Programming Librarian

Online Learning Archive

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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Harmony with Voice
Original presentation date: September 13, 2011
A free, online learning session hosted by the ALA Public Programs Office featuring Ronda Hassig, school librarian of Harmony Middle School, Overland Park, Kansas, and winner of the 2011 Sara Jaffarian Award.
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Every Child Ready to Read @ your library
Original presentation date: September 07, 2011
Jessica Chamberlain, director of the Northeast Library System, will review Every Child Ready to Read @ your library, highlight the changes that were made in the 2nd edition of Every Child Ready to Read @ your library Kit, and explain how you can incorporate early literacy education into your library’s existing programs.
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Ten Tips for Book Programs for Babies
Original presentation date: August 25, 2011
In those few moments when a baby relaxes and cuddles in your lap as you read them a book, a wonderful thing is happening—babies learn that books contain words, pictures, and stories that interest them. You can start teaching early literacy skills to babies without them or their grownups even knowing that that’s what you are doing!
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Cultivating the Library As a Site of Participatory Culture and Learning
Original presentation date: August 11, 2011
How can libraries establish themselves as communities of learning? How can we spark, invite, and sustain conversations for learning with those we serve through our academic, public, and school libraries?
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