This e-Forum will explore a variety of topics of interest to managers and leaders, from preparing to apply for a new leadership position to designing your first 90 days, and from building trust in your work team to proven systems for effective communication.
In this e-forum, we will move beyond OER to explore the ways in which course reserves and other services and resources that academic libraries already offer fit into the broader course materials/textbook affordability efforts of our institutions.
This Core e-forum builds on research conducted by the moderators to share/determine how libraries manage their technology, considering a dozen types of IT services. Day 1 will cover IT organization and management and Day 2 will cover assessment of IT and current and future challenges for IT.
This Core e-forum builds on research conducted by the moderators to share/determine how libraries manage their technology, considering a dozen types of IT services. Day 1 will cover IT organization and management and Day 2 will cover assessment of IT and current and future challenges for IT.
This CORE e-Forum seeks to open a dialogue that might offer a broader, honest perspective of progress informed by organizational history and traditions in libraries and archives. This e-Forum will explore how librarians or archivists have taken institutional history and tradition and pivoted the narrative towards progressive changes.
Slow Librarianship is a quality-over-quantity practice that evolved in response to academic hustle culture but applies to all areas of library work. Julia Glassman coined the term in 2017, and Meredith Farkas, inspired by Julia’s work, has been speaking and writing on the topic since.
Online Course: A basic level, 6-week asynchronous course offered several times a year.
Offered by Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures
Focus: Designed for introducing and summarizing the UDL framework, CAST website, and the UDL on Campus website with captions and transcript.
Features: Instructor guided. 24/7 access to course material. Weekly live online chat discussions.
Cost: $196.71 Core members; $224.10 ALA members; $249 nonmembers.
There's been a lot of difficult and performative discussions regarding equity, diversity, and inclusion in the library profession. In your institutions, have you or your colleagues intentionally applied equity, diversity, and inclusion values in practice and in behavior? What does it look like? What has worked or not worked? During this e-forum session, facilitators will prompt a series of questions to explore opportunities to foster EDI values in the workplace.
Slow Librarianship is a quality-over-quantity practice that evolved in response to academic hustle culture but applies to all areas of library work. Julia Glassman coined the term in 2017, and Meredith Farkas, inspired by Julia’s work, has been speaking and writing on the topic since.
According to ALA-APA (n.d.), wellness is an active and lifelong process that involves positive decision-making and the ability to find balance between many priorities. It is tied to awareness and to making choices that lead to being happier, healthier, and more fulfilled. Because libraries are valued institutions in their communities and on their campuses, they have an opportunity to provide health and wellness programs that would not only benefit their respective communities, but that could also benefit their employees.