{"id":28,"date":"2016-07-20T13:41:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries-test.mit.edu\/mit-reads\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2016-07-20T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:41:05","slug":"partner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/mit-reads\/partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Partner with us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you represent an MIT student or staff group; a department, lab, or center; or another administrative unit? Interested in community dialogue? If you&#8217;ve answered yes to both questions, the Libraries would love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>We depend on our partner groups to help us in the following ways:<\/p>\n<p>Picking the book.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;re open to a wide range of books, as long as the chosen title has literary merit and contributes in some way to campus-wide discussions related to diversity, inclusion, and social justice.<\/li>\n<li>It should be a book that busy MIT folks will want to read (meaning, not super long and not too much of a downer.)<\/li>\n<li>The selection is made jointly &#8211; the partners suggest titles and the Libraries approve the final choice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Planning an event.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We always have some kind of event to accompany each book.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve had panel discussions, author appearances, a film showing, and an art happening.<\/li>\n<li>We like to plan these in conjunction with our partner group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Planning community discussions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Help us generate discussion topics.<\/li>\n<li>We welcome but don\u2019t require your participation as discussion facilitators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Attend all the events.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Help get the word out and build an audience. <strong>This is the biggest one.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bring all your friends \u2013 heck, bring your enemies, they\u2019re the ones who need this the most, right?<\/li>\n<li>Help us publicize, in general.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s not a ton of work for the partner organization, and it works best when there\u2019s enthusiasm and when everyone is engaged.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in partnering with us, please contact us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mitreads-plan@mit.edu\">mitreads-plan@mit.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you represent an MIT student or staff group; a department, lab, or center; or another administrative unit? Interested in community dialogue? If you&#8217;ve answered yes to both questions, the Libraries would love to hear from you. We depend on our partner groups to help us in the following ways: Picking the book. We&#8217;re open to a wide range of books, as long as the chosen title has literary merit and contributes in some way to campus-wide discussions related to diversity, inclusion, and social justice. It should be a book that busy MIT folks will want to read (meaning, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/mit-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/mit-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/mit-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/mit-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/mit-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/mit-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/mit-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/mit-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}