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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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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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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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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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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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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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28 September 2021
International Pandemic Perspectives: Problem-Solving in Times of Crisis
Library, archive, and museum colleagues from across the globe discuss the innovative changes they've made and will be continuing in their fields.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 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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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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15 June 2021
Eliminating Library Fines: Improving Community Access, Equity and Usage
This webinar shares how going fine-free eliminates barriers and improves access to your library’s materials and services.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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09 June 2021
Food Access and Seed Libraries in Rural Public Libraries
Presenters from small and rural locations in South Carolina will share their experiences with seed libraries and community refrigerators.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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03 June 2021
REopening Archives Safely
This forum hosted by the Society of American Archivists brought together REALM project staff, archives managers and a legal expert to discuss their reopening experiences for strategizing the return to work and public service.
- Time: 4:00 PM – 5:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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