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Successful Community Partnerships Through Intentional Outreach webinar
It’s easy, as librarians, to try and answer to all of our communities’ needs. But with growing demands and tightening budgets, it becomes increasingly challenging to stretch our capacities. Sometimes all we have to be is the connectors! Community Outreach Manager Katie Reineke will discuss ways EVPL Outreach has leveraged successful community partnerships by connecting subject experts to our residents. She will also share clever tools EVPL Outreach has applied to continuously expand its reach with the same staff and budget for 3 years.
1 hr / 1 LEU
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Presenter: Katie Reineke is the Community Outreach Manager for the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library (EVPL), where she has served for over 10 years. She believes her talents and skills are best utilized by being embedded in the community, helping solve complex challenges and connecting those to library services. In 2021, Katie was given the opportunity to manage EVPL’s newly developed Outreach Department and prioritized its efforts in communities that experience barriers to traditional library service. Since the establishment of the Outreach Department, EVPL’s services in the community have more than tripled and are creating new and innovative ways to serve hard-to-reach populations in the county. In 2024, she was elected Vice President of the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services and co-chairs Communications committee.
- Date:
- Thursday, September 4, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Audience:
- General Public Library Staff Youth Services Staff
- Categories:
- ISL - Virtual Event
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