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91´«Ã½ partners with League of Women Voters to empower voters in 2024
The 91´«Ã½ and League of Women Voters today announced a new partnership to educate and empower voters in 2024.
CHICAGO—Core hosts the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Cultivating Equitable Hiring Practices for Academic Librarians; Bridging Perspectives of Applicants and Hiring Committees" on May 21, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. After experiencing inconsistent search committee...
Core Webinar: Moving Out of One-and-Done Strategic Planning
Join Core for the webinar "Moving Out of One-and-Done Strategic Planning" on May 15, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. This webinar will share the process at a midsized academic library as a new plan was developed under new library leadership.
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Stewarding Relevance; Subject-Diverse Weeding
Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Stewarding Relevance; Subject-Diverse Weeding" on May 8, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. This presentation, intended for collection development librarians, subject selection specialists, collection managers, and collection support staff, provides an overview of the planning, implementation, and method for a customized collection assessment and weeding of a large multi-subject research collection.
Preservation Week® Webinar: Historical Newspapers in Public Libraries
Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures hosts the free Preservation Week® webinar "Historical Newspapers in Public Libraries" on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Join in for discussion of digitization, preservation and access for local historical newspapers with the Columbus Metropolitan Library's Local History & Genealogy team.
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: White Supremacy in the Stacks
Core hosts the webinar "Best of Core Forum: White Supremacy in the Stacks" on May 7, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. This session examines how Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications handle books on topics relevant to White Supremacy and how this perpetuates the idea of a color-blind or color-neutral society.
91´«Ã½-APA Salaries and Status of Library Workers Committee to Host Two Webinars
The 91´«Ã½ Allied Professional Association’s (91´«Ã½-APA) Salaries and Status of Library Workers (SSLW) committee invites you to join them for the following two sessions. The first, Empowering Library Workers: Navigating Unionization in Challenging Environments, will be held May 1st, 1:30 – 3:00pm (Central)/ 2:30 – 4:00pm (Eastern). The second, What Comes after Unionization: Effective Engagement with Library Workers, will be held on May 8th, 12:00pm-1:00pm (Central).
Free Core Webinar: Perspectives on Working with International Vendors
Join Core for the free webinar "Perspectives on Working with International Vendors" on April 25, 2024, at 2 p.m. CT. This webinar is sponsored by Core International Relations Committee and Core World Languages Acquisitions Committee. Panelists will share their experiences and offer practical tips for collection development, problem-solving, translation, and interfacing with foreign vendors.
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: What is "Cataloging"? An Analysis of Job Postings
Core hosts the webinar "Best of Core Forum: What is "Cataloging"? An Analysis of Job Postings" on April 23, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Like many library jobs, cataloging job titles and duties have changed significantly over time. Both catalogers and library leaders can benefit from a summary and analysis of how this particular market is evolving.
CHICAGO—Join Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, for the free Preservation Week® webinar “Cultural Competency's Role Toward Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Goals." Cultural Competency is the ability...
Preservation Week® Webinar: Building Better Models for Preservation
Join Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, for the free Preservation Week® webinar “Building Better Models for Preservation.” In this panel, three speakers will discuss their experiences preserving cultural heritage material in their communities when they saw a need that was not being met.
Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures and the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) are currently accepting applications for the 11th annual IIDA/91´«Ã½ Library Interior Design Awards honoring excellence in library interior design and promoting extraordinary interior spaces across nine categories. Winners and their clients will be honored and showcased during an awards ceremony at the 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference in San Diego. The submission deadline has been extended through April 9.
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Onboarding with Cultural Humility and Appreciative Inquiry
Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Onboarding with Cultural Humility and Appreciative Inquiry" on April 17, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. The presenters, both in leadership positions, have recently been on both sides of the onboarding process and will share their ideas for incorporating the concepts of cultural humility and appreciative inquiry with the twofold goal of cultivating more inclusive and person-centered experiences for new employees and transforming the traditional onboarding process into an opportunity for organizational reflection and growth.
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Python for Data Visualization
Core hosts the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Python for Data Visualization" on April 10, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Useful for presenting both usage information and data from original research, Python can help transform data from numbers into data visualizations, such as graphs, that can be shared with coworkers, administration, and publishers. This workshop will cover all the information needed to create these data visualizations--no previous experience required!
Core Webinar: Logic Models; Your Strategic Magic Wand
Join Core for the webinar "Logic Models: Your Strategic Magic Wand" on April 16, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. In this introductory session, participants will learn the fundamentals of logic models and think about how to refine or develop logic models (starting with a theory of change) so that they can be confidently added to proposals that stand out from the crowd as well as offer clear direction for program evaluation.
