State Library's LIS Collection

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.

A 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)