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Alaska Heritage Emergency Network
Raven Reads @ the Library Toolkit
Alaska Heritage Emergency Network
Alaska Library Association is one of the founding members of the Alaska Heritage Emergency Network (AHEN), which was developed following the Alaska State Museum’s
Preparing Alaska’s Cultural Organizations for Emergencies
(PACO) Cohort.
Alaska Library Association is a member of the steering committee and dedicated to ensuring the network supports cultural heritage
organizations across Alaska as they prepare for and recover from disasters.
What Is The Alaska Heritage Emergency Network?
AHEN was created in 2022 through an initiative of the cultural organizations of Alaska, the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHS&EM), and the Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAM) to provide a forum where analysis and information sharing can be supported. The cultural heritage community has a vested interest in being fully engaged in the collective emergency management process.
AHEN will strive to have meetings and conduct events focused on strengthening each cultural heritage sector’s knowledge and communicating how each contributes to disaster response and recovery. AHEN has established the following goals, subject to annual review and revision for the first five years:
Support training opportunities and resources, including exercises
Foster relationships
Create a forum for sharing experiences, expertise, and lessons learned
Support and assist disaster response in the state
Create regions of responsibility and response
Explore the creation of regional supply caches of response and recovery supplies
You can learn more, stay up-to-date on emergencies in Alaska, and join our monthly meetings by signing up for the
AHEN listserv
Raven Reads @ the Library Toolkit
The Sealaska Heritage Institute in partnership with the Alaska Library Association, the Haines Borough School District Library, the Juneau Public Libraries, the Petersburg Public Library, the Sitka Public Library, the Alaska State Library, Montana State University’s Tribal College Librarians Professional Development Institute, and the Association for Rural and Small Libraries, will develop culturally responsive early literacy programming for children and learning resources for librarians.
During the two-year Raven Reads at the Library Toolkit project, the team will create a Cultural Responsiveness Organizational Self-Assessment for Libraries, produce,
test, and refine two asynchronous e-Learning modules for library staff, co-design, deliver, and refine activity plans for nine Raven Reads at the Library Family Literacy Events, develop the Raven Reads at the Library Toolkit, which will have culturally responsive early literacy tools, videos, and linguistic resources, deliver a train-the-trainer workshop for Alaska’s public libraries and for the nation’s tribal college libraries, and disseminate the toolkit more broadly.
Training Modules – Cultural Literacy Training for Library Staff
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