#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Oct 2 2017 - 8:30pm ET

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TOPIC

Professionalism and the library industry

This is a topic I think a lot about, I have very strong opinions about "professionalism" as a concept. So instead of telling you about my personal opinion now (I figure that's better saved for the chat), I've got 4 inspiration articles for you with contrasting viewpoints on the idea of professionalism both in and out of the library industry:

1. The Importance of Professionalism by Katie Clausen over at Hack Library School
2. You Call It Professionalism; I Call It Oppression in a Three-Piece Suit by Carmen Rios at Everyday Feminism
3. The Ten Commandments of Professionalism by Paula Black at Slaw.ca
4. Librarianship Doesn’t Need Professionals by Sarah Crissinger at the ACRLog

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QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 When someone says you need to look or act professionally what does that look like to you?

Q2 Do you think the concept of professionalism as it currently stands still works in our 2017 context? Or is it completely outdated?

Q3 How do you see professionalism at work in the LIS profession? Do you see any problems with it? What are they?

Q4 If we were to re-define the concept of professionalism for the current times what would it look like?

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#LISprochat lead-in - topic & how to send questions for Mon Sep 18 2017 - 8:30pm ET

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TOPIC

GUEST CHATTERS: Community Outreach Projects in Libraries

9/18 8:30 EST #LISprochat will be hosting a special chat on Community Outreach Projects in Libraries. Two University of Pennsylvania librarians will be the guest chatters, Margaret Janz and Aman Kaur. Here’s some information about them and what they will be talking about:

Margaret Janz (@MargaretJanz) is the data curation librarian at Penn Libraries and a member of the Data Refuge team. She also participates in the Libraries+ Network, a network that grew from Data Refuge that's aimed at creating a sustainable backup curation solution for born-digital federal information.

Margaret will be talking about community outreach as it relates to the Data Refuge project and the associated Data Rescue events. From January through May the Data Refuge team at Penn and our partners worked tirelessly to support libraries and other organizations around the country and abroad organize Data Rescue events. These events were designed to create awareness of the importance and vulnerabilities of the federal environment and climate data and participants were able to help create copies of these data and contribute to other federal information archiving efforts.

Amanpreet Kaur (@akaur0) is the 2015 - 2017 Eugene Garfield Resident in Science Librarianship at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is based in the Biomedical Library. Aman has devoted the last stretch of her residency to Community Health Outreach (https://guides.library.upenn.edu/communityhealth) and will be piloting an information prescription program to encourage credible health information seeking behaviors among patients in Sayre Health Center in West Philadelphia. This pilot program builds upon the existing health corners initiative, the Biomedical Library's partnership with the School of Nursing and the Free Library of Philadelphia. In addition, Aman serves as the 2017 Special Libraries Association (SLA) Philadelphia Chapter Community Outreach Committee Chair. 

The Community Outreach Committee formed earlier this year and has picked 3 initiatives to implement this year:

1. Host two Outdoor Volunteer Days to give back locally. We have a Volunteer Day coming up (http://philadelphia.sla.org/blog/2017/07/29/mt-cuba-center-volunteer-day/)
2. During the Chapter Annual Banquet last spring, Ancil George, the Community Outreach Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed the importance of school libraries and how we can continue to support elementary and high school students over a dozen public schools in West and South Philadelphia. by collecting books for school libraries in partnership with Penn Libraries and the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children (http://philadelphia.sla.org/blog/2017/08/10/support-school-libraries-in-philly/ )
3. Earlier this year, chapter members were inspired by a national movement to save government web pages and datasets. We would like to host a Data Refuge event to add useful metadata to previously-rescued EPA files to make it easier for people to search for and find the datasets https://www.datarefuge.org/

Aman is excited to share her community outreach experiences at the Penn Libraries and with the SLA Philadelphia Chapter as well as learn about community outreach initiatives at your library and/or with your professional organization.

For this chat, please submit any questions that you have for Margaret and Aman to be asked during the chat as well as any community outreach questions or topics you would like to see covered to LISprochat@gmail.com Or feel free to ask your questions during the chat and share your community outreach experiences!

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#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Sep 11 2017 - 8:30pm ET

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TOPIC

Handling Microaggressions in the Library

Leigh has chosen a very timely and relevant topic for the next chat that I expect a lot of people will have a desire to chime in on. Her inspiration for the chat comes from an article over at Letters to a Young Librarian: Handling Microaggressions in the Library, by Amanda M. Leftwich.

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QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Have you ever dealt with microaggression on the job? Please share your experience if you are comfortable.

Q2 What resources do you turn to in reference to handling microaggressions in the library?

Q3 What can libraries do better to combat microaggressions?

Q4 What advice can you share with others to handle microaggressions on the job?

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#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Aug 14 2017

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Side hustles & library professionals

I've found myself thinking lately of an idea I had a few years back for a side hustle that I never bothered to actually run with. And I know Leigh for sure, and loads of other library professionals out there have side hustles, those related to libraries and those not directly related. I want us to talk about these gigs and these ideas for gigs. Let's explore them together. My main inspiration article for this week is 7 tips to brand your side hustle like a pro from Ms. Career Girl, but you could equally say that my inspiration was also Kevin Sampsell's So You Want to Start Your Own Micro-press? at The Center for Fiction because it was what got me thinking of my old idea again.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Do you now/have you ever/do you want to at some point, have a side hustle/second gig? Is it LIS related?

Q2 What kind of LIS related side hustles do you think are out there for library and information professionals?

Q3 What tips and resources can you share with those out there who might be interested in starting a LIS related side hustle?

Q4 Do you think your side hustle makes you a better library professional in your day job? How so?

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#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Jul 24 2017

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TOPIC

Summer Reading & Summer Reading Programs

It's summer, and in LibraryLand that means summer reading and summer reading programs are upon us. This week that's what we're going to talk about, our inspiration article is Read A Book And Win A Ferrari! It’s The Summer Reading Club! by Roz Warren over at HuffPost. If you're at all like me and your library doesn't do summer reading for adults, you might be interested in the BookBub Summer 2017 Reading Challenge, I'm doing this one with my student assistant at work. My library card is getting a good workout lately thanks to it.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Are you running a summer reading program at your library, or have you in the past? If not, do you have interest?

Q2 What types of activities are you doing for summer reading and for what age groups?

Q3 Where have you been the most successful? The least successful?

Q4 What advice/resources can you share for future summer reading programs?

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#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Jul 10 2017

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TOPIC

#LISprochat annual SLA and ALA post-conference chat

This is a yearly feature we run to help those of you who went to either SLA Annual or ALA Annual share what you learned with your colleagues who for whatever reason could not/did not attend.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Did you go to a conference this year? If yes, what conference and what was your reason for attending?  If not, why not?

Q2 What are your takeaways from  #SLA2017 or #ALAAC17 or other conferences and what did you enjoy the most?

Q3 Tell us about someone who you’ve met at #SLA2017 or #ALAAC17 or other conferences and why are they awesome?

Q4 What did you like least/what you’d like to see change about #SLA2017 or #ALAAC17 or other conferences for next year?

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#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Jun 19 2017

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TOPIC

Moving between types of libraries/from libraries to information work or vice versa

This week's chat topic is inspired by Becky Yoose's "Fitting” into the Big Tent: The Role of “Fit” and Moving Between Library Types at Letters to a Young Librarian. I chose this week's topic because transferable skills are always an important thing to talk about and because it's always interesting to think about the differences between types of libraries and between libraries and information work.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Have you switched between library types or between libraries and info work? which types of libraries? What type of info work?

Q2 What do you think are the most transferable skills a library professional can have?

Q3 How do you sell yourself and your transferable skills to employers?

Q4 What advice do you have for building skills for a new type of library/info work when your day to day job is very different?

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