{"id":16018,"date":"2024-04-09T12:16:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/?p=16018"},"modified":"2024-04-09T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:16:42","slug":"celebrate-national-library-workers-day-with-the-region-6-movers-shakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2024\/04\/celebrate-national-library-workers-day-with-the-region-6-movers-shakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate National Library Workers Day with the Region 6 Movers & Shakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, April 9th is National Library Workers Day<\/a>, a day for everyone to recognize the valuable contributions made by library workers. We wanted to help celebrate some librarians from Region 6 who have received a 2023 Movers & Shakers<\/a> recognition from Library Journal.<\/p>\n

Katie Clausen<\/strong> | Movers & Shakers 2023\u2014Educators
\nIn addition to being a beloved story time leader and early childhood literacy advocate, Katie Clausen\u2014\u201cMiss Katie\u201d to her youngest stakeholders\u2014holds a professional certification in Adverse Childhood Experiences. When she realized that families in her community needed age-appropriate mental-health resources, she and colleague Elizabeth Forkan created a circulating collection of Resiliency Kits\u2014books, games, activities, and information for adults and children on themes of grief and loss, divorce, addiction, emotions, and bullying. \u201cTherapists have mentioned using them with their clients,\u201d says Clausen. \u201cEven if one family is helped through a book or activity in a kit, that\u2019s a success.\u201d Mental health is an ongoing issue, and she expects that the collection will grow. Read more<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Willa Liburd Tavernier<\/strong> | Movers & Shakers 2023\u2014Educators
\n\u201cLife is so unpredictable,\u201d says Willa Liburd Tavernier, reflecting on her career path. \u201cI\u2019m an accidental librarian, in a sense.\u201d She was an attorney in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) when she entered the MA program at the University of Iowa, aiming to lead knowledge-management initiatives at her law firm. Toward the end of the program, hurricanes Irma and Maria ravaged the BVI. Unable to return, she applied to U.S. academic library residency programs and received an offer from Indiana University\u2013Bloomington (IU), where she\u2019s been ever since. Read more<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Amy Kyung-Eun Breslin<\/strong> | Movers & Shakers 2023\u2014Educators
\n\u201cLiteracy justice is critical to social justice,\u201d insists Amy Kyung-Eun Breslin, whose days are spent out in her community spearheading branch-style literacy programs at schools and other stakeholder venues\u2014and busting through access barriers. \u201cWe bridge the transportation barrier by bringing programs and services to community members where they are,\u201d she says. Read more<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Sara Elisa Proa\u00f1o-Motta<\/strong> | Movers & Shakers 2023\u2014Community Builders
\nWhen Sara Elisa Proa\u00f1o-Motta arrived in Michigan in 2008, she worked as a translator and interpreter serving communities that faced barriers to services or resources. \u201cThis led me to recognize the library as one of the most important resources for case managers, advocates, and community navigators,\u201d recalls the Ecuadorian native. \u201cThe work humbled me, informing my understanding of the many cultures represented in Kent County.\u201d Read more<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Kathy Zappitello<\/strong> | Movers & Shakers 2023\u2014Change Agents
\n\u201cSometimes others see leadership in you before you feel or see it within yourself,\u201d says Kathy Zappitello of her library career. She grew up in a small, rural town across the street from the public library, and her best friend\u2019s mom was the head librarian. After she moved back as a young adult, the library reached out to ask her to step into the interim director role, and she never left the field. \u201cThe profession chose me,\u201d she says. She\u2019s been active in the larger library world as well, serving as 2020\u201321 president of the Association for Small and Rural Libraries. Read more<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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