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Learn How to Surpass Library Broadband Challenges in this Core Webinar on April 6, 2021
Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, and Futures, will present the webinar, "Understand and Improve Library Broadband Challenges." Tuesday, April 6, 2021, from 1:00 -2:00 pm, Central Time. Rural and tribal libraries across the US helped create the Towards...
Free Webinar from Core on Building Virtual Team Cohesion at your Institution on January 13, 2021
This FREE webinar hosted by the newest 91´«Ã½ division, Core: Leadership,Infrastructure, Futures will teach attendees: Strategies to reestablish connections with staff to their employer, workplace, and colleagues. Support cross-communications styles through...
This webinar will show users how to leverage the free Google Sheets Add-on called MatchMARC to retrieve OCLC records based on user criteria. Advantages of using MatchMARC over OCLC’s Connexion will be highlighted. Examples of workflows made possible by...
Manage Your Academic Library Building During a Pandemic in this Dec. 16th Core webinar
Closing, opening, and reopening academic libraries during a pandemic requires library decision-makers to take on new roles, learn new things, and apply new knowledge to decision making for their facilities and employees. These decision-makers find...
Conduct Effective Library Assessment Focus Groups with this Core Webinar on December 1
More often than not, assessment techniques are learned on the job rather than taught in a MLIS degree program. While some are easy to learn without formal training, focus groups can be especially challenging to both facilitator and participants. Given the...
Create an Oral History Project with this December Core Classroom Session
The former ALCTS Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS) for several years have created oral histories of commercial binders and preservation librarians which are available on the 91´«Ã½ Institutional Repository (91´«Ã½IR). The...
PLA’s new Learning Tapas offers bite-sized professional development for public librarians
CHICAGO – In October, the Public Library Association (PLA) released two new professional development resources exclusively available to PLA members. PLA's new Learning Tapas are quick, self-paced videos with corresponding guidebooks designed to provide a...
Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, and Futures, a new division of 91´«Ã½, will present the webinar “Don't click that link! Cybersecurity best practices for your institution and staff,” on Wednesday, October 28, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm, Central Time. In this...
Panel to feature internet pioneer Larry Irving WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, October 21, the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) Public Policy and Advocacy Office will host a panel of thought leaders and advocates on how library workers and advocates can...
Core Webinar Presents Effective Communications for Libraries in a Crisis
Any situation that threatens the integrity or reputation of your organization is a crisis. It could include funding reductions, safety and security events, or health issues at your library. Libraries must be prepared for potential emergencies and...
Legal and Legislative Update Webinar
For over fifty years, the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) has been at the forefront of legislative issues -- whether it's fighting a book challenge, protecting access to information, or defending free speech as provided under the First Amendment. Join...
Focusing on the challenges and opportunities in working with metadata for unusual types of content, “ Expand the Horizon: Challenges and Opportunities in Working with Metadata for Unusual Content Types” will explore the creation, management, and...
LLAMA webinar: "Soliciting Feedback -- Up, down, and sideways"
All too often professional development related to feedback focuses on how we give feedback as managers, and less often about how we solicit feedback to improve our own performance, and perhaps more importantly, how we respond and take action based on what...
EXTON, Pennsylvania — “United for Libraries Virtual: Trustees – Friends – Foundations,” to be held Aug. 4-6, 2020, will feature three keynote sessions; topics will be focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion; how groups can plan for an uncertain future...
FTRF Hosts Webinar on Collecting and Protecting LGBTQ+ Materials and Programs
Public and school libraries experience the most challenges to materials, and in 2019 eight out of the top ten most challenged books were on that list for having LGBTQ+ content. While some schools and libraries were or are physically closed due to the...
