<div dir="ltr">FYI. If you are an ALA Member, please consider signing this petition.<div><br></div><div>Suzanne L. Sager<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Wood</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org">dwood@ala.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:13 AM<br>Subject: [alacro-l] Petition to Re-New Libraries Foster Community Engagement Membership Initiative Group<br>To: "<a href="mailto:alacro-l@ala.org">alacro-l@ala.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alacro-l@ala.org">alacro-l@ala.org</a>><br>
<br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d">FYI</span><br><br>________________________________________<br>From: Nancy C. Kranich [<a href="mailto:nancy.kranich@rutgers.edu" target="_blank">nancy.kranich@rutgers.edu</a>]<br>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 7:08 PM<br>To: Civic Engagment MIG<br>Subject: Petition to Re-New Libraries Foster Community Engagement Membership Initiative Group<br><br>We need your help to get 100 signatures of ALA members!<br>
<br>If you are an ALA member, please add your e-signature to our petition to form/renew an ALA Membership Initiative Group entitled: Libraries Foster Community Engagement.<br><br>Sign the e-petition at: <a href="http://www.ala.org/CFApps/epetition/index.cfm?pid=D086C2BB10BC9B4D" target="_blank">http://www.ala.org/CFApps/epetition/index.cfm?pid=D086C2BB10BC9B4D</a><br>
<br>Please forward to your colleagues.<br><br>Many thanks!<br><br>Best,<br>Nancy Kranich, Petition Initiator<br><br><br>Here's at statement of the MIG purpose and goals.<br><br>Libraries Foster Community Engagement Membership Initiative Group will provide an ALA organizational home for anyone interested in the work of library-led community engagement. It is a community of practice where participants share experiences facilitating public forums, fostering community and civic engagement, and leading change in communities. Participants will also hear about professional development opportunities and library experiences related to convening, dialogue facilitation, forum moderation, deliberative dialogue and local partnerships to help communities understand issues of concern and solve problems together. This MIG will involve participants from the former Libraries Fostering Civic Engagement MIG, and will include those who advise the ALA Center for Civic Life and those who participate in the Libraries Transforming Communities project. Among the goals for this group are:<br>
<br>• Rename the Libraries Fostering Civic Engagement Membership Initiative Group: “Libraries Foster Community Engagement.”<br>• Build on the strong work of the earlier MIG begun in 2004.<br>• Provide a community of practice for those interested in the overarching work of building community relationships (work served by the ALA Center for Civic Life, the Libraries Fostering Civic Engagement MIG, the Libraries Transforming Communities project and other future and past work) that is widely accessible and dynamic for as large a group of participants as possible<br>
• Ensure that the various cohorts who are completing the Harwood Institute Public Innovator labs have an opportunity to share their experiences and resources with their fellow participants<br><br><br>=================================<br>
Nancy Kranich<br>Special Projects Librarian<br>Rutgers University Libraries<br>228 Alexander Library<br>New Brunswick, NJ 08901<br>Lecturer<br>Rutgers University School of Communication and Information<br><br>Past President, American Library Association<br>
Civic Librarian<br><br>Contact Information:<br>136 N. 7th Avenue<br>Highland Park, NJ 08904-2932<br><a href="mailto:nancy.kranich@rutgers.edu" target="_blank">nancy.kranich@rutgers.edu</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:nancy.kranich@rutgers.edu" target="_blank">nancy.kranich@rutgers.edu</a>><br>
<a href="mailto:nancy.kranich@nyu.edu" target="_blank">nancy.kranich@nyu.edu</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:nancy.kranich@nyu.edu" target="_blank">nancy.kranich@nyu.edu</a>><br><a href="tel:732-985-1599" target="_blank">732-985-1599</a><br>
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