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At Library Journal’s midwinter reference roundtable, academic and public librarians expressed frustration that they don’t know how to best market the often-expensive materials they’ve bought from reference publishers and aggregators. SAGE Reference’s Rolf Janke quoted librarians as saying, “Help us market your content…We’re not in business. We don’t have marketing [...]
How can we empower our staff’s creativity while maintaining consistent branding guidelines?
Gina Rozier, Marketing and Development Manager, Durham County Library, will answer this age old question by sharing her proven method for enlisting staff buy-in for branding, layout and style guidelines. Any size library can replicate these easy steps.
How to combine copy and images that [...]
Have you heard people talking about “pinning” the night away, but are clueless as to what they’re actually talking about? Join Dawn Krause, Manager of Continuing Education at the Texas State Library and Angela Palmer of Bee Cave Public Library — both avid Pinterest users — in an overview of this [...]
Learn about the My PC Series; a Windows 7 based, completely free, hands-on, and jargon-free curriculum of computer classes developed by Microsoft that aims to make the challenge of providing basic computer training for adults a bit easier.
The webinar contains two sessions; A Program Overview and a Workshop Preview session. If [...]
The condensed Online Version of the Statistics Workshop given last winter is now available on WebJunction Connecticut. The three tutorials (each 10 to 15 minutes long) cover these areas:
How to make the most of the Statistical Profile of Connecticut Public Libraries
Chart-making tips to help you make the case for your library
Statistics resources for public library [...]
Public libraries who want to see how the upcoming annual survey will change this year should go to Annual Report and Application for State Aid and download a copy of the 2012 survey, survey changes, instructions, and definitions. Looking at the survey changes pdf is probably a good idea for all those whose task it [...]
Join us for a discussion exploring lifelong learning as an economic driver in the 21st century and the expanding role of libraries in this “era of the learner.” Building on discussions about 21st century skills and workforce development, we’ll hear from futurist Garry Golden on the changing workforce and the role [...]
Part of ALA President Molly Raphael’s “Empowering Diverse Voices” diversity leadership initiative, this free webinar will explore how diversity affects leadership in a new library work environment.
The Library Leadership 2.0 webinar will explore how people work in libraries today. With the integration of technology, team-based and project-based groupings, changing demographics, and a distributed model [...]
This session will look at the eBook landscape from a wide perspective, including the many options for approaching eBook acquisition, lease and loan. This will include discussion of Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) as well as next generation approaches to patron driven acquisition – “Smart PDA.” It will cover collection development [...]
The following April 2012 webinars have been archived and are now available for viewing:
ALCTS: Preserving Your Personal Digital Photographs
GLA: WordPress for Library Websites
InfoPeople: Healing Reads: Bibliotherapy for the 21st Century
InfoPeople: Leveraging Technology to Support Early Literacy in the Library
InfoPeople: Teen Literature Update 2012
OCLC: Best Practices in Virtual Reference: Virtual Reference in Tough Times
OCLC: Skills [...]