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Best of Core Forum: Neurodiversity in the Academic Library
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Neurodiversity in the Academic Library" on June 11, 2025, at 1 p.m. CT. Neurodiversity within the librarian professional is often neglected as a subject of scholarly...
Best of Core Forum: Neurodivergent Leadership: Learning to Lead in a Neurotypical World
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Neurodiversity in the Academic Library" on June 11, 2025, at 1 p.m. CT. This presentation will focus on the lived experience of a librarian who recently moved into a large middle management role at a...
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Transforming Libraries with AI: Enhancing Access, Efficiency, and Community Engagement" on June 9, 2025, at 1 p.m. CT. Explore how artificial intelligence can revolutionize libraries by enhancing...
Best of Core Forum: Calling it Quits: How to Evaluate Library Services and Decide What to Stop Doing
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Calling it Quits: How to Evaluate Library Services and Decide What to Stop Doing" on July 15, 2025, at 1 p.m. CT. Following a period of disruption, library leaders need to realign service offerings...
Best of Core Forum: The Greatest Obstacle of Discovery: Assessment of Library Discovery Systems
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: The Greatest Obstacle of Discovery: Assessment of Library Discovery Systems" on June 4, 2025, at 1 p.m. CT. Discovery products providing a single search interface to library collections have become...
Inspire the Next Generation for Preservation Week 2025, April 27 - May 3
CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures hosts Preservation Week from April 27 - May 3, 2025. The theme for Preservation Week 2025 is Preserve the Past, Shape the Future: Inspiring the Next Generation. The Preservation Outreach Committee...
2024 Preservation Week® Webinar: Historical Newspapers in Public Libraries
Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures hosts the free Preservation Week® webinar "Historical Newspapers in Public Libraries" on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Join in for discussion of digitization, preservation and access for local historical newspapers with the Columbus Metropolitan Library's Local History & Genealogy team.
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Looking Beyond Your Digital Repository; Metadata for Storytelling
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Looking Beyond Your Digital Repository; Metadata for Storytelling" on May 14, 2025, at 1 p.m. CT. In recent years, the traditional use of digital collections simply as proxies for the physical has...
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Mapping Your Skill Sets: Understanding and Using the Core Competencies for Cataloging & Metadata Professionals" on May 28, 2025, at 1 p.m. CT. The Core Competencies for Cataloging & Metadata...
Core 5 Year Anniversary Gala Features Ray Arsenault
Join Core on Sunday, June 29, during ALA Annual 2025 at the Free Library Philadelphia, in Philadelphia, PA, for the Core 5 Year Anniversary Gala featuring Ray Arsenault, one of the nation's leading civil rights historians and author of 12 books.
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Understanding and Fighting Anti-Trans Misinformation
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Understanding and Fighting Anti-Trans Misinformation" on May 7, 2025, at 1 p.m. CT. As the transgender population increases in size and visibility, a resulting backlash has gripped America—and...
Core Awards & President's Program Featuring Gwen Westerman
Join Core on Saturday, June 29, during ALA Annual 2025 in Philadelphia, for the Core Awards and President's Program featuring Gwen Westerman, current Minnesota Poet Laureate, scholar and artist.
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Judging a Book by Its Cover; Investigating Arsenic and Other Heavy Metals in 19th Century Book Bindings" on May 6, 2025, at 1 p.m. CT. Recent research in the cultural heritage conservation field has...
Core Webinar: Library Reboot for the Mid-21st Century
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Library Reboot for the Mid-21st Century" on June 10, 2025, at 1 p.m. CT. This presentation will help pull the shroud of mystery off library design by briefly exploring the history and roots of 20th century libraries...
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Saying Less, Asking More; Expand Your Impact with Coaching
CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Saying Less, Asking More; Expand Your Impact with Coaching," on April 2, 2025, at 1 p.m. CT. Leading staff in an ever-changing, unpredictable environment can be difficult. Right now, library staff at...
