Originally presented June 22, 2022 For many professions, working remotely is standard practice. For librarians, it is often seen as a wild and forbidd...
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 June 22, 2022 For many professions, working remotely is standard practice. For librarians, it is often seen as a wild and forbidd...
Originally presented June 15, 2022 In this 60-minute webinar, based on the new book Librarian's Guide to Games and Gamers, Michelle Goodridge and Matt...
Originally presented June 8, 2022 In this presentation, Stephanie Espinoza Villamor and Kimberly Shotick help you learn how to create assessable outre...
Originally presented May 11, 2022 This presentation is for you if: * You like your boss, and your boss likes you. * You are concerned because your ma...
Originally presented May 4, 2022 Scholarly metrics are a useful tool for both promotions as well as self-evaluation. Unfortunately, scholarly metrics ...
Originally presented April 20, 2022 Often, in the rush to introduce the most cutting-edge technologies, or create a flexible environment for patrons, ...
Originally presented April 13, 2022 This presentation reviews the theory and rationale for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and summarizes research...
Originally presented April 6, 2022 ValChoice founder Dan Karr shows how patrons impacted by inflation can save money on their car, renters and home in...
Originally presented March 16, 2022 Making time to craft and manage usable, relevant web content has never been more important. The COVID19 pandemic a...
Originally presented March 9, 2022 In this webinar, Mark Aaron Polger discusses some of the best practice guidelines when designing effective library ...
Originally presented March 2, 2022 In this webinar, Joy Fuller, author of the Public Library Association’s (PLA) newly released book, Strategic Planni...
Originally presented February 23, 2022 Millions of scientific journal articles are published every year and in general, health-related studies have mo...
Originally presented February 16, 2022 Privacy is a core principle of librarianship, but it’s most often not included in academic librarian position d...
Originally presented February 9, 2022 Copyright issues abound in librarianship, but there are some easy principles you can apply to better understand ...
Originally presented January 26, 2022 Getting started with an English as a Second Language (ESL) program at your library does not have to be an intimi...