A panel of expert speakers will provide guidance on working with your local elected officials on library advocacy during this time of COVID-19, and beyond.
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What training and preparation does your Board of Trustees need to be prepared for a crisis? Learn how to be proactive in developing a well-prepared board, and what best practices, policies, and procedures need to be developed or revisited.
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Learn tips and advice from Library Foundations and Friends Groups on how to stay engaged with your supporters and community while navigating the many challenges of COVID-19.
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Learn how Friends Groups are rethinking booksales, fundraising, and events.
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Learn how Foundations and Friends Groups are supporting their libraries during COVID-19.
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Administrators and librarians discuss results, trends, and reopening practices.
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Hear from three public libraries on how they responded when they were confronted with a positive case situation.
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Tackling Racism and Bias in the Library Catalog
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Insight and discussion with leaders from state, public, academic, and school libraries.
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The Trustee Academy is a series of online courses to help Trustees become exceptionally proficient in their roles on behalf of their libraries. All of the online courses are taught by a professional in the field. Courses include:Trustee Compete
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Understand Your Library’s Community Better with Census Data
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Libraries and their boards working with legal counsel to address reopening guidelines and policies.
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YALSA's September 2021 Snack & Chat discussion on the new Strategic Plan and Mission. YALSA President, Kelly Czarnecki and Executive Director, Tammy Dillard-Steels share YALSA's new strategic plan and answer questions from attendees. Learn
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This course will fill a much-needed gap by blending the theoretical ideas about leadership with practical application for middle managers.
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Start Date: November 22, 2021, 8:00 am CST
End Date: December 17, 2021, 7:00 pm CST
To live out our core values of equity, diversity, and inclusion, libraries are seeking out ways to be more community-centered. Community-led planning is a method that can be used to create public programs and services that celebrate the strengths and int
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Start Date: December 1, 2021, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: December 3, 2021, 2:00 pm CST
Addressing performance or behaviorproblems can be stressful for both parties, and how managers approach thesemeetings can positively or negatively affect their outcomes. Learn how to havedifficult conversations with your staff members, covering eve
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Start Date: December 8, 2021, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: December 16, 2021, 2:00 pm CST
To live out our core values of equity, diversity, and inclusion, libraries are seeking out ways to be more community-centered. Community-led planning is a method that can be used to create public programs and services that celebrate the strengths and int
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Start Date: December 15, 2021, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: February 22, 2022, 2:00 pm CST
Whether you have just become a director, want to be a director someday, or have been a director for a number of years, this workshop will answer the questions you might not have known to ask while increasing your understanding of the key topics needed to run a library.
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Start Date: January 24, 2022, 1:30 pm CST
End Date: February 7, 2022, 3:00 pm CST
Makerspaces in all types of libraries have common needs. Through a panel presentation wewill present the ways in which makerspaces address information needs of libraryusers, and provide a frame to create a unified path forward to establishguidelin
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Start Date: February 2, 2022, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: February 2, 2022, 2:00 pm CST
Utilizing the Competencies to Boost Skills and Services will be a highly reflective class designed to help participants explore applications of the 2020 Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Libraries. The course will focus on finding ways to d
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Start Date: February 7, 2022, 12:00 am CST
End Date: March 20, 2022, 12:00 am CDT
This webinar will discuss a project to assess the accessibility of St. John’s University Library’s website using software called Siteimprove and suggest various means by which libraries can identify and fix accessibility problems within their website
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Start Date: February 8, 2022, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: February 8, 2022, 2:00 pm CST
Sinceopening in January 2015, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga LibraryStudio has operated with a rotating group of five to seven student workers.While a few start with knowledge of some equipment and software, many do not.To get them up
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Start Date: February 15, 2022, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: February 15, 2022, 2:00 pm CST
Establishing a culture of assessmentmeans embedding an assessment component into every library operation. Thisprocess is crucial for providing responsive, high-quality library services.This presentation will share our journey crafting and deploying
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Start Date: February 22, 2022, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: February 22, 2022, 2:00 pm CST
This course will teach the basics of Cataloging
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Start Date: February 28, 2022, 9:00 am CST
End Date: April 8, 2022, 5:00 pm CDT
This course will be teach the basics of Cataloging
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Start Date: February 28, 2022, 9:00 am CST
End Date: April 8, 2022, 5:00 pm CDT
The Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions Web course will provide an overview of acquiring, providing access to, administering, supporting, and monitoring access to electronic resources.
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Start Date: March 7, 2022, 9:00 am CST
End Date: April 1, 2022, 5:00 pm CDT
Description: This six-week online course introduces students to the breadth of considerations, standards and skills needed to successfully launch and manage a digital library program. The course will provide opportunity for hands-on activities
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Start Date: March 14, 2022, 9:00 am CDT
End Date: April 22, 2022, 5:00 pm CDT
This course will teach you the basics of Metadata
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Start Date: March 14, 2022, 9:00 am CDT
End Date: April 22, 2022, 5:00 pm CDT
To live out our core values of equity, diversity, and inclusion, libraries are seeking out ways to be more community-centered. Community-led planning is a method that can be used to create public programs and services that celebrate the strengths and int
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Start Date: March 15, 2022, 1:00 pm CDT
End Date: March 15, 2022, 2:00 pm CDT
Six-week online course that is a basic primer for library acquisitions concepts common to all library material formats.
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Start Date: March 21, 2022, 9:00 am CDT
End Date: April 29, 2022, 5:00 pm CDT