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Previous Discussions
- View past summaries on the Core News site
- Merry Librarians: Organizing and Inventorying Our Electronic Resources Collection
Moderators: Christin Collins, Jackie Blanton-Watkins
Offered: December 14-15, 2021
- Libraries Press on Despite COVID
Moderators: Rob Tench, Erica Barnett
Offered: November 9-10, 2021
- Creating Inclusivity in the Catalog and Collection
Moderators: Kelly Williams, Jennifer Batson
Offered: October 19-20, 2021
- Making in Libraries: Starting, Managing, and Promoting Maker Services
Moderators: Cara Kouse, Sarah Nagle, Leanne Nay, Amy Vecchione
Offered: September 14-15, 2021
- Instructional Technologies and the Effects of COVID-19 on Library Instruction
Moderators: Breanne Kirsch, Melissa Johnson
Offered: August 24-25, 2021
- Job Hunting and Hiring During the Pandemic
Moderators: Kellie Barbato, Nariné Bournoutian, Ashley Hoffman, and Laura Haynes
Offered: July 20-21, 2021
- Does Better Training Lead to Greater Job Satisfaction?
Moderators: Marlee Dorn Givens and Sofia Slutskaya
Offered: June 15-16, 2021
- We Faceted our Seatbelts, Now What? Advocacy for Implementing Faceted Vocabularies in Public Facing Interfaces
Moderators: Kurt Hanselman, Jesse Lambertson, and Nerissa Lindsey
Offered: May 18-19, 2021
- Community of Practice (CoP): Supporting Cross-Sector Work
Moderators: Laura Sill, Peggy Griesinger, and Mikala Narlock
Offered: April 6-7, 2021
- Changes in Library Organization
Moderators: Susan Martin and David Schuster
Offered: March 2-3, 2021
- COVID-19 and Libraries, One Year Later
Moderators: Nicole Lewis and Rebecca Uhl
Offered: February 16-17, 2021
- Regarding Library Database Cleanup
Moderators: Julene Jones, Emily Williams, and Susan Wynne
Offered: December 8-9, 2020 - Rescheduled from October 6-7, 2020
- Migration Madness and How To Get Through IT
Moderators: Hope Elizabeth Beyer, Bobbi-Jean Ludwig,K-Dee Anderson
Offered: November 10-11, 2020
- Focus on “Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures,” exploring a new professional home
Moderators: Jennifer Bowen and Anne Cooper Moore
Offered: November 3-4, 2020
- Regarding Library Database Cleanup
Moderators: Julene Jones, Emily Williams, and Susan Wynne
Offered: October 6-7, 2020 - Rescheduled for December 13-14, 2020
- From Reactive to Proactive: Tech Today and Post-COVID
Moderators: Bonnie Nichols, Carolyn Coulter, Carson Block, Elizabeth Smith
Offered: September 29-30, 2020
See the pre-2020 e-Forum Archive for previous ALCTS-only sessions.