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Human Libray of Southeaster Minnesota In Support of LH's Sabbatical Project

 Impact Lvl 1: Arts & Culture ; Diversity and Inclusion ; Health
Public Report on Human Libray of Southeaster Minnesota led by Diversity Council
Last modified: February 16, 2022

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"Hello to new friends, passionate world changers! Thank you for joining us today for an overview and experimental Human Library Session! My “project” this sabbatical is to continue to discover how this outstanding experience can be shared with my students. "

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Feb 9, 2022, Message from LHW: 

 

 Hello Human Library Friends!!!!

WOW – that would just outstanding! I have had lots of great conversations with folks about this 1 hour of sharing.

Thanks for Rebecca for meeting with me to plan and for all of the plan B’s and C’s we made too! I couldn’t believe my internet was “unstable” a few times when I went to the BIG CITY of COTTON from the woods, lol!

 

Dee – thanks for your belief in all of us and your leadership! Your “mosaic” idea was great!

Michael and Samantha! Thanks for joining!!!!

 

Kim – Al – Zelle – Laura = POWERFUL

OH MY! What a beautiful bookshelf you are! Your friendship means more than I can ever say, thank you for fearlessly sharing your self and wisdom!!!!!

 

Kristin – we missed you, but we’ll share the video. It was nice to still connect even though we didn’t do a 2nd hour.

I just want to say – wow! Thank you so much! When the readers all came together RIGHT BY THE CAMERA/SCREEN, wow, shivers – they even noticed it, “Look at how we were sitting before and how now, after only a few minutes, we are all together like this” someone said!

 

I have the PowerPoint added in this attachment with some cool research I found should you want to use it/build on it 

 

POWERFUL!
I am ready for a nap now!
Lori

 

PS – next presentation, let’s all go to Spain! LOL! (ps – grrr, and flights were only 400.00 RT from RST at one point!)….dang COVID preventions!

 

From: Halverson-Wente, Lori K
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 3:01 PM
To: Pepa Pasamón Lara <irlppl01@llull.cat>; Sameena Azhar <sazhar@fordham.edu>; hi@seasbrighton.org; Morris, Julia C. <morrisjc@uncw.edu>; idilalabaay@gmail.commargaretflaws@gmail.comsararguezriva@gmail.comalvarespatricia.jor@gmail.comalicia.poole@mail.mcgill.caaargenal@usfca.educolarieti.mauro@gmail.comaudreykap@gmail.com
Cc: info@faberllull.cat
Subject: RE: Wednesday 9 February- We will have the last two sessions: Sara's and Lori's presentations for today at 16.00 ( local hour)

 

 

Thank you all!

Hello to new friends, passionate world changers! Thank you for joining us today for an overview and experimental Human Library Session!

 

My “project” this sabbatical is to continue to discover how this outstanding experience can be shared with my students. We are creating our own videos and I have a free e-book that I am co-authoring with my spouse, Mark.  Here is the draft page on the HL: https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/interculturalcommunicationcompetence/back-matter/human-library-resources/

 

I am emailing you research about the Human Library, our contact information in the PowerPoint, and a link to the ebooks. You can gain all you need, too, from: https://humanlibrary.org/. Small and large communities host Human Libraries in 80 countries. There is a vibrant group in Barcelona!

 

Some of you wanted to know more about Kim’s story – I have a link here: https://caalmn.org/podcast/06-kim/

 

Have a wonderful journey home. You have shared so many outstanding projects, dreams, and ideas. Thank you for sharing this past 2 weeks with me. My amazing community and I will greet you in Minnesota should you ever make it here!

My sincere thanks,

Lori

 

Our first capture of videos (we are editing and working on it)

 

 

 

Research:

Articles/Discussions:

Elsesser, K. (2020, July 13). The Human Library is tackling diversity and inclusion one person at a time. Forbes. Retrieved February 9, 2022, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2020/07/13/the-human-library-is-tackling-diversity-and-inclusion-one-person-at-a-time/?sh=3ecd61d24fd0

Bateman, K.  (2021, December 3). What is a 'human library' and how can it help with diversity and inclusion? World Economic Forum. Retrieved February 9, 2022, from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/diversity-inclusion-human-library/

Research:

Bagci, S. C., & Blazhenkova, O. (2020). Unjudge someone: Human library as a tool to reduce prejudice toward stigmatized group members. Basic and Applied Social Psychology42(6), 413–431. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2020.1792298

 

Blizzard, K., Becker , Y., & Goebel, N. (2018). Bringing women’s studies to life: Integrating Bringing Women’s Studies to life: Integrating a human library into Augustana’s Women’s Studies curriculum. Retrieved February 9, 2022, from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1203529.pdf

 

Dobreski, B., & Huang, Y. (2016, December 27). The joy of being a book: Benefits of participation in the human library. Association for Information Science & Technology. Retrieved February 9, 2022, from https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301139

Kudo, K., Motohashi, Y., Enomoto, Y., Yajima, Y., & Kataoka, Y. (2011, August). Bridging differences through dialogue: Preliminary findings of the outcomes of the Human Library in a university settinghttps://www.researchgate.net/. Retrieved February 9, 2022, from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kazuhiro-Kudo-2/publication/236612216_Bridging_differences_through_dialogue_Preliminary_findings_of_the_outcomes_of_the_Human_Library_in_a_university_setting/links/0deec51845f646c2dc000000/Bridging-differences-through-dialogue-Preliminary-findings-of-the-outcomes-of-the-Human-Library-in-a-university-setting.pdf

 

Kwan, C. K. (2020). A Qualitative Inquiry into the Human Library Approach: Facilitating Social Inclusion and Promoting Recovery. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health17(9), 3029. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17093029   (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7246815/)

 

From: Pepa Pasamón Lara <irlppl01@llull.cat>
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 2:16 AM
To: Sameena Azhar <sazhar@fordham.edu>; hi@seasbrighton.org; Morris, Julia C. <morrisjc@uncw.edu>; idilalabaay@gmail.commargaretflaws@gmail.comsararguezriva@gmail.comalvarespatricia.jor@gmail.com; Halverson-Wente, Lori K <lori.halverson-wente@rctc.edu>; alicia.poole@mail.mcgill.caaargenal@usfca.educolarieti.mauro@gmail.comaudreykap@gmail.com
Cc: info@faberllull.cat
Subject: Wednesday 9 February- We will have the last two sessions: Sara's and Lori's presentations for today at 16.00 ( local hour)

 

 

 

Dear all,

 

I inform you that there will  be the last two sessions:  presentation of Sara and Lori :

 

 

Sara Riva

OLOT

Wednesday 9

Should I help or should I go? A humanitarian dilemma in the age of neoliberal thinking

Lori Halverson

on-line

Wednesday 9

Human Library

 

Remember

- time : 16.00h (local time in Olot). The people who make the presentation, could you arrive 10 minutes befores at the meeting room?

- Place

  • for residents who are in Olot: meeting room next to the faberllull offices (we will be in the room 5 minutes before).
  • for online residents, I remind you the zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83478036319.

 

 

See you later!!

 

 

Pepa Pasamón Lara

 

 

 

Olot 17800 / carretera de Santa Pau- Hotel Riu Fluvià

672 32 88 70

www.faberllull.cat

 

Slides 

 

 

Other Info on Google Drive

 


 

 

  

 

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