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At The Smithee Group, Ben Smithee has been helping leaders and businesses dream bigger and achieve more.
He’ll sit down with us to discuss how brand is the only thing that separates an organization from the “sea of
sameness.” He’ll share his perspective of how a powerful brand allows an organization to drive higher value and
cataclysmic demand—and unfortunately, it is the biggest thing lacking by so many organizations today. We’re
excited for Ben to walk us through the components of brand IMPACT and what it means to create a relevant
brand in today’s digital ecosystem.
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Ever wonder what high-performing companies with forward progress in their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)
initiatives are doing that sets them apart? Want to learn how to enable leaders to embrace the inclusive
leadership behaviors essential to creating a standout employee experience and culture?
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Would you like to be part of the solution to creating a functional library work environment with workplace
communications that are complete and clear? During this webinar, the participants will take you through the
journey of their groundbreaking books "Cultivating Civility" and "The Dysfunctional Library". Here their insights,
suggestions and solutions to a problem that has plagued some libraries for decades.
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What pairs nicely with autumn sweaters and pumpkin spice lattes? New fall books! Whether you are looking for
your next great read, searching for a great book club pick, or doing your holiday shopping early, you’ll want to
make sure these upcoming adult titles are on your radar
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Join New York Times bestselling authors Jewell Parker Rhodes (Ghost Boys, Paradise on Fire) and John Cho
(Troublemaker) for a riveting conversation with educator Sarah Park Dahlen on middle grade literature. They will
discuss writing exciting, emotionally rich fiction that features young people navigating the challenges of their
families and neighborhoods, while exploring some of America’s most urgent social movements.
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Prepare for back to school with this three-part workshop series. Participants will gain an overall understanding of
special education, its purpose, and the process. At the end of this presentation, you will understand the big
picture of special education, the steps in the process, and how to go about obtaining an educational evaluation.
Part 2 is on Aug 23 and Part 3 is on Aug 30.
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This panel discussion will focus on supporting library professionals of color not acting as educators but rather
encouraging accountability of the majority.
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If you’re thinking about starting a monthly giving program, this free nonprofit webinar is for you!
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The final webinar in the series will focus on Open Access statistics of all kinds. This quick paced session will
provide data on OA publishing, giving participants a good understanding of the quality and quantity of OA
content available today. Then panelists will share what they have learned from usage analytics for their libraries’
OA collections. Get the data you need to create an informed Open Access strategy for your library.
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Bat Week is a week-long education and awareness campaign that seeks to teach local communities about the
importance and awesomeness of bats! Webinar attendees will learn about the history of Bat Week in Montana,
learn what resources are available for them to host programming in their communities, learn how to request a
bat package, learn more about bats, and where to find reputable information about bats!
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The past few years have seen an increase in cultural institutions dealing with various extreme disasters. In this
webinar we will feature two examples of extreme weather, wildfires and hurricanes, and how staff at two
institutions dealt with preparation, impact, and ramifications for these common types of extreme weather.
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Looking for something to do in the coming weeks of the year? Then join us for a look at the resources available
from the Government for celebrating a wide variety of weeks. There’s National Nurses Week, National Health
Education Week, Celebrating Women in Construction Week, Teacher Appreciation Week, and Exceptional
Children’s Week. If you have become alienated from a friend or family member, you can take advantage of
National Reconciliation Week. For those of us in the library and information world, there’s Book Week, Banned
Book Week, and National Library Week. This webinar will include Federal, state, and local resources, as well as
offer some resources in other languages.
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Whether scrolling through social media or conducting research for term papers, students encounter a startlingly
wide range of news and media daily. With the start of the school year, how can you set the stage in the
classroom for your students to think critically about what they read, watch, and hear online? What steps can you
take to help students understand and analyze their information landscape, and how can you lay the foundation
for responsible digital citizenship?
In this edWebinar, hear creative ideas, advice, and solutions to these questions from some of the News Literacy
Project’s NewsLit Nation ambassadors, educators who serve as community news literacy advocates.
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A Content Calendar (a.k.a. Editorial Calendar) is a written plan for how your nonprofit will use various channels
(email, publications, social media, earned media, etc.) to achieve your communications goals. This workshop will
look at the basics of content planning as well as some of the tools and tactics your organization can use to take
control of your communications strategy. A well-developed plan will ensure that you have covered important
brand and organizational messages as it provides time and space for new and spontaneous initiatives. Your
content plan could also lead to more collaboration across the organization and help you track and evaluate the
efficacy of your entire communications program.
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For many of us, uncertainty can be nerve-racking. That reaction, however, obscures a crucial fact: uncertainty
and possibility are two sides of the same coin. Chances are that some of your biggest achievements and
transformational moments came after a period of uncertainty—one that felt stressful but that pushed you to
accomplish something great. Uncertainty doesn’t have to be paralyzing. In this live, interactive HBR webinar,
Nathan and Susannah Furr will share insights from their research on innovators and changemakers who have
thrived amid uncertainty.
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Have you ever had a tough message to deliver but just didn’t know how to say it? Or, what you said clearly
wasn’t what they heard? Making it a meaningful connection – especially when having a critical conversation –
takes a lot of work. Join us online to hear from a government expert about the do’s and don’ts of critical
conversations.
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The PBC Living Library, modeled after The Human Library, seeks to raise awareness to medical harm through oral
storytelling practices. Unlike The Human Library model, The PBC Living Library is an anti-neutral space where
individuals who experience health and healthcare disparities volunteer to be "Living Books". In this 90-minute
webinar, participants will learn how the PBC Living Library was originally envisioned, how it was put into practice,
and how it has changed over time. Participants will also learn how they can develop their own programs and
strategies for success, including: marketing outreach, curriculum development, and quality assessment.
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When we have a growth mindset, we believe that intelligence and skill is tied to hard work rather than talent.
Our mindset has lifelong impacts on how we learn and face challenges, from the challenge of learning to read to
adapting to a changing work environment. The way adults talk to children about ability and failure influences
their mindset, and even as adults our mindset can shift and change. This session will review growth mindset
research and introduce strategies to grow a growth mindset.
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Experts and futurists are unanimous that the NEW important skill for all workers is critical thinking. Why is that?
The reality is that we are in a global economy where change is rapid, the unpredictability of events abound, there
is the shrinking of the new workforce, and of course, digitalization. Many of the roles demand beyond the usual
tasks and roles. They need to be self-directed and constantly critically thinking about how to solve and manage
the unknowns and unpredictability of work.
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We can’t teach what we don’t know. Teachers, administrators, and support staff are most effective when they
understand and develop their personal social and emotional capacities. Because the school setting includes
many contexts – classrooms, hallways, cafeteria, playground, bus – fostering a healthy school climate and culture
requires active engagement from all adults. Our presenters will share their expertise and practical strategies to
help teachers and administrators build SEL competency.
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Game Jams are events in which participants, on their own or in groups, design a game within a set timescale. The
most popular jams can have tens of thousands of participants at hundreds of sites globally. This webinar will
show how game jams can be used in libraries, how they can be connected to your existing programming, and
how you can encourage participants who have never made a game before to join in using easy game making
tools that require no coding skills. The webinar draws from the experience of running gams jams connected to
the British Library digital collections, and will introduce some options for creating digital games in your library
and show you how you can join this year’s IGM Games Jam.
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We all know teamwork makes the dream work, but obstacles big and small can keep us from doing as much
collaborative work as we'd like. Based on results of the IMLS-funded HEAL (Healthy Eating and Active Living) at
the Library via Co-Developed Programming, you'll learn some of the amazing ways rural librarians are already
teaming up with everyone from regional hospitals to passionate individuals to make their communities healthier,
more inclusive places. This highly interactive session will include community conversations about your
experiences teaming up with others - with the ultimate goal of creating a publicly accessible, real world toolkit to
help rural librarians do more by leveraging the power of partnerships.
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Participants will learn about the best electronic resources to consult, as well as ways to improve their print
collections. Best approaches for handling interactions with emotional patrons will also be discussed. This class
will increase participants' skills for providing mental health information for care providers and the public. NLM
resources covered in this class include MedlinePlus, Drug Information Portal, as well as other NIH and freely
available authoritative resources.
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Join Kymberlee Powe to learn how to perform a diversity audit on your library collection. Kym will share what a
diversity audit is, why we should audit our collections, why the structure of the publishing industry may make it
difficult to cultivate inclusivity, and most importantly, why it’s important to build collections that are diverse AND
inclusive.
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n this training, we will help you identify if gender disparity exists in your nonprofit and cover how to incorporate
gender equity into? the fabric of your organization.
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Discover the detailed social, economic, housing, and demographic statistics that the American Community
Survey Office (ACS) provides for every community every year. You will learn about basics of the yearly estimates
and datasets produced from the ACS, resources available on our website, and how to access ACS data products
through a variety of tools.
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o support all children in becoming proficient readers, it is imperative that the classroom environment and
literacy instruction is inclusive, diverse, and equitable so that all students and families feel like they belong. This
interactive and engaging edWebinar is designed to equip PreK-3 teachers with the knowledge and practical
strategies to create an equitable literacy environment and an inclusive teaching and learning practice that aligns
with the Science of Reading.
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In this live, online event, Heather will share how, with simple and new questions you can ask, you can deeply
understand what problems you solve for your collaborative partners, and how to identify and test assumptions
that are embedded within your collaborative partnerships. Once you construct a strong foundation for mutual
value creation, you can drive ongoing value and reach your ultimate goals more efficiently and effectively.
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This orientation is designed to give a basic overview of Congress.gov. While the focus of the session will be
searching legislation and the congressional member information attached to the legislation, the new features of
Congress.gov will be highlighted.
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Learn more about your congressional district and your state legislative districts (upper and lower chambers). In
this webinar, we will demonstrate how you can easily access data tables and create thematic maps using
demographic, social, economic, and housing data for your districts of interest by using two data tools: "My
Congressional District" and "data.census.gov." No special skills required.
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Strong heroines, heart-stopping action, thrilling twists—it’s all here in our free, one-hour webinar on Thursday,
August 25 at 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. CT. Join Booklist’s Books for Youth editor Sarah Hunter as she talks with Random
House Children’s Books authors Gina Chen (VIOLET MADE OF THORNS); E. Lockhart (FAMILY OF LIARS); and Karen
M. McManus (NOTHING MORE TO TELL) about their new titles that are sure to give your patrons the thrills and
chills. Register now!
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During this free nonprofit webinar, we’ll show you an overview of digital fundraising metrics including general
online fundraising, email, social media, website, online advertising, and more.
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With the start of a new school year and new learning, students in the early stages of reading are working hard to
apply what they’ve learned. We will talk about the reading stages that children progress through, reading vs.
guessing habits, the joy of successful reading, and books to support different reading stages and different skills.
Join special guest Laura Lay, Senior Literacy Consultant for the Preschool through 3rd Grade Office of the
Colorado Department of Education as we explore strategies to support beginning readers at the library
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Technology has changed the face of libraries and is continuing to change how we work and how we deliver
services to customers. In fact, the past few years have pushed us, and in some cases made us scramble, to
discover and experiment with new technologies and tools, to train our staff and community, and to look for new
ways of doing our core activities. This presentation introduces emerging technology trends and shows how those
trends are reshaping library services. Examples are provided of how to incorporate and adapt these evolving
trends into libraries. Learn what trends to look for, find out the difference between a technology trend and a fad,
and get ideas on how your library can respond to technologies as they emerge.
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Join fundraising master trainer, Chad Barger, CFRE, for a workshop focused on finding potential supporters for
your nonprofit organization. Chad will review the best practices in fundraising prospect identification and provide
practical tips for how small nonprofits can maximize their network. Attendees will leave the session with a game
plan for identifying their next 50 potential donors
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