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How to Make Your Grant Proposal Stand Out from the Pack
Original presentation date: February 01, 2012
With more than $40 billion in grant money given away each year in the U.S. by private foundations alone, you know that there’s competition for those dollars. But how can you make YOUR organization stand out from the crowd and make that grant funder want to fund YOU? What can you do to find favor with grant funders and how do you even make them notice you—much less fund you? Your proposal is normally the first impression a grant funder has of your organization. Learn how to make the best impression you can so that funders will sit up and take notice. This is finally your opportunity to learn valuable tactics that will take your grant proposals from so-so to great

Getting the Most from Your Summer Reading Program: CLA’s Summer Reading Outcomes Initiative
Original presentation date: January 27, 2012
California Library Association’s summer reading outcomes and outreach initiative helps libraries develop stronger and more effective summer reading programs. Please join us for an introduction to the initiative and a step-by-step guide to participating in it. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will know: the value of outcomes-based programming; the importance of reaching out with the summer reading program; how to participate in CLA’s summer reading outcomes and outreach initiative; and where to find resources and tools to participate effectively in the initiative.

It’s Who You Know: Finding, Making, and Keeping Connections for Successful Partnerships
Original presentation date: January 26, 2012
Question: How can your library broaden its net of connections, and therefore, its value within the community? Answer: Through community partnerships! This webinar will give you some basic tools and the inspiration you need to take the first steps toward a successful library community partnership. If you are interested in finding out how to make lasting connections with local organizations to help you better serve your public, this one-hour webinar is for you!

Library Snapshot Day
Original presentation date: December 19, 2011
Library Snapshot Day is an initiative that provides library staff with a simple means to show the value of the library by capturing what happens in a single day in all types of libraries. Attendees will learn more about how ALA will be gathering statistics from around the country in order to compile a national “snapshot” for 2012.

Hey Kids! Look What We’ve Got! Effective Marketing to Tweens and Teens
Original presentation date: December 16, 2011
With the library taking a much deeper look at marketing itself in order to bring in patrons, this program will look specifically at the Teens and Tweens of the community and present effective means of marketing to them.

Let’s Get Crazy! Library Programs On and Over the Edge
Original presentation date: December 15, 2011
Do you want to surprise your community with exceptional programs? Are you curious to learn what new and unexpected programs other libraries are doing? Why not break out of your comfort zone and develop programs that are striking, original, and important?

Building Digital Communities through Blogs and Social Networking
Original presentation date: December 07, 2011
To remain relevant in today’s world, libraries need to build an online presence. With the proliferation of technology advances, it’s not always easy to keep up with the latest trends or understand how to master the technology to use it effectively and efficiently.

A Small But Powerful Webinar for Winning Big Support for Your Rural Library
Original presentation date: November 09, 2011
This introduction to the revised edition of the popular “The Small But Powerful Guide to Winning Big Support for Your Rural Library” will present the best tips and strategies from the toolkit, share the experiences of a rural librarian who has built support for her library, and highlight some of the additional advocacy tools and resources from the American Library Association.

Programming with the Charter for Compassion
Original presentation date: November 04, 2011
This webinar presented an overview of the Charter for Compassion, resources and activities associated with this initiative that can be used in Building Common Ground efforts, including familiarizing librarians with the Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life Reading Group initiative and model for action.

Make it Money Smart Week @ your library
Original presentation date: October 26, 2011
Join hundreds of other libraries around the country next spring in this ALA national initiative to provide programming in the critical area of financial literacy. All types of libraries can participate.

Creating Common Ground Community Tours
Original presentation date: October 26, 2011
This webinar expanded on the “Guide to Creating a Common Ground Community Tour” by offering librarians a chance hear from Deirdre Colgan, the guide’s author, and pose any programming or technical questions they might have.

Innovations from America’s Best Small Libraries 2011
Original presentation date: September 20, 2011
Library Journal’s annual Best Small Library in America Award, sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was created in 2005 to encourage and showcase the exemplary work of libraries serving populations under 25,000.