Conference: Building Resilient Communities: A National Symposium that explores the role of public libraries in addressing local climate impacts

会议：建设有复原力的社区：探讨公共图书馆在应对当地气候影响方面的作用的全国研讨会

• 批准号: 2314180
• 负责人: Anne Holland
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314180&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Building; Resilient; Communities; National

The proposed conference will convene library leaders, climate researchers and educators, public health experts, and informal educators to examine the current prevalence of climate related programming in libraries, and how the concept of environmental health can be used by libraries to create locally and culturally relevant, change oriented, and equitable STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning experiences. The intention is for these experiences to be designed with (not just for) their communities increasing resilience and the ability to address hyper-local climate impacts. The conference will include 30 public library leaders, experts in environmental impacts due to climate change, public health experts, and experts in STEM education and informal learning. The purpose of the proposed conference is to bring together thought leaders and change makers across the fields of public libraries, informal STEM learning, and climate change science to catalyze action and research around the roles that libraries and community-based organizations can play in responding to environmental and health-related concerns due to climate change. The conference will advance knowledge by documenting current efforts and utilizing the experts participating to make recommendations for future research, action, and planning.Informal education environments, such as libraries, are now seen as an untapped educational resource. While research and evaluation in museum settings has grown substantially, the potential of informal learning in libraries is still being explored. There is a need for research exploring how existing informal learning models can help predict and understand learning outcomes in a library setting. This conference project aims to identify and create recommendations for a research agenda across the area of public libraries, climate, and community involvement. Evaluation for the conference and related deliverables will be rooted in the Transformative Paradigm, which recognizes the pervasiveness of inequity and injustice in people's daily lives, and views the role of research and evaluation to be one of addressing and alleviating these societal problems. Specific deliverables for this project include: The national conference or symposium, four background reports to set the stage for the conference and to identify current salient issues, webinars for public library staff highlighting project and partner resources as well as the conference results, a webpage to disseminate conference activities and outputs, presentations at regional and national meetings, and the development of evaluation instruments meant to support and iterate on the project work. Project partners include the Space Science Institute's National Center for Interactive Learning, Web Junction, Interactive Learning Dynamics, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. With a focus on centering equity and building climate resilience in poorer communities, this conference targets the public librarians as the primary audience and will further cement the roles of public libraries as equitably accessed community spaces and critical anchor institutions in STEM learning ecosystems, particularly around the critical issues of climate change, public health, and misinformation about scientific processes related to both. This conference project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which supports projects that: (a) contribute to research and practice that considers informal STEM learning's role in equity and belonging in STEM; (b) promote personal and educational success in STEM; (c) advance public engagement in scientific discovery; (d) foster interest in STEM careers; (e) create and enhance the theoretical and empirical foundations for effective informal STEM learning; (f) improve community vibrancy; and/or (g) enhance science communication and the public's engagement in and understanding of STEM and STEM processes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

拟议的会议将召集图书馆领导人，气候研究人员和教育工作者，公共卫生专家和非正式教育工作者，以研究当前图书馆中气候相关规划的流行程度，以及图书馆如何利用环境健康的概念来创造当地和文化相关的，以变化为导向的，公平的STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）学习体验。其目的是为了这些经验的设计与（而不仅仅是为了）他们的社区提高复原力和应对超本地气候影响的能力。会议将包括30名公共图书馆领导人，气候变化对环境影响的专家，公共卫生专家以及STEM教育和非正式学习专家。拟议会议的目的是将公共图书馆，非正式STEM学习和气候变化科学领域的思想领袖和变革者聚集在一起，围绕图书馆和社区组织在应对气候变化引起的环境和健康相关问题方面可以发挥的作用促进行动和研究。会议将通过记录当前的努力和利用与会专家为未来的研究、行动和规划提出建议来推进知识。图书馆等非正式教育环境现在被视为未开发的教育资源。虽然在博物馆环境中的研究和评估已经大幅增长，但图书馆中的非正式学习的潜力仍在探索中。有必要进行研究，探索现有的非正式学习模式如何帮助预测和理解图书馆环境中的学习成果。该会议项目旨在确定和创建跨公共图书馆，气候和社区参与领域的研究议程的建议。对会议和相关交付品的评价将植根于变革范式，该范式认识到人们日常生活中普遍存在不公平和不公正现象，并认为研究和评价的作用是解决和缓解这些社会问题。本项目的具体交付成果包括：全国会议或专题讨论会，四份背景报告，为会议做好准备，并确定当前的突出问题，为公共图书馆工作人员举办网络研讨会，重点介绍项目和合作伙伴资源以及会议成果，建立一个网页，传播会议活动和成果，在地区和国家会议上做演讲，以及开发旨在支持和监督项目工作的评估工具。项目合作伙伴包括空间科学研究所的国家互动学习中心、Web Junction、互动学习动力和北卡罗来纳州格林斯伯勒大学。本次会议以贫困社区的公平和气候适应能力建设为重点，将公共图书馆作为主要受众，并将进一步巩固公共图书馆作为公平访问的社区空间和STEM学习生态系统中的关键锚机构的作用，特别是围绕气候变化，公共卫生以及与两者相关的科学过程的错误信息等关键问题。该会议项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划支持以下项目：（a）促进研究和实践，考虑非正式STEM学习在STEM中的公平和归属感中的作用;（B）促进STEM中的个人和教育成功;（c）推动公众参与科学发现;（d）培养对STEM职业的兴趣;（e）促进STEM的发展。（e）为有效的非正式STEM学习建立和加强理论和经验基础;（f）提高社区活力;和/或（g）加强科学传播和公众参与和理解STEM和STEM过程。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。