Digital collections stewardship training

In partnership with Washington State University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, WebJunction developed a series of on-demand courses on creating, managing, and sharing digital collections, designed for staff at small public libraries and tribal archives, libraries, and museums. The series includes a course on diversifying digital collections to fully represent the range of peoples, groups, and organizations in their communities.

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Bridgebuilding: Creating libraries where everyone belongs

Public libraries can become a place to build trust, reach new people, and create a sense of connection and belonging within a community. Bridgebuilding, where different types of people come together with respect and understanding, helps build trust and work toward shared goals. This approach can strengthen communities over time. 

IREX, the Urban Libraries Council, and OCLC's WebJunction collaborated to develop a resource hub empowering libraries to become community bridgbuilders. Take the new self-paced course, An Introduction to Bridgebuilding, to get started. 

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New course for facilitating learning groups

Peer learning groups are a great way to stay motivated and accountable in learning and applying new skills. To be successful, learning groups need a facilitator to bring the group together, provide structure, and coordinate discussions. This self-paced course, developed by WebJunction, supports anyone stepping into the role of a facilitator by providing an introduction to learning groups and walking them through how to organize and facilitate one.

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Updated and improved Supercharged Storytimes course

You already provide great storytimes. Supercharge your practice to make them even better! Supercharged Storytimes is a self-paced course on how to intentionally apply research-based practices to boost early literacy in young children attending library storytime. The course materials have been updated to increase accessibility and provide resources on inclusive collections.

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Four on-demand courses for support with crisis communications, burnout, and de-escalation

These courses respond to training needs and increased demands identified by the field, including pressures from a fast-changing environment, potential and experienced conflict, constraints to resources, and challenges in the workplace such as burnout. Each course includes perspectives and real-life approaches from people who have actively worked through similar challenges in their work. 

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WebJunction Course Catalog

Our Course Catalog offers free, library-specific self-paced courses, webinar recordings, and other great learning materials. Certificates of completion are available to help library staff meet CE and LEU credit requirements. Create a free account and start learning today.

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