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26 April 2022
Digital Collections at Your Library: Community, Culture, and Connection
In this webinar, practitioners will share how their digital collections have enabled their community members to connect with unique histories and cultures, increase appreciation of local history, and foster connections across generations.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 April 2022
Broadband improvements: Free planning tools for libraries
Learn how to use the Toward Gigabit Libraries toolkit―a free, self-service guide created to help libraries understand and improve their IT capacities and broadband resources.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 April 2022
Libraries and Open Ecosystems: Metadata challenges and opportunities in the open ecosystem
Join Kathryn Stine, OCLC Research Library Partnership, and library leaders from OCLC’s Global Council as they discuss the next generation of metadata, including contributing environmental factors, and the findings of the Reimagine Descriptive Workflows project.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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16 March 2022
Libraries and Open Ecosystems: The library’s role in open research
Join Ixchel M. Faniel, Senior Research Scientist, Library Trends and User Research, and library leaders from OCLC’s Global Council to discuss the library’s role in open research.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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10 March 2022
Taking Care of Self, Staff, and Community
In this webinar, we explore ideas for expanding core self-care practices to encompass connections with work colleagues and more broadly with community members.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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28 February 2022
Libraries and Open Ecosystems: Creating a New Model Library
Join Brittany Brannon, Research Support Specialist, Library Trends and User Research, and library leaders from OCLC’s Global Council for a discussion on emerging library models.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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22 February 2022
"Let's Talk Race" Toolkits
Staff from the Salt Lake City Public Library share how they built picture book-based kits, offering practical and positive ways to talk to children about race.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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15 February 2022
Assessing the library’s role in e-resource access workflows today and in the future
A 30-minute webinar that explores how SAML and other federated access technologies differ from IP authentication, the implications for libraries who move toward these types of access models, and why SAML is complex and a barrier to many libraries and content providers who adopt it
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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03 February 2022
Growing digital equity through community partnerships
In this webinar, learn strategies for building more digitally inclusive communities including Digital Navigators and collaborations with partners to circulate hotspots and laptops.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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27 January 2022
Library Signage: Effective Crisis Communications
This session will looks recommended types of library signs and address aspects of library signage within crisis communications.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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20 January 2022
Promote Community Engagement and Challenge Prejudice with a Human Library
Learn from a public and an academic library using the innovative and impactful Human Library® model to create meaningful community dialogue.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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09 December 2021
The Myth of the Work/Life Balance for Small Library Directors
This webinar explores how to find balance between your personal and professional life, in service of yourself and your community.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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02 December 2021
A blueprint for collection building success
A 60-minute Transformative Leaders webinar about how to apply the OCLC Research Library Partnership's "Total Cost of Stewardship" framework and tools across multiple OCLC services
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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18 November 2021
Understanding Eviction and How Libraries Can Help
Learn how you and your library can better connect people to eviction-related information and services.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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10 November 2021
Virtual is Here to Stay: Making Online Sessions Fun and Focused
Learn strategies to plan, design and host live online meetings or presentations that will energize, inform, and encourage your audience.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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28 October 2021
How WorldCat Discovery Premium delivers a complete discovery-to-delivery solution for your library
A 30-minute webinar about how you can use WorldCat Discovery’s redesigned interface, localized features, and easy-to-use fulfillment devices to connect users to resources
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 October 2021
Public Libraries and Public Health: Partners for Community Health
This webinar provides an introduction to public health, and shares how public health practitioners and library staff are partnering for success.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 September 2021
CFPB’s Your Money, Your Goals: Financial Empowerment for Your Community
Learn about Your Money, Your Goals, a comprehensive tool created by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to help empower people in your community who are developing financial knowledge.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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18 August 2021
Simply and securely delivering e-resources to your users
A 30-minute webinar to learn how OCLC's EZproxy provides reliable, secure remote access to licensed e-content
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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17 August 2021
OurStoryBridge: Creating Community Through Stories
The OurStoryBridge project has released a free toolkit of resources for libraries to create online, three-to five- minute oral histories.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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05 August 2021
Exploring the SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results) Model
Explore the SOAR model as a strategy for developing asset-oriented initiatives as a step toward developing a more community-centered library.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 July 2021
Civil Legal Programming: Libraries Bridging the Justice Gap
In this webinar explore effective and creative library programming that connects patrons to the civil legal resources and information they need.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 July 2021
On Implicit Bias and Communication
Reflect on how life experiences, traditions, and beliefs impact communication and explore strategies for facilitating deeper discussions and stronger connections as steps toward developing a more community-centered library.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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30 June 2021
Digging deeper into what makes WMS unique: WorldCat Discovery
A 30-minute webinar about how the unique functionality in the WorldCat Discovery application of WMS helps libraries
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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29 June 2021
Maximize the delivery speed of your resource sharing service
Join us for a one-hour webinar to hear ILL community members share how they get resources into library users’ hands quickly and efficiently.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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