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The Evanston Public Library’s Board of Trustees released responses to a community survey about desired traits for a new executive director, with transparency and relationships at the top of the list. Heather Norborg currently serves as the interim executive director, after Karen Danczak Lyons stepped down from her ten-year tenure in June. As part of. ....
Evanston Public Library closed a new round of applications this week for its Racial Equity Task Force, a group that focuses on expanding the library’s outreach to underserved residents, particularly from Evanston’s 5th, 8th and 9th wards. The task force was founded in 2019 after consulting firm DeEtta Jones & Associates prepared an equity, diversity. ....
Imani Bah, a 2021 Northwestern graduate who now works as a medical scribe in Zion, IL, said she has faced her own internal biases through her work. After attending NU with a majority liberal student body, Bah said working in a conservative area has introduced new challenges. And according to Bah, her spontaneous weekend visit. ....
Evanston Public Library and Howard Brown Health are hosting a series of walk-in HIV and STI screenings throughout the fall including one on Tuesday. Howard Brown Health, which aims to provide accessible healthcare to LGBTQ+ patients across the Chicago area, has already held one screening event at the library this fall. Two more are. ....
Evanston Public Library employees and board members discussed the use of racist imagery in one of its displays, as well as how to address racist books in the library’s collection, during an EPL Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday. EPL issued a statement earlier this month apologizing for the use of “thin blue line” imagery in. ....