Many of you may be attending the ILA Conference for 2009 where the theme is “Transformation: See Tomorrow Today.” The programming for this year focuses on how libraries are transforming, how transformation impacts them, and what we can do to create the transformation we want and need. This issue of What’s New @ WJIL gives you a number of options for supplementing your conference experience both before and after with WJIL resources, learning, and information related to the conference programming. NOTE: For full conference details visit the ILA website.
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Resources
Speaker: Lincoln’s 10 Critical Tasks of Transformational Leadership [October 7th]
Related Materials on WJIL
- Getting on Your Community’s Leadership Team
- From Information Providers to Community Connectors
- Building a Technology Team
- Strategic Planning
Workshop: Researching Communities to Prepare for the Future [October 7]
Related Materials on WJIL
- Researching Communities to Prepare for the Future: The Researching Communities to Prepare for the Future study interviewed over 140 residents in 15 communities across Illinois, to discover what communities want from their libraries in the future. The research from this grant is now posted on WJIL and allows Illinois public libraries to determine future library services and focuses. This is the first known library study to use the Q-Method, a research technique to study the viewpoint of participants.
Workshop: The Attorneys are In – Give them Your Best Shot [October 7]
Related Materials on WJIL
- Library Law Articles: The Metropolitan Library System and the North Suburban Library System provide monthly articles on library law and its application in Illinois libraries. These articles are authored by the law firm Klein, Thorpe & Jenkins, Ltd., which is an Illinois law firm. The firm concentrates in the representation of local libraries, library districts and library systems, as well as other local governmental units.
- Legal Responsibilities: Resources related to intellectual freedom, copyright, and right to privacy.
Workshop: Social Networking - And not Just for Kids Anymore [October 7]
Related Materials on WJIL
- Social Networking and Web Tools: The next generation of the Web (known as Web 2.0 or the “participatory web”) brought innovations that turned the Web from a read-only environment into an online community where people meet, exchange information, collaborate, and communicate. Find out how you can leverage these tools in your library.
- Innovation – Web 2.0 Tools: Checklists and assessment matrices from the MaintainIT Planning for Success Cookbook including a Collaboration Tools Chart.
Talk Table: Keeping the Public Informed: Administrative Ready Reference Revisited [October 7]
Related Materials on WJIL
- The new “Keeping the Public Informed: Administrative Ready Reference Revisited” is now available on WebJunction Illinois at http://il.webjunction.org/readyref. A treasure trove of public library
information, this site will be used by the library professional as well as interested citizens. Annexations, tax caps, budget cycles, and more are included.
Workshop: More Book-Elation: Ideas for Creating Children’s Programming for 2010 [October 7]
Related Materials on WJIL
- Visit the Children: Programming and Outreach area of the site for articles such as Catch the Reading Bug, Chinese Storytellers Expand Summer Reading, and Mission Branch Builds Community Through Storytime.
Courses and Learning
Speaker: Lincoln’s 10 Critical Tasks of Transformational Leadership [October 7]
Related Learning on WJIL
- Change Management and Leadership: Change is a given in 21st century libraries: intrusive, exhilarating, and growing in strength and frequency. Being an effective change agent and coping with change partly depends on your sense of perspective. We cannot promise that this course will either turn back the clock or guarantee that everyone in your library will unquestioningly accept change. However, there are benefits from studying other people’s experiences and some of the effective principles and practices of change management.
- Leadership for Libraries: Becoming and Everyday Leader: Library leadership used to be defined mostly by age, experience, credentials, seniority and tenure, job position or other traditional models of status with the library tribe. Today, leadership skills are required at every level to ensure libraries can respond effectively to the new worlds we live in. The changes won’t wait for a model of top-down responses. We need different models of leadership: Everybody needs to be able to think and act like a leader.
Presidents Reception - Fashionably Green: Style from the Stacks II [October 8]
Related Learning
You may not be able to enter the Conference style show, but you can “style” your library with these free courses from the WJIL Course Catalog
Workshops: Library Trustee Day [October 8]
Related Learning
Workshop: Ideas, Ideas and More Ideas for an Effective Spanish Preschool Storytime [October 9]
Related Learning
- Bilingual Storytimes: Building Early Literacy and Community - webinar archive
Workshop: Fun Fair for Library Programming [October 6]
Related Learning
- Planning Storytimes for Children
- Creating Compelling Programming in Your School Library
- Reaching Teenagers
Community
Workshop: Online Reference: What to Say and How to Say It [October 8]
Related Resources
- Ask?Away Illinois Group: Join other AskAway Illinois librarians to share ideas and materials.
Workshop: A Tapestry of Freedom [October 8]
Related Resources
- Developed from an LSTA grant to the Gail Borden Public Library, “A Tapestry of Freedom” spotlighted the faces, feelings and histories of freedom in an innovative multi-faceted collaborative project from February 2 through May 31, 2008. Read more about this project.
Workshop: Resources from the Past Meet the Cataloging of the Future: Metadata for Digital Local History Collections [October 9]
Related Materials (Browse these LSTA funded projects related to digitization)
- PictureIt! Global Gallery
- A Village Grows: 50 Years of Life in Elmwood Park
- City of Catholics–Chicago and the 1926 International Eucharistic Congress
- Collaborative Project Between UIC and the Puerto Rican Cultural Center
- Daily Life Along the Railroads
- Preserving Nursing History: Providing Digital Access
- See the LSTA Grant Update page for more digitization projects
What Could I do with…this ILA Conference issue of “What’s New”?
Conferences are wonderful places to learn and meet up with colleagues, but they are only the starting point. Dig deeper before and after the conference by using the related resources and courses on WJIL to find out more about some of the conference topics. Remember, you can also continue networking with fellow conference attendees by friending them on WJIL.