Community Engagement
Roundtables(CERs)
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Aug. 1, 2024 – Jul. 31, 2025
CERs Development and Design: develop CERs discussions and activities from survey findings, create CERs panelists application form and participant registration form, recruit, invite, and confirm 20-25 panelists and at least 100 participants, develop CERs feedback form, update project website with CERs information and promote the CERs.
CER I: discuss survey findings and identify gaps and challenges to library-community partnerships, create and make available on website CER I findings report.
CER II: build on CER I discussions to discuss successful library-community partnerships and develop recommendations for successful partnerships, create and make available on website CER II findings report.
CERs Analysis: conduct analysis on CERs data and findings to develop initial recommendations for library-community partnerships and reveal the underlying framework which will inform paths of future research.
CERs Deliverables: create CERs overall findings report with results from both CERs.
Project Wrap-Up and Final Deliverables: Develop comprehensive white paper and make available on the project website. White paper will include the project’s initial findings on library-community partnerships during emergencies and recommendations for developing successful partnerships. Presentations and publications will be prepared for major state and national library and non-library conferences to promote the project’s findings. The project team will identify areas of further investigation to begin preparation of a research project which will investigate findings on library-community partnerships in emergencies in-depth.