1. Angela Germany Children and Teen Services Consultant State Library of Louisiana

2. (Re)Building Latina/o Outreach: Steps to Engaging Your Community
Takeaways:
Get outside your comfort zone
Evaluate your Latina/o services
Latinx (instead of Latina/Latino)
Create a Latino Advisory Committee for your library to help in developing services & programs
Tons of additional resources on WebJunction
This year I really wanted to focus on learning more about reaching youth in underserved, poverty and at-risk communities. So the three presentations I’m going to mention have this as a common thread.

3. Applying an Equity Lens: Shifting Resources to Reach Low Income Audiences
Takeaways:
Understand what Equity is
Evaluate your services to at-risk
populations
Create an “Opportunity Map”
Advancing Racial Equity in Public Libraries Case Studies from the Field,
This was an eye-opening session for me personally.

4. Take Summer Reading to the Streets: Partnering to Reach Children with Barriers to Library Access
Takeaways:
1 in 4 Third graders are not reading proficiently
Create a “Poverty Map” to target services
“Families Living in Poverty”
Survey after the program: “Are you reaching the right kids?”

5. Children and Teen Services Consultant State Library of Louisiana
Angela Germany
Children and Teen Services Consultant
State Library of Louisiana