Your BCLA Continuing Education Committee is pleased to announce the presentation of the 2-day workshop, Intercultural Communication Training for Library Trainers. This 2 day workshop will be held Thu Oct 25 and Fri Oct 26.
More information and registration can be found at:
www.bcla.bc.ca/intercultural--------------
Intercultural Communication Training for Library Trainers
Date:
Thu. Oct. 25 and Fri. Oct 26
Time:
9:00-4:00
Lunch will be provided
Location:
Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch
350 West Georgia St, Vancouver (
map)
Course Description:
Virtually every library in British Columbia serves users from diverse cultural backgrounds. This workshop has been designed to address this communication challenge by members of BCLA's Diversity and Multi-lingual Services committees, with assistance from UBC's Centre for Intercultural Studies.
Created for library staff with an interest in or responsibility for staff training, this 2 day session includes basic training in the theory of intercultural communication and a review of adult education techniques. At the core of the 2-day workshop is a 2.5 hour mini-workshop in intercultural communication for library staff that participants in the longer workshop will learn to deliver at their home institutions.
Both the two day workshop and the 2.5 hour workshop within it will feature activities, group work, energizers, gentle role-playing, mini-lectures, quizzes and problem-solving from real-life library examples
Benefits for Participants:
Participants will leave with materials for delivering the 2.5 hour workshop in their home libraries; experience in delivering one or more segments of the workshops plus membership in an informal network of co-trainers, including continuing access to members of BCLA's Diversity and Multi-Lingual Services Committee.
About the Presenters:
A subcommittee of BCLA's Diversity Committee, the Multilingual Services Committee is made up of librarians from the Interlink Libraries and its mandate is to improve services to ethnic communities and to improve access to collections in languages other than English. Reflecting many of the cultural groups in British Columbia, committee members together have more than a century of library work experience. They share an enthusiasm for making libraries a welcoming place for newcomers and long- time residents alike.
Over the past 20 years, UBC's Centre for Intercultural Studies has been a leader in providing training - nationally and internationally - for people working, managing, studying, teaching and living across cultures.
Cost:
BCLA Members - $175
Non-members - $225
More information and registration can be found at:
www.bcla.bc.ca/interculturalLabels: BCLA session
