Weeding 101: What to Keep, What to Toss and What to Replace
Deselection is an integral part of collection management, but often falls to the side in the busy world of planning programs, serving patrons and day to day operations. Eliminating outdated, worn, or trivial items can not only improve circulation, but maximize...
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Best of the 2017 ALA Conference (Find Out What You Missed)
It was a fun, action filled week at the ALA Conference in Chicago this year! Did you attend? Whether you went to the American Library Association conference or not, we’ve got you covered! Andrew Sanderbeck and his special guests will report back the Best of ALA...
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Increasing Creativity in the Workplace
The demand for creativity from employees is rising! Creativity is important in the workplace because it's the engine of innovation - it stimulates individual leadership and healthier more high performing teams. But without a conducive environment for creativity to be...
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I’ve Been Hacked: The Essential Steps to Take Next
It happens. A place you shop at frequently gets its data stolen. Someone was able to get access to one of your accounts. Or a system you manage gets compromised. No matter how the data breach happened, it is important be prepared ahead of time before the worst...
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Building a Better Data Back Up Strategy for Your Library
Does your library need to create or modernize its back up strategy? Does your library keep data secure and are your back-ups easily accessible? Do you worry that the backup plan you have in place really isn’t going to keep your data secure? Or that you don’t feel...
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An Overview of Open Access Publishing
An open access publication is freely available to all potential readers online, rather than being restricted to individual subscribers or to affiliates of college or university libraries. This is made possible by the internet; open access is a web-age concept. But...
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Serving the Underserved: Using Outreach to Find the Customers You Didn’t Know You Had
All libraries have loyal customers that come in regularly and support us day in and day out. But what about those who might wish to use our services, but can’t get to us? In this webinar, the Cari and Kate will talk about how the Twinsburg Public Library in Twinsburg,...
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Capture and Keep ‘em: Millennials
We load our children and parents up with storytimes, create wacky programs for teens and students, and provide an array of lifelong learning opportunities for seniors, but what happens when our patrons just reach adulthood? Often referred to as the “Lost Generation”,...
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Making Training Stick!
As a supervisor or manager of others, we want to make sure that the time and money invested into training has a positive pay-off. Most times, the pay-off will be greater when you, the supervisor or manager take an active role in helping the employee succeed. This...
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What Does It Take To Be A Future Ready Librarian?
How can librarians and libraries support Future Ready Schools? How can librarians and libraries become more future ready? What are the next steps in being a Future Ready Librarian? These questions are central to the Future Ready Librarians initiative at the Alliance...
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Online Trolls
Everyone has heard the advice don’t feed the trolls but sometimes that’s not a realistic solution. So what should you do if your library is being trolled in the comments on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter? How can you tell the difference between an angry...
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Building Great Programs for Seniors
By building programs that engage and attract active seniors to your library, you can help reinforce your library’s status as an important community center for residents of all ages. In this workshop, Amy Alessio will provide you with several programming ideas...
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The Platinum Rule: Going Beyond the Golden Rule for Customer Service
At some point in your life your Mom, Dad, or another other adult taught you the Golden Rule: Treat others the way you would like to be treated. But the Golden Rule is not the gold standard anymore! Good organizations practice the Golden Rule by identifying and...
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User Guide to Lifelong Learning
What is one thing you want to learn in the next few months or in the next year? In recent years, there have been significant advances in research about how we learn. Simultaneously, the methods we use to acquire new information has changed. In this webinar,...
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Intro to CSS Flexbox
Flexbox -- alongside CSS Grid Layout -- represents the future of layout on the web. In this webinar, Michael Schofield will teach you all about it - live, coding in Codepen where you can follow along, answering your questions as we go. This introductory workshop is...
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Supporting Teacher Collections, Class Visits and School Projects: Tips and Tricks for Success
Teacher Collections, Class Visits, and Class Projects are frequent and often challenging aspects of Children’s Services. In this interactive webinar program, Jill Burket Ragase will give you a variety of tools that you will be able to use to: • Meet the needs...
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Focus! How to Cut Down on Technology Distractions
Do you ever feel distracted by pings, notifications, calls, texts, messages and all the technology around you? Librarians work in a tech-filled environment, and these tech distractions can have consequences. Distractions reduce productivity and focus and can...
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Digital Citizenship: Helping Users Become Safe, Savvy and Social
Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare...
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Not Just for Kids: Book Displays for Adults
Book displays are a great way to fill unused shelves or empty table spaces. But what happens if you have great books and they never get checked out? How could you increase library program sign-ups, support your library’s mission statement, and provide readers’...
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RA Rethink: Using Next Level Data to Improve Merchandising
If someone told you there’s a practical way to improve circulation and increase the job satisfaction of your staff, would you do it? Librarian Becky Spratford has developed a method you can use to accomplish both goals. She’ll explain how to deepen staff involvement...
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