Your City, Your Issues - Civic Engagement Workshops for Staff and Students
Channel: Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian Webinars
Date: 2020-04-21

A lot of what takes places in our daily lives is managed and governed by our county, city, and town governments. However, most Civics 101 and civic engagement classes and discussions tend to focus primarily on Federal government. Often students and the general public are not always aware of the many ways they can have an impact or advocate for issues at the local level - or even how decisions and laws are made at the local level. In order to provide resources in this area, Kris worked with a campus community engagement office to create a quarterly workshop called "Your City, Your Issues Engaging with Local Government". In this webinar, Kris discusses how she developed and deployed the workshop series and share course materials so that you can develop a similar workshop for your community. 

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-gUfoTXuAzQv0dAzXLYuZnOGynv6R3ej1fzxHlXTIvw/edit#slide=id.p1

 BeWell Civic Engagement Activities https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ApL1JW6AWaZ7PMxTjNTRT-jaxNOG08H2/view?usp=sharing
Community Health Advocacy Class Activities https://drive.google.com/file/d/11A8DXjp9MTOkYGHiRm7u7ljqXimDpwn4/view?usp=sharing

Kris Kasianovitz has been wrangling government information for the past 20 years in academic libraries. She is the Government Information Librarian for State, Local and International Documents at Stanford's Green Library; and as of January 2017 is the Head of the Library’s Social Sciences Resources Group. She received her M.S.L.I.S from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science.