Find out how to avoid wasting time preparing proposals that may not be feasible. This session will breakdown the process developed to support librarians in their pursuit of grant funding, and to build a successful grants program at the Smathers Libraries. You’ll learn how to interpret grant guidelines, facilitate brainstorming, and determine feasibility prior to writing the proposal—all of which will save hours of struggling and heartache..(1 hour)

CoLAB Planning Series® workshops have been facilitated since 2002 and have served over 1740 participants in nonprofits and academic institutions. Learn the keys to creating engaging and creative connections using methods that build on asset-based community development, appreciative inquiry and other methodologies. We will experiment with a short demonstration of how quickly you can get to know what’s most important to the mysterious colleague sitting next to you. (45 minutes)

Move Around the Room is a fun facilitated ice-breaker to meet participants during short 1-2 minute conversations. This session is best used at the start of a conference to assist participants in getting acquainted with each other in an engaging and interesting way. While moving around the room, each participant will find a partner and exchange answers to a question provided by the facilitator. After five rounds (5 different questions with 5 different people) participants then help to introduce participants at the beginning of the conference. (1 hour-if we do introductions for 30-40 participants?)