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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.
Supporting Neurodiverse and Atypical Leadership in Libraries
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Atypical managers share their strategies for success, tools for immediate action, and techniques for self-acceptance.
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.
Best of Core Forum: Organizing for Open; Aligning Organizational Structures with Open Values
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Many academic libraries have a strong commitment to open scholarship articulated in strategic planning goals, values statements, and policy documents. The webinar will describe how Oregon State University Libraries and Press has been engaging in conversations about how to organize library services and staffing in these areas to adapt to an increasingly open scholarly publishing landscape.
Public Libraries Supporting African American Writers
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Learn how to help overcome barriers and consistently provide resources and support to African American writers.
Host a Repair Café in Your Library
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Your library can host a Repair Café or other community repair event to foster a culture of repair, reuse and resourcefulness.
Partnering with the National Library Service to Provide Materials and Services to People with Print Disabilities
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Learn how to partner with National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled to provide free reading materials in alternate formats.
Best of Core Forum: Can't Find It, Build Your Own
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This team of presenters is made up of an acquisitions librarian partnered with an instruction librarian who has experience in the creation of asynchronous content to develop acquisitions based training modules.
Participative Leadership in Decision Making
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This webinar will describe how participative leadership can be used in decision-making, its impact on employee engagement, inclusiveness, and work culture. In order to illustrate these points, presenters will share an example of how participative leadership techniques were applied during organizational structure planning.
READCON: A Curriculum for Library Readiness, Advocacy, and Community Empowerment During Challenging Conditions
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July 2024 Learning Live: READCON: A Curriculum for Library Readiness, Advocacy, and Community Empowerment During Challenging Conditions
Health Literacy and Public Libraries
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Practical, evidence-based health literacy to combat health misinformation and improve health outcomes and equity.
2024 National Friends of Libraries Week
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Celebrate Your Friends Group Oct. 20-26, 2024, during the 19th annual National Friends of Libraries Week!
Friends of the Library and the Right to Read: Getting Ready for Banned Books Week
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June 2024 Learning Live: Learn programming ideas and what Friends groups across the country are planning for Banned Books Week (Sept. 22-28, 2024).
Let's Move in Libraries: How Library Trustees/Boards, Friends, and Foundations Can Support Community Health
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May 2024 Learning Live: Learn about the “Let’s Move in Libraries” initiative, and how to help support community health in libraries.
2024 United for Libraries Virtual: Trustees - Friends - Foundations
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This interactive three-day virtual event will feature expert speakers on current topics facing library Trustees, Friends, Foundations, and staff who work with them.