• Format

    Self-Paced

  • COURSE LENGTH

    4 Credit Hours

Libraries as Entrepreneurship Hubs

Learn how to clarify and communicate your library's economic and community value in supporting and propelling small businesses, based on findings from ULC’s grant-funded research.

Course Designer: Shamichael Hallman

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Shamichael, the Director of Civic Health and Economic Opportunity for Urban Libraries Council, is a social, civic and tech innovator. As a '23 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, he explored how urban design and planning can make for socially inclusive cities. He has served as the Senior Library Manager with Memphis Public Libraries where he guided the reimagining of the historic Cossitt Library. His 2020 TEDx talk "Reimagining the Public Library to Reconnect the Community" garnered international acclaim. In 2021 he co-founded Libraries as Bridges which focuses on evaluating how libraries build social cohesion, promote civic renewal and advance the ideals of a healthy democracy.

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