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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

July 2024 Learning Live - READCON: A Curriculum for Library Readiness, Advocacy, and Community Empowerment During Challenging Conditions

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

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Health Literacy and Public Libraries

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Practical, evidence-based health literacy to combat health misinformation and improve health outcomes and equity.

We love the Friends of the Library. 2024 National Friends of Libraries Week, October 20-26, 2024, an initiative of United for Libraries

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!

United for Libraries May 2024 Learning Live

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.

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Gearing up for Kindergarten: How to Start a School Readiness Program

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Learn how to host a 10-session early learning program using the San Diego County Library’s Kindergarten Gear Up toolkit.

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Embracing a Public Service Mindset to Better Demonstrate Your Library’s Value

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Shift to a public service focus to demonstrate value and change how the public perceives and talks about your library.

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IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Solutions) in the Library

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Learn about universal design in communication, programming, services, and marketing to enhance access and accessibility.

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Centering Teens in the Fight against Censorship

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Public libraries empowering and educating teens and young adults to fight for their right to read freely.

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Empowering Future Managers through Cohort Mentoring

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Learn how cohort mentoring addresses skills that are hard to gain on the job and is an investment in staff growth.

Data Tools for Library Groups and States

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ACRL and PLA staff discuss the data and assessment products, Project Outcome and Benchmark, and how they can help your group, consortia, or state library administrative agency.

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The Mentor Monitor Program as a Supplement to Security and Resource to Staff

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Learn about mentor monitors, a resource to support staff members and help keep the peace in a busy library.

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Benchmark 101: Become a Data-Informed Library

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Learn how Benchmark can support your library in everyday decision-making.