Frontline Forum

Please note: registration will close on Thursday 15 May 2025 at 12 noon.

The forum will be run on MS Teams. If you are unfamiliar with the way Teams operates and would like some additional information, please get in touch: academiclibrariesnorth@sconul.ac.uk.

The theme for this forum will be Supporting mental health and wellbeing in libraries. The discussion will focus on the kinds of activities, services and initiatives your library currently facilitates. There will be opportunities to share with frontline staff from other institutions about their current offerings and gain some insight and inspiration.

This is the plan for the afternoon (subject to slight change in timings):

14:15: Informal start – come and have a chat over a drink or snack and say hello.

14:30: Introduction to the forum and forum opener to be confirmed

We will be using Padlet as part of the forum opener. You don’t need to create an account to contribute but if you’ve not used it before you may want to take a look beforehand https://padlet.com/site/board

14:40: An Introduction to the ALN Mental Health & Wellbeing Advocacy Resource

15:10: Comfort break

15.20: Sharing of experiences across the forum theme – supporting mental health and wellbeing in libraries

What activities, services or initiatives do you do in your library to support student mental health and wellbeing? What have you taken from the Advocacy Resource or from others that you would like to try?

15:45: Feedback

16:00: Finish