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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City Directories – Uncovering Clues About Your Community
Genealogists are a special breed‐‐and their appetite for information sometimes feels endless. No reference is too obscure, no tombstone too faded. Join us to learn about an often‐overlooked resource to use when gathering information for family or local...
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20 Management Tips in 60 Minutes
Managers are often overworked and underwhelmed. Especially if you’re in middle management, it can feel like everyone needs something from you. Fortunately, you can learn from some of the best practices in management to help you feel more successful in your work....
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Teaching Tech to Library Patrons: The Current Landscape
Staff have long served as technology instructors to our communities; what does that role look like in the year 2018 and beyond? This presentation will look at common topics, suggested curriculum, and best practices. A variety of approaches will be covered, including...
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Learning in the Library Through Experiences
Libraries are places where people engage in experiences, such as those created by makerspaces, storytime, gaming, and cooking classes. For library users to get the most out of these services and resources, underpinning the offerings with the theory of experiential...
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The Future of Libraries: Exploring Lifelong Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Entrepreneurship Training
With lifelong learning at the center of much of what we foster in contemporary libraries, we can sometimes be overwhelmed by the flood of information about developments, trends, and challenges that help shape our possible futures. Without a grounding in...
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Digital Toolkit for the Reference Desk: Handy Tools to Solve Digital Issues & Reference Questions
Are stuck in the tried & true resources, going back to the same resources again and again? Do you wonder if there are more tools you could add to your tool box? Or do you just "Google" wondering if you are finding the best resource? In this session, we'll explore...
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Beginning Readers 101: Emergent Literacy Made Easy
Are you lost in the sea of differing publisher leveling schemes, differing vocabulary standards, and the generally vast range of reading abilities at work in the Beginning Reader area of your collection? You’re not alone! The world of Early Readers is often as...
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The Quiet Approach to Serving Customers
Customer service is not an easy job for anyone. It’s hard work to just stay on top of the ever-changing products and services the library has to offer, and it takes real skill to talk with people, determine their needs and fulfill their requests. It can be...
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Keeping Kids Safe Online
Since the Internet is playing a huge role in most everything we do today, it is vitally important to understand how to stay safe online. Going further, children and young adults are immersed in technology these days and there are things they must know now to keep...
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Dealing with Passive Aggressive Behaviors
Passive-aggressive behavior confuses and maddens. Coworkers are often ill-equipped to respond to it. This Webinar will help to fill this need. You’ll gain insight and acquire tools to help you work productively with anyone who might speak, act, and think in a...
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