Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures (CORE)
Fundamentals of Universal Design for Learning 2024 - Session 5.0
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This 6-week online course introduces the fundamental aspects of universal design for learning (UDL). It is designed for introducing and summarizing the UDL framework, CAST website, and the UDL on Campus website with captions and transcript.
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: The First 90 Days; Real Life Tales of Transition
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CHICAGO—Core hosts the webinar "Best of Core Forum: The First 90 Days; Real Life Tales of Transition" on September 24, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Twenty years ago, Michael D. Watkins published a best-selling book on leadership transitions, The First 90 Days...
Applications Now Open for the Core Online Course Scholarship for Library Professionals from Developing Countries
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CHICAGO–Core is now accepting applications for the Online Course Scholarship for Library Professionals from Developing Countries to participate in our online Fundamentals courses held between September 11, 2024 and December 22, 2024. One free seat per...
Transforming LibGuides: A Case Study
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Join the presenters as they explore the technical and political processes of overhauling their streamlining our LibGuides and the A-Z database list. They will provide insights into the strategic decisions and collaborative efforts that drove this transformation, including cognitive load principles, accessibility standards to optimize the user experience, and emphasizing the use of plain language.
Core Webinar: Safety by Design
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Core hosts the webinar "Safety by Design" on August 28, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Get safety principles from an experienced security consultant and hear from a group of librarians and library architects putting those principles into real-world contexts.
Safety by Design
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An experienced security consultant will share the four fundamental principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED): 1) natural surveillance (criminals do not like to be seen); 2) natural access control (clearly define public and private spaces); 3) territorial reinforcement (an environment that fosters privacy and a sense of ownership); and 4) maintenance (upkeep to discourage vandalism and other crimes). Librarians from Buffalo NY and Columbus OH will place these principles in context through two case studies with real-world security scenarios.
Fundamentals of Management 2024 - Session 6.0
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The Fundamentals of Management course is designed for new managers to build the skill set they need to successfully lead their department or organization, as well as support existing managers looking to improve their skills.
Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management 2024 - Session 4.0
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This four-week online course addresses the basic components of collection development and management (CDM) in libraries.
Fundamentals of Collection Assessment 2024 - Session 4.0
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This six-week online course introduces the fundamental aspects of collection assessment in libraries.
Fundamentals of Acquisitions 2024 - Session 4.0
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This six-week online course is a basic primer for library acquisitions concepts common to all library material formats.
Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions 2024 - Session 4.0
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This four-week online course provides an overview of acquiring, providing access to, administering, supporting, and monitoring access to electronic resources.
Fundamentals of Management 2024 - Session 5.0
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The Fundamentals of Management course is designed for new managers to build the skill set they need to successfully lead their department or organization, as well as support existing managers looking to improve their skills.
Fundamentals of Metadata 2024 - Session 4.0
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This six-week course is an introduction to fundamental concepts of metadata.
Practical approaches to inclusive cataloging
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CHICAGO — As part of the profession's ongoing EDISJ efforts to redress librarianship’s problematic past, practitioners from across the field are questioning long-held library authorities and standards. They’re undertaking a critical and rigorous re...
Trailblazing Pathways Across the Digital Divide
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In this webinar, participants will learn about a collaborative partnership between an academic library and offices within Student Affairs and campus IT to identify and fund long-term (full academic year) laptops to students most in need of this critical technology. Presenters will provide a case study of how a small pilot program quickly gained popularity and became a paramount service in meeting the needs of at-risk students while building meaningful cross-institutional relationships.
Best of Core at 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference: Libraries, Campus Partners, and Student Success
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The trend of bringing campus partners into academic library buildings started 20 plus years ago, with the intention of supporting and increasing student success. Moving from context and background to assessment and research and finally to strategy and planning, panelists will address re-thinking how academic libraries and campus partners work together.
Fundamentals of Digital Library Projects 2024 - Session 4.0
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This six-week online course introduces students to the breadth of considerations, standards and skills needed to successfully launch and manage a digital library program.
Past to the Future: Intersections of Digitization, AI, and the Digital Humanities
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Bryan Benilous, Chief Consultant, Paperboy Digital Consulting, will discuss how digitization of material collected by libraries, feed AI and how AI is being used to improve digitization. He will explore challenges with the existing ecosystem (silos, paywalls, biases, copyright, etc.) and dig deeper into how Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is utilized and how it is being improved by AI.
Fundamentals of Institutional Repositories 2024 - Session 1.0
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This 6-week online course is an introduction to fundamental concepts of institutional repositories (IR), including considering IR platforms, promoting the IR, faculty publications in the IR, additional sources of IR content, IR metadata, and accessibility of IR content.