Session Listing

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.

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »