OnDemand Learning
Overcoming Adversity – The Path to Resilience
This interactive storytelling session encompasses Oleg’s personal journey of overcoming adversity and is filled with actionable and applicable steps that attendees can use to develop self-efficacy, optimism, resilience, hope and sense of purpose during times of...
Key Principles to Achieve Self Leadership
What passes for leadership guidance is often little more than lists of what we should and shouldn’t do, with a sprinkling of desirable skills, attitudes and aptitudes mixed in. And then, we’re told, if we relentlessly strive to be “authentic” and “empathetic,”...
Deceptive Images: Turning Media Literacy’s Attention Towards Image-Based Misinformation
Memes and Photoshop and "Deep Fakes," Oh My! Whether it's photos, videos, graphs, or memes, image-based content is extremely successful at spreading and amplifying misinformation on the internet. Images & videos are easily digested and rapidly shared. It's...
Sort It Out! Using In-House Classification Systems to Maximize Comics and Graphic Novels
Do you struggle to keep your comics collection organized? Comics, graphic novels, and manga that are organized by traditional library classification systems, like Dewey, can become unwieldy and difficult for patrons to find specific items or even browse. Learn how...
Coaching Conversations for Better Results
By developing a coaching approach to conversations in the workplace, you can achieve greater results and contribute to the growth of the individuals and teams with whom you work. Posing questions in team conversations supports a collaborative approach to problem...
RDA Cataloging ~ Construction and Use of Relationships
RDA provides methods to explicitly document types of relationships between the manifestation being described and the access points of agents responsible for the creation of or contribution to the work and/or expression embodied in the manifestation. RDA also allows...
Image Editing Basics: Making Your Images the Best They Can Be
Have you ever needed to make an image smaller, crop it differently, or maybe even make it better? In this session, we'll go through image editing basics using a free online tool that you can use anytime, anywhere! Handout Original broadcast June 9, 2021 Presenter ~...
Negotiation and Cost Containment for eCollections
Working with Vendors: Negotiation Strategies for Cost Containment To help meet the information needs of patrons, libraries must license electronic resources at the lowest possible cost with the best possible terms. This session is intended to help librarians negotiate...
We Survived: Boosting Staff and Community Morale and Wellness During Crisis
Whether it’s a natural disaster or a pandemic, your library’s decisions and actions during a crisis matter. They will not only have a profound impact on your employees’ morale, but will affect your community for years to come. Learn how Springville Library managed...
How to Work with a Boss You Don’t Like
We all want to feel supported, trusted and understood by our bosses. But, in the course of our careers it does not always work out that way. In this one-hour interactive webinar you will learn practical steps to improving your most difficult boss relationships....
Introducing eSports: A look at the Growing Industry and How it Relates to Libraries
Competitive video gaming, also known as eSports, is estimated to entertain and educate 474 million people and potentially reach revenues close to $1.1 billion by the end of 2021, according to market researcher Newzoo. Going further, the U.S. State Department recently...
Creating Amazon Alexa Skills
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way humans work with machines. Voice-controlled interfaces are one example where computers and humans are interrelating in a variety of ways to accomplish certain tasks. Amazon released Echo with their integrated virtual...
Children Collections Crash Course: Nonfiction
Whether young patrons are looking for information for school projects, instructions for hobbies, or fascinating leisure reading, nonfiction collections get heavy traffic, and the field of informational books for kids is more varied and vibrant than ever before....
Diffuse the Situation: Using Conversation to Build Empathy and Trust With the Public
Empathy is generally defined as “the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.” As libraries continue to evolve to meet the needs of their users and communities, a barrier to...
Remote Tools for Librarians
This webinar will cover two critical topics - supporting our remote users and creating a toolkit for remote working. We will spend the first half of the webinar focusing on tools that are used by IT professionals to provide better remote support to end-users. The...
Small Print: DIY Digital Preservation
Does your library have a unique print resource of historical or local importance? Are you looking for ways preserve and distribute the collection? If budget, staff time, and resources are daunting hurdles to overcome then this webinar may help.We’ll discuss...
Embrace the Change Not the Conflict: Difficult Conversations in the Workplace
Difficult conversations are needed in the workplace. Ignoring issues and problems won’t make them go away and only increases the pain that they cause. In this informative session, you will learn:• how to identify the various types of managerial and peer-to-peer...
Privacy 2021
In this fun and interactive privacy webinar (yes privacy can be fun) you will learn about: - Privacy issues in 2021- Library privacy best practices to protect the library and user data- How to teach patrons about privacy issues- and how to protect your privacy...
Excel for Technical Services
This webinar will demonstrate features of Excel that can make data easier to both read and analyze. Presenter, Karen Kohn, will walk through each step using a report generated from the ILS. The first half of the session will focus on viewing lists of items and ways to...
Thinking Outside the Box: Library Programs to Grab & Go
In these continuing times of uncertainty, libraries must think outside the box to provide programming and promote library resources to their patrons. Grab & Go Kits are a great way to extend in-person library programs beyond the walls of your library while...