The public library is traditionally the home educator's biggest resource. It is essential to foster valuable relationships with all members of the community and that libraries and librarians are responsive to the growing number of parent educators and homeschooled youth. In this five-week online course, you will learn how to identify and connect with homeschool families; explore the various methods of homeschooling; discover your state's legalities around homeschooling; understanding the importance of the library to the home educated; and develop a program plan specifically for homeschooled youth in your community.
By participating in this course, learners will:
Christina Caputo is the Knowledge Services Manager at Forefront. She previously worked as the Kids’ World Librarian at Arlington Heights Memorial Library. She began her professional career in 2002 as a high school art teacher and has over 20 years of experience working with youth 0-18. Join the conversation at Librarians Serving Homeschool (LSH) on Facebook.
If you have questions or requests regarding accessibility, contact us at ce@ala.org or at 312-280-5100.
In this class, participants will review the skills and experiences needed to be exemplary project managers in a library organization. Interactive and dynamic activities such as discussions, reading assignments, and class exercises will accompany each week's lectures. The four-part topical tour of project management will culminate with a final project management principles. The course is self-paced.
Learning Objectives:
Issues facing new and existing managers who need to create project management plans.
The importance of project champions, administrators, and cross-departmental staff will be covered in depth.
Effective communication (written and verbal), training staff, managing cross department projects, delegating tasks, and being the middle manager. Leading literature will be uncovered, reviewed, and discussed.
By the end of the course, participants will be prepared to assume both leadership roles and managerial roles, in relation to effective project management.
Instructor:
Debra Lucas-Alfieri was the Head of Reference, Public Services, Interlibrary Loan, and Instruction at D’Youville University in Buffalo, NY from 2002-2022, leaving with distinction at retirement. She is the author of Marketing the 21st Century Library: The Time is Now, published by Chandos, an imprint of Elsevier. She has also published academic journal articles in Collaborative Librarianship, the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, and the Journal of Library and Information Science. She has co-authored and published articles in the nursing and pharmaceutical field. Her book chapters appear in Middle Management in Academic and Public Libraries, and the 21st Century Handbook of Anthropology. Additionally, she served as an editor for the Journal of Library Innovation. Dozens of encyclopedia articles appear in the Encyclopedia of Power, the Encyclopedia of Time, the Encyclopedia of Anthropology, and the 20th Century Encyclopedia of Pop Culture.
She was appointed as the Faculty Senate Parliamentarian (2018-2022). She was awarded a Sabbatical and Faculty Research Grant in 2014, a Fellowship Award in 2015-2016, and was then promoted to full-librarian in 2016. She has been an online instructor and consulting in Library Studies since 2012.
She is proud to discuss her days in the Western New York Library Resources Council Leadership Institute where she graduated in 2006. In 2008, she returned as the Graduation Keynote Speaker of the same Leadership Institute.
Legal research is not just for law librarians—most librarians will need to answer legal reference questions and assist patrons with legal research during their career.
In this webinar, law librarian Ellyssa Kroski will teach the process of legal research from a beginner’s perspective. Participants will learn the fundamental elements of finding legal materials, including primary sources like constitutions; statutes; court opinions and case law; regulations; and administrative decisions. Kroski will also cover secondary and scholarly sources which may be cited as persuasive authority such as treatises, law reviews, specialized periodicals, annotations, and restatements, as well as legal encyclopedias. This webinar is applicable to libraries in a wide variety of environments and will cover both free and commercial sources.
After participating in this event, learners will:
Ellyssa Valenti Kroski is the Director of Innovation & Engagement at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 75 books. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University, and an international conference speaker. She can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/author/ellyssa.
This event will be hosted in Zoom. Automatic captions will be enabled for this event. This event will be recorded, and registrants will receive access to the recording within a day after the event ends.
If you have questions or requests regarding accessibility, contact us at ce@ala.org or at 312-280-5100.
It’s no secret that in recent years libraries have faced an unprecedented number of challenges over materials, displays, programs, or even daily activities. As a result, many libraries and library staff may face heightened burdens, pressure, and discomfort when it comes to doing our work. Whether responding to a single phone call from a concerned community member about an event or responding to an organized protest, these increasing challenges are raising the potential for high stress and communication strains with patrons, coworkers, and stakeholders.
Our professional values are being put to the test. This course offers practical guidance on how to address these challenges while continuing to do our work with integrity and purpose. Through case analysis, readings, and discussion, this course will emphasize practical strategies to build capacity and resilience in the context of increasing challenges. Participants will have an opportunity to consider how to use professional ethics to identify and assess their community contexts, build comfort, and find professional support in responses to challenges.
By participating in this course, learners will:
Dr. Hogan is a youth services librarian from Northeast Ohio who holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. emphasizing social philosophy. Prior to entering the library sector, Dr. Hogan’s teaching background included extensive courses in applied and professional ethics and work in academic and community settings.
If you have questions or requests regarding accessibility, contact us at ce@ala.org or at 312-280-5100.
Copyright is an ever-present and constantly evolving challenge for library staff. If you’re new to copyright, it can be hard to know where to start. In this event, copyright librarian Sara Benson will guide you through the basics.
You will learn about how a copyright is formed, when to register a work, how to calculate copyright term length, library limitations and exceptions, and fair use. The webinar will include opportunities for the exploration of hypothetical situations that come up in libraries as well as tools and resources librarians can use to understand copyright.
After this webinar, participants will:
Sara R. Benson is the copyright librarian and an associate professor at the Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a JD from the University of Houston Law Center, an LLM from Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley, and an MSLIS from the School of Information Science at the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the library, Sara was a lecturer at the University of Illinois College of Law for ten years. Sara is the host of the Podcast ©hat (“Copyright Chat”), available on iTunes.
This event will be hosted in Zoom. Automatic captions will be enabled for this event. This event will be recorded, and registrants will receive access to the recording within a day after the event ends.
If you have questions or requests regarding accessibility, contact us at ce@ala.org or at 312-280-5100.
Start Date: June 12, 2024, 12:30 pm MT End Date: June 12, 2024, 2:00 pm MT
Every library serves a community, and to reach the entire community, you need to get outside of the physical library. In this event, staff from the Memphis Public Library will show how their Connect Crew approach has taken the library outside of its walls and reached populations who had previously never visited the physical library. You’ll learn how mobile outreach can help you increase engagement, find new patrons, and develop lifelong relationships with parts of your community that may be underserved and underrepresented. This event will help you reach these community members whether you’re in a large urban system or a smaller library.
By participating in this webinar, you will learn:
Courtney Shaw is the Programming & Outreach Manager of Connect Crew. Connect Crew is Memphis Public Libraries' outreach department, responsible for going beyond the library walls and bringing the library to various communities. During Courtney’s time at Memphis Public Libraries, she has worked as a Teen Librarian, Children's Librarian, and Branch Manager. She is a recipient of the 2023 Library Journal Movers & Shakers Change Agent Award.
Darletha Matthews has been employed with Memphis Public Libraries for over 20 years. Before her current position, Ms. Matthews worked in circulation and reference and taught numerous staff development trainings on library databases and Readers' Advisory. She is an active member of the Association of Bookmobile & Outreach Services. She is currently Outreach Specialist Supervisor of the Connect Crew, Memphis Library's outreach team.
This event will be hosted in Zoom. Automatic captions will be enabled for this event. This event will be recorded, and registrants will receive access to the recording within a day after the event ends.
If you have questions or requests regarding accessibility, contact us at ce@ala.org or at 312-280-5100.
American Library Association (ALA): ALA LibGuides
Association for College & Research Libraries (ACRL): LibGuides at ACRL
Reference & User Services Association (RUSA): RUSA LibGuide for Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS)
Kits include:
RUSA Library Publishing Toolkit
Covers the following areas:
Explore the webpages of the ALA divisions the ALA Divisions website to find many resources on professional development associated with the divisions. While access to some content is limited to membership in the division, free content is additionally available.
Here are just a few examples:
Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC): Everyday Advocacy
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS):