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Training for Libraries

Engaging with the LGBTQ Community for Libraries

At the end of this training participants will be able to:

  • Utilize best practices to drive enhanced awareness, understanding, and sensitivity around LGBTQ community issues.

  • Identify personal strengths in creating inclusivity in regards to their library.

  • Implement best practices for inclusive exchanges with LGBTQ community members.

  • Describe specific challenges transgender people have as employees and as library patrons.

  • Identify best practices for supporting transgender people as employees and as patrons.

  • Identify barriers to library use facing the LGBTQ community as a whole and how to reduce those barriers in their library.

  • Discuss how to make their library a welcoming space for LGBTQ people, which meets the specific needs of those community members and celebrates the richness of the LGBTQ community.