SANTA CLARA– Library Innovation Lab Presenting at the California Library Association Conference

SANTA CLARA– California Humanities’ Library Innovation Lab participants are presenting on a panel at the California Library Association Conference entitled Library Innovation Lab: Humanities Programming for Immigrant Communities on Saturday, November 10, 2018, 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM at the Santa Clara Convention Center.  Description: What do calligraphy, storytelling, Lotería, Play-Doh and virtual reality have in common? They’re all products of the Library Innovation Lab year-long program to engage immigrant communities through the humanities. The inaugural Library Innovation Lab in 2017 included design thinking training as well as funding for humanities-based programming targeted towards immigrant communities. The panel will provide information about the process of the grant program and give examples of the resulting library programming. For registration to the California Library Association Conference, visit the California Library Association Conference 2018 site.  About Library Innovation Lab 2018: Exploring New Ways of Engaging Immigrant Communities through Public Humanities Programming Now in its second year, California Humanities’ Library Innovation Lab (LIL) program supports responsive and relevant public humanities programming in California’s public libraries through a practice-based professional development experience for a cohort of library programming specialists and cash grants.