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In conjunction with this week’s webinar, Developing and Maintaining E-Reader Policies and Procedures for Libraries, we asked Robyn Truslow, Public Relations Coordinator at the Calvert Library in Prince Frederick, Maryland, to share a post with their approach to managing policies and procedures for circulating e-readers, including keeping up with changes and needed revisions to the [...]
Perhaps it was the initial threat of cancellation that made my ALA Midwinter experience so endearing. Regardless, it brought about a renewed love for libraries and for all the amazing work of librarians, ALA members and staff, and for the organizations that support and sustain that work. Wearing more “hats” than ever, I traveled through [...]
It’s hard to believe we’re packing for travel to Dallas next week! We hope to see you at some of these Midwinter events where you’re sure to find WebJunctioneers: OCLC Americas Regional Council Annual Member Meeting and Symposium Friday, January 20, 12:00-5:00 pm Omni Dallas Hotel, Dallas Ballroom EFG Open to all! Join your OCLC [...]
WebJunction has been awarded a grant from IMLS for a digital inclusion project complementing existing efforts to help libraries and other community-based organizations make strategic decisions about providing public access to broadband. Working with partners TechSoup Global, and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), WebJunction will evaluate the needs of libraries, community-based organizations (CBOs), and [...]
With tech gadgets all the rage, WebJunction has an upcoming webinar and a fresh gadget overview to share with you. “Wow, That’s Cool! What is it?” Thursday, November 10, 2011 ♦ 2 pm Eastern / 11 am Pacific ♦ 60 min The Library of Virginia spent part of the last 12 months touring the Commonwealth [...]
One more week until the Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference on November 2 – 4, 2011. The conference will be held *around the clock* online, in multiple time zones over the course of two days and it’s free! Thank you to the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University, the [...]
Join OCLC, host Chrystie Hill, WebJunction’s Director of Community Services, and guest speakers for a series of four free webinars designed to inspire and engage public libraries on topics of vital interest. Each program in the series will offer practical advice on issues that are top-of-mind in public libraries. Stay up to date on the [...]
You may say I’m a biased ARSL board member, but after attending my third Annual Association for Rural and Small Libraries Conference, I stand by my word that this is the best library conference around. Every moment I was awake, I was inspired, motivated and entertained by 300+ of the most amazing librarians in the [...]
Thank you again to all who joined us in early August for Trends in Library Training and Learning Online Conference brought to you in collaboration with the ALA Learning Round Table. We’re excited to bring you this information about the library staff who registered or attended the event and to remind you that all recordings [...]
Thank you to Buffy Hamilton for a great wrap-up for the WebJunction/Learning Round Table hosted online conference, Trends in Library Training and Learning. Buffy’s presentation, Cultivating the Library as a Site of Participatory Culture and Learning was a refreshing antidote to the overabundance of claims that libraries are no longer useful or meaningful in our [...]
Thank you to Julie Erickson and Jane Healy for their presentation, Beyond 23 Things: Enhanced Self-Paced Training , the penultimate session of the WebJunction/Learning Round Table hosted online conference, Trends in Library Training and Learning. A few years ago, the South Dakota state library offered self-paced “23 Things” training based on Helene Blowers now well-known [...]
Online conference coverage continues for WebJunction/Learning Round Table hosted online conference, Trends in Library Training and Learning. Thank you to Crystal Schimpf, Kieran Hixon, and Nancy Trimm for their presentation, Tech Training Skills for 21st Century Library Staff. With 631 people in the room (and many others viewing as a group under one name), we [...]
We kicked off day 2 of WebJunction/Learning Round Table’s hosted online conference, Trends in Library Training and Learning, with a keynote presentation by Char Booth, “Instructional Literacy and the Library Educator.” Char invited all the participants (>600) to go hogwild in the Chat, to keep it as interactive as possible–and everyone took to that idea [...]
Online conference coverage continues for WebJunction/Learning Round Table hosted online conference, Trends in Library Training and Learning. Thank you to Sarah Houghton for her presentation, Getting Admin Buy-In for Training. We spent the first three sessions of today’s online conference getting psyched up to learn, to train, and to have fun doing it. But what [...]
Online conference coverage continues for WebJunction/Learning Round Table hosted online conference, Trends in Library Training and Learning. Thank you to Angela Nolet and Amber Slaven for their presentation, Lights! Camera! Action! Using video for patron and staff instruction. I have to confess that I ate lunch during their presentation so didn’t take the best notes, [...]