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Bias Interruption Training for Search CommitteesSponsor(s): Library Human Resources, UM Library Diversity and InclusionTags: Date: 07-14-2026 Time: 2:30 pm-4:30 pm Status: Past Description: This training session is exclusively for individuals serving as members of a library search committee. Drawing from the U-M “Bias in Everyday Life” program, this session focuses on helping search committee members recognize how bias may influence the candidate search and interview process and provides practical strategies to interrupt such biases. Completion of this training is required for anyone who will participate as a member of … Continue reading Bias Interruption Training for Search Committees |
Fire Extinguisher TrainingSponsor(s): Safety TrainingTags: Safety Training Date: 07-21-2026 Time: 9:30 am-11:00 am Status: Past Description: In a 90-minute in-person workshop presented by Fire Safety Specialists from U-M Environment, Health, and Safety – library employees will partake in a basic fire extinguisher training, which will include both a Powerpoint presentation and a hands-on portion. The presentation will start in Shapiro Library Learning Lab 1 – Room 4059; and will move outside for hands-on portion. By the end of this training session, … Continue reading Fire Extinguisher Training |
Hand-Turned Ceramic VesselsSponsor(s): UM Library Art AllianceTags: Art, Art Alliance, Ceramics, Clay, Crafting Date: 07-21-2026 Time: 3:00 pm-5:00 pm Status: Past Description: Please join the Art Alliance and Elan Lange for our Hand-Turned Ceramic Vessels workshop! We’ll use Paul Briggs’ pinch pot technique to create small cups, vases, or bowls from stoneware clay, making them as simple or elaborate as we like. No experience necessary, this is meditative play. Pieces will be taken to Elan’s studio to fully dry, glazed in a choice of studio glazes, and … Continue reading Hand-Turned Ceramic Vessels |
Interrupting Bias in Candidate Feedback ProcessesSponsor(s): Library Human Resources, UM Library Diversity and InclusionTags: Date: 07-21-2026 Time: 3:30 pm-4:30 pm Status: Past Description: This training session is specifically designed for library colleagues who will provide feedback after attending a candidate presentation or who will participate as stakeholders in an interview session. The session aims to reduce the potential impact of bias in candidate feedback and help ensure fair and equitable search outcomes. The training is strongly encouraged for all library colleagues in these roles, and is required for … Continue reading Interrupting Bias in Candidate Feedback Processes |
Tiered Response Model BasicsSponsor(s): Access and Fulfillment, Safety Training, UM LibraryTags: Safety Training Date: 07-29-2026 Time: 4:00 pm-5:30 pm Status: Past Description: In a 90 minute discussion-based synchronous training session, library employees with onsite roles will learn the Tiered Response Model approach to assessing and responding to incidents within the library. By the end of this training session, attendees will: Gain familiarity with the Library Tiered Response Model. Apply the Tiered Response Model to incident scenarios. Understand the basics of their role in life safety for self, colleagues, and … Continue reading Tiered Response Model Basics |
Bias Interruption Training for Search CommitteesSponsor(s): Library Human Resources, UM Library Diversity and InclusionTags: Date: 08-04-2026 Time: 2:30 pm-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: This training session is exclusively for individuals serving as members of a library search committee. Drawing from the U-M “Bias in Everyday Life” program, this session focuses on helping search committee members recognize how bias may influence the candidate search and interview process and provides practical strategies to interrupt such biases. Completion of this training is required for anyone who will participate as a member of … Continue reading Bias Interruption Training for Search Committees |
Mental Health First Aid TrainingSponsor(s): Safety TrainingTags: mental health, Safety Training Date: 08-05-2026 Time: 8:30 am-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: In this day-long in-person Mental Health First Aid course, held from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm with lunch provided, library employees will learn how to recognize and respond to the signs and symptoms of a mental health challenge or crisis. Mental Health First Aid is an international, evidence-based training course from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing; and it is grounded in messages of hope and recovery. … Continue reading Mental Health First Aid Training |
Responding to an Active Attacker TrainingSponsor(s): Safety TrainingTags: Safety Training Date: 08-12-2026 Time: 3:00 pm-4:00 pm Status: Open Description: In a 60-minute in-person workshop presented by Police Officer Anthony Ricco from the Community Engagement Unit of the U-M Division of Public Safety and Security (DPSS), library employees will partake in a training designed to prepare and educate them on how to respond to and prevent an active attacker incident. The presentation will take place in Hatcher North Gallery Lab – Room 100H. By the end of this … Continue reading Responding to an Active Attacker Training |
Interrupting Bias in Candidate Feedback ProcessesSponsor(s): Library Human Resources, UM Library Diversity and InclusionTags: Date: 08-18-2026 Time: 3:30 pm-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: This training session is specifically designed for library colleagues who will provide feedback after attending a candidate presentation or who will participate as stakeholders in an interview session. The session aims to reduce the potential impact of bias in candidate feedback and help ensure fair and equitable search outcomes. The training is strongly encouraged for all library colleagues in these roles, and is required for … Continue reading Interrupting Bias in Candidate Feedback Processes |
Mental Health First Aid TrainingSponsor(s): Safety TrainingTags: mental health, Safety Training Date: 08-25-2026 Time: 8:30 am-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: In this day-long in-person Mental Health First Aid course, held from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm with lunch provided, library employees will learn how to recognize and respond to the signs and symptoms of a mental health challenge or crisis. Mental Health First Aid is an international, evidence-based training course from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing; and it is grounded in messages of hope and recovery. … Continue reading Mental Health First Aid Training |
Bookmark Bedazzling: Diamond Painting with the Art AllianceSponsor(s): UM Library Art AllianceTags: Art, Art Alliance, Crafting, Well Being Date: 08-26-2026 Time: 2:30 pm-4:00 pm Status: Open Description: Join the Art Alliance at the end of summer and try your hand at a fun craft–diamond painting. Amanda Schlecte hosts a “calm before the semester” opportunity to create your own bedazzled bookmark. Diamond painting is similar to paint-by-numbers but instead of paint, sparkly beads are placed on a number or symbol to create an image. The bookmarks are adhesive so there is no glue … Continue reading Bookmark Bedazzling: Diamond Painting with the Art Alliance |
Bias Interruption Training for Search CommitteesSponsor(s): Library Human Resources, UM Library Diversity and InclusionTags: Date: 09-01-2026 Time: 2:30 pm-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: This training session is exclusively for individuals serving as members of a library search committee. Drawing from the U-M “Bias in Everyday Life” program, this session focuses on helping search committee members recognize how bias may influence the candidate search and interview process and provides practical strategies to interrupt such biases. Completion of this training is required for anyone who will participate as a member of … Continue reading Bias Interruption Training for Search Committees |
Interrupting Bias in Candidate Feedback ProcessesSponsor(s): Library Human Resources, UM Library Diversity and InclusionTags: Date: 09-15-2026 Time: 3:30 pm-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: This training session is specifically designed for library colleagues who will provide feedback after attending a candidate presentation or who will participate as stakeholders in an interview session. The session aims to reduce the potential impact of bias in candidate feedback and help ensure fair and equitable search outcomes. The training is strongly encouraged for all library colleagues in these roles, and is required for … Continue reading Interrupting Bias in Candidate Feedback Processes |
Improv WorkshopSponsor(s): Library Staff Forum BoardTags: improv, roleplay, theater Date: 09-17-2026 Time: 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: Please join the Library Staff Forum Board for an improv workshop hosted by Tony DeRosa from hear.say brewing + theater. Staff will improvise responses to common library scenarios involving patrons and get a chance to practice their communication skills. Catering will be provided at this event. Please reach out to staff.forum.board@umich.edu with any questions or concerns. |
Funky Fidgets: Sensory Tool CreationSponsor(s): Shapiro Design Lab, UM Library Art AllianceTags: Art, Art Alliance, Crafting, Fidget Toys, Sensory, Well Being Date: 09-18-2026 Time: 3:30 pm-5:00 pm Status: Open Description: Engage in some sensory tool creation with Ezra Landon, the Art Alliance, and the Shapiro Design Lab to finish off your workweek with some pizzazz. Library employees and student staff are invited to participate in any of the four crafting stations in the Shapiro PIE Space of their choosing: crocheted mobius strips, LEGO fidget cubes and spinners, slime, and bicycle chain fidgets. Refreshments will be … Continue reading Funky Fidgets: Sensory Tool Creation |
Bias Interruption Training for Search CommitteesSponsor(s): Library Human Resources, UM Library Diversity and InclusionTags: Date: 10-06-2026 Time: 2:30 pm-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: This training session is exclusively for individuals serving as members of a library search committee. Drawing from the U-M “Bias in Everyday Life” program, this session focuses on helping search committee members recognize how bias may influence the candidate search and interview process and provides practical strategies to interrupt such biases. Completion of this training is required for anyone who will participate as a member of … Continue reading Bias Interruption Training for Search Committees |
Naloxone TrainingSponsor(s): Safety TrainingTags: Safety Training Date: 10-07-2026 Time: 3:00 pm-4:00 pm Status: Open Description: In a one-hour in-person workshop, presented by our own Logan Fortino from the U-M Library Train-the-Trainer Program, library employees will partake in a Naloxone training session. This comprehensive overdose response workshop from OPEN Michigan gives participants the confidence and practical skills to respond to an opioid overdose using Naloxone. There will be both a PowerPoint presentation and a hands-on portion; and it will be held … Continue reading Naloxone Training |
Interrupting Bias in Candidate Feedback ProcessesSponsor(s): Library Human Resources, UM Library Diversity and InclusionTags: Date: 10-20-2026 Time: 3:30 pm-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: This training session is specifically designed for library colleagues who will provide feedback after attending a candidate presentation or who will participate as stakeholders in an interview session. The session aims to reduce the potential impact of bias in candidate feedback and help ensure fair and equitable search outcomes. The training is strongly encouraged for all library colleagues in these roles, and is required for … Continue reading Interrupting Bias in Candidate Feedback Processes |
American Red Cross First Aid TrainingSponsor(s): Safety TrainingTags: Safety Training Date: 10-21-2026 Time: 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: In a 90-minute in-person workshop, presented by our own Jake Smith from the U-M Library Train-the-Trainer Program, library employees will partake in an American Red Cross First Aid training session. The course covers First Aid, CPR, and AED training; and it equips attendees to recognize and care for a variety of first aid, breathing, and cardiac emergencies. The workshop includes both a PowerPoint presentation and … Continue reading American Red Cross First Aid Training |
Tiered Response Model Basics – in personSponsor(s): Safety Training, UM LibraryTags: Safety Training Date: 10-27-2026 Time: 4:00 pm-5:30 pm Status: Open Description: In this 90 minute discussion-based in-person training session, held in Shapiro Library Room 3180, library employees with onsite roles will learn the Tiered Response Model approach to assessing and responding to incidents within the library. By the end of this training session, attendees will: Gain familiarity with the Library Tiered Response Model. Apply the Tiered Response Model to incident scenarios. Understand the basics of their role … Continue reading Tiered Response Model Basics – in person |
Bias Interruption Training for Search CommitteesSponsor(s): Library Human Resources, UM Library Diversity and InclusionTags: Date: 11-06-2026 Time: 1:00 pm-3:00 pm Status: Open Description: This training session is exclusively for individuals serving as members of a library search committee. Drawing from the U-M “Bias in Everyday Life” program, this session focuses on helping search committee members recognize how bias may influence the candidate search and interview process and provides practical strategies to interrupt such biases. Completion of this training is required for anyone who will participate as a member of … Continue reading Bias Interruption Training for Search Committees |
Stop the Bleed WorkshopSponsor(s): Safety TrainingTags: Safety Training Date: 11-11-2026 Time: 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: In a 90-minute in-person workshop presented by the U-M Division of Public Safety and Security (DPSS), interested library employees will partake in an American College of Surgeons (ACS) course designed to prepare and educate them on how to recognize and respond to life-threatening bleeding. The presentation will take place in Hatcher North Gallery Lab – Room 100H. By the end of this training session, attendees … Continue reading Stop the Bleed Workshop |
Interrupting Bias in Candidate Feedback ProcessesSponsor(s): Library Human Resources, UM Library Diversity and InclusionTags: Date: 11-17-2026 Time: 3:30 pm-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: This training session is specifically designed for library colleagues who will provide feedback after attending a candidate presentation or who will participate as stakeholders in an interview session. The session aims to reduce the potential impact of bias in candidate feedback and help ensure fair and equitable search outcomes. The training is strongly encouraged for all library colleagues in these roles, and is required for … Continue reading Interrupting Bias in Candidate Feedback Processes |
Verbal Intervention TrainingSponsor(s): Safety TrainingTags: mental health, Safety Training Date: 11-19-2026 Time: 8:30 am-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: In this day-long, in-person Verbal Intervention training course, library employees will learn how to identify, respond to, and prevent or mitigate low-risk challenging behavior with proactive, non-restrictive verbal intervention techniques that can de-escalate challenging and disruptive behavior. These strategies can often turn a crisis into an opportunity for a positive outcome. This course is one of many evidence-based crisis prevention programs offered by the Crisis … Continue reading Verbal Intervention Training |
Bias Interruption Training for Search CommitteesSponsor(s): Library Human Resources, UM Library Diversity and InclusionTags: Date: 12-01-2026 Time: 2:30 pm-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: This training session is exclusively for individuals serving as members of a library search committee. Drawing from the U-M “Bias in Everyday Life” program, this session focuses on helping search committee members recognize how bias may influence the candidate search and interview process and provides practical strategies to interrupt such biases. Completion of this training is required for anyone who will participate as a member of … Continue reading Bias Interruption Training for Search Committees |
Tiered Response Model Basics – virtualSponsor(s): Safety Training, UM LibraryTags: Safety Training Date: 12-03-2026 Time: 1:30 pm-3:00 pm Status: Open Description: In a 90 minute discussion-based virtual training session, library employees with onsite roles will learn the Tiered Response Model approach to assessing and responding to incidents within the library. By the end of this training session, attendees will: Gain familiarity with the Library Tiered Response Model. Apply the Tiered Response Model to incident scenarios. Understand the basics of their role in life safety for self, colleagues, … Continue reading Tiered Response Model Basics – virtual |
Interrupting Bias in Candidate Feedback ProcessesSponsor(s): Library Human Resources, UM Library Diversity and InclusionTags: Date: 12-15-2026 Time: 3:30 pm-4:30 pm Status: Open Description: This training session is specifically designed for library colleagues who will provide feedback after attending a candidate presentation or who will participate as stakeholders in an interview session. The session aims to reduce the potential impact of bias in candidate feedback and help ensure fair and equitable search outcomes. The training is strongly encouraged for all library colleagues in these roles, and is required for … Continue reading Interrupting Bias in Candidate Feedback Processes |
Creating Healthy BoundariesSponsor(s): Safety Training, UM LibraryTags: Safety Training, Self-care Date: 12-17-2026 Time: 3:00 pm-4:00 pm Status: Open Description: In a one-hour virtual training session presented by Jill Castro, Senior Faculty and Staff Counselor from the Faculty & Staff Counseling & Consultation Office (FASCCO), library employees will learn tools and skills for setting and maintaining healthy boundaries. By the end of this training session, attendees will: Learn the importance of setting personal and professional boundaries. Know how to recognize their own limits. Take away … Continue reading Creating Healthy Boundaries |
Tiered Response Model Basics – in personSponsor(s): Safety Training, UM LibraryTags: Safety Training Date: 02-25-2027 Time: 2:00 pm-3:30 pm Status: Open Description: In this 90 minute discussion-based in-person training session, held in Hatcher Graduate Library South – Room 806, library employees with onsite roles will learn the Tiered Response Model approach to assessing and responding to incidents within the library. By the end of this training session, attendees will: Gain familiarity with the Library Tiered Response Model. Apply the Tiered Response Model to incident scenarios. Understand the basics … Continue reading Tiered Response Model Basics – in person |
Tiered Response Model Basics – virtualSponsor(s): Safety Training, UM LibraryTags: Safety Training Date: 04-29-2027 Time: 10:30 am-12:00 pm Status: Open Description: In a 90 minute discussion-based virtual training session, library employees with onsite roles will learn the Tiered Response Model approach to assessing and responding to incidents within the library. By the end of this training session, attendees will: Gain familiarity with the Library Tiered Response Model. Apply the Tiered Response Model to incident scenarios. Understand the basics of their role in life safety for self, colleagues, … Continue reading Tiered Response Model Basics – virtual |
Tiered Response Model Basics – virtualSponsor(s): Safety Training, UM LibraryTags: Safety Training Date: 05-19-2027 Time: 1:30 pm-3:00 pm Status: Open Description: In a 90 minute discussion-based virtual training session, library employees with onsite roles will learn the Tiered Response Model approach to assessing and responding to incidents within the library. By the end of this training session, attendees will: Gain familiarity with the Library Tiered Response Model. Apply the Tiered Response Model to incident scenarios. Understand the basics of their role in life safety for self, colleagues, … Continue reading Tiered Response Model Basics – virtual |
Tiered Response Model Basics – in personSponsor(s): Safety Training, UM LibraryTags: Safety Training Date: 06-16-2027 Time: 4:00 pm-5:30 pm Status: Open Description: In this 90 minute discussion-based in-person training session, held in Hatcher Graduate Library South – Room 806, library employees with onsite roles will learn the Tiered Response Model approach to assessing and responding to incidents within the library. By the end of this training session, attendees will: Gain familiarity with the Library Tiered Response Model. Apply the Tiered Response Model to incident scenarios. Understand the basics … Continue reading Tiered Response Model Basics – in person |





