The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – A Refresher
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a business and self-help book written by Stephen Covey. Dr. Covey presents an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning oneself to what he calls "true north" principles. Having...
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Fostering Intergenerational Programs at the Library
Libraries are multi-generational spaces, welcoming patrons from a variety of generations on a daily basis. This webinar will discuss why intergenerational relationships are important, explore ways your library can help strengthen intergenerational connections through...
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Instagram Tips for Public Libraries
Instagram is one of the best ways to share everything you do at your library. Learn about ways you can maximize your library's Instagram account to reach new patrons as well as entertain your current ones. We'll cover some simple tools for making your pictures...
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Using the ADDIE Model for Creating Library Training Sessions
The ADDIE model is a framework used within the field of instructional design to guide the creation of instruction. The framework is comprised of five core components: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Each of the five...
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Online Privacy: How to Explain and Inform Users
The news is filled with stories about privacy breaches and scandals, and yet you may find library users obliviously sharing their personal information out loud as they use library computers. How do you let users know what their privacy rights are and how...
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Mission Not-Impossible! Genealogical Research for Native Americans
HandoutHandoutHandoutHandoutHandoutHandout Are you curious about your Native American ancestry? Have you done a DNA test and want to know more about your roots? Do you work in a field where you get genealogical questions and want to be able to better assist your...
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Creating Authentic Relationships
Authenticity leads to understanding, a sense of community and mutual value. The dynamics of team environments can make it seem very challenging to create authentic relationships. The need to look good, get noticed for our work and ideas, be politically correct, not...
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Yoga Storytime 101
Combining basic yoga movements into library storytime is becoming more popular. Yes, yoga storytime is both adorable and fun, but with a little understanding and intentionality, it can also be a powerful strategy for boosting early learning.This webinar will provide a...
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A Dozen Ways to Be Thankful Every Day of the Year
The Holiday Season is a powerful opportunity to focus on giving thanks for everything and everyone in our lives. The Thanksgiving Holiday is a cherished time, in part because we are surrounded by people we love and who love us, and we are visibly reminded...
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WiFi in the Park: Extending Services in Rural Areas
Centre County is a rural area in Pennsylvania and the Schlow Centre Region Library is using a unique method to bring low-cost internet to help bridge the digital divide. Utilizing TV WhiteSpace — the unused bandwidth between television channels — to...
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Using CoSpaces Edu to Create Virtual Reality Experiences
Virtual Reality (VR), a simulated computer environment in three dimensions, is becoming more popular for gaming, movies, and education. According to CoSpaces Edu, their creative platform “complements traditional teaching methods by immersing students into a world...
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20 Comics in 60 Minutes
Library staff are expected and trained to provide readers advisory services, but sometimes providing readers advisory for comics and graphic novels can be a challenge.During this 20 Comics in 60 Minutes program, Amanda Jacobs Foust will bring library...
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Questions to Ask When You Are Buying Technology for Your Library
any hardware and software purchases fail because the buyer didn’t ask the right questions, such as how easy is it to repair mistakes when content is entered incorrectly, how stable is the company selling the products, and how good is the online help desk when...
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Maps: Interpreting Current and Historical Resources
For local history and genealogy lovers, maps are rich, but sometimes overlooked, sources of information. They can paint a vivid picture, offer rich insights, and fascinating stories, if you know what to look for.In this interactive and informative...
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How to Promote Your #GivingTuesday Fundraising Campaign
We have a day for giving thanks (Thanksgiving), and two days for getting great deals (Black Friday and Cyber Monday) - but what about day for giving back? That's the point of #GIvingTuesday. Entering its seventh year, #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled...
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Surviving an Emotionally Toxic Workplace
Are you feeling Frustrated? Exhausted? – trying to deal with all the emotions that swirl around in your workplace. Feeling like you just don’t know what to do?Sometimes it’s the same person you have to deal with day in and day out – you feel overwhelmed and just want...
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Marketing Your Programs and Services to Millennials
Despite using the library more than generations before them, Millennials and Gen Z remain difficult to reach through traditional forms of library marketing. If they didn’t grow up in the library or have kids of their own, we probably aren’t seeing them in our...
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20 Stress Management Tools for the Holidays in 60 Minutes
We all know that the holiday season can be busy, stressful and overwhelming. While you can’t make that stress completely disappear like Black Friday deals, you can learn how to manage it and keep your calm in the middle of the holiday chaos. In this session, you will...
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Moving Your Services into Your Community
We’ve heard the refrains of eliminating the reference desk, embedded librarians, and the like. We also hear of the need to get out into our communities. Yet meeting our community members where they are – not where we are – is still a challenge. If we are free to...
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Reference Tools to Help Job Seekers and Entrepreneurs
Many people come to the library as part of their job search, and libraries have many tools to help them. In this webinar, you will learn about websites, databases and apps to help people find information about job skills, creating resumes, searching reliable job...
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