CHLA 2024 CONFERENCE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS / ABSC
CONGRÈS 2024 ATELIERS INTERACTIFS

IW = Interactive Workshops

**IW1. Dedicated time for reading, brainstorming, writing, or reworking a project!**

Margaret Hoogland¹, Anna Ferri², Christine Neilson³, Gary Atwood⁴

¹University of Toledo; ²Colorado State University; ³University of Manitoba; ⁴University of Vermont

Everyone is welcome at this interactive but self-directed session. Participants who have in-progress projects, can go directly to the appropriate table. Participants, who have ideas but remain unsure about whether they should do a project, could spend the time determining feasibility of a program or project. This session provides attendees with a self-directed opportunity to spend time in a distraction reduced environment, which facilitates completing or making progress on a new or existing project or program. Attendees can complete one or more of the following activities in the 75-minute session: (1) Idea Exchange, (2) Keeping up with the Literature/Literature Search, (3) Peer Review, and (4) Write, Write, Write.

**IW2. Organizing for power in your health sciences library: a workshop to utilize labour
organizing techniques to engage with health library patrons, and advocate for library workers**

Orvie Dingwall
University of Manitoba

Health libraries utilize a wide variety of promotion strategies to reach the broad spectrum of health professionals, faculty, and students who use their services and resources. The tools and strategies of renowned labour and community organizer Jane McAlevey can be applied to identifying, and building strong relationships with, health library patrons. These tools and strategies can also be used by health information professionals interested in advocating for library workers within their union, faculty associations, and the larger library community, to improve working conditions and advocate for social justice.

Using health library case examples, workshop participants will learn how to use organizing techniques, such as mapping and charting, to systematically identify and engage health library patrons.