News from Libraries and RAILS

The Oak Park Public Library hosted its first Race Conscious Readers workshop in September for families looking for ways to talk about race with their kids. Library staff modeled strategies in storytime stations, using literature to raise consciousness and start conversations about equity. Families...

Results from an equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) study conducted this year by the Evanston Public Library (EPL) reinforced community wishes for a greater library presence in the neighborhoods. While many of the recommendations put forth by consultant DeEtta Jones and Associates (DJA) are in...

Our website builder, Brian Smith, is looking for photographs of Illinois library employees' dogs to use in his presentation at the Illinois Library Association annual conference next month. The title of his session is "They're Good Docs Brent" and it's on the topic of semantic markup in website...

A new Arlington Heights Memorial Library outreach program utilizes Google Expeditions, a virtual reality experiential learning tool, to give older adults the thrill of visiting virtually anywhere in the world. "I originally used our Google Expeditions kit as a way to add a fun technology experience...