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Negotiations/Asking for a Raise
Whether we’re starting a new job or working towards a promotion at our current one, we should be negotiating. Negotiation can be scary. But what’s even scarier is not doing it.Ideally, we’d all get offered the salary we want and deserve, but if you’ve been...
The Six Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Underperforming Employee
An underperforming employee affects everyone in the organization including their co-workers and their customers. For the supervisor or manager, this can mean working with the employees to establish better performance standards. But where do you begin? And how...
Creating Virtual Outreach that Works
Successful library outreach involves going where your patrons gather. In an increasingly digital environment, just what does that look like? Our speaker will identify virtual spaces ripe for outreach, and discuss the best ways to utilize them, providing case...
Ensuring a Leadership Pipeline with Succession Planning
Learn how to formalize talent development and ensure leadership continuity by developing and implementing a succession plan at your library. Don’t get caught off guard when a key staff member leaves! A succession planning process will help your library take time now...
When Programming Isn’t Fun Anymore: Fighting Job Burnout and Relighting Your Program Fire
Job-related burnout is especially prevalent in youth services, particularly during summer reading. We have had many bright young minds in this vocation burn out and change departments or career paths due to job-related stressors. This session will be all about...
Memes and Animated GIFS
Memes, you see them everywhere, and they appear on every social network from Facebook to TikTok. They have the power to influence elections and have become cornerstones of digital culture. It is effortless to create your own memes, which can be posted to social media...
Video Captioning
In this session, participants will learn the basics of video captioning. This webinar will be covering why it’s important to caption your videos, the problem(s) with automatic captioning, what (free) captioning tools you can use to caption your videos, how to...
Cultural Humility: What It Is and Why It’s Important to You and Your Library
Most libraries were founded decades ago when the cultural makeup of the area they are located in was very different. Although innovative librarians and library staff have created new and improved services to meet the needs of a more diverse population,...
Advanced Copyright for Librarians
Do you already know some copyright basics, such as the general length of copyright, the fact that copyright is automatic, and the like? Would you like to learn a bit more about implied licenses, international copyright laws, and standardized rights statements...
How Do We Do That Again? Documenting Your Library’s Work
Are you in charge of creating documentation for the processes at your library? Do you feel overwhelmed by this task, or like you don’t know where to start? This class will break down documentation creation into manageable chunks using the five-step technical writing...
How to Build Your Email List Using Your Website and Social Media
With all the changes to social media platforms over the past year, it’s more important than ever for nonprofits to focus on building their email lists. According to the M+R Digital Benchmarks Study, nonprofits grew their email lists by 11% last year, and...
New Social Media Tools to Check Out
Going "viral" is a distant memory for so many of us as Social Media's noise far exceeds what it was several years ago. This webinar will take on your existing knowledge of various social media platforms and help elevate your social media presence to connect and...