#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Nov 27 2017 - 8:30pm ET - #GivingTuesday

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TOPIC

#GivingTuesday and Libraries & Literacy with a special guest chatter

Personally, I love the idea of Giving Tuesday (which is the day after the chat!). I'm a donator anyway, but I like to do it on Giving Tuesday because there's almost guaranteed to be a great matching program going on at one or all of the charities I choose. Leigh has invited #LISprochat regular Amanpreet Kaur (@akaur0) to be our guest chatter for this philanthropic topic to help promote the Community Outreach Initiatives she has been working on with SLA Philly.

Amanpreet is currently and newly the Community Health and Engineering Librarian at the University of Penn. She was the 2015 - 2017 Eugene Garfield Resident in Science Librarianship at the University of Penn as well. Aman (for short), has devoted the last stretch of her residency to Community Health Outreach 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.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WE'VE CHANGED THE TIME TO 8:30PM ET!

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 What are you planning to do for #GivingTuesday? What have you done in the past?

Q2 What creative ideas do you have for #GivingTuesday? Please share!

Q3 What resources do you turn to when trying to locate a library related charity or non-profit to support?

Q4 What advice do you have for supporting charities/Non-Profits?

For this chat, please submit any questions that you have Aman to be asked during the chat as well as any topics regarding Supporting library and literacy-oriented organizations as well as other non-profit organizations you would like to see covered to LISprochat@gmail.com  Or feel free to ask your questions during the chat and share your ideas/experiences.

Also Aman created this awesome editable and shareable Google Doc of #GivingTuesday Suggestions, add some more ideas here!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WPPf9XdC0mN7LnoYoCEEQ0nuj_9rR2bg-I3cn7Vr2SA/edit

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 8:30 PM ET NEXT MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Nov 13 2017 - 8:30pm ET

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TOPIC

Overcommitting yourself on the job and in the library field and learning how to say NO

This is something both Leigh and I have had to learn the hard way, and I'm sure many of you have too. So let's chat about it and see if we can help others avoid this pitfall. Check out Diana Kander's Help Your Team Stop Overcommitting by Empowering Them to Say No article over at Harvard Business Review (if you've got any free views for the month left, or want to pay $8.95...oh HBR...) or Emily Ford's How do you say no? over at In the Library with the Lead Pipe (free!) for a few takes on this topic.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WE'RE CHANGING THE TIME TO 8:30PM ET!

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 overcommitted yourself? Please share your experience.

Q2 What strategies do you take when deciding what to say yes or no to at work or in the field?

Q3 What resources do you turn to when dealing with overcommittment?

Q4 What advice do you have to share for those who deal with overcommittment and saying no on the job and/or in the field?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 8:30 PM ET NEXT MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG.