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Texas Forums Friends, This last
week of July is shaping up to be a busy one for online events relevant to Texas
Forums! Here are two events that might be of interest to you. The best part is
that you can participate from the air-conditioned comfort of your own home! No
need to brave the Texas July heat. (This is just the start of lots of COOL
events to come throughout the next year!) Student
Issue Dialogues On July
25-27, 2006, I will be a panelist for an online discussion to explore how
online dialogue might enable high school and college students to learn about,
discuss, and act on state, national and international issues that are important
to them with subject experts, lawmakers and peers from throughout the country.
This dialogue is sponsored by WestEd and
the National Center for Learning and
Citizenship (NCLC). If you are interested in online dialogues and/or
strategies for engaging youth in public life, please join me in this
discussion. Click here
to learn more about this event and to register. The topics that will be covered
(one per day) are:
Here's a
list of the other panelists who will be on hand to answer questions and share
their expertise:
Hosting
a Forum at your Library on Democracy's Challenge for The September Project And don't
forget that Friday July 28 at 2:00 Central, I will also be hosting a virtual
panel presentation on how libraries are using the Democracy's Challenge issue
guide for programming for The September Project. I've reposted the details
below in case you missed my earlier e-mail or are new to this list! I hope to
see you online this week! Taylor
Willingham, Texas Forums Coordinator Join a Virtual Panel
Presentation on How To: Host a September Project
at Your Library Using National Issues Forums materials on Democracy’s
Challenge: Reclaiming the Public’s Role Date:
July 28 How to
attend: To attend this event, go to the OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries) Website
and enter the auditorium link on the left hand side of the page. You will need
a computer with speakers. If you have a microphone attached to your computer,
you will be able to pose questions to the panelist orally. Otherwise, you can
interact via text messaging in the virtual auditorium. If you have never
attended an OPAL event, check out the video introduction
at: http://www.opal-online.org/OPALpromo200603b.wmv.
(Windows Media Video file; playback time 2 minutes, 39 seconds) Program
description: The September Project encourages libraries to host free civic
events about freedom, democracy, and citizenship in remembrance of September
11th. The National Issues Forums discussion guide, Democracy’s Challenge:
Reclaiming the Public’s Role is particularly well-suited for this
year’s September Project events. Participants in this online panel
presentation will learn about the history and innovative programs offered by
1,100 libraries in 34 countries as part of the September Project over the past
two years. (For up-to-date information about new projects coming on line, track
The September Project Blog: http://theseptemberproject.blogspot.com/)
In particular, participants will learn about a unique opportunity to: ·
Obtain free materials you can use
to host community discussions on the National Issues Forums (NIF) discussion
guide, Democracy’s Challenge: Reclaiming the Public’s Role, ·
Make the results of their forums a
part of a report on hundreds of other forums on this issue that will be
presented to Congress in the fall of 2006, ·
Use their forums to connect with
their local public television stations and the documentary Public Voice 2006,
People and Politics: Facing Democracy’s Challenge featuring excerpts of
NIF forums and commentary by nationally known political leaders and
commentators, who reflect on what this “public voice” may mean in
setting a new direction for America. Join with
hundred of others in the NIF network who are hosting forums on
Democracy’s Challenge. Presenter:
David Silver, Co-Director, The September Project Presenter,
Sarah Washburn, Co-Director, The September Project Presenter:
Michael Baldwin, Director, Benbrook (TX) Public Library Moderator:
Taylor Willingham, Coordinator
of Texas Forums, an initiative of the LBJ Library, and Co-founder of the ALA
Membership Initiative Group, Libraries
Fostering Civic Engagement Convener:
Nancy Kranich, Past President of American Library Association and Co-Founder of
the ALA Membership Initiative Group, Libraries
Fostering Civic Engagement David Silver
is the co-director of The September Project and leads the project's outreach
efforts. As a citizen, David believes libraries represent the heart, soul, and
collective memory of our communities. As a reader, David looks to libraries,
and librarians, for new ideas, new perspectives, and new solutions. His local
library is the Ballard Branch <http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=branch_open&branchID=3>
of the Seattle Public Library. His work library is the University of
Washington's Suzzallo Library <http://www.lib.washington.edu>.
Sarah
Washburn is Co-director of The September Project, and leads the online and
offline community efforts of the project. She is inspired and influenced by the
endlessly creative and driven community of librarians around the world. A
lifelong supporter and user of libraries, she likes to check out libraries on
vacation and business trips, and has been known to visit numerous hometown
libraries on a given Saturday. Her first memory of libraries impacting her life
was as a member of the summer reading club at the W. Clarke Swanson Library
<http://www.omahapubliclibrary.org>
in Omaha, Nebraska. She will never forget the excitement of watching her name
appear in construction paper stars each time she finished a book. Mike
Baldwin is Director of the Benbrook (Texas) Public Library and a member of the
Texas Forums network. He holds a master’s degree in public administration
as well as library science and has taught American government. Mike believes
that libraries are essential to the maintenance of American democracy and that
proactive stimulation of responsible citizenship should be a primary component
of the public library mission. To that end he wrote the article “Can
Libraries Save Democracy?” in Library Journal (10/15/2002) and
“Librarians As Knowledge Provocateurs” (Public Libraries,
March/April, 2006). Mike has also proposed that the American Library
Association initiate a One Book/One Nation project that will ask all Americans
to read and discuss the same book on an issue of importance to American
democracy. Mike is on the board of The September Project. The Benbrook Public
Library’s September Project program this year will be a public forum
using the NIF materials, “Democracy’s Challenge: Reclaiming the
public’s role.” This
presentation is being convened by members of the Libraries Fostering Civic
Engagement Membership Initiative Group of the American Library Association
Membership. The Civic Engagement MIG was formed to provide an ALA
"organizational home" for members interested in facilitating public
forums, fostering civic engagement, and framing issues for deliberation in
their communities. For more information about this MIG and other community
engagement resources, go to: http://nancykranich.pingotter.com/blog.
Texas Forums, an initiative of the LBJ
Presidential Library is hosting this event on behalf of the National Issues
Forums Institute. For more information, contact Taylor Willingham. |
