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06 June 2023
Promoting Voter and Civic Engagement at Your Library
View this webinar to learn about the types of resources and services your library can provide to support voter registration and civic engagement.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 May 2023
School Librarians Lead Learning and Transformation
Join this webinar for an introduction to the School Librarian’s Information Shelf and to learn more from practitioners who have applied transformative practices to their school libraries.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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18 May 2023
Library Safety and Security: A Holistic Approach
This session will present a holistic approach for creating safe environments, through strong community relationships, inclusive policies, and empowered staff.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 April 2023
Proactive Planning for Library Staff Transitions
This webinar introduces practical approaches to preserve organizational knowledge, clarify processes for current staff and trustees, and ease the learning curve for new employees.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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31 March 2023
Universal Design at Your Library
This presentation will introduce the principles of Universal Design and offer concrete advice for how to apply each of the principles at any library.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 March 2023
Creating a Restorative Library Culture
Learn about restorative justice and restorative practices, and how to build relationships that can help to address and repair harm done.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 February 2023
Library Policies for Today’s Communities
View this webinar to learn the importance of crafting clear policies for your library, to help establish and set standards that ensure equity and safety for both staff and patrons.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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15 February 2023
Native Stories, Native Peoples: Opportunities for Library Engagement
This webinar will highlight opportunities for library communities to foster understanding and support of Indigenous peoples, past and present.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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24 January 2023
Science Literacy: It’s Not Just for Kids
Join this webinar to learn about programs that make adult science learning fun and enticing.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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11 January 2023
Practical Strategies for Engaging Veteran and Military-Affiliated Patrons at Your Library
This webinar introduces practical and engaging library programming ideas for serving veteran and military communities.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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07 December 2022
Remember Your Patrons Living with Memory Loss
Presenters share simple ways to create more dementia-friendly libraries and provide examples of literacy activities and programs.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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29 November 2022
Social Work Approaches to Library Services
Learn how a range of social work approaches can be applied to help improve library services for your community.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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15 November 2022
Suicide Prevention for Veterans, Service Members, Families and Communities
Learn how libraries can help raise awareness of mental health and suicide prevention resources available to Veterans and their families with the Veterans Health Administration.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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27 October 2022
Grantseeking for Libraries: Strategies and Tips
This webinar presents grantseeking strategies for success that can benefit libraries of all sizes.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 October 2022
Library of Things: The What, Why, and How of Lending Objects
Explore all aspects of hosting a Library of Things, including selecting, budgeting, cataloging, displaying, sustaining, and marketing.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 September 2022
Civil Legal Issues of Natural Disasters: Libraries Can Help
Presenters will introduce the civil legal issues that arise during natural disasters and share how to support related patron information needs.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 September 2022
Community-Led Planning for Equitable, Responsive Services
Learn about community-led planning strategies and how to apply them to create highly relevant, inclusive services for, and with, your community.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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30 August 2022
Emerging Tech Trends for 2022 and Beyond
This presentation introduces emerging technology trends and how those trends might reshape library services.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 July 2022
Weed 'Em and Reap: Getting Your Collection from Awful to Awesome
This session discusses the life cycle of a collection, including weeding techniques, collection management policies, and how to motivate reluctant weeders.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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07 July 2022
Engaging Adults with Low Literacy Levels
This webinar explores the characteristics of adults with low literacy levels and provides strategies for library staff to support reading literacy in adults.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 June 2022
Break Free from Misinformation in an Escape Room
How can you use an escape room to help inform library patrons about misinformation? Watch this webinar to learn about new programming resources for your library!
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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24 May 2022
Book Challenges and Intellectual Freedom: Proactive Planning for Public Libraries
This webinar explores ways for libraries to be proactive in developing and sharing policies and procedures around book challenges.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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05 May 2022
We Can't Go It Alone: Community-Centered Collaborations during COVID-19
Representing a variety of cultural heritage institutions, presenters will share their experiences with partnerships and networks during the pandemic.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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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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