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Core Webinar: Safety by Design
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.
ALSC's 2025 Children's Literature Lecture Award committee chooses Multnomah County Library System, Portland, Oregon, as the site of the 2025 Children’s Literature Lecture featuring Kyle Lukoff.
Core Webinar - Past to the Future: Intersections of Digitization, AI, and the Digital Humanities
Join Core for the webinar "Past to the Future: Intersections of Digitization, AI, and the Digital Humanities" on July 17, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. The presenter will discuss will discuss how AI is being used to improve digitization.
Core Webinar - Design Basics: How to Create Better Visuals
Join Core for the webinar "Design Basics: How to Create Better Visuals" on July 17, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Participants will learn the fundamentals of good design and come away with a list of free tools to put their ideas into practice.
Core Webinar - Transforming LibGuides: A Case Study
Join Core for the webinar "Transforming LibGuides: A Case Study" on September 17, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Presenters will explore the technical and political processes of overhauling and streamlining their LibGuides and A-Z database list.
Social Responsibilities Round Table highlights programming for Annual Conference
An overview of programming curated by the Social Responsibilities Round Table over this past year and a preview of upcoming programming at Annual Conference and beyond.
Core President's Program features Jay Ellis
Join Core on Saturday, June 29, during 91´«Ã½ Annual 2024 in San Diego, for the Core President's Program featuring actor and Insecure star Jay Ellis. He will be discussing his new memoir, Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (Or Just Me)?
Meet the 2024 Class of Emerging Leaders at a Poster Session during 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference
The Emerging Leaders’ program facilitators are excited and pleased to invite attendees of the 91´«Ã½’s (91´«Ã½) 2024 Annual Conference to meet the 2024 class of Emerging Leaders (EL) at a celebratory poster session Friday, June 28, 2024...
Register Now for Core Forum 2024!
Registration and housing are officially open for Core Forum 2024, which will take place November 14-16, in Minneapolis, MN, at the Hilton Minneapolis.
Free Event: Generative A.I. supercharging the mission of libraries: risks and opportunities
CHICAGO—The 91´«Ã½ United Nations International Relations Committee Sustainable Development Goals Subcommittee invites you to join their online event presented in the days before the AI for Good Global Summit, an event by the United...
Best of Core at 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference: Libraries, Campus Partners, and Student Success
Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core at 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference: Libraries, Campus Partners, and Student Success" on August 6, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Attendees will learn about and explore existing campus partnerships as well as partnerships just forming.
New Core Web Course: Fundamentals of Institutional Repositories
CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is excited to announce the release of a new course, Fundamentals of Institutional Repositories (FIR). This 6-week online course is an introduction to fundamental concepts of institutional repositories (IR)...
Core Webinar: Accessible and Inclusive Library Design
Join Core for the webinar "Accessible and Inclusive Library Design" on June 11, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Explore ways to make your library more accessible and inclusive to patrons and staff, including following ADA guidelines and examining patron experience.
Core Webinar: Participative Leadership in Decision Making
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Participative Leadership in Decision Making" on May 28, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Participative leadership techniques are used in a variety of situations, but one of the ways they can be effective is when major changes are...
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: An Integrated Approach to a Diversity Audit
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: An Integrated Approach to a Diversity Audit" on May 22, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Collection diversity audits are not a new phenomenon for libraries. While many public and school libraries have taken these...
