Niche Academy Team

Meet Jeremy Tuttle - Niche Academy Director of Learning Design

Here at Niche Academy, we strive to help people solve big problems together—and each member of our team plays a vital role in meeting our goals. Today...

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Building a Better Workplace Culture

How would you describe your workplace culture? How does everyone do what they do, and how do their actions make others feel? If you had to express the...

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Preparing for Censorship & Other Book Challenges

In late 2022, Publisher’s Weekly named their People of the Year—The Defenders. This extraordinary group of librarians, booksellers, authors, publisher...

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The Top 3 Challenges Facing Libraries Today (And How to Overcome Them)

“The golden age of public libraries dawns once again.”  If you read the Washington Post , you would have encountered that bold headline in the Opinion...

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Top 5 Professional Skills to Develop in 2023

There's nothing permanent except change -Heraclitus. How will technologies like cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) change your workplace...

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Making Library Staff Training & Development Matter

One of the best parts of my job is finding and scheduling great webinars. When people ask how I choose topics or develop new ideas, I answer honestly:...

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Improving Library Reference Services

In their research, Christina Holm and Sarah Kantor point out that, if you’re an academic librarian, you’ve probably heard some version of the phrase “...

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Information Literacy & Fighting Fake News

The first time I read the Stanford History Education Group’s 2016 article on evaluating information, I was shocked. The digital evaluation skills of s...

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Building Efficacy and Empowerment Among Staff with Microlearning

What do we mean by “microlearning”? It’s learning that is consumed in small bite-sized chunks, usually in an online context. It is usually self-direct...

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Library Staff Development Ideas,Training, & Trends for 2023

I t’s a dangerous business, predicting the future. Without predicting any specific events, though, it’s a good practice to look at broad trends with c...