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“Sharing Our Collections : Looking to the Future”
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. (Central Time)
Description: Cooperative and consortial resource sharing is blurring the lines between Circulation, Access Services, and Interlibrary Loan as libraries find new ways to share collections and create efficiencies. This program will look at the future of consortia: shared e-book collections, floating collections, cloud-based integrated library systems, and the need to be increasingly flexible and collaborative to meet the opportunities and challenges of the future.
Presenters:
Carmit Marcus from Ex Libris will describe what is envisioned for next generation Information Systems and answer some of our questions about them. Carmit will use her experience as one of the developers of the Alma cloud-based ILS to explain how these systems are evolving to keep up with today’s technological advances.
Janet Schneider from the Arapahoe Library District will explain how floating collections in a multi-facility library system allows patrons to shape the collections at their home library. There are advantages to the floating collection concept as well as some challenges and requirements that need to be in place for successful implementation.
Linda Di Biase from the University of Washington will provide an overview of the groundbreaking Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) cooperative e-book purchasing project that the Orbis Cascade Alliance has implemented in collaboration with EBL and YBP. This demand-driven mode allows patron behavior to determine what is collectively owned by the consortia.
At the end of this program: participants will have a better understanding of evolving library systems and innovative approaches to providing user-center library services.
"Social Entrepreneurship in Action: Digitizing Our Cultural History"
Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012
1:30 to 3:00 pm Central Time
Description:
Social entrepreneurs are people who use entrepreneurial principals to identity and remedy a social issue or problem and improve life for their communities or the world. Librarians apply social entrepreneurship every day by providing literacy training, information, education and spaces for the community to gather. Technology now enables libraries to digitize their unique collections in order to make vital materials available to everyone. Learn how three libraries identified a need to preserve and provide access to their community history along with lesson plans and study guides for educators, students and all citizens.
Presenters: David Gwynn, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Susan Sharpless Smith, Wake Forest University; Jeff Suchanek, University of Kentucky
Who should attend: Librarians from all types of libraries, archivists, museum staff, digital humanities faculty and staff, historical society staff, genealogists
At the end of this webinar participants will:
- Understand how to conceptualize and implement digital collections that preserve community history
- Be familiar with how to collaborate among different institutions in the community for the greater good
- Know how to seek funding for digital projects
- Have a better understanding of promotion and outreach for digital projects
“Physical and Virtual Library Planning”
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
1:30 to 3:00 pm (Central Time)
Presenter: Alexander Cohen, Library Planner, Aaron Cohen Associates, Croton-on-Hudson, New York
Description: The library of the future needs to be a vibrant learning hub and an intellectual crossroads where the physical and the virtual spaces connect. The transition from a physical library plan into a blended service model requires a solid methodology. During this webinar, participants will gain a better understanding of challenges and opportunities for change. They will be introduced to a framework for developing a GAP analysis and examples of past projects. This will help participants define what their library user needs and what is possible. The webinar introduces new ways of thinking about library planning including:
- Visual Literacy – seeing and integrating sensory experience
- Digital Reproduction Literacy – involving text media and sound
- Hyper-Media Literacy – Multi-domain thinking with an interconnected narrative.
- Socio-Emotional Literacy – interpret media sound and text
- Information Literacy – evaluate and apply new knowledge
At the end of this webinar participants will:
- Understand how to do a user needs/gap analysis for the physical and virtual ibrary.
- Be familiar with examples of virtual library services and in-person presence options.
- Know new strategies that will help librarians develop physical and virtual library services.
- Have a clearer understanding of opportunities to improve organizational transformation.
Who should attend: Librarians from all types of libraries
“Library Outcomes: Stories that Matter”
Presented Wednesday, August 22, 2012
1:30 – 3:00 pm (Central Time)
Presenters: Diane Sweetwood, Senior Market Research Manager, Cengage Learning; Julie Pepera, Library Customer Education Specialist, Cengage Learning
At the end of this session participants will:
- Understand the power that stories can have in communicating their goals, whether the goals are to increase funding, to influence the legislature, or to communicate to patrons and alumni about the transformation from a traditional library to a community destination.
- Know how to show the impact your library has on your community.
- Understand how to produce outcomes-based examples of library success.
- Have access to "guides" that provide a step-by-step process on gathering stories with impact. These guides were created through a partnership between the Michigan Library Association and Gale Cengage Learning that involved six pilot libraries.
“How to succeed in an entry-level librarian interview: Research and experience-based tips"
Presented Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Central Time
While there is a lot of information out there about how to write a good resume and cover letter, there is much less on how to do well in an interview, especially advice written since the recession started. The goal of this webinar is to help those who have already been offered an interview learn what is involved in the typical interview for an entry-level position at a public or academic library. Practical tips based on research and experience will show participants how to stand out from the crowd.
By the end of this program participants will:
- Know what information it is necessary to learn about an institution before going to an interview
- Know how to find the crossover skills in non-library work experience and successfully show that it is relevant work experience
- Know at least one question to ask a hiring committee that will demonstrate deep and sincere interest in the position
- Be familiar with the hiring process at academic and public libraries
- Understand what a candidate visit to an academic library entails
- Learn what has, and what hasn’t changed, in the interview process
Presenters:
M. Teresa Doherty , Head, Circulation & Information Services; Interim Head, Media and Reserve Services, Virginia Commonwealth University
Megan Hodge, Assistant Branch Manager, Chesterfield County Public Library, VA
Debarah Lammers, Manager, Dumbarton Area Library, Henrico, VA
Nicole Spoor, Information Resources Librarian, Hampton University, VA
"Library Fund Raising: Sharing the Passion with Library Staff"
Presented January 31, 2012, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Central Time
Description: Are you actively involved with library fundraising and want to help your library colleagues better understand your role as a fundraiser? How can we share our passion for fundraising with other library staff? Do you sometimes feel as if library staff think you are from another world?How best to articulate what we do? Working with donors can sometimes be the easy part when compared with trying to engage other library staff in our function as fundraisers. Join us as we hear from both an academic and a public librarian who have successfully engaged their staffs in fundraising activities and learn how you can apply their experience.
Presenters: Gina Millsap, CEO, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, KS; and Karlene Jennings, Senior Director of Development, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
“A Person of Interest: Safety and Security in the Library”
Presented November 16, 2011, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Central Time
Description: Learn how to deal with patrons in the library who are breaking library policy, displaying behavioral problems or breaking the law. Hear about strategies for effectively addressing difficult situations as they arise and what you can do to minimize disruptions to library service.
At the end of this program participants will:
- be more aware of training methods that can be used to prepare staff for disruptive patron behavior
- have a better understanding of how to deal with a variety of specific patron behavioral problems that often occur in a library
- have strategies for increasing the safety and security of their work environment and facility
- have increased understanding of how to deal more effectively with teen and tween patrons
Presenters: Michael Daly, Director of Logistics and Security Management, Queens Borough Public Library; Nancy Relaford, Director, Safety and Security, UC San Diego Libraries
“Job Hunting for the Recent or Future MLS Graduate”
A free webinar sponsored by LLAMA’s Human Resources Section (HRS)
Presented October 19, 2011, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm, Central Time
Presenter: Brian Keith, Assistant Dean for Human and Financial Resources, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
Description: You have or soon will earn your MLS degree---but what’s next? –-how do you put it to work? Applying and interviewing for a professional library position can be fraught with anxiety and frustrations. But you can put yourself ahead of the herd with the right information and strategies.
Audience: This is geared towards library students or recent MLS graduates about to enter the workforce or start a job search.
"Learning Spaces: cost-effective innovation"
Sponsored by LLAMA’s Buildings and Equipment Section (BES)
Presented July 20, 2011
Presenters: Alexander Cohen, Librarian and Space Planner; Loriene Roy, Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Description: To develop library learning space with limited resources, it is essential to understand the basic facility requirements for collections, staff, users, programs, meetings, and social spaces. This workshop addresses the changes that have to take place so that the library building can provide dynamic learning spaces. Emphasis will be placed upon recycling existing facilities and developing new services. We will stress methods to develop welcoming learning environments that patrons will want to visit and use.
“Succession Planning and Leadership Development: Are you ready?”
Sponsored by LLAMA’s Systems and Services Section (SASS)
Presented July 27, 2011
Presenters: Dr. Paula M. Singer, President, Singer Group; Suann Wymer, Deputy Director, Tulsa City-County Library, and Nancy Davenport, Director of Public Services, DC Public Library
Description: According to research conducted by the Library Journal, 40% of the nations librarians will have retired by the end of this decade. Libraries have to make sure they are ready. Demand for service is increasing as budgets are decreasing. As key staff leave at an ever increasing rate it becomes critical to strategically plan how library resources will be used to train and develop staff in order to fill the gaps. Are you ready???
“Return on Investment in a Tough Economy – Defining the Value of the Academic Library”
Sponsored by LLAMA’s Measurement, Assessment and Evaluation Section (MAES)
Presented Sept 14, 2011
Presenters: Irene Herold, Dean of the Library, Mason Library, Keene State College;
Description: Highlights two projects to help academic libraries apply return on investment (ROI) principles to demonstrate their value and impact on users and justify the expense during challenging economic times. Cawthorn and Herold will explain the application of Triple (people, planet, and profit) Bottom Line Accounting (TBLA) to ROI while King will discuss the IMLS-grant-funded Lib-Value (Value, Outcomes, and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries) that will develop approaches to assessing the value/ROI of library services.
“Going Visual: Transforming Library Communication from Blah to Ahhh!!!”*
Presented Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. (Central time)
Presenters: Kristina Martinez and Dr. Elizabeth Titus, New Mexico State University
Description: “A picture is worth a thousand words!” That old saying is widely spoken, but are you taking heed of all of the opportunities to promote your Library visually? This presentation will feature lots of
examples of how NMSU Library has transformed donor communication visually from blah to Ahhhhh.
Participants will:
- Learn new skills to be effective in fundraising using visual commmunication techniques
- Be able to reduce the amount of text they use in communications visuals and hence reduce costs associated with the publications
- Be able to enhance stewardship and cultivation with donors using visuals
- Learn at least three ways they can use visual communication in their library annual gift funds, newsletters, donor proposals, etc.
*This presentation was previously given at the 2012 Academic Libraries Advancement and Development Network (ALADN) conference.
“Sharing Our Collections : Looking to the Future”
Presented Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. (Central Time)
Presenters:
Carmit Marcus from Ex Libris will describe what is envisioned for next generation Information Systems and answer some of our questions about them. Carmit will use her experience as one of the developers of the Alma cloud-based ILS to explain how these systems are evolving to keep up with today’s technological advances.
Janet Schneider from the Arapahoe Library District will explain how floating collections in a multi-facility library system allows patrons to shape the collections at their home library. There are advantages to the floating collection concept as well as some challenges and requirements that need to be in place for successful implementation.
Linda Di Biase from the University of Washington will provide an overview of the groundbreaking Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) cooperative e-book purchasing project that the Orbis Cascade Alliance has implemented in collaboration with EBL and YBP. This demand-driven mode allows patron behavior to determine what is collectively owned by the consortia.
Description: Cooperative and consortial resource sharing is blurring the lines between Circulation, Access Services, and Interlibrary Loan as libraries find new ways to share collections and create efficiencies. This program will look at the future of consortia: shared e-book collections, floating collections, cloud-based integrated library systems, and the need to be increasingly flexible and collaborative to meet the opportunities and challenges of the future.
Participants will: have a better understanding of evolving library systems and innovative approaches to providing user-center library services.
"Social Entrepreneurship in Action: Digitizing Our Cultural History"
Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, 1:30 to 3:00 pm Central Time
Presenters: David Gwynn, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Susan Sharpless Smith, Wake Forest University; Jeff Suchanek, University of Kentucky
Description: Social entrepreneurs are people who use entrepreneurial principals to identity and remedy a social issue or problem and improve life for their communities or the world. Librarians apply social entrepreneurship every day by providing literacy training, information, education and spaces for the community to gather. Technology now enables libraries to digitize their unique collections in order to make vital materials available to everyone. Learn how three libraries identified a need to preserve and provide access to their community history along with lesson plans and study guides for educators, students and all citizens.
Who should attend: Librarians from all types of libraries, archivists, museum staff, digital humanities faculty and staff, historical society staff, genealogists
At the end of this webinar participants will:
- Understand how to conceptualize and implement digital collections that preserve community history
- Be familiar with how to collaborate among different institutions in the community for the greater good
- Know how to seek funding for digital projects
- Have a better understanding of promotion and outreach for digital projects
“Physical and Virtual Library Planning”
Wednesday, August 29, 1:30 to 3:00 pm (Central Time)
Presenter: Alexander Cohen, Library Planner, Aaron Cohen Associates, Croton-on-Hudson, New York
Description: The library of the future needs to be a vibrant learning hub and an intellectual crossroads where the physical and the virtual spaces connect. The transition from a physical library plan into a blended service model requires a solid methodology. During this webinar, participants will gain a better understanding of challenges and opportunities for change. They will be introduced to a framework for developing a GAP analysis and examples of past projects. This will help participants define what their library user needs and what is possible. The webinar introduces new ways of thinking about library planning including:
- Visual Literacy – seeing and integrating sensory experience
- Digital Reproduction Literacy – involving text media and sound
- Hyper-Media Literacy – Multi-domain thinking with an interconnected narrative.
- Socio-Emotional Literacy – interpret media sound and text
- Information Literacy – evaluate and apply new knowledge
At the end of this webinar participants will:
- Understand how to do a user needs/gap analysis for the physical and virtual ibrary.
- Be familiar with examples of virtual library services and in-person presence options.
- Know new strategies that will help librarians develop physical and virtual library services.
- Have a clearer understanding of opportunities to improve organizational transformation.
“Library Outcomes: Stories that Matter”
Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 1:30 – 3:00 pm (Central Time)
Presenters: Diane Sweetwood, Senior Market Research Manager, Cengage Learning; Julie Pepera, Library Customer Education Specialist, Cengage Learning
At the end of this session participants will:
- Understand the power that stories can have in communicating their goals, whether the goals are to increase funding, to influence the legislature, or to communicate to patrons and alumni about the transformation from a traditional library to a community destination.
- Know how to show the impact your library has on your community.
- Understand how to produce outcomes-based examples of library success.
- Have access to "guides" that provide a step-by-step process on gathering stories with impact. These guides were created through a partnership between the Michigan Library Association and Gale Cengage Learning that involved six pilot libraries.
"How to succeed in an entry-level librarian interview: Research and experience-based tips"
Wednesday, July 25, 2012, from 1:30 to 3:00 pm Central Time
Presenters:
M. Teresa Doherty , Head, Circulation & Information Services; Interim Head, Media and Reserve Services, Virginia Commonwealth University
Megan Hodge, Assistant Branch Manager, Chesterfield County Public Library, VA
Debarah Lammers, Manager, Dumbarton Area Library, Henrico, VA
Nicole Spoor, Information Resources Librarian, Hampton University, VA
Description: While there is a lot of information out there about how to write a good resume and cover letter, there is much less on how to do well in an interview, especially advice written since the recession started. The goal of this webinar is to help those who have already been offered an interview learn what is involved in the typical interview for an entry-level position at a public or academic library. Practical tips based on research and experience will show participants how to stand out from the crowd.
By the end of this program participants will:
- Know what information it is necessary to learn about an institution before going to an interview
- Know how to find the crossover skills in non-library work experience and successfully show that it is relevant work experience
- Know at least one question to ask a hiring committee that will demonstrate deep and sincere interest in the position
- Be familiar with the hiring process at academic and public libraries
- Understand what a candidate visit to an academic library entails
- Learn what has, and what hasn’t changed, in the interview process
“Finding the Best People in a Tough Economy: Strategies for Successfully Recruiting Employees”
Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 1:30-3:00 pm Central Time
Presenter: Gail M. Staines, Ph.D., Assistant VP, University Libraries, Saint Louis University
Learning outcomes:
- Be familiar with the objectives of recruitment
- Be aware of sources and methods of recruiting
- Understand how to be strategic in recruiting
- Internal vs. external recruiting
- Exempt vs. nonexempt employees
- Recruiting ethics and challenges
- Recruiting: the job seekers perspective
“Online Management Systems: Wielding Web 2.0 Tools to Manage and Track Projects Collaboratively”
June 6, 2012, 1:30 – 3:00 pm Central Time
Presenter: R. Niccole Westbrook, Coordinator of Digital Operations, University of Houston
Description: Online social media software, which are commonplace tools for interacting with library patrons, can also be used effectively for communication, supervision and project management within a library department. This webinar outlines in detail an innovative online management and communication system created by the Digital Services Department at the University of Houston. The system harnesses a suite of existing free online collaborative software products and Web2.0 communication tools to create a streamlined managerial web presence. The webinar includes in-depth descriptions of how the system was created and configured along with lessons learned and suggestions for how to establish similar procedures at your institution. Advantages of implementing an online management system include: remote workforce management, streamlined management responsibilities and robust capture of project data.
Learning goals:
- Participants will learn the concept and advantages of Online Management Systems.
- Participants will learn in detail about the configuration of the Online Management System currently in place in the Digital Services Department at the University of Houston Libraries.
- Participants will learn tips and tricks for setting up their own Online Management System.
For more information contact Fred Reuland, freuland@ala.org
