MLA/DLACon2024

This session’s content and focus about the Building Equity Based Summers (BEBS) national IMLS project, in which Maryland is a piloting state, reinforces the priority work happening in MD libraries surrounding equity. Exploring the four key topics of BEBS enables library staff to view their summer services through fresh eyes to intentionally ponder if greater equity might be achieved in reaching systemically-marginalized populations in their communities. The BEBS learning processes and activities presented are available for all library systems to implement in their summer services planning, regardless of involvement in the IMLS BEBS project as a Maryland piloting library.