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Mental Health and Libraries
Nearly one in five adults in the U.S. live with a mental illness in any given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. While libraries cherish our privilege to serve all, we often struggle in responding to our patrons experiencing mental...
An Introduction to Universal Design for Learning
According to CAST, “Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.” In this interactive and informative session, Lauren will introduce the...
How to Write Blog Posts Your Patrons Will Actually Read
Does your library staff struggle to keep your blog up to date? Do you struggle to find weekly topics to write about? Do you sometimes feel like nobody (except you) is actually reading your library blog? You're not alone! Blogs are a great way to advertise...
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom – Revisited (Part 1-4, 15 Minutes Segments)
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book from 1997 by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz. The book takes inspiration from a set of spiritual beliefs held by the ancient Toltec people to help readers transform their lives...
Employee Engagement and Employee Morale: What You Need to Know About Both for Your Organization
In management circles there are a lot of conversations about employee engagement but not as much about employee morale. Are the two concepts essentially the same thing or do they share marked differences? How much energy should we put into employee morale anyway? Is...
Young Professionals Webinar: Seven Workplace Concepts…Learned the Hard Way
Handout What is something that all of us have and that we work really hard to perfect, but now, due to our technology, it can be damaged as quick as 10 seconds?I’m looking forward to giving you the answer to this riddle and more when I present “Seven...
Using Privacy Impact Assessments to Protect Patron Privacy
Libraries processes and systems can put patron privacy at risk and many libraries struggle with protecting privacy while running the library at the same time. This webinar will cover one proven strategy in mitigating risks to data privacy, the Privacy...
Connecting Readers with Authors: How to Plan a Successful Author Event
Authors are an important part of the creative community, and when you support them in your library, you can bring innovative programming to your patrons. There are so many different ways to plan a successful author event. In this webinar, Cari – who is a former...
Creating and Maintaining a Relevant and Diverse Graphic Novel Collection
How many graphic novels have you read in the past year? Some of your patrons are in their local comic shop every Wednesday, when new individual issues are released. Total sales for graphic novels, individual comic issues, and digital comics topped $1.09 billion in...
Introducing Raspberry Pi for Innovative Projects
A Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit card sized computer that connects to a monitor or TV and is a valuable machine that powers a diverse set of innovative projects. Raspberry Pi technology has also been an integral piece of technology in many computer science courses...
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom – Revisited
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book from 1997 by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz. The book takes inspiration from a set of spiritual beliefs held by the ancient Toltec people to help readers transform their lives...
A Guide to Understanding the Body Language of Others
Looking for a better understanding of Body Language? In this program you’ll discover how posture, gestures, facial expression, and feet (yes, feet) play a vital role in the underlying feelings behind a person’s body language. To help you decode the emotions behind the...
Fostering Entrepreneurship in the Library Makerspace
Libraries have traditionally barred businesses and individuals from using the library as their place of business. Makerspaces have now blurred this line. How do libraries balance those old policies with modern Makerspaces and excited patrons who see business...
Better Libraries and Stronger Communities Through Kindness, Empathy, and Love
Workplaces that emphasize a culture of kindness, empathy and love have lower staff turnover and greater effectiveness. This culture ripples out from individuals to others in the workplace, to patrons and throughout the community. This interactive and informative...
On-Boarding AI
Thinking about bringing AI (Artificial Intelligence) to your library? While these machines need to learn to be effective, whether it’s Siri, Alexa, or Watson; what are some of the questions and concerns that you, your coworkers and your users may have. What is...
Circulating Non-Traditional Items: One Library’s Success Story
Are non-traditional items a good fit for your library? More and more libraries are joining the fun by adding items such as telescopes, GoPro cameras, and ukuleles to their library’s collection. A little over two years ago, Springville Public Library purchased a...
Ready Reference: More than Google
Have you ever caught yourself answering every reference question with a simple Google search? Do your patrons expect you to have their answers as fast as you can type? Information is on-demand and at nearly all our fingertips and what makes libraries special is...
Busy Babies: Building Baby Playdates for Your Library
Play is one of the Early Literacy skills outlined in Every Child Ready to Read. Yet, babies in libraries are often overlooked in play programming, because there has traditionally been a struggle to engage their parents and caregivers enough to merit...
How Supervisors and Managers Can Inspire Their People to Care About Their Work (And Each Other)
We know that employees who care about their work will work harder, be more motivated, and be more invested in a positive outcome. But how do we actually get employees to care? Unfortunately, we can't simply force them to exude loyalty, but we can give them the...
Educational Technology Tools in the Academic Library
Technology changes rapidly and staying up-to-date can be hard. In this presentation, attendees will be introduced to new educational technology tools. For each tool, the presenter will explain the features and share ways it can be used in academic libraries....
