Diversity in Rural Libraries
Bilingual Story Time
Join us to learn how Plum Creek Library System created diverse story time kits and how Blue Earth Library offered a bilingual story walk to their community.
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April 5, 2024
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00pm
Our Speakers:
Elizabeth Hoffman - Director, Plum Creek Library System
Rebecca Hudson - Plum Creek Library System Office Administrator/Program Coordinator
Heidi Shutt - Director, Blue Earth Community Library
Heidi Shutt
Heidi Shutt is the director at the Blue Earth Community Library. She has an MLIS from the University of Washington in Seattle and she has very happily worked in rural public libraries for 13 years. She is interested in bilingual opportunities for patrons because she wants everyone to feel welcome in the library using library services and at library programs.
Rebecca Hudson works to administer the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund programming for the library system. She's been a staff member of the Library System since 2015, and before that, worked at the Slayton Public Library for more than twenty years. Naturally that job entailed myriad tasks including but not limited to: children’s programming, customer and reference services and reader’s advisory. Literature is her life and she's an ardent advocate for libraries and the freedom for everyone to select and access the literary materials that they desire.
Elizabeth Hoffman is the Director of the Plum Creek Library System, a nine-county federated regional public library system headquartered in Worthington. She has worked in libraries for over 20 years. Elizabeth received her BSEd in History and Social Science from Northern State University in Aberdeen, SD, and her MLIS from the Minnesota cohort of the University of North Texas out of Denton, TX.