Start Where You Are: Early Career Perspectives on Cultivating the Relationship-Driven Library
Channel: Let's Move in Libraries
Date: 28/04/2023

Description: Our conversation series concludes with the empowering message that anyone can be a community change agent! Library workers from Virginia, Delaware, and Texas will share with you how they hit the ground running in their libraries. Learn how you too can be a community leader and partner, no matter how long you’ve worked in libraries, or what your job title is.

Part of Cultivating the Relationship-Driven Library. During the month of April, Let’s Move in Libraries will host a series of conversations on community collaboration and community health.

https://go.uncg.edu/libraryevent

This event is part of HEAL (Healthy Eating and Active Living) at the Library, funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum & Library Services (# RE-246336-OLS-20)

Panelists include:
Celeste Bleu is Assistant Manager, Adult Services, in the Programs, Partnerships, and Outreach Division, Harris County Public Library. She has worked in libraries since high school, and has worked at Harris County Public Library since 2012, shifting from branch-level work to systems-level work in 2021. Celeste serves on the Region 3 Advisory Board for the National Network of the Library of Medicine (NNLM) and is an active member and leader in the Texas Library Association.

Kelly Senser is a programming and community engagement coordinator for Loudoun County Public Library in northern Virginia. Equal parts reader and nature explorer, she regards libraries and the great outdoors as treasured spaces to nurture one’s sense of wonder. During her 20 years at National Wildlife Federation, gardening for wildlife and the benefits of outdoor play were centerpieces of the content and programs she created. Passions for these subjects and community-building now fuel her local efforts to connect people with nature. Kelly has been a certified Virginia Master Naturalist since 2015.

Stacy Lane comes from a retail management background and started in libraries a little over three years ago. She is the Youth Services Librarian at the Laurel Public Library in Laurel, Delaware and is currently working on her MMLIS from the University of Southern California. Stacy loves reading, collaging, and a good massage. She can be found perusing thrift stores or yard sales in her spare time. She loves all things library and youth services. She resides in Delaware with her husband, their two children, two dogs, and one cat.