Originally presented January 19, 2022 Patron management requires the ability to continually assess behaviors throughout these dynamic interactions, ma...
Creating and maintaining research guides that students actually use is an ongoing challenge for many librarians. Join Amy Barker and Ashley Hoffman as they give an overview of their study and highlight practical design tips that will be easily transferable to other libraries. Learn how to quickly implement homegrown usability testing, what students look for in a subject guide, and how to use LibGuides features to design usable guides.
Our future depends on all of us working together with empathy, respect, and understanding to adapt to the many challenges facing society. Libraries play an important and unique role in promoting community awareness about resilience, climate change, and a sustainable future. Join Rebekkah Smith Aldrich to explore the importance of infusing the core value of sustainability into everything we do, and demonstrate how libraries that lead into the future using ‘sustainable thinking’ fulfill our mission as libraries in new and innovative ways.
While we have struggled for the past two years with many critical issues, the very heart of our work - connecting with our patrons - has been threatened daily. Join Julie Todaro to learn about information and choices for moving the post-pandemic library forward. Julie explains where many organizations got it wrong, five primary focuses for management, leadership dos and don'ts, the top twelve things to do overall, and the first ten things you should do tomorrow!
Join Christina Holm and Sarah Kantor as they review the results of their two-year case study on reference staffing models and present practical suggestions for improving or promoting reference services in academic environments as well as discussing how COVID-19 continues to impact reference services.
Join Kymberlee Powe to learn how to perform a diversity audit on your library collection. Kym will share what a diversity audit is, why we should audit our collections, why the structure of the publishing industry may make it difficult to cultivate inclusivity, and most importantly, why it’s important to build collections that are diverse AND inclusive.
What is visual literacy, and why should you make it a part of your information literacy instruction? Join Nicole Fox as she defines visual literacy and discusses how you can empower students across the disciplines to be effective and ethical image creators and users. Learn how to help students evaluate and find different kinds of images, with practical examples for a variety of classes.
Originally presented January 19, 2022 Patron management requires the ability to continually assess behaviors throughout these dynamic interactions, ma...
Originally presented January 12, 2022 What does it mean to be a “teaching librarian” and how do you become one? The academic teaching librarian role i...
Originally presented December 8, 2021 Learn all about the Instagram app, including how to maximize your posts for engagement, best practices for acces...
Originally presented December 1, 2021 Communicating and interacting with elected officials is not something you learn in library school, yet is a fund...
Originally presented November 10, 2021 More than 50 million people globally are living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, and tens of mil...
Originally presented November 3, 2021 Miguel de Cervantes wrote “To be prepared is half the victory.” Kevin King shares how the Kalamazoo Public Libra...
Originally presented October 27, 2021 Michigan has a decades-long history of experimenting with methods to teach eResource use to front-line staff. Mi...
Originally presented October 13, 2021 Planning programs is a lot of fun, but it is also a lot of work. When working with a small budget, struggling wi...
Originally presented October 6, 2021 This webinar provides an overview of how a group of academic and public librarians in Laramie, Wyoming provided a...
Originally presented September 22, 2021 This presentation addresses the issue of library services to those with intellectual disability (ID), the subj...
Originally presented September 15, 2021 Being a successful librarian means more than knowing how to catalog, read a MARC record, or find resources for...
Originally presented September 1, 2021 In this webinar, librarian Vikki Terrile provides an overview of family homelessness in the United States and h...
Originally presented August 18, 2021 How can an academic library foster conditions that help students become academically and socially engaged? Experi...
Originally presented August 4, 2021 In order to better serve our library users, librarians need to think more creatively when assisting a user with a ...
Originally presented July 14, 2021 Do you ever feel panicked when someone asks you a legal reference question? Are you not sure if you can answer or ...