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Jan 31

Continuing Education Roundup for February

Posted on January 31, 2017 at 12:22 PM by Lianne Flax

Happy Shortest Month of the Year!

Check out the recently added no-cost, online continuing education opportunities which have been posted to the Librarian Events calendar.

Full details of each event and links to register or join available here: http://kslib.info/librarianevents

Go to http://kslib.info/CE for CE grant information, archives of past webinars, trainings for library staff, trustees, friends, and foundations, and the State Library’s LIS Collection.

training page for SLK materials is available– find upcoming webinars and past webinar archives, FAQ sheets, KSLC info, vendor-provided trainings, promotional materials, and more.

Questions? Contact kslc@ks.gov

ADVOCACY

Feb. 2: This Is How Our Most Successful Clients Fill Their Events (Wild Apricot)

Feb. 8: Brand Architecture: Rethinking How You Connect the Dots Between Your Nonprofit’s Brand and Programs (nonprofit hub)

Feb. 8: Using Facebook LIVE to Broadcast Impact (4Good)

Feb. 22: Getting Started in Scholarship: A Scholarly Publishing Primer for Librarians (Georgia Public Library Service)

Feb. 23: Libraries = Education: Your Key to Success (Demco)

Feb. 28: Visualizing (and Finding!) Funding for Libraries (WebJunction)

 

ASSESSMENT & PLANNING

Feb. 1: ESSA’s Impact: Views From Districts and Schools (Education Week)

Feb. 8: New Statistical Standard for Public Services in Archives and Special Collections (Nebraska Library Commission)

Feb. 8: Introduction to Project Budgets (GrantSpace)

Feb. 23: How to Successfully Roll Out Project Outcome in Your Library (Public Library Association)

 

BOARDS

Feb. 15: Grant Strategy for CEOs, Directors, and Board Members: What You Need to Know to Succeed (4Good)

Feb. 22: Developing Your Leaders’ Emotional Intelligence to Improve Organizational Performance (Training Magazine Network)

 

CAREERS

Feb. 1: How Top Nonprofit Leaders Avoid Burnout (Wild Apricot)

Feb. 8: Handling Change Starts with Leaders Themselves: Exploring Effective Approaches to Personal and Professional Change (Early Childhood Investigations)

Feb. 15: 2017 Career Planning Clinic (American Management Association)

 

CHILDREN & TEENS

Feb. 8: Transform Your Children’s Library Into an Interactive STEAM Learning Environment (Demco)

Feb. 9: Developmentally Appropriate Programming for Babies & Toddlers (Infopeople)

Feb. 14: Teaching Tolerance (Booklist)

Feb. 15: Tween & Teen BUILD Collective (Nebraska Library Commission)

 

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT

Feb. 1: EGAD! Bed Bugs in the Library? (Nebraska Library Commission)

Feb. 8: LYRASIS Free Webinar: NEH Preservation Assistance Grants (LYRASIS)

Feb. 16: Practical Solutions: Quilt Care and Display (Connecting to Collections)

Feb. 22: Metadata Makeover: Transforming Omaha Public Library's Digital Collections (Nebraska Library Commission)

 

COMMUNICATION

Feb. 8: Brand Architecture: Rethinking How You Connect the Dots Between Your Nonprofit’s Brand and Programs (nonprofit hub)

Feb. 8: Using Facebook LIVE to Broadcast Impact (4Good)

Feb. 9: Asking Styles: A Revolutionary Concept in the Field (Bloomerang)

Feb. 15: Improving Communication and Relationships at Work with DiSC (Colorado State Library)

Feb. 22: Show Your Profile Some Love (GuideStar)

Feb. 22: Getting Started in Scholarship: A Scholarly Publishing Primer for Librarians (Georgia Public Library Service)

Feb. 23: Social Media and Volunteer Engagement (VolunteerMatch)

 

DATABASES & eRESOURCES

Feb. 10: A Step inside the D.C. Africana Archives (Lyrasis)

Feb. 14: Works in Progress Webinar: Umbra Search African American History (OCLC)

Feb. 22: Metadata Makeover: Transforming Omaha Public Library's Digital Collections (Nebraska Library Commission)

 

DEVELOPMENT & MANAGING CHANGE

Feb. 1: How Top Nonprofit Leaders Avoid Burnout (Wild Apricot)

Feb. 2: Creativity and Library Leadership: Moving the Next Gen Library Forward (Booklist)

Feb. 3: 7 Deadly Sins of Time Management (Velocity Firm)

Feb. 8: Get Ready for Agile Learning and Development (American Management Association)

Feb. 8: You Can Do I.T.! How to Empower Library Staff with Basic Tech Management Skills (TechSoup)

Feb. 8: Introduction to Project Budgets (GrantSpace)

Feb. 8: Handling Change Starts with Leaders Themselves: Exploring Effective Approaches to Personal and Professional Change (Early Childhood Investigations)

Feb. 9: Libraries Transforming Communities: Models for Change Overview (Programming Librarian)

Feb. 14: People - Difficult or Different? (Effectiveness Institute)

Feb. 15: Improving Communication and Relationships at Work with DiSC (Colorado State Library)

Feb. 23: Delegating: When, How, and To Whom? (Utah State Library)

Feb. 23: Bozarthzone! Tips for the Positive Deviant (InSync)

 

FUNDRAISING

Feb. 1: Nonprofit 911: How to Create Your 2017 Fundraising Plan (Network for Good)

Feb. 1: The Role of Staff and Volunteer Leadership in the Development Process (4Good)

Feb. 1: Introduction to Finding Grants (GrantSpace)

Feb. 2: Capital Campaigns: Best Practices, Common Mistakes (Bloomerang)

Feb. 2: This Is How Our Most Successful Clients Fill Their Events (Wild Apricot)

Feb. 8: LYRASIS Free Webinar: NEH Preservation Assistance Grants (LYRASIS)

Feb. 9: Asking Styles: A Revolutionary Concept in the Field (Bloomerang)

Feb. 14: Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits (Firespring)

Feb. 15: Grant Strategy for CEOs, Directors, and Board Members: What You Need to Know to Succeed (4Good)

Feb. 21: Crowdfunding 101 (Firespring)

Feb. 28: Visualizing (and Finding!) Funding for Libraries (WebJunction)

 

LEGAL

Feb. 28: Set Up Your Makerspace for Success (Colorado Virtual Library)

 

LIBRARY SPACES

Feb. 1: Makerspaces in ECE: A Planning Guide for Administrators (Early Childhood Investigations)

Feb. 6: Passion in your Future Ready Library (TL Virtual Cafe)

Feb. 7: Full STEAM Ahead (Booklist)

Feb. 8: Transform Your Children’s Library Into an Interactive STEAM Learning Environment (Demco)

 

MANAGEMENT

Feb. 1: EGAD! Bed Bugs in the Library? (Nebraska Library Commission)

Feb. 2: Creativity and Library Leadership: Moving the Next Gen Library Forward (Booklist)

Feb. 3: 7 Deadly Sins of Time Management (Velocity Firm)

Feb. 22: Developing Your Leaders’ Emotional Intelligence to Improve Organizational Performance (Training Magazine Network)

Feb. 23: Delegating: When, How, and To Whom? (Utah State Library)

 

OUTREACH & PARTNERSHIPS

Feb. 7: Leaving the library for nature programming: backpacks and geocaches (Washington State Library)

Feb. 9: Libraries Transforming Communities: Models for Change Overview (Programming Librarian)

Feb. 14: Libraries Help Patrons Become Financially Empowered Consumers (WebJunction)

Feb. 23: Libraries = Education: Your Key to Success (Demco)

Feb. 28: If You Make It, Protect It! Understanding the Importance of Intellectual Property Rights for Your Community (Federal Depository Library Program)

 

PROGRAMMING

Feb. 1: Science Soup, Part Four: How Hot and Stormy Can It Get? NOAA: Oceans, Storms, and Climate Change (Federal Depository Library Program)

Feb. 7: Leaving the library for nature programming: backpacks and geocaches (Washington State Library)

Feb. 8: Bleep, Blorp, Books: Robots in the Library (Texas State Library and Archives Commission)

Feb. 9: Developmentally Appropriate Programming for Babies & Toddlers (Infopeople)

Feb. 13: Adult Programming That Works (Idaho Commission for Libraries)

Feb. 14: No Internet, No Problem – Leveraging Offline Technology to Prepare Inmates for Success Outside the Walls (Texas State Library and Archives Commission)

Feb. 14: Libraries Help Patrons Become Financially Empowered Consumers (WebJunction)

Feb. 15: Science Soup, Part Five: The Air We Breathe and the Water We Drink: The EPA - Keeping Our Environment Safe (Federal Depository Library Program)

Feb. 16: Practical Solutions: Quilt Care and Display (Connecting to Collections)

Feb. 22: Media Literacy: A Crash Course in 60 Minutes (edWeb)

 

READERS’ ADVISORY

Feb. 14: Teaching Tolerance (Booklist)

 

REFERENCE

Feb. 1: Science Soup, Part Four: How Hot and Stormy Can It Get? NOAA: Oceans, Storms, and Climate Change (Federal Depository Library Program)

Feb. 10: A Step inside the D.C. Africana Archives (Lyrasis)

Feb. 14: Works in Progress Webinar: Umbra Search African American History (OCLC)

Feb. 15: Science Soup, Part Five: The Air We Breathe and the Water We Drink: The EPA - Keeping Our Environment Safe (Federal Depository Library Program)

Feb. 22: Post-Truth: Fake News and a New Era of Information Literacy (American Library Association and Programming Librarian)

Feb. 28: If You Make It, Protect It! Understanding the Importance of Intellectual Property Rights for Your Community (Federal Depository Library Program)

 

SCHOOL LIBRARIES

Feb. 1: ESSA’s Impact: Views From Districts and Schools (Education Week)

Feb. 6: Diving Deeper Into Nonfiction: Using Readers Rules of Notice (Corwin)

Feb. 14: Future Ready Librarians: What’s Not to Love? (Alliance for Excellent Education)

Feb. 22: Media Literacy: A Crash Course in 60 Minutes (edWeb)

 

TECHNOLOGY

Feb. 1: Makerspaces in ECE: A Planning Guide for Administrators (Early Childhood Investigations)

Feb. 6: Passion in your Future Ready Library (TL Virtual Cafe)

Feb. 7: Full STEAM Ahead (Booklist)

Feb. 8: You Can Do I.T.! How to Empower Library Staff with Basic Tech Management Skills (TechSoup)

Feb. 8: Bleep, Blorp, Books: Robots in the Library (Texas State Library and Archives Commission)

Feb. 14: No Internet, No Problem – Leveraging Offline Technology to Prepare Inmates for Success Outside the Walls (Texas State Library and Archives Commission)

Feb. 21: Emerging Tech Trends in Libraries – Part 6 (Infopeople)

Feb. 28: Set Up Your Makerspace for Success (Colorado Virtual Library)

 

TRAINING & INSTRUCTION

Feb. 6: Diving Deeper Into Nonfiction: Using Readers Rules of Notice (Corwin)

Feb. 7: Bozarthzone! Instructional Design for the Real World (InSync)

Feb. 8: Get Ready for Agile Learning and Development (American Management Association)

Feb. 14: Putting the LOVE Back into Your Blended Learning Instructional Design (InSync)

Feb. 14: People - Difficult or Different? (Effectiveness Institute)

Feb. 22: Post-Truth: Fake News and a New Era of Information Literacy (American Library Association and Programming Librarian)

Feb. 22: Media Literacy: A Crash Course in 60 Minutes (edWeb)

 

VOLUNTEERS

Feb. 7: Where Do I Go From Here? Engage Volunteers in New Ways (VolunteerMatch)

Feb. 9: Writing Accurate and Useful Volunteer Position Descriptions (VolunteerMatch)

Feb. 14: Successful Volunteer Interview Strategies (VolunteerMatch)

Feb. 15: Creating a Culture of Volunteer Engagement (VolunteerMatch)

Feb. 23: Social Media and Volunteer Engagement (VolunteerMatch)

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