memorial Award Nominating Committee for USBBY. She has given
presentations on graphic novels at local and national conferences, and she
contributed a chapter about graphic novels and mental health to ALA's
recently published book "Mental Health and Children's Literature:
Evaluating, Curating, and Sharing Books with Children."

A’misa Chiu (she/they) is a zine maker, artist and community organizer, who
is currently the zine librarian at Reed Zine Library at Reed College in
Portland, Oregon, practicing community-centered outreach and engagement,
and publishing scholarship on zines as tools of empowerment and cultural
identity.

Mary Ruge is a Liberal Arts Liaison Librarian at Grand Valley State
University in Allendale, Michigan. She has worked in both academic and
public libraries for over 13 years, and has created comics programming for
a variety of audiences since 2015. Much of their scholarship focuses on the
comics form and how to apply it in ways that increase accessibility and
inclusion.

Jenna Freedman (she/her) is the founder and Director of the Barnard Zine
Library. She's also an active zine maker and writes and presents on zines
when she can.



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*Laural Winter Information Services Staff Trainer, MLS*
Multnomah County Library
Operations Center (221 NE 122nd)
My Schedule: Tuesday thru Saturday
Phone: 503.988.4983
www.multcolib.org
*Pronouns:She, Her, Hers*



*Learning + Organization Development: Consultation. Training. Assistance.
<https://commons.multcolib.org/learning-organizational-development>*
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