A Roadmap for Managing Conversations in Multiple Formats
The phone on your desk is ringing—as is your cellphone—and your tablet is producing alerts requiring your attention. You have several people patiently—or impatiently—waiting for face-to-face assistance. Text and email messages are piling up. And now you’re receiving...
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The Give and Take of Criticism
Giving and receiving criticism are two sides of the same coin: Improve workplace productivity and build healthy workplace relationships by means of precise communication during civil conversations. Sometimes, by necessity, the message is not positive, but it can be...
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Best Apps for Librarians
There are apps for everything but how do you know which ones are worth your time? This library focused webinar will feature the best apps for productivity, project management, notetaking, reading, writing, blocking distractions and more. We’ll take a close look at...
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Filming Storytimes: Some Good Things to Know Before You Hit the Big Screen
Posting storytimes online is a great way to reach a larger audience and expand your skills as a storyteller and educator. It may seem easy to upload a short video from your phone to You Tube, but there are many important steps you need to take. Whether you are...
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The 5 Lies Managers Tell Themselves About Their Employees
Managing others is one of the hardest and sometimes one of the most rewarding responsibilities that you will have in your career. It affords us many opportunities to make mistakes and poor decisions and (hopefully) learn how to do better the next time.In the midst of...
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How to Create a Future-Proof Nonprofit Communications Strategy
The human brain is inundated with the equivalent amount of 34 gigabytes of information daily - enough to overload a laptop within just a few days. Blogger Mark Schaefer coined the term “content shock” to describe the inevitable reality in our noisy, cluttered...
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Collection Maintenance in the Children’s Department: Shelf Reading, Shifting, and Everything In Between
Collection Maintenance is an integral part of collection management, but often falls to the side in the busy world of planning programs and serving children. Keeping materials clean and well ordered, shifting items or collections as needed, and checking that items are...
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Showcase Your Collection: Book Displays for Adults
Book displays are a great way to fill unused shelves or empty table spaces. What happens if you have great books and they never are checked out? How could you increase library program sign-ups, support your library’s mission statement, and provide readers’ advisory...
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360° Tours and More
360° panorama photographs and video are starting to become widely used thanks to integrated smartphone gyroscopes, virtual reality, and other emerging technologies. Developing 360° experiences is not difficult and can create a sense of immersion to your web presence...
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Efficient Librarian – From Inbox to Done: The Simple Steps to Successful Workflow
Are your inboxes overflowing? Does work spill out onto every available surface? Do you want complete more in less time while making it look effortless? In this webinar, you will learn the best practices for workflow management inspired by internationally recognized...
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Secrets of the Catalog: Basics for Non-Catalogers
Have you ever wondered how library data impacts what we see in a record? In this session, we'll explore the interaction between the OPAC and MARC Records. Are you looking for search strategies & tips? This inside look at the catalog is a resource for everyone who...
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Take Your People Management Skills to the Next Level
Are your inboxes overflowing? Does work spill out onto every available surface? Do you want complete more in less time while making it look effortless? In this webinar, you will learn the best practices for workflow management inspired by internationally recognized...
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Makerspaces: Creating Programming based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
This webinar is all about getting ready for the future and how to take your makerspace from small projects to making a difference in the world. From future proofing our libraries to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), Brian will explore how libraries can...
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Creating an On-Going Weeding and Inventory Plan for Your Collection
Handout Handout Handout Handout Handout Handout Handout Handout Handout Looking for a better way to weed more effectively and to develop what is in your collection? If you do, it sounds like you need a plan! This webinar will teach you the steps and processes...
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We know there are many types of leadership styles, but leadership as a verb? It is when you consider leadership as the social process shared by all members of your organization. In this interactive and informative webinar, you will be challenged to think a...
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How to Write Effective Survey Questions to Get Useful Data
Is your library planning for upcoming services, programs, or events? They'll be more successful if you know what sorts of things the people in your service area truly want and need. Great marketers and planners don’t guess what people want, and they don’t presume to...
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Marketing Your Library’s Digital Collection
While 95% of public libraries lend eBooks, 60% of our patrons indicate a lack of awareness of eBook availability as a barrier to use; this according to a recent Library Journal/School Library Journal poll. As libraries continue to add streaming movies, music, digital...
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Creating a Circulating Toy Collection: From Concept to Implementation
Play. We all know how important play is to learning development and pre-literacy skills. In this interactive and informative presentation, we’ll discuss the choices we made in developing and launching a successful education-based toy collection that is not just a fad...
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The 2019 Horizon Report – Higher Education Edition
Looking for a concise overview of recent developments in the technology used for training-teaching-learning in libraries and other educational organizations? This highly-interactive one-hour session, drawing from research completed for the EDUCAUSE Horizon Report >...
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The Apple User Experience: Creating Programs to Help Seniors
Learn about the programs that have been employed by our instructor that help to educate, facilitate and foster the learning of Apple devices by seniors. Because learning is a continuing process that does not end with the completion of a class, learn how...
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