Level: Beginning
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $210 (nonmember, $260)
Attendance Maximum: 25

Instructor(s): Deborah H. Charbonneau, coordinator, Information Access and Delivery, and Carrie Croatt-Moore, information services librarian, Vera P. Shiffman Medical Library and University Libraries, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Offered: Friday, May 19, 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Building and sustaining community-based partnerships are essential to effective health information outreach and various library programs and services. The overall goal of this course is to offer concrete skills and several perspectives that are useful for establishing relationships with a range of community-based organizations and potential partners. Participants will take part in group discussions to explore new models and tools for engaging and retaining community partnerships. A number of examples and a case study will be used to promote a problem-solving approach for in-class interactions. Participants will have opportunities to learn practical and strategic approaches for achieving optimal community cooperation and collaboration and adapt these approaches to their own environments.