Join us as we discuss training library personnel, both new to the library and existing staff taking on a new role.
This webinar will present strategies used on several campuses during COVID-19 to manage risk in the face of uncertainty – on campuses that have reopened their libraries. The presenters will discuss the resources referenced, experts engaged, processes undertaken both external and internal to the library to support the decision to reopen, preparations to reopen and staying open.
This e-Forum addresses best practices in training as they relate to hard and soft skills for technical services staff. Topics include assessing needs, ensuring that staff apply what they learn, evaluating effectiveness, and overcoming obstacles specific to technical services.
In this session, presenters will describe how pandemic-related mandates have set the University of Oregon Libraries on the road to transformational change, laying the groundwork for a new organization to emerge. Participants will be able to join the conversation and share how their libraries have overcome challenges, and grown during the pandemic period.
Rural and tribal libraries across the US helped create the Towards Gigabit Libraries toolkit, a free, self-service guide for rural and tribal libraries to understand and improve their broadband and technology resources. If you're struggling with technology in your library, please come to this interactive session to learn about the toolkit and how it how it can help you. Participants are encouraged to describe their technology challenges and work with the facilitators and other attendees to seek solutions.
In alignment with ALA’s strategic direction on equity, diversity, and inclusion, this on-demand webinar provides an introductory understanding of the concepts of power, identity, and oppression, and how they impact public libraries’ staff, services, programs, collections, and spaces. Through presentation and dialogue, the panelists discuss the role of allies in addressing these concepts. This on-demand webinar is also an excellent primer to the PLA 2018 preconference, “Understanding Identity, Power, Oppression + Liberation: A Justice + Equity Training.”
Public library directors fill a unique role in their organizations as leaders in both policy and culture. Whether it is a single building rural library to a multi-location big city system, all library directors face a series of similar problems as they strive to keep operations going. Between budgets, politics, policies, and staffing, no two days are the same. In this on-demand panel discussion, experienced directors will share their stories about why they chose this career path, its challenges, and their thoughts on the future of the profession.
Community members enter public libraries every day, hoping to complete life tasks many of us take for granted, but lacking the basic computer skills to accomplish them. DigitalLearn.org can complement the classes and one-on-one training your library staff are already providing. DigitalLearn.org is a collection of video-based tutorials to help inexperienced and low-level learners with computers and the internet. This free on-demand overview of PLA’s digital literacy tool for libraries includes specific information on how your library can start the process of creating its own DigitalLearn site.
MatchMARC, a free Google Sheets Add-on that uses OCLC’s API to search and retrieve records, is in use in many libraries today. This session will walk attendees through the different possibilities MarchMARC has to offer for workflow efficiencies.
MatchMARC, a free Google Sheets Add-on that uses OCLC’s API to search and retrieve records, is in use in many libraries today. This session will walk attendees through the different possibilities MarchMARC has to offer for workflow efficiencies.