I Spy: Intellectual Freedom Issues at Your Library
Libraries have embraced technologies such as ILS, security cameras and social media, along with patron conveniences such as self-check out, open hold shelves, and Internet computers. But do these conveniences jeopardize our core value of patron privacy--the right to...
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Our Public Library, Public School Partnership: The Power of YES
In Conneaut Ohio, our local public school asked us to help facilitate library services in the high school. We said yes. This “yes” is a far cry from our typical school “yes” of field trips, assemblies, and classroom collections.This “yes” included ILS, acquisitions...
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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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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...
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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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Assuring Library Materials Can Be Used by Your Community
Having materials in a library's collection is good; having those materials in the formats needed by the library's community is much better. The act of supplying content in the formats that community members require is critically important to meeting their information...
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Helping Your Patrons with Identity Theft
Do you have patrons that need help with identity theft? A recent report from Equifax stated that someone’s identity is now stolen every 2 seconds! In this informative program learn more about IdentityTheft.gov, the federal government’s free, one-stop resource...
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A Design Thinking Approach to Encore Career Exploration: Help Your 50+ Patrons (or Yourself) Discover the Next Act
Your webinar will be held on June 26, 2018, 10:30 am - 11:30 am ET. Login here: http://connectpro85922111.adobeconnect.com/rrecskscrbrb/ After the webinar, please complete our Training Survey and provide your feedback on the session. Within 7 days, the recording of...
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Dealing with Opiate Users in the Library: From Behavior Management to Overdosers
In 2015, more Americans died from drug overdose than from car accidents and gun homicides combined, and more than six out of 10 of those overdoses involved an opioid. Preliminary data for 2016 suggests that drug overdose deaths for that year rose by about 19%—the...
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Banned Books Week: NOW is the Time to Get Ready
Are you looking for some new ways to observe this annual library celebration? Kathy Barco will share ideas on how to promote Banned Books Week (September 23 – 29, 2018), including a variety of components to tailor a program suitable for teens and adults....
read moreServing Older Adult Patrons and Their Care Partners
By 2030, projections indicate that 25% of the US population will be 65 or older. This means that libraries will be serving a steadily increasing number of older patrons and their care partners. To help you understand and adapt to these patrons’ changing needs you’re...
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Geeky Programs at the Library
According to geekthelibrary.org.,“to geek” is: • To love, to enjoy, to celebrate, to have an intense passion for. • To express interest in. • To possess a large amount of knowledge in. Geek and fandom culture is a growing part of our media landscape—and an amazing...
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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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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...
read more 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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Photography for Librarians
Click! Click! Click! Do you know what makes for a captivating photo? Do you wonder how some libraries have the best images in their social media posts? Don't you want your photo to be the #bestpicoftheday? In this one hour session: We will cover basic photography...
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What You Need to Know about e-Books: The Latest
Libraries face unique challenges in providing e-Book services to their patrons. Tune into this webinar for the latest and most up-to-date information on e-Book vendors and platforms, the limitations they place on circulating library e-Books and best practices for...
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