Open AccessBook Review: Collaborating with Strangers: Facilitating Workshops in Libraries, Class, and Nonprofits
Author(s) -
Teralee El Basri
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.57.1.6447
Subject(s) - premise , class (philosophy) , public relations , sociology , political science , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , artificial intelligence
The premise of this book is that talking to strangers should be less frightening and more rewarding than it often is. The authors present a unique collaboration-based program that they refer to as CoLAB, which was originally developed as a workshop on creating partnerships between people and organizations to meet community needs. The authors explain the origins, benefits, and logistics of running this workshop, which has been utilized often at the University of Florida and presented to about six hundred organizations and more than two thousand individuals.