Feb'15: How to Listen to Your Community 1: Using Surveys to Gather Data for Needs Assessment and Advocacy (Texas State Library)

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6804463311051138817
Feb 18 2015  2-3pm CST

Collecting data on patron use and needs for library and technology services is critical to providing valuable services to your community. This session discusses how to efficiently collect data through surveys, and will address planning your survey to get information you can use, structuring the survey and wording questions, and how to use the data for strategic planning and advocacy efforts.

Apr'15: Transforming Libraries to Serve a Knowledge Networked Society (Simmons SLIS-CE)

$250.00 (Simmons SLIS Alumni Price $200.00)
April 1 - April 30, 2015 - PDPs: 15

http://alanis.simmons.edu/ceweb/workshop.php?id=209

Are you in the process of modernizing your library and its services to provide better value and offerings to the communities you serve? Are you looking for new ways to support your community needs? Do you need practical ideas and inspiration?

We will explore how libraries can adapt their services and space to better serve people in a knowledge networked society. This course will examine services and spaces in all types of libraries, as well as serving users of all different ages. Course participants will complete a course project focusing on designing and adapting services and spaces of their choice in their library setting with regard to one of four service areas. Course participants will leave with a wealth of practical ideas and inspiration for moving their libraries forward and strategies for changing to better serve their communities.

Mar'15: Boomerang Library Users: Implementing Effective, Enriching and Educational Library programs for target users to Learn and Return (RUSA)

Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 10:30-11:45 a.m. (Central)
http://www.ala.org/rusa/boomerang-library-users

This webinar will present examples from the successful programming of Cal Poly Pomona University Library’s celebrations of National Library Week and Library Welcome Week for incoming students and the campus community.  Participants will receive surveys and data of the developing stages of ideas for programs, from how they were selected and planned to the implementation.

This webinar will inspire a more structured approach to assessing your community of library users and their needs/wants of learning new skillsets and raising awareness of valuable librarians and services.  This webinar will also provide examples of creative approaches to implementing programs for these library users to become boomerangs that will learn and return.  This webinar will also offer assessment tools for a postmortem assessment of library programs for librarians to analyze the successes and shortcomings; the positives and pitfalls for improving upon implementing future programs regardless of budget.  Participants will also receive creative examples of programming with or without funding.

$40 for RUSA members
$50 for ALA members
$65 for non-ALA members

Nov-Dec: Developing Effective Library Partnerships (Infopeople)

An Infopeople 4-week online course, November 18, 2014 to December 15, 2014

Could your library do more if you had more money, more staff time and expanded marketing? Not surprisingly, you’re not alone. Organizations, businesses and projects all around your community could say the same. So, why not work together? This course will demonstrate how to identify, nurture and grow partnerships that will expand your impact and enhance your value.

YOU can become the person in your library who:

·         Learns how to involve all library staff in building partnerships

·         Understands how to identify, approach and engage just the right partners for each project

·         Builds effective project management teams to successfully carry through on partner projects

Instructor: Cathy Hakala-Ausperk

Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and Infopeople Partners, $150 for all others. 

For a complete course description and to register go to https://infopeople.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=435

Oct: Engaging Your Community through Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries (ALA)

Wednesday, October 8, 2014
2:30pm Eastern | 1:30pm Central | 12:30pm Mountain | 11:30am Pacific
90 minutes

Karen Calhoun and Aaron Brenner will discuss the digital library as a platform for a two-way exchange of knowledge between your library and community. At cultural heritage's core is community, and in this workshop, you'll learn about a range of approaches for community engagement. Community focuses your mission, builds and enriches your collection, and ultimately defines your digital library's value and decides its sustainability.
$60
http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11179

Sep: Storymakers: Tell Your Library's Story! (TechSoup)

Sept. 17    11am-12pm PDT

What is your library's story? How do you tell it? Where should you share it? Your library is full of stories to tell, and those stories can be leveraged for advocacy and community engagement. Join us at this webinar to learn how to gather and share stories about your library.

We will share tips and ideas to help you begin to collect stories and use them in a meaningful way using technology. Hear from these special guests:
•    Ale Bezdikian, Interactive Events and Video Producer at TechSoup, will provide a framework for storytelling. She will also share tips and best practices for capturing your library's story and tell us about how to participate in the Storymakers campaign.
•    Sharon McKellar, Community Relations Librarian at the Oakland Public Library (CA), will share her experiences gathering and sharing community stories, including the #weneeddiversebooks photo campaign and the OPL blog. She will also talk about how community stories can help be utilized for library advocacy.
•    We will hear from the Norton Public Library about the inspiration behind their 2012 video submission, 12 Things to do in a Library, which won the prize for Best Library Video.

https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/registrations/new?cid=f84lt4hzo91z

Jul: Libraries as Drivers of Community Development: Global Edition (WebJunction)

July 16 (10-11 am) Mountain

Around the world, libraries are at the heart of community transformation. Instead of aiming to be responsive to emerging needs, libraries can actively push their communities to develop and thrive. Hear stories from around the globe about libraries that are a force to be reckoned with. Join us for this webinar that shares examples of libraries at the leading edge of positive change in communities in Honduras, Guatemala, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Learn about and bring home successful, practical grassroots approaches to library-driven community development.  

For more information and to register for this program, visit: http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction.html 

Aug: The Sustainability Movement on Campus: Forming a Library Action Plan for Engagement (Library Juice Academy)

Dates: August 4-29, 2014
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175

This course focuses on the role of the academic librarian in the sustainability movement which is sweeping across U.S. campuses. A proliferation of sustainability courses, programs and related activities bears witness to a paradigm shift in our society. A trans-disciplinary area of study, sustainability stretches beyond environmental awareness to include issues of economic viability and social justice concerns. This co-mingling of subject areas offers limitless opportunities for collaboration and cross-pollination between librarians and the faculty, students, staff and administrators they support. Emphasis will be on the curriculum with a preliminary exploration of how facilities management and co-curricular activities tie into the teaching and learning of sustainability.

http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/029-sustainability.php

Jun: Promoting Depository Collections through Community Partnerships (FDLP)

Thursday, July 24, 2014  
2 p.m. Eastern Time

This webinar provides two perspectives on developing community partnerships to promote Government document collections. Participants will learn about successful programs at Ottenheimer Library at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and at the University of North Texas Libraries. Attendees will also learn about tips, best practices, and ideas for developing partnerships in their own communities.

No knowledge of promotions or marketing needed; recommended at least beginner level understanding of the FDLP.

Registration is required. Space is limited on a first-come, first-served basis. Upon registering, an e-mail confirmation of registration will include instructions for joining the webinar.

http://www.fdlp.gov/index.php?subid=2824&option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=1464&mailid=349

Jun: Engaged, Embedded, and Enriched Creative Community Connections (Colorado State Library)

June 17 (12-1 pm Mountain)

As libraries seek to redefine themselves in a new information age, libraries must develop strategies for engaging with the community. Traditional programs and services are no longer sufficient; libraries must be creative in building community relationships to help frame positive community growth. Learn how three diverse library systems met the challenge of engaging with their communities to create dynamic connections and develop meaningful partnerships that added value to the library AND the community.

For more information and to register for this program, visit: http://cslinsession.cvlsites.org/ 

Jun: Community Engagement and the Declaration (American Library Association)

June 9 (12-1 pm Mountain)

The Declaration for the Right to Libraries initiative has flourished as a successful public awareness, advocacy and community engagement tool since its launch last year.  This final, free webinar in ALA President Barbara Stripling’s Libraries Change Lives series will feature case studies of how this initiative is being used to create positive change in libraries.

For more information and to register for this program, visit: http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/05/ala-president-barbara-stripling-host-final-episode-libraries-change-lives