Session

Libraries as spaces for strengthening resilience – an interactive self-therapy session.

How can a library be an open and safe place for everyone? Can that even be accomplished? In addition to space and infrastructure debates, we believe that there are two components that make the library a place of democratic discourse, diversity, and resilience: the people who come to the library and the people who work at the library.

Our interactive session will focus on the question: How can public libraries become strong and resilient spaces for both staff and library users?

Maximum capacity: 12 people

Hosts

Tim Leik & Debbie Wallers

Tim Leik (he/his) is the Deputy Head of Program & Project Manager Event Sundays at Central Berlin Library.
Tim studied Cultural History and gained extensive project management experience while working for the “Bauhaus Foundation” and on a project, hosted by the German Cultural Foundation, which fostered the advancement of cultural institutions. He also worked on a program, also hosted by the German Cultural Foundation, that supported contemporary music by sending a music train across the country, among other things.

Debbie Wallers (she/her) is a Librarian and Program Coordinator at Central Berlin Library.
During her studies in library and information science and also gender studies, it was the field of public libraries that fascinated her. Now, in her work in the library, it is important to her to make the space accessible to people often underrepresented in libraries.