Institutionalizing Collaboration: Small and Rural POVs:  Cultivating the Relationship-Driven Library
Channel: Let's Move in Libraries
Date: 2023-04-20

Description: How can rural and small town librarians leverage small town networks to advance community health? Join us for this conversation featuring librarians from North Carolina and Kentucky. We’ll talk about how these libraries formed especially strong bonds with Cooperative Extension agents and local United Way organizations to transform community health, and you’ll learn how you too can use your relationships to advance community health.

Panelists include Lea Wentworth is the Adult Services Manager at McCracken County Public Library in Paducah, Kentucky. She has done library programming for youth and adults both in the library and out in the community for 14 years. Her focus areas include community partnerships, underserved populations, inclusion and well-being. In her spare time she’s an organic vegetable farmer.

April Young has worked for almost twenty years in the library field in North Carolina. She is currently employed as the Library Director of the Rutherford County Library System. She previously worked within the Sandhills Regional Library System at the Hoke County Public Library. April has worked in periodicals, circulation, children’s, teen, and adult services. She is a community focused librarian who believes in an open approach to library services, meeting patrons no matter where they are in life. April loves being outside and enjoys reading, playing with technology, and spending time with her family.

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)