ELC (Entrepreneurship and Libraries Conference) International 2022

Day One (November 1st, 2022) Day One Presentations available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWu2uTAB1S4 Slides available at: https://entrelib.org/international-2022/ Workshop One Libraries in the Social Entrepreneurship Sphere (Dr. Elizabeth T. Babarinde & Ngozi E. Osadebe, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria) In this presentation, Dr. Babarinde discusses a case study she conducted on libraries in the social entrepreneurship sphere. Babarinde outlines several examples of social entrepreneurship projects, including programs that helped develop reading habits in children and teens, programs to help children in the community learn life skills like sewing and baking, and programs connecting women in the community with physical and mental health resources. Lightning rounds “Traveler’s Book”, a Book Companion: the Art of Pursuing Social Return on Investment in Hospital Libraries (Dr. Mitra Zarei, Medical Librarian, and Maryam Andalib, Medical Librarian, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran) In this presentation, Dr. Mitra Zarei speaks about her collaborative work with Maryam Andalib to establish more social entrepreneurship practices within the Akbar Superspeciality Children’s Hospital. Through this activity, the hospital achieved three main learning outcomes: 1) increasing readership among professors and staff of the hospital, 2) Integration of social entrepreneurship ideas into the field through creative methods, and 3) increasing collective communication and awareness about books through collective reading practices.