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Professional Development Resources for Library Staff & Board members June 2018
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June 12, 2018 | 10:00am - 11:00am (MT) As situations arise in the workplace, we often find ourselves running in circles around the heart of the matter. Whether from a fear of resistance by others or from our own discomfort in bringing up challenging topics, a common reaction to difficult conversations is avoidance.
The art of using radical candor is invaluable and can diffuse even the toughest of situations into an open, honest environment where real results are accomplished. This is only achieved through the effective use of emotional intelligence. Join us for this complimentary webinar, sponsored by MHS Assessments and presented by Denny Faurote, founder of The Faurote Group, to learn about the Emotional Quotient-Inventory (EQ-i 2.0) model and how you can leverage it when providing and receiving candid feedback/feedforward to achieve powerful results.
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Innovation is daunting for most organizations. The elusive search for the ONE BIG IDEA to drive growth and increase relevancy puts library organizations on a never-ending journey to predict the future. Yet, the answer lies not in having one big idea.
In this interactive and informative webinar, John Moore dispels this belief by explaining how being visionary is not predicting the future, but rather, creating the future by reacting to the present. Drawing from his marketing experience at Starbucks Coffee and Whole Foods Market, John will demonstrate how a steady stream of small, everyday ideas result in lasting success for businesses, causes and organizations
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June 6, 2018 - Edmonton, AB OR June 7, 2018 - Calgary, AB $249 (early rate) / $279 (regular rate) One of the most difficult and often overlooked aspects of moving into a supervisory or management position is developing the skills necessary to truly manage people. Like all skills, management skills must be learned. This workshop presents the crucial skills for managing employment relationships from beginning to end, with particular focus on hiring and performance management. Both new and existing supervisors and managers will find this workshop useful as they work on developing skills for managing people.
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June 26, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) Have you ever wondered whether advertising on Facebook could help you grow your organization? Our in-house digital marketing expert, Farhad Chikhliwala. Farhad will draw on his many years of Facebook advertising success to show you how you can use Facebook’s ad platform to attract and engage more members.
In this free webinar, you will learn: - How to find people on Facebook most likely to join and support your organization
- What type of ads work best, and how to target your audience
- How to avoid common money-wasting traps to ensure you get a positive ROI on your Facebook spend
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June 13, 2018 | 10:00am - 11:00am (MT) You’ve probably seen short, animated videos and thought you couldn’t create them. Well, you can! Using animated templates created in PowerPoint, you can create awesome videos. These are especially useful for intros and outros.
- Create one intro and outro for each course and use them before and after each lesson
- Customize the images and text and you’re set to go—you can even add music!
- Create awesome change-ups and section slides that get your learners paying attention again!
In this webinar, you’ll learn how to use a set of templates and customize them for your own use. Come and join the fun!
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June 13, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) Since 2003, WebJunction has helped thousands of library staff members build job skills to deliver transformational services to their communities. Our resources are always free, all are welcome, and we’re always open.
Join this 30-minute webinar to: - learn about WebJunction, who we are, what we do, and how you can leverage our resources;
- explore the variety of self-paced, web-based training resources available for free;
- hear about our projects and programs that connect public library service to community needs.
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Everyone encounters difficult people on a regular basis and typically conversations with them leave people feeling frustrated, stressed, angry and tired. This webinar will analyze what is happening in those exchanges and demonstrate how people can adapt their strategies to bring about more productive conversations with those they find difficult. The effect of intervention styles will be explored, in particular, how different styles interact with each other. Participants will also learn how to change their interactions with difficult people in order to influence their behaviour, resulting in more positive outcomes.
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OR $139 (early rate) / $155 (regular rate) Personality differences often lead to miscommunication and conflict, which affects both our personal efficiency and team health. Utilizing ACHIEVE’s Head, Heart, Gut, Feet Personality Style assessment tool, participants will be equipped to understand personality styles different from their own and be provided with strategies for building healthy work environments. Through fun and engaging activities, participants will learn to communicate more effectively based on their own personality strengths and the personality based preferences of others leading to improved personal effectiveness and group productivity.
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Superheroes have become a multi-billion dollar industry, with four of the top ten theatrically released films in both 2017 and 2016 being based on comic book properties. Considering that superhero characters started to appear in comics in 1938, though, it can be difficult to know where to start when developing your collections.
In this interactive and informative webinar, a long-time superhero comic fan will teach you how to stop looking at superhero comics as a single genre but instead as multiple genres, allowing you to match materials with your customers.
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For library workers who work assist leisure readers, whether it is from the front desk, the reference desk, or as you roam the stacks, staying on top of the latest trends is imperative. Our patrons expect us to know what’s hot before they do. They expect us to have the items ready and waiting for them as soon as they request them. And with all of the other job duties we have to worry about, sometimes we are not as responsive to the most current trends as we could be. But assessing trends in leisure reading and collection development is an essential job duty, and it is not nearly as difficult as you may think.
Join noted Readers’ Advisory expert Becky Spratford for a webinar that will be fun and useful. She will walk you through the current trends in adult leisure collections and teach you the tips and tricks you can use to stay in the know all year long. Before you know it, your library will be trending in your community.
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Are you interested in offering a coding program, but not sure where to begin? Join us for this one-hour webinar that will cover how to facilitate a coding club or workshop in the context of art making. Presenter Sylvia Aguiñaga will explore fundamental coding concepts and how to apply them specifically to visual design. Not only is this is a great way to engage kids of all ages, it is also especially effective for motivating students to express themselves in a creative way while teaching critical coding & life skills. Additionally, because art making is such an impactful method of self-expression, it is especially effective in recruiting girls into the world of coding.
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A recent PEW study reported Millennials are the generation most likely to use the library, so why aren’t we seeing them at our programs? In this interactive and informative webinar, learn how to capture the elusive 20- and 30-something adult audience by offering programs unique to their needs. This presentation will cover how to start, which programs work best, creating a book club, and marketing in new ways to reach a new audience.
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Most of us are familiar with Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Some of us already use these tools for our libraries. But are we using them effectively? Let me show you how to create a social media plan and set goals so you can get the most out of social media and effectively market your library, programs, and services. You will learn why a social media presence is essential for your library’s advocacy and marketing, tips on creating the best posts for each platform, and how to create your own customized social media plan.
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June 6, 2018 | 10:00am - 10:30am $20 US If you’ve followed the news over the past few months, you’ve probably heard about blockchain. For a lot of people, it’s a difficult concept to grasp—an abstract technological concept that’s relevance is in its applications. In this new event, library technology expert Jason Griffey provides you with a thorough and clear explanation of what blockchain is, how it works, and why it’s important for libraries. In half an hour, Griffey explains what you need to know—quick, easy, and right to the point. If you don’t understand blockchain now, join us for this microlearning event, and in just 30 minutes, you will better grasp blockchain and why it’s relevant to libraries.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly moving from a science-fiction concept to reality where machines now have the capability to perform tasks commonly associated with humans. We are starting to see our society transformed because of AI, so having a better understanding of what it is and what it is capable of doing is essential. AI helps power Amazon’s Alexa personal assistant, Google’s Deep Dream neural network, various marketing initiatives, health applications, the aviation industry, and much more.
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June 6, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) It's important to create a culture of inclusion and engagement of volunteers within your organization. But, it can be hard to recognize what your current culture says to volunteers, or identify how to make changes to help volunteers feel more welcome. This webinar will help you identify how your organization's current culture is shaping or limiting what volunteers do, and provide steps you can take to start to create more understanding, respect, and appreciation for engaging volunteers.
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Libraries that cultivate a culture of learning encourage their staff to participate in continuing education. But shouldn't this learning culture also extend to library boards? At the State Library of Iowa, we say yes! Trustees can and should play a key role in fostering a culture of learning at their libraries—beginning with themselves. When library boards embrace a learning culture, they become more receptive to supporting continuing education, in policy, planning, and budgeting.
This webinar presents ideas for growing board learning into a blossoming culture that motivates board members to see education and training as a natural part of their trusteeship.
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Cherry blossoms and rainbows, bubbles and googly eyes: Why do some things seem to create such universal joy? In this captivating talk, Ingrid Fetell Lee reveals the surprisingly tangible roots of joy and shows how we all can find -- and create -- more of it in the world around us.
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June 12, 2018 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm (MT) Transformation happens when a library reimagines and reconfigures its physical space so that community engagement shifts from passive to active. The fifteen libraries that participated in the Small Libraries Create Smart Spaces project are dynamic proof of that. They learned and applied principles of active learning, placemaking and design thinking to create “smart spaces” where the community learns and creates together and strengthens social bonds.
In this webinar, we’ll describe an innovative process that any size of library can follow to uncover community needs and translate those needs into flexible lively learning space. Hear about the real experiences of two project participants who transformed drab, underused spaces into hubs of activity and energy. It can happen at your library.
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June 18, 2018 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm (MT) More and more libraries are lending devices such as wifi hotspots, Chromebooks, and tablets. This webinar will take a deeper look at the nitty gritty details of device lending, such as device security, policies, budgeting, and vendors.
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Drawn in by the ability to help her community, Little Free Library Charter #43798 owner (Anne Abate) provides background on the Little Free Library movement and how she became involved. Little Free Libraries are popping up all over the world. They are truly “community assets”, but what does that mean for libraries and their communities?
After introducing the worldwide efforts, attendees will learn about the actual experiences of this Little Free Library owner with suggestions for putting up your own Little Free Library, either in your own yard, in a park or public space, or in front of your “real” library. A representative from the Little Free Libraries organization will join the webinar to provide additional information and answer questions.
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The idea for ways that blockchain technology could be used by libraries came after hearing a presentation on LEARNING IS EARNING in the national learning economy made by Jane McGonigal, Institute for the Future, at the at the SXSW conference. The discussion fueled a plan for libraries to validate the academic and professional development credentials of individuals in a permanent electronic ledger that could have global access to their records eliminating the need for individuals to keep track of and submit individual copies of transcripts, certificates, badges, and other credentials. An investigation revealed that libraries might be able to use blockchain technology to accomplish more than housing electronic credentials.
Twenty-first century information professionals provide dynamic services and resources in physical and virtual spaces through personal interaction, virtual intermediation, or social media. In addition to lending books, information centers provide entry points to the digital world. When walking into a library or information center, you may find robots, makerspaces with 3D printers, collaborative areas, augmented reality apps, and access to an array of digital materials. Librarians/information professionals have the research and technical skills needed to organize and analyze information in order to customize relevant sources for each user. Libraries are dynamic, ever-changing organizations that can anchor communities. Technology enables the profession to broaden our impact within the community and around the globe.
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2018 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition June 21 - 26, 2018 New Orleans, LA click here for registration rates ALA, the oldest and largest library association in the world, holds its Annual Conference & Exhibition each summer. As the world's biggest library event, the conference brings together librarians and library staff, educators, authors, publishers, friends of libraries, trustees, special guests, and exhibitors to engage and participate in the ongoing transformation of libraries
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Edmonton, AB click here for registration rates Each year since 2010, YRL (Yellowhead Regional Library) has held an annual conference with the suffix "The Power of Libraries." Because we believe that libraries do have power; to be champions of information and learning, to foster creativity and innovation, and to be centres of a community that are available and welcoming.
Our conference is about coming together to share our stories and experiences. You can expect a full day of great topics, friendly attendees and speakers, not to mention delicious lunch and snacks.
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Grande Prairie, AB click here for registration rates Every year, over 150 delegates from school and public libraries in northern Alberta, northern British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories attend Peace Library System's Rural Libraries Conference. This year's conference is themed The Future Focused Library. On September 27 & 28, delegates will have the chance to network, visit the exhibitor tradeshow, and attend a variety of sessions on topics ranging from programming to board relations to collection development.
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Cincinnati, OH click here for registration rates Join more than 300 fellow children's librarians and educators for ALSC's two and a half day National Institute. The Institute is everything you need in one place--programming, keynotes, networking and much more. This intensive learning opportunity with a youth services focus and is designed for front-line youth library staff, children’s literature experts, education and library school faculty members, and other interested adults. It is one of the only conferences devoted solely to children's librarianship, literature and technology and takes place every two years.
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Disclaimer: The links provided in this newsletter are intended to inform subscribers about information and learning opportunities that may be of interest. Inclusion in this newsletter does not constitute a recommendation by Marigold Library System or its staff members.
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