Core offers numerous online learning opportunities to meet your needs. Scheduled throughout the year, Core's webinars, web courses, and e-Forums are affordable and timely. Enhance your skills, get practical how-to-information, and stay up-to-date on trends with our professional development presented by experts from the field. Topics include Access and Equity, Preservation, Buildings & Operations, Leadership & Management, Metadata & Collections, and Technology.
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Core learning opportunities cover a wide range of areas, including:
- Access and Equity
- Advocacy in areas such as copyright, equity of access, open access, net neutrality, and privacy
- Preservation Week
- Equity, diversity, and inclusion, both within the division and the profession, as related to Core’s subject areas
- Assessment
- Emphasizing the role of assessment in demonstrating the impacts of libraries or library services
- Assessment tools, methods, guidelines, standards, and policies and procedures
- Buildings and Operations
- Changing trends in organizational structures, services, staff operations, and facilities
- Best practices for inclusive practices and design
- Leadership and Management
Based on work done by the Library Leadership and Management Association, Core uses a framework of 14 definitive competencies that can be applied across roles, career stages, and library types.- Developing leaders at every level
- Best practices for inclusion by using an equity lens to examine leadership structures
- Leadership for talent management and human resources
- Metadata and Collections
- Best practices and knowledge in work areas that support collections and discovery
- Best practices for equity, diversity, and inclusion in the development and description of collections
- Standards and best practices for selection, acquisition, description, access, and preservation of information resources
- Preservation of both print, media, and digital resources
- Technology
- Augmented reality
- Authentication
- Cybersecurity
- Discovery platforms
- Makerspaces
- User experience
- XML data
*Core Webinars are available for free to Core student members and LIS faculty.