
A 3-week asynchronous course.
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Start Date: October 23, 2023, 6:00 am CDT
End Date: November 10, 2023, 6:00 am CST

The Search For Meaningful Work: Overcoming Low Morale, Quiet Quitting, and Dead End Jobs
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Start Date: October 24, 2023, 1:00 pm CDT
End Date: October 24, 2023, 2:00 pm CDT
Best of Core at ALA Annual Conference: Thinking Big
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Start Date: October 25, 2023, 1:00 pm CDT
End Date: October 25, 2023, 2:00 pm CDT

You’ll learn the basics of how TikTok operates and explore different ways you can use this tool to engage, program, and market your library’s services.t your library’s services.
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Start Date: October 25, 2023, 1:30 pm CDT
End Date: October 25, 2023, 3:00 pm CDT

In this webinar, learn how to create and conduct a diversity audit.
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Start Date: October 26, 2023, 1:30 pm CDT
End Date: October 26, 2023, 3:00 pm CDT

This series will provide current or future managers and directors the foundation they need to excel in their new role.
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Start Date: October 27, 2023, 1:30 pm CDT
End Date: November 9, 2023, 3:00 pm CST

To keep up with library trends and evolve in these troubling and uncertain times, we need to expand our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services to meet the needs of our library patrons.
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Start Date: October 30, 2023, 12:00 am CDT
End Date: December 1, 2023, 12:00 am CST
Best of Core at ALA Annual Conference: Championing Net-Zero Energy for your Library
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Start Date: October 31, 2023, 1:00 pm CDT
End Date: October 31, 2023, 2:00 pm CDT

Dropping the Other I-Word: Local Library of Congress Subject Heading Replacements
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Start Date: November 1, 2023, 1:00 pm CDT
End Date: November 1, 2023, 2:00 pm CDT

Transforming Informational Literacy Instruction through the Lens of Our Instructional Identities: A Three-Part Webinar SeriesThursday, November 2 | Thursday, November 9 | Thursday, November 16, 20232:00 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Central12:00 -
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Start Date: November 2, 2023, 1:00 pm CDT
End Date: November 16, 2023, 2:30 pm CST

Gain a comprehensive understanding of artificial intelligence (AI), its ethical implications, and practical tools to better serve the local library community.
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Start Date: November 6, 2023, 12:00 am CST
End Date: December 10, 2023, 12:00 am CST

This course will explore research-based, practical solutions to challenging workplace environments.
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Start Date: November 6, 2023, 12:00 am CST
End Date: December 10, 2023, 12:00 am CST

Fundamentals of Universal Library Design for Learning Session 3.0
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Start Date: November 6, 2023, 12:00 am CST
End Date: December 22, 2023, 12:00 am CST

Learn how to enhance your services and help teens take ownership of their library.
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Start Date: November 6, 2023, 12:00 am CST
End Date: December 10, 2023, 12:00 am CST

2-Part Webinar Series: Transgender People in Libraries
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Start Date: November 7, 2023, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: November 15, 2023, 2:00 pm CST

Transgender People in Libraries Webinar Series (Part One): Working with Transgender Patrons and Colleagues
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Start Date: November 7, 2023, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: November 7, 2023, 2:00 pm CST

We’ve assembled a team of 4 collection development experts for this crash course webinar series, and they’ll take you through everything you need to get started.
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Start Date: November 8, 2023, 1:30 pm CST
End Date: December 6, 2023, 3:00 pm CST

In this webinar, you’ll learn basics of collection development for kids and teens.
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Start Date: November 8, 2023, 1:30 pm CST
End Date: November 8, 2023, 3:00 pm CST

Reference Interview is a comprehensive six-week course focusing on the methods of evaluating reference service, behavioral aspects of reference service, and the different types of questions that can be used to help patrons identify what they need. U
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Start Date: November 13, 2023, 12:00 am CST
End Date: December 22, 2023, 12:00 am CST

In this workshop, expert children’s programmer Alyssa Jewell shows you how you can develop interactive learning experiences in which children engage in moving, music-making, and story drama.
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Start Date: November 13, 2023, 1:30 pm CST
End Date: November 13, 2023, 3:00 pm CST

Learn about mentor monitors, a resource to support staff members and help keep the peace in a busy library.
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Start Date: November 15, 2023, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: November 15, 2023, 2:00 pm CST

Transgender People in Libraries Webinar Series (Part Two): Understanding and Fighting Anti-Trans Misinformation
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Start Date: November 15, 2023, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: November 15, 2023, 2:00 pm CST

In this workshop, adult fiction expert Robin Bradford will cover how you can grow and diversify your collection to make better readers advisory choices and offer stronger materials to your patrons.
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Start Date: November 15, 2023, 1:30 pm CST
End Date: November 15, 2023, 3:00 pm CST

Learn best practices for developing, maintaining, and weeding the adult nonfiction collection.
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Start Date: November 29, 2023, 1:30 pm CST
End Date: November 29, 2023, 3:00 pm CST

Opportunity in the Face of Crisis
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Start Date: December 6, 2023, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: December 6, 2023, 2:00 pm CST

In this workshop, weeding expert Karen Toonen will cover the challenges inherent to weeding and share tips, tricks, and tools for collection evaluation.
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Start Date: December 6, 2023, 1:30 pm CST
End Date: December 6, 2023, 3:00 pm CST

Learn how cohort mentoring addresses skills that are hard to gain on the job and is an investment in staff growth.
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Start Date: December 13, 2023, 1:00 pm CST
End Date: December 13, 2023, 2:00 pm CST

Learn more American Sign Language vocabulary and grammar appropriate for use in a library setting and place that information within a linguistic and cultural context to aid participants in improving library services to patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing.
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Start Date: January 8, 2024, 12:00 am CST
End Date: February 18, 2024, 12:00 am CST

Explore how to build outreach that serves all children in your community.
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Start Date: January 8, 2024, 12:00 am CST
End Date: February 4, 2024, 12:00 am CST

Gain a comprehensive grounding in Library of Congress Classification (LCC) principles and practice.
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Start Date: January 8, 2024, 12:00 am CST
End Date: February 4, 2024, 12:00 am CST