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Libraries go Boom: April Webinars Announced
March 4th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

Two new webinars are announced for April. Libraries Go Boom! Library Service to Older Adults and Baby Boomers will be presented by Douglas Lord, of the Connecticut State Library, on April 6. Douglas will discuss how libraries can identify and serve the needs of older patrons.

Then on April 20, WebJunction will host Competency Success Stories for Your Library. You’ll hear how various libraries are using competencies in their hiring, training, and continuous education initiatives. For more information about these an other upcoming webinars, visit L2.
Continuous Learning, Illinois State Library
“On the Front Lines” Coming Up
March 2nd, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?
We’re only two weeks away from the “On The Front Lines” Conference March 15-17 at the University of Illinois Springfield. More than 200 participants took part in last year’s conference, and organizers are very excited about the agenda for this year.

“On the Front Lines” is an excellent continuing education opportunity for “front line” library staff working in all types of libraries. Participants will obtain training, exposure, and techniques that will enable them to deal effectively and efficiently with their day-to-day activities as front line employees. Some of this year’s sessions will include:
- Forming a Green Team and Making It Work
- Optimizing Interlibrary Loan throughout ILLINET
- Preservation in a Hybrid World: Past, Present, and Future
- Copyright Compliance in a Web 2.0 World
- Reference Desk Realities
- Turning a Good Grant into a Great Grant
- Internet Safety
- Emergency Preparedness
The Conference registration fee is only $15.00 for the entire event, regardless if participants attend one, two or all three days. To register and see the full conference agenda, go to L2

Contact Gwen Harrison at gharrison@ilsos.net or 217-785-7334 for further information.
Continuous Learning, Online Learning
Trendy Topics 2010: Marketing for Libraries
March 2nd, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

Alliance Library System and TAP Information Services are pleased to announce the second in a dynamic monthly series of online workshops you can enjoy right at your desktop on hot topics.

The latest conference on Marketing for Libraries is scheduled for Tuesday, March 9. Alison Circle of Columbus Metropolitan Library and blogger for “Library Journal”, will be the opening keynote speaker at 10:00. She will offer a step-by-step presentation on how to develop a marketing plan that integrates newest channels (Facebook, Twitter, and others) into a consistent value message that pays off in tangible results.

Find out more.
Continuous Learning, School Libraries
Attention School Libraries
March 2nd, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

Please help make the 2010 Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA) Conference one that will meet your professional development needs. The conference steering committee is conducting a survey in order to deliver a valuable conference experience.

Whether you attend the conference every year or this will be your first year to attend, we value your opinion. Please complete the survey by Friday, February 26, which should take less than 10 minutes of your time. If you have additionalcomments about the conference, please contact the
conference chair, Stephanie Stieglitz.
Continuous Learning, E-Learning, Online Learning
Mentors, Proteges and Strategic Planning: 3 New Courses Added to the WJIL Catalog
March 2nd, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?
The three courses listed below were recently added to the WJIL Course Catalog. If you are a registered user of WJIL, these courses are available to you for free.

Mentors and Protégés: Creating Successful Workplace Programs (LE@D)

There’s a lot of common-sense planning that goes into running an effective, creative, dynamic mentor program. It really isn’t about magic — it’s about organization, details, and continual evaluation to help us stay on target and focus on our goals.

Throughout this course, we will be exploring how to create the best interchanges between mentors and protégés, with an eye toward positive results for all involved.

Strategic Planning: Quick, Cheap, and Decent (LE@D)

What happens if you don’t have time to research and write an A+ strategic plan? What if you have an impossible deadline, no budget, no experience, and no staff? Something has to give.

This is a class for when you need a quick, simple, short-term working strategic plan for your library or project; when your plan needs to be good, not great; when your existing plan needs a fast makeover; when your existing planning process is stalled and you need a jump-start; when you have a difficult planning deadline; when your library’s leadership and management have never created a strategic plan before, and they want to start small, simple, and doable; or when there is only one of you to do it all.

If you’re looking for a more thorough introduction to the strategic planning process, or a solution to long-term problems, please consider Strategic Planning: The Five-Minute Introduction

Strategic Planning: The Five-Minute Introduction (LE@D)

Strategic planning is about inventing a new future and creating a written plan for coordinating the steps and the resources to get there. That doesn’t sound so very terrible, does it?

But, poll a library audience about why they hate strategic planning, and the issues appear all too familiar. What if I could offer you a strategic planning process that was both reasonable and beneficial to your library?

This class is designed to introduce you to the skills and techniques necessary for developing a strategic plan and emphasizes two important concepts:
- Strategic planning works.
- It does not have to be a long, expensive, tedious, and basically useless process.
Why Five Minutes? Because that’s how long it takes to explain the main steps of this effective strategic planning model.

If you’re looking for more practical, hands-on information, or if you need a quick, simple, short-term working strategic plan for your library or project, please consider Strategic Planning: Quick, Cheap, and Decent
Continuous Learning, Marketing
Library Images and Video: Engage, Inspire and Tell Your Story
February 5th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

The upcoming WebJunction Webinar Library Images and Video: Engage, Inspire and Tell your Story is scheduled for Wednesday 3/3/2010 beginning at 1:00 PM Central Time.

In this entertaining and heartwarming presentation you will learn how two librarians teamed up to advocate more effectively (and boldly) while staying true to the personality of the communities, the libraries and the staff they serve. You and your library really can market your services and engage more effectively, and images, video and authenticity can be a key! Learn how you too can use images and video creatively and effectively to inspire Libraryland, engage the communities you serve boost staff morale and get more enjoyment from your job. The stories and lessons in this session will be presented by Jeff Dawson from the Lester Public Library in Two Rivers Wisconsin and by Michael Porter from WebJunction.

Visit L2 to sign up for this event.
Continuous Learning, Technology
Computers in Libraries Conference Discount
February 1st, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

A group discount is being offered to ILLINET member libraries for the Computers in Libraries 2010 Conference (CIL) in Arlington, Virginia April 12-14th. The rate is $244 for the 3-day event–more than 50 per cent off the regular price. Additionally, the Internet@Schools East Conference 2010 is being held April 12-13 and is being offered at the discounted price of $109. Register to attend the CIL general conference and the Internet@Schools East Conference combined at the discounted price of $244. No discount rates are available for pre or post-conference seminars and workshops.

Information about conference topics, a preliminary program, hotel information and an exhibitors list are online.

To receive a registration form with special discounted ILLINET member pricing, contact Jill Heffernan or call Jill at 217-557-3386. To receive the discount, a completed registration form must be returned to Jill by March 10th.
Continuous Learning, School Libraries
2010 Bradley Institute Applications Now Available
January 19th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

The 16th annual Institute for School and Public Librarians: Linking, Learning & Libraries will be held June 13-18 on the campus of Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.

Programs focus on the diverse skills and knowledge needed by school and public librarians to serve patrons and students. Topics include readers advisory; issues in selecting and evaluating multicultural materials; getting kids excited about reading; collection management; dealing with diverse personalities; copyright; developing effective programming for all ages; using technology to promote reading; grant writing; and security and safety in the library.

The Institute is most beneficial to those working directly with students/library patrons and have a broad variety of library responsibilities or “do it all” at their library. The Institute is most appropriate for school and public librarians who are fairly new to the library field, or who believe they would benefit from the training offered. Priority is given to persons who do not possess an advanced library degree but are in positions of responsibility.

The only cost to attend is a $50.00 registration fee. Lodging, all meals, handouts, and educational resource materials are provided for the attendees. Attendees can expect to receive approximately 35 CPDU’s awarded by Bradley University.

Applications must be submitted by March 19th. A maximum of fifty school and public librarians will be selected, with the intent of maintaining a balance between the two types of libraries and geographic representation. Attendees will be notified of their selection by mid-April.

Additional information may be obtained from Ron Winner and Karen Egan at 1-800-665-5576, ext. 1.
Continuous Learning, Library Management, Online Learning
Project Compass: Libraries Providing Direction in Tough Times
January 6th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

On September 10, 2009, IMLS announced a grant awarded to WebJunction and the State Library of North Carolina to support public libraries’ efforts to meet the urgent and growing demands of our communities as they struggle with the loss of jobs and the needs of the unemployed.

The team chose the name of Project Compass as an apt metaphor for the intention of assessing the present situation of workforce development in libraries and for setting direction toward future recovery. The compass is also symbolic of the direction that libraries provide to their patrons and their communities, especially in turbulent times. There is abundant evidence that people are turning to libraries as to the North Star, depending on this community institution to provide guidance through the economic downturn.

Libraries have already responded to the critical needs, creating or augmenting multiple and robust resources and services. The variety of responses to the Library Responses to Economic Tough Times survey brings to light the energetic guidance that is emanating from libraries all over the country. Highlights of the survey responses are captured in the Compass Survey Summary; the details of individual state responses may be read in the collection of Compass Snapshots for each state.

If you have followed any of these links, you’ve had a glimpse of what is a budding resource on WebJunction Illinois. In addition to the Project Compass section, which will collect information pertinent to the project and participants, there is a new Workforce Resources topic. This nascent topic area will grow over the coming year. We hope that everyone involved in workforce development issues will help that growth. We are interested in contributions on tools, resources, and services that any library—large or small, state or local— has deployed toward workforce recovery.

WebJunction’s January webinar will focus on Libraries and Workforce Recovery.

Join on January 28 to learn about successful library programs and best practices that address the increase in patron job-related needs. You’ll hear about strategies for triaging social services and how to analyze your library’s services in relation to existing community social services. You’ll discover new ways to create partnerships with community agencies to leverage workforce development efforts. Finally, you’ll get tips on tactics that can be implemented on a shoestring or non-existent budget to respond to patron workforce development need.

Register to attend this timely event and plan on joining in the efforts.
Continuous Learning, Reference
Apply to Participate in Legal Information Conference
January 5th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the National Center for State Courts, the Self-Represented Litigation Network, in cooperation with Legal Services Corp., is presenting a two-day conference on January 11–12, in Austin, Texas, that addresses how public libraries can improve their patrons’ access to online legal information.

The conference will be a unique opportunity to meet with public librarians and legal and court experts to discuss strategies for integrating access to legal information into your programs, including how to find the best content and tools, talk about the content with library patrons, form partnerships to develop content, share what you have learned, and advocate for the importance of public libraries as gateways to government information.

The supporting material and information resulting from this conference will be published on WebJunction Illinois in the Legal Information section.

More information and how to apply…

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Continuous Learning, Online Learning

Libraries go Boom: April Webinars Announced

Continuous Learning, Illinois State Library

“On the Front Lines” Coming Up

Continuous Learning, Online Learning

Trendy Topics 2010: Marketing for Libraries

Continuous Learning, School Libraries

Attention School Libraries

Continuous Learning, E-Learning, Online Learning

Mentors, Proteges and Strategic Planning: 3 New Courses Added to the WJIL Catalog

Continuous Learning, Marketing

Library Images and Video: Engage, Inspire and Tell Your Story

Continuous Learning, Technology

Computers in Libraries Conference Discount

Continuous Learning, School Libraries

2010 Bradley Institute Applications Now Available

Continuous Learning, Library Management, Online Learning

Project Compass: Libraries Providing Direction in Tough Times

Continuous Learning, Reference

Apply to Participate in Legal Information Conference