Jun/Jul'15: Practical Project Management in Libraries (Infopeople)

https://infopeople.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=495

June 23rd - July 20th
$ 75.00 CA

Do you want to learn techniques that can help you complete projects on time and within budget? Would you like to learn how to gain the support and cooperation needed in order to successfully lead project teams? Do you want to know how to navigate through the typical phases of the project lifecycle?

Apr'15: 5 Proven Approaches for Mitigating Project Failure (AMA)

http://www.amanet.org/training/webcasts/5-Proven-Approaches-for-Mitigating-Project-Failure.aspx

Date of Event: Apr 22, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern

Concrete Principles for Planning and Controlling Projects
Projects fail to meet goals for a variety of reasons, and even the most experienced project managers can be caught off guard. This webcast introduces the five immutable principles that will help you increase the probability of project success and shows you how to apply them to a broad range of projects.

May'15: Introduction to Project Management (Library Juice Academy)

May 4-29, 2015

http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/027-project-management.php
$175

Project Management is a fast-growing discipline and set of techniques useful in all professional fields. Join Robin Hastings in this 4-week course on Project Management as she takes you through the basics of how to manage projects efficiently and effectively. You will define what exactly a project is, what the 5 phases of Project Management are and how to use them in a real library project. You will be given case studies of projects and will be asked to fill out templates for the each of the phases of a project. By the end of the course, you will be familiar with the process of project management and how - and when - to implement it. You will also be given the opportunity to discuss using Project Management techniques in your library and be given resources to continue your learning. This course will give you the basic tools you need to take and keep control of your projects.

Feb'15: Key Elements of a Project Plan/Evaluating Your Project Plan (Webjunction)

http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/key-elements-of-a-project-plan.html

Part 1 of 2 February 5 
Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific - 1 hour long

This session will describe how careful planning leads to more successful projects. We will cover how to develop an idea, define your audience, look at funding options, do an environmental scan, assess your resource capacity and needs, and develop a project scope and schedule for implementation. Attendees will be invited to use the two weeks between webinars to outline a project idea based on these key principles. Submitted project plans will be reviewed by webinar moderators with individual feedback provided for each submission.



http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/key-elements-of-a-project-plan.html

Part 2 of 2
February 19   Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific - 1 hour long

In this highly interactive second session, we will use sample project ideas and case studies to look at how we can assess the strength of a project plan before it is implemented. We will also discuss other project management resources and where to learn more about the topic.

Mar'15: Workflow Maps: Tools for Insight and Enhancement (ALCTS)

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/030915

Monday, March 9, 2015
sessions begin at 11 a.m. Pacific | 12 Mountain | 1 p.m. Central | 2 p.m. Eastern and last about an hour.

Have you ever asked “How can we make this process better” only to realize that no one really understands the process from start to finish in the first place? Workflow mapping can be a powerful approach to understanding the systems and processes libraries already have in place and a great first step in figuring out how to improve them.

This webinar will provide an introduction to workflow mapping. Topics covered will include basic workflow mapping syntax, software, and techniques for creation. Just as importantly, participants will also hear tips on how to structure a successful workflow mapping project—from getting buy-in from stakeholders to making the most of our your completed map.

This webinar is one of a six-part webinar series:
Feb. 18  Trends and Advancements for Library Resource Discovery
Feb. 23  Tailoring Communications to Different Audiences
Mar.  9  Workflow Maps: Tools for Insight and Enhancement
Mar. 11  Persistence: “Got yours?” Preserving Scholarship
Mar. 16  E-book Cataloging Using a Shared Mailbox
Mar. 18  Cataloging Continuing Resources in a Changing Landscape

                                               Each     Series of 6
ALCTS Member (individual)      43     206
Nonmember (individual)             59     284
International (individual)             43     206
Groups. Applies to group of people that will watch the webinar together from one access point.           
Member group                             99     476

Jan'15: Library Juice Academy online classes

January

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Introduction to Cataloging
Instructor: Melissa Adler | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175

Introduction to Project Management
Instructor: Robin Hastings | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175

The SPARQL semantic query language and protocol - the Semantic Web in action
Instructor: Robert Chavez | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175

Student Staff Development
Instructor: Jeremy McGinniss | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost $175

Embedded Librarianship in Online Courses
Instructor: Mimi O'Malley | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175

Visual Analytics with D3.js
Instructor: Olga Buchel | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175

Introduction to Book Indexing
Instructor: Joanne Sprott | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175

Getting Started with Digital Image Collections
Instructor: Beth Knazook | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175

PHP and MySQL
Instructor: Caleb Tucker-Raymond | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost $175

Backward Design for Information Literacy Instruction: Fostering Critical Habits of Mind through Learning Outcomes, Assessment, and Sequencing
Instructor: Andrea Baer | Credits: 2.25 CEUs | Cost $250

Jan'15: Introduction to Project Management (Library Juice Academy)

January 5-30, 2015 / $175

Project Management is a fast-growing discipline and set of techniques useful in all professional fields. Join Robin Hastings in this 4-week course on Project Management as she takes you through the basics of how to manage projects efficiently and effectively. You will define what exactly a project is, what the 5 phases of Project Management are and how to use them in a real library project. You will be given case studies of projects and will be asked to fill out templates for the each of the phases of a project. By the end of the course, you will be familiar with the process of project management and how - and when - to implement it. You will also be given the opportunity to discuss using Project Management techniques in your library and be given resources to continue your learning. This course will give you the basic tools you need to take and keep control of your projects.

http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/027-project-management.php

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

Sep: New Initiatives in Academic Libraries: Tools and Tips (Library Juice Academy)

Dates: September 1-27, 2014
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175

This course will offer academic librarians practical tools for planning, proposing, and evaluating new projects or services. New initiatives often face an uphill battle for acceptance, but the chances of success are increased if librarians rigorously evaluate their effectiveness and relate their effort to larger institutional goals.

http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/094-new-initiatives.php

Jul: Introduction to Project Management (Library Juice Academy)

Dates: July 7th - August 1st, 2014
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175

http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/027-project-management.php

Project Management is a fast-growing discipline and set of techniques useful in all professional fields. Join Robin Hastings in this 4-week course on Project Management as she takes you through the basics of how to manage projects efficiently and effectively. You will define what exactly a project is, what the 5 phases of Project Management are and how to use them in a real library project. You will be given case studies of projects and will be asked to fill out templates for the each of the phases of a project. By the end of the course, you will be familiar with the process of project management and how - and when - to implement it. You will also be given the opportunity to discuss using Project Management techniques in your library and be given resources to continue your learning. This course will give you the basic tools you need to take and keep control of your projects.

Jan: Managing Stakeholders for Project Success

January 29, 2014
12-1pm  Eastern

Stakeholder Management isn’t telling people what they want to hear.
Or making a status report green, when it’s really yellowish red. Or finding ways to say “yes” when your gut is telling you to say “no.”
But it is perhaps the important element of being a really successful project manager!
Project Stakeholders include anyone with a vested interest in the project—team members, functional managers (managers of team members), your manager, senior managers, third-party partners/vendors, the customer(s) of your project, the user(s) of your project deliverable, as well as people seemly unconnected to your project but who for some reason have an opinion about it.
Stakeholder Management is so important that when the Project Management Institute (PMI) published the fifth edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) this past year, it added a whole new chapter on Project Stakeholder Management.

http://www.amanet.org/training/webcasts/Managing-Stakeholders-for-Project-Success.aspx

Jan: Forward Thinking for Tomorrow's Projects: Requirements for Business Analytics

Normal people don't look at data sets just for fun; they analyze them to make business decisions. Business analysts are more frequently finding themselves on strategic projects that turn large and often highly complex data sets into meaningful information from which conclusive decisions and actions can be derived. Analysis of big data is already a reality today in most IT organizations and will grow in significance as businesses look to gain a better understanding for capturing, structuring, and learning from their data.

In this webcast presentation, Joy Beatty, VP of R&D at Seilevel, offers advice on tackling requirements for business analytics projects. Drawing from the book she co-authored with Karl Wiegers, Software Requirements 3rd Ed., Joy will outline how to elicit strategic analytics decisions to help prioritize requirements work and how to prepare for the future of big data by specifying data needs. Participants will hear examples of questions they can use to engage businesses to think outside the box about their requirements and consider new possibilities from analytics projects.

http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2958

Dec: Strategic Planning: The Balanced Scorecard Approach (ALA)

A 90-minute workshop, Wednesday, December 4th, 2:30pm Eastern/1:30 Central/12:30 Mountain/11:30am Pacific

http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=10796

Need a more straightforward, effective way to organize your library from top to bottom? The Balanced Scorecard™ approach offers a strategic planning and management tool that integrates all aspects of your library’s functions—staffing, financial matters, community involvement, programming, and project management—into one comprehensive tool. By using The Balanced Scorecard™ approach your library can harness the enthusiasm and expertise of stakeholders from the community, the Board, library leadership, and the entire staff to create plans that people really believe in. In this workshop Hakala-Ausperk walks you through creating real plans that produce real results.

After participating, you will understand:

• How the Balanced Scorecard™ approach works and what it can do
• Steps for getting started
• Ways to achieve a full integration of the approach without disrupting your services or staffing

Nov: Project Management: a Skill Set Every Leader Needs (LLAMA)

This webinar will present the concepts of project management and will demonstrate how they have been used for successful implementation of specific library projects.

Presenters: Chestalene Pintozzi is the Director of Project Management and Assessment at the University of Arizona Libraries in Tucson, Arizona.  Kevin Barclay is the Assistant Director of Deschutes Public Library in Bend, Oregon. 

By the end of this webinar participants will:  

• Understand the basic elements of project management
• Understand how project management has been used in two library or library-related settings
• Feel empowered to apply project management principles to projects at their own libraries

Fees:
LLAMA member: $49
Non-LLAMA member $59
LLAMA group rate (5 or more people at one site) $199
Non-LLAMA group rate (5 or more people at one site) $239

Register online: http://tinyurl.com/3zhtecm

Or register using a purchase order: http://tinyurl.com/cka4tv3

For questions about this webinar or other LLAMA programs, contact Fred Reuland. freuland@ala.org