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Professional Development Resources for Library Staff & Board Members December 2019
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January 8 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm (MT) $65 US Moving into a library management position can feel like a daunting and solitary pursuit. If you’ve never managed a budget, supervised staff, or been responsible for strategic decisions, it can be easy to get overwhelmed.
In this workshop, library management expert Catherine Hakala-Ausperk will help you take charge of your development with a clear, focused, programmatic approach. Hakala-Ausperk, author of the bestselling Be a Great Boss—One Year to Success, will discuss how in one hour a week, you can become a great boss who leads effectively and manages staff with confidence. You’ll have a chance to interact with the presenter and get answers to your management questions.
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December 3 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) Many - if not most - managers and team members dislike or even hate performance reviews. It seems like you've said everything you need to say already, you're not sure how to prepare, and you feel awkward delivering an odd combination of positive and negative feedback.
Join us on December 3rd as 15Five’s Director of L&D, Dr. Jeff Smith, shows you how to make performance reviews an impactful practice that promotes accountability, growth, and dialogue about someone being and becoming their best self.
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January 29 | 9:00am - 4:00pm (MT) $129 early-bird pricing / $199 regular Is your organization at a loss as how to address psychological health and safety or challenged with Alberta’s new Occupation Health and Safety code? We are bringing support. Join us for the day to get insight into this complex issue and take away real tools you can immediately apply in your workplace.
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January 15 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) Kick off the new year with a plan to hit the ground running to promote your library and all that it offers. From advocacy to newsletters, social media to collection building, you’ll leave this webinar with actionable steps to keep your library and its value to the community top of mind all year long. Whether you’re facing a ballot initiative for funding, want a budget increase, or just want everyone to know what you offer, make plans to attend this webinar.
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PART 1: January 16 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm (MT) PART 2: January 23 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm (MT) $75 US Creating video content is easier today than it’s ever been. The equipment is everywhere—you can make a high-quality video with the average smartphone, edit it with simple-to-use software, and post it to a website or social network seamlessly. The proliferation of video content on the web has wonderful implications for library services. If you aren’t using video on your library’s website or social media channels, it’s time to get started.
In this two-part workshop, library technology and digital librarianship expert David Lee King shows you how to start incorporating video. David explains how you can use video for outreach through a variety of case studies, shares tips on what types of content works best, and describes what to consider when planning for and implementing a video presence at your library.
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Episode 20 Your library has no strategic marketing plan in place! What do you do? Emily from Berks County Public Library System in Pennsylvania asks for help and Angela Hursh gives her best advice.
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Do you want more video views on YouTube? Wondering how to keep people watching your videos to the end?
To explore how to ensure people watch your YouTube videos, I interview Brian G. Johnson on the Social Media Marketing Podcast. Brian is a YouTube expert who helps people amplify their message with the power of YouTube. He’s the author of Trust Funnel and Tube Ritual. His course is called Tube Rank Ritual. Brian explains why YouTube cares so much about retention time. He also shares tips to get people to watch your YouTube videos to the end.
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January 15 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm (MT) $60 US Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 5 million Americans, is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States, and is predicted to spread even more rapidly as the Baby Boomers age. Yet libraries in many cases have been slow to consider how to specifically serve this growing population among our users and how to serve the even larger group of those caring for people with dementia.
In this 90-minute workshop, we will examine and evaluate library resources and programming ideas for serving the increasing number of adults who are either living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias or caring for those who do. We will cover the basics of Alzheimer’s and related dementias, including the variety of specific needs those living with the disease might bring to a library—medical, legal, financial, ethical, and emotional. We will evaluate traditional library information resources relating to those needs, consider a bibliography of fictional and memoir resources that explore the caregiving experience, and examine some innovative examples of adult programming dedicated to those living with Alzheimer’s.
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December 12 | 11:00am - 12:00pm (MT) No, not those kind of benefits! Join us as we walk you through programming designed to help your teens develop their social and emotional skill set. These skills are important for future success, plus the programs that develop them have a variety of helpful side effects! We’ll talk about programming for all budgets and sizes of libraries, everything from Dungeons & Dragons to a Yo-Yo club! We’ll also show you how your summer reading program can address this issue, plus discuss how to take on reluctant admins who are hesitant to greenlight ‘just for fun’ programs.
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December 12 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm (MT) $60 US By building programs that engage and attract active seniors to your library, you can help reinforce your library’s status as an important community center for residents of all ages.
In this workshop, Amy Alessio will provide you with several programming ideas and tips on how to market these programs, so that you can build successful programs that attract more seniors into your library. She has conducted over 250 live programs on related topics at libraries, senior centers, and national conferences including 2013 ALA Annual and is recognized as one of the top library programming authorities in the country.
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December 18 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm (MT) $65 US Everything old is new again—the retro trend is everywhere, including in libraries. We love the 90s (and 70s and 80s), and chances are your patrons do too! In this new workshop, library programming experts Emily Vinci and Katie LaMantia show you how to engage with patrons of all ages and bring dynamic programs from the past back into the library with flair.
You’ll get over fifteen programming ideas and activities for all age groups and budgets and learn how to incorporate your own personal nostalgic interests into programming, marketing, and partnerships to create programming tailored to your library and patrons. Whether you want to run a tubular 80’s ski program or turn your all-purpose room into a disco, there’s something for everyone in the past.
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You would not expect to see the words ‘fitness’ and ‘library’ come up in the same sentence, yet you would be surprised to find out the correlation between the two. How can libraries help people be more involved in fitness? What are some successful examples of this synergy and how can libraries become involved?
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50+ fandom programs : planning festivals and events for tweens, teens, and adults by Amy J AlessioThis book of ready-to-go programs and events will help public libraries give fans who are passionate about genres, characters, games, and book series plenty of reasons to return to the library again and again. Fandom programming can require planning across departments, tie-ins to collections and community partnerships, and targeted marketing. But the fun content cooked up by the three best-selling authors in this guide makes it easy to stay organized every step of way, with events broken down into components that streamline planning and facilitates coordination.
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Book club reboot : 71 creative twists by Sarah OstmanIs your book club feeling stale or uninspired? Has attendance dropped, or are you struggling to keep your patrons engaged? What you need is a reboot. This resource published in cooperation with ALA's Public Programs Office profiles dozens of successful book clubs across the country. Its diverse cross-section of ideas will inspire you to rethink your reading groups and try out new ways to better meet your library's and community's needs.
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FreeCAD is a 3D parametric modeling program, designed for creating and customizing real-life objects. The beauty of this program lies in the complete ease with which you can modify your designs, while still being an open-source platform that is completely free to use.
In the 5 lessons of this FreeCAD tutorial, you will learn the basic commands and tools to visualize your ideas on screen, ready for 3D printing. We will show you how to construct a seemingly simple object, step by step, to familiarize you with important features. By the end of the tutorial, you will be ready to print your first self-constructed CAD model.
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$35 US Armed with the pertinent information, board members can be powerful advocates for their missions. In this webinar, we’ll discuss strategies designed to encourage board member involvement, how to embed a focus on advocacy within your organization and board, and helpful resources. Everyone will leave with at least two ways to lean into advocacy on behalf of their organization’s mission.
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So you’ve been appointed to The Committee (or board, or working group…). This group has a reputation for being tough – hard on new members, tricky to get to know and work with. You’re justifiably anxious to make a good first impression and fit in with this group as quickly as possible. How do you go about doing that?
In this Q&A, we’ll look at strategic ways of fitting in and create a good impression when you are The New Person on any kind of committee, working group, or board.
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Six thinking hats by Edward De BonoA leading authority on lateral thinking streamlines the decision-making process by identifying the central aspects of problem-solving and, by using real-life scenarios, describes how to focus thinking on each aspect individually, then link them into a productive progression.
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December 12 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm (MT) $45 for members \ $55 for non-members Thinking about the role of empathy at a time when the world seems filled with conflict and intolerance raises compelling considerations for libraries. Employing empathy intentionality, can we make a difference in the experiences of library staff and patrons as it relates to information literacy teaching, collection development, staff training and development, building design, website development, and other library operations? Can this intentional empathy make a difference in the lives and perspectives of marginalized students through welcoming and non-judgemental behaviours? Yes! Research performed on this topic (2019) will be presented.
Participants will leave the session with practical ideas as to how they can be more empathetic in their work, considering the experiences of colleagues and patrons/students. This session will challenge participants to critically reflect on their contributions to their library inferring that if we were all more intentional at demonstrating empathetic behaviour we would build a stronger and healthier work culture and influence students/patrons in more positive ways. As a result, an empathetic approach to all aspects of library work presents a more authentic experience to conversations and interactions fostering a greater understanding of human differences and the richness that comes from equity, diversity and inclusion.
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Library science is getting harder to teach. The variety in libraries of all types is increasing as more and more mold themselves to their communities rather than field-wide norms. How can library science education change to meet the new variety, and the variety in a post-neutrality world.
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January 29 - February 1 The Ontario Library Association is Canada’s largest library organization and OLA’s Super Conference is Canada’s largest continuing education event in librarianship. Within the Super Conference event is the country’s largest library tradeshow. The program is a tribute to the ability of OLA members to balance the cutting edge and the practical in a way that can satisfy an increasingly diverse number of member interests and needs.
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March 5 - 7 Hindsight is 20/20. It’s easy to know the right thing to do after the fact: what worked, what didn’t, what could be done differently? Join us at the 11th annual Southern Alberta Library Conference, as we reflect on how libraries can move forward, together.
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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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