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Professional Development Resources for Library Staff & Board Members March 2018
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March 7, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) $199 US Management is a web of relationships. If you’re new to the game, juggling the needs of your subordinates, bosses and peers, along with your new responsibilities, can be more than a little daunting. And diving in without any training can be a sure way to less-than-stellar results.
You have an opportunity to make your mark! Discover how your unique qualities will make an impact. In The Essentials of Management for First-time Managers, you’ll learn valuable strategies and techniques every successful leader needs to know: How to set the right tone starting out … how to motivate employees … how to efficiently navigate your new responsibilities … and how to ensure your success as a leader.
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March 22, 2018 | 11:00am - 12:00pm (MT) Innovation can be a meaningless buzzword, OR it can be your organization’s most powerful driver of success. The importance of innovation to an organization is undeniable in today’s ever-evolving world. Yet, employees who repeatedly innovate too often are not recognized, or may even be discouraged by their managers. Innovator employees by definition are risk-takers. If they get a manager’s support through their failures, their successes can reward an organization beyond measure.
This session will show you how to identify these most valuable employees, tell you what makes them unique and give you ways to develop repeated contributors to innovation. Participants will explore the unique characteristics of repeating contributors to innovation (RCI) and learn about tools to develop and support those employees.
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March 27, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) $45 for members / $55 for non-members Budgets. It is a word that strikes fear into the heart of many librarians. We think to ourselves, "We're not accountants. There is so much we need to learn about capital budgets, operating budgets, trust accounts and reserve funds. It's overwhelming." In fact, those budgets are already set up and by looking at the way they were administered in the past, we can work within thos perimeters fairly easily. Regularly tracking revenues and expenses may be tedious but it is not difficult and can be learned. The real challenge is financial judgment and decision makng. We may be risk adverse by nature so funding a new collection or service is a daunting prospect. What if it fails? How can we justify putting money into a project that didn't work?
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$199 (US) In this 60-minute webinar you’ll learn how to "speak the truth" and give tough feedback in a way that doesn't make people defensive or angry. When somebody does something that needs correcting, you can't just ignore the problem. So we'll give you specific scripts to tackle this very delicate conversation.
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Learn how to recognize, list and communicate your expectations effectively and authentically. Many managers make the BIG mistake of having unclear expectations and communicating them way too late - the damage has been done and there is no turning back. Rise to the top 10% of successful managers who lead with authenticity and a high level of effective communication.
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March 5 - 30, 2018 $175 US Meetings have become a large part of our everyday work life and cover a wide spectrum of formats including formal and informal; one-shots and regularly-scheduled meetings; staff meetings; cross-departmental and cross-functional meetings; and project team meetings. When handled properly, team meetings can be an efficient and productive vehicle for sharing information and accomplishing work through collective strength. When handled poorly, they can be a waste of time and resources; lead to a loss in productivity; and contribute to poor morale.
This course will focus on both the practical organizational skills necessary to facilitate meetings, and on team leadership and managerial skills such as building a team culture, recognizing and utilizing team strengths, and managing team dynamics.
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4 week eCourse All too often, we struggle to communicate effectively—particularly with others who are different from us in some way. This course will show you how the most effective communication utilizes the inclusive leadership mindset of Empowerment, Accountability, Courage, and Humility and guide you on how to use that mindset yourself. Through research and real-world examples, you will learn strategies to enhance your communication skills and approach. Topics will include understanding dialogue processes, debunking everyday communication myths, testing assumptions, listening, expressing yourself authentically, and communicating across differences. With short quizzes, compelling case studies, and engaging videos, you will develop knowledge in each section and share your experience with other learners.
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A Picture is Worth a $1,000 (or More!): How to Use Data Visualization to Tell Your Story and Raise More Money Charity HowTo March 7, 2018 | 11:00am - 12:30pm (MT) $87 US Data visualization tools—like infographics, pictograms, maps, charts, graphs, and timelines—are ubiquitous in our digital world. They look amazing, help us understand big ideas faster, and appeal to our hearts and minds. But what are they? Data visualization is the graphical display of abstract information for data analysis and communication. Or more simply, they are a visual representation of an idea or data. Or even more simply: it’s telling your story by the numbers. Using data visualization tools in fundraising collateral can significantly improve your ROI. These tools help you tell stories and motivate readers. They more quickly engage visual learners, improve document readability, and can be used anywhere: social media, websites, cases for support, annual reports, and even grant proposals. Your nonprofit can maximize its fundraising effectiveness by using this “trend” to your competitive advantage.
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How to Make a Thank You Video that Delights Donors and Gets Them to Give Again Charity HowTo March 22, 2018 | 1:00pm - 2:30pm (MT) OR March 28, 2018 | 11:00am - 12:30pm (MT) $89 US Thank you videos are a simple and powerful way to communicate appreciation to your donors and demonstrate the impact of their gifts. You don't need to be a videographer or have special storytelling skills to create a simple and powerful thank you video. During this nonprofit training webinar we will show you what you need to know to create thank you videos. We will show you examples of other small and medium-size nonprofits who have created effective thank you videos with minimal resources and very little experience. Simple and authentic thank you videos are now standard practice. This webinar will give you the step-by-step guide to creating donor thank you videos that both inspire, delight, and communicate gratitude.
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Attend this session to learn how to create eye-catching displays based on upcoming events or popular topics. You may be surprised when you see how using this passive programming technique will increase circulation of your library materials.
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Your fundraising plan is an integrated communications calendar and strategic plan. This living document includes key fundraising objectives, detailed plans to execute each fundraiser, and goals. In this 45-minute webinar, I'll show you exactly how to craft a fundraising plan and calendar that will help you exceed your goals in 2018.
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March 12, 2018 | 11:00am - 12:00pm (MT) In this 60-minute free webinar, you’ll learn strategies that you can implement to promote mental health awareness amongst your staff and colleagues. The expert panel will discuss how to help overcome the stigma associated with mental illness, share practical solutions that can help us improve our mental health, and share the best resources available on the topic.
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March 14, 2018 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm (MT) $60 for individuals / $120 for groups Stress management is often described as a self-help concept—something to be applied in a personal, not professional context. But stress can have very real business implications, including staff burnout, low morale, and reduced productivity. Ensuring you and your employees maintain a healthy level of self-care and are aware of stress-reducing techniques can help enhance morale.
In this new workshop, Steve Albrecht, an HR expert and longtime meditation practitioner, offers you and your staff insights on how to keep stress in your work and personal life under control. Our focus for this session is on stress management in general and not specifically on mindfulness, although mindfulness is certainly a component of stress management. We will discuss life and work stress, and how both affect you physically, emotionally, and even biologically. You’ll leave with practical strategies that you can implement right away to help relieve stress.
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April 3, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) $32.00 (*early rate) / $39.00 (regular rate) Whether sharing bad news with a client, providing corrective action or talking with a colleague about an uncomfortable issue, difficult conversations can be one of the most stressful and uncomfortable aspects of our lives and work. Yet the ability to handle difficult conversations respectfully and professionally is also an essential workplace skill. This webinar will review the key elements of preparing for, conducting and concluding productive difficult conversations.
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4 week eCourse beginning March 12, 2018 $175 US Are you new to the reference desk? The ability to provide reference services is a valuable skill for every librarian, but proper training is essential. Basic Reference Skills for Non-Reference Librarians is a full-online course designed to help librarians who have never done reference work get up to speed.
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March 19, 2018 - April 9, 2018 $187 Canadian Copyright Law (CCL) is a sixteen-lesson primer/refresher on Canadian copyright law. Each e-lesson provides up-to-date information on the topics listed, setting out fundamentals for that topic, as well as a self-marking quiz and URLs for further reading.
SYLLABUS FOR CANADIAN COPYRIGHT LAW - Understanding intellectual property
- History of Canadian copyright law
- Criteria for copyright protection (e.g., originality, fixation)
- How to obtain copyright protection
- How does international copyright protection work?
- What is protected by copyright?
- Who owns copyright?
- The duration of copyright
- Rights protected by copyright
- Limitations on rights
- How may rights be exploited?
- How is copyright violated?
- Remedies for the violation of copyright
- Using copyright-protected materials
- A comparison of Canadian and U.S. copyright laws
- Digital copyright and electronic rights
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April 9, 2018 - May 6, 2018 $175 US Online tutorials are nearly ubiquitous in the library learning world – but are they effective? Are they easy to create? In this eCourse, Rempel and Slebodnik will introduce you to the process and principles of creating tutorials in order to increase their impact and effectiveness. These principles include accessibility to reach a wider audience and assessment in order to evaluate and reinforce learning.
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*subscription required What should you do when you are bullied at work? Catherine Mattice Zundel, an internationally recognized expert in workplace bullying, explains why bullying happens and how to empower yourself to improve your situation. She provides action steps and role-play scenarios to help those who are bullied build up their confidence and confront the bully, prepare documentation to bring to a conversation with HR, and more.
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April 3, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) $45 for members / $55 for non-members Libraries strive to provide exemplary service to diverse communities across the country, but are you getting in your own way? What comes to mind when you hear the word dark? For many of us, we associate it with evil, bad, and scary themes. Ever wondered why that is? Well, it's a little unconscious voice called an implicit bias that lives in your head and it could be getting in the way of providing effective customer service to your community, especially to members of underserved populations.
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March 2, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) The future is female and whether it’s events like #ShePersisted or the Women’s March, by all accounts the future is now. Join Booklist editor Maggie Reagan and Penguin Young Readers for this free, hour-long discussion of books for young readers featuring strong, inspiring women, both new and old. This webinar will also feature a conversation between Maggie Reagan and Joy McCullough, the author of the upcoming Young Adult novel Blood Water Paint, about the feminist icon and painter Artemisia Gentileschi.
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March 13, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00p, (MT) Need to beef up your graphic novels collection? Tune into this free, hour-long webinar and get the scoop on new releases for this high-circulating section. Representatives from First Second Books, a division of Macmillan Youth publishing, DC Comics, Lion Forge, Diamond, and Viz Media will present selections from their catalogs, which will include both some adult titles as well as youth and YA titles.
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March 29, 2018 | 11:00am - 12:00pm (MT) $45 for members / $55 for non-members Check out the Dewey Divas & Dudes favourite picks for what's new and hot in the spring and summer publishing season in books for adults, children, and teens. Build your must-have book lists for the spring and summer!
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Does your collection reflect the varied faces, beliefs, and experiences of your community? Check out Booklist’s free, hour-long webinar spotlighting diverse books for children and teens, wherein attendees will learn about exciting, new offerings from Annick Press, Books on Tape/Listening Library, and Lorimer. Moderated by Booklist Books for Youth Associate Editor, Julia Smith.
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March 15, 2018 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm (MT) $60 (US) individual / $120 (US) groups By building programs that engage and attract active seniors to your library, you can help reinforce your library’s status as an important community center for residents of all ages.
In this workshop, Amy Alessio will provide you with several programming ideas and tips on how to market these programs, so that you can build successful programs that attract more seniors into your library. She has conducted over 250 live programs on related topics at libraries, senior centers, and national conferences including 2013 ALA Annual and is recognized as one of the top library programming authorities in the country.
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March 15, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) $40 US Storytimes are a valuable service to children, parents, and child care providers in the community on many different levels. This webinar will cover the basics of planning, preparing, and presenting engaging storytimes for preschoolers at your library. You will learn more about great book selections as well as songs and fingerplays to captivate a young audience. You’ll also learn a few tips to address storytime challenges like organizing materials, reading aloud to a group, and managing difficult situations.
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Liven Up Baby and Toddler Storytimes with Sign Language ALA March 22, 2018 | 11:00am - 12:30pm (MT) $60(US) individuals / $120(US) groups Signing with young children of any hearing ability fosters bonding, stimulates language development, and reduces frustration for caregiver and child. Learn how to use sign language in storytimes to broaden their appeal and make them more participative. In this interactive workshop, Kathy MacMillan—American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter, librarian, and storyteller—will use video examples to provide easy-to-learn signs that can be retaught and incorporated into stories, rhymes, and songs. You will be able to use the skills learned in this workshop to create programs that will help you, your staff, and parents communicate better with children.
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March 28, 2018 |, 1:00pm - 2:00pm (MT) Walk into almost any public library and you’ll see people of all ages engaging in the community space. When libraries offer programs and services that intentionally spark connection between generations, they contribute to more vibrant and cohesive communities. Learn how your library can develop inviting opportunities to encourage more intergenerational connections on a day-to day basis. This webinar will discuss why intergenerational relationships are important and will help you develop skills to foster intergenerational communication in your library. We’ll explore ideas and resources that will turn your library into a community intergenerational catalyst.
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April 5, 2018 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm (MT) In this edWebinar, Marnie Forestieri, Chief Learning Officer and founder at Amazing Explorers Academy® Early Learning Childhood Centers, will provide ideas for educators of children from ages three to six to support STEAM learning.
Topics she will cover include: - Helping young children explore STEAM concepts with fun and engaging activities STEAM learning opportunities in everyday activities and experiences
- Preparing children for kindergarten
- How to build crucial 21st century learning skills—including collaboration, communication, creativity and problem solving, curiosity, and critical thinking—with young learners
- An introduction to a model that promotes lifelong learning skills
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This comprehensive edWebinar is designed to provide educators with tools and knowledge needed to share the gifts of yoga and mindfulness with children. This presentation is open to anyone seeking to incorporate yoga and mindfulness into their current work with children. Bari Koral, kids yoga expert and popular recording artist, provides key information and inspiration necessary to begin doing so immediately. Learn the connection between mindfulness and the brain, breathing exercises appropriate for children, popular child-friendly yoga poses, mindfulness and relaxation techniques and tools, age-appropriate visualizations for children, yoga games, and beloved songs for kids yoga. This presentation includes a self-care portion for teachers and adults.
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Luke Miller, of Prenda, explains why coding education is important, how to run a coding club without knowing how to code, and what free resources curriculum and software is available to help library staff start and successfully run a coding club.
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Movement is a child’s first language! Combine movement with rhythm and you have the foundation for literacy skills like listening, speaking, reading and writing. This webinar features stories, songs, play, and movement.
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Learning Circles offer a solution to the isolation of online learning by creating study groups for learners who want to take their online courses together, in-person. Developed by Chicago Public Library and P2PU, these librarian-facilitated study groups meet weekly in the library for 6-8 weeks to work through online courses in subjects ranging from resume writing to public speaking to web design. Participants experience the value of sharing strategies, progress and companionship with peers, all in a low-stress environment. Join presenters Grif Peterson of P2PU and Kate Lapinski of Chicago Public Library to learn more details and recent highlights of the program. If you decide that Learning Circles could work at your library, you can take advantage of the P2PU open source toolkit for librarians and practitioners around the world who want to start running Learning Circles in their community.
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April 2 - 29, 2018 $175 US Take your gaming nights up a notch by drawing eager creators to your workstations! Library programs in game design and interactive media are proving to be immensely popular with teens; what’s more, educators tout their value in teaching 21st-century skills. Noted library gamer Kelly Czarnecki will be your guide in this eCourse loaded with activities for both novices and experienced participants, and generously illustrated with numerous video examples. You’ll learn the basic skills to get your teens started in designing, producing and telling their stories.
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Minecraft is a sandbox game that allows you to interact with an immense, randomly generated world. What you can do is infinite, as nothing is ever the same each time you start a new world.
In this introductory class, you'll get started by learning how to get your game set up and then how to personalize your own Minecraft world. From there you'll learn the basics of gathering resources, crafting supplies, and making tools to make gameplay easier. Once you're ready to explore more of what Minecraft has to offer, you'll learn how to set up farms for a continuous food supply and use your resources to build and outfit a shelter. Finally, you'll go another step further by learning how to use Tinkercad to bring custom 3D models into your Minecraft world. Get ready to let your imagination take you away as you explore the infinite world of Minecraft.
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Join John Haydon, one of the top online marketing and fundraising experts, as he shows you, step by step, how to promote your fundraising campaign with Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. You will learn how create a fundraising theme that stands out, how to turn event registrants into event promoters, and how to create a social media plan for what to post before, during, and after your fundraising campaign.
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David Lee King covers the ins and outs of setting up a library Facebook Page. Attendees will learn how to use it to connect with the library’s community. The Pew Research Center recently stated that a majority of Americans are now using Facebook (79%). Stated in another way, 79% of customers are using Facebook, which makes Facebook a direct, free line to potentially 79% of a community. This webinar shares how to stake a claim in that digital land and to create a Facebook page for the library.
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March 22, 2018 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm (MT) While there’s nothing new about automation systems in libraries, recent developments in robotics (including autonomous vehicles, drones, and AI chatbots) are turning the whole notion on its head. How are these trends impacting our society now, and how might they begin affecting libraries? This webinar takes a fun and thought-provoking look at the potential and pitfalls of robots and other automation in delivering public services.
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March 29, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) You want to share the impact volunteers have in your organization and in the community, but often the information you track doesn’t help you tell that story. This webinar will help you move past number of volunteers and number of hours and start telling the real story. You'll learn about information gathering and the key components to good storytelling, how to evaluate your current measurements and how to build support for a more thorough measurement and evaluation program, and how to engage other staff – paid and volunteer – in this work. You'll also receive a worksheet to help you begin to tell the story of volunteer impact in your organization.
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This course was designed specifically for the use of library trustees and board members of not-for-profit organizations in Alberta. The Alberta Library Trustees Association, in partnership with the Board Development Program of Alberta Culture and Community Spirit, is pleased to offer you this online course.
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March 20, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) $45 for members / $55 for non-members
Information professionals are strong leaders with complex skill sets. Participants will learn how their transferable skills can take them anywhere. Attendees will work individually and collectively on a skills inventory that will be parlayed into vitae "sound bites" and opportunity analysis in a wide variety of career opportunities outside libraries.
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When IDEO, a globally recognized design firm, partnered with the Chicago Public Library to create the Design Thinking Toolkit for Libraries it greatly demystified the design thinking process and gave the library community a resource to more easily implement a design challenge in their own organization. Design thinking is a process designers use to thoughtfully identify problems and then, using a team-based approach, develop prototypes useful for implementing an elegant solution. In response to the growing interest in design thinking, this event will provide attendees with both insights into the process and examples of how librarians are integrating it into their practice. If you’ve been hearing about design thinking and want to learn more about how you can develop and lead a design challenge at your library, this is your opportunity.
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Dealing with Difficult People Achieve March 14, 2018 - Calgary, AB OR March 15, 2018 - Edmonton, AB $209 (early rate) / $235 (regular rate) We all encounter people we find difficult. Typically conversations with them leave us feeling frustrated, stressed, angry and tired. This workshop will analyze what is happening in those exchanges and demonstrate how people can adapt their strategies to bring about more productive conversations with those they find difficult. Individual styles will be explored with an emphasis on understanding and adapting one’s style to create different results. Participants will learn how to create the right conditions for a conversation with a person they find difficult. They will also learn how to positively engage the other in a discussion about the pattern of difficult behaviour. This workshop gives participants a straightforward approach that creates dramatic change in the outcome of conversations with people they find difficult.
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Coaching Strategies for Leaders – Conflict, Performance, Change Achieve March 21, 2018 - Calgary, AB OR March 22, 2018 - Edmonton, AB $249 (early rate) / $279 (regular rate) Effective leaders inspire positive growth, change and healthy work relationships. This workshop provides leaders with a set of coaching tools to bring out the best in the people they lead. It demonstrates a mindset and related skills for leading others through their personal and professional development in their working careers. Participants will learn a coaching model for working with their employees to enable changes in behaviour, promote skill development and resolve conflict.
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Jasper, AB click here for registration rates We stand up: we inspire hope, create change, and empower individuals and groups. We listen, we learn. We stand for human rights, for dignity, and for access to information.
The Alberta Library Conference (ALC) is the premier annual conference hosted by Library Association of Alberta (LAA) & Alberta Library Trustees Association (ALTA). The conference is attended by library staff, library trustees, and library school students, as well as representatives of library-related businesses and organizations. ALC is held in the beautiful location of Jasper, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies. It provides a unique combination of learning and connections with others in libraries, in a unique, secluded setting that creates a sense of community.
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Richmond, BC click here for registration rates The 2018 BC Library Conference theme is Work + Culture. This theme urges an examination of the connections between work environments, institutional cultures, and communities; an inquiry of how cultures can impact, clash, and complement each other and inform society as a whole. Collaboration, inclusion, innovation – we include these words in job descriptions and library values and mission statements, but how well do we practice these values? Do our organizational structures and cultures foster or hinder these goals? How do we – as individuals, institutions, and organizations – determine and define our culture and our values? And how does our culture affect our work and profession? Are our values changing? And if so, what are they becoming? How do changes in our values and culture affect the concept of “library” and the work that we perform? Understanding the culture of our institutions helps us understand the role of the library in our rapidly changing society and helps us understand the impact of our work.
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Click here for registration rates Our theme this year is “Unearthing Potential,” and, in the spirit of innovation, for the first time AALT is holding the conference in beautiful Drumheller, Alberta. Our logo expresses the potential for all elements in the library atmosphere; old, new and in-between. The logo embodies this by displaying the iconic dinosaur fossils emerging beneath the hoodoos that Drumheller is so famous for.
Let’s come together to revitalize the “fossilized” ideas that still exist in some libraries today. We want to develop these ideas and bring them forward into the future... unearthing their potential. We are embracing this theme by showcasing keynotes, speakers, tours and activities that are original and inspirational. Our goal is that each and every one of you can take away something from the conference that you can implement into your library, work or daily life!
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June 6 - 9, 2018 click here for registration rates What could be better than the enchanting City of Fredericton on the beautiful St. John River in early June? We look forward to welcoming you here for APLA 2018! Come learn AND celebrate with us as APLA marks its 100th birthday! Our organizing committee is hard at work to make this a conference to remember!
Our conference theme – Libraries in Action / Bibliothèques en action – is meant to be elastic enough to incorporate diverse areas of library engagement; we’re aiming for a varied program. We do, however, hope to focus some attention on libraries’ response to the Truth and Reconciliation Committee’s Calls to Action, building on the excellent sessions held at our last conference in Charlottetown. Elder-in-Residence at UNB, Imelda Perley, has graciously accepted our invitation to accompany us on our journey as we prepare for 2018.
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Disclaimer: The links provided in this newsletter are intended to inform subscribers about information and learning opportunities that may be of interest. Inclusion in this newsletter does not constitute a recommendation by Marigold Library System or its staff members.
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