4.3.2025 - Customer Service Conference: Perspectives, Possibilities, and Practices
We are excited to share this dynamic customer service conference designed specifically for frontline library staff. As the heart and face of every library, frontline employees play a vital role in creating welcoming, inclusive, and impactful . . .
Take your Microsoft Excel skills to the next level with this intermediate-level webinar! Appropriate for users who already know the basics, this session will explore, data, graphs, and more formulas.
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Coming up with new adult programs every year can be difficult. In this interactive workshop, we will learn a process for creating programs that can be used for multiple populations of adults; a new way of designing programs instead of using holidays . . .
As libraries chart a course in the age of AI, there are a host of ethical issues we'll need to navigate, both as individuals and as organizations. This talk will discuss a number of concerns, including algorithmic bias, user privacy, and . . .
4.17.2025 - Quiet Leadership: Foster your identity as an introverted or quiet leader to inspire beyond words
The ideals set upon leaders puts pressure on the typical introvert to be someone they are not, which can lead to anxiety and avoidance or pursuing higher positions. But being a quiet leader challenges extroverted norms and expectations. Quiet . . .
5.8.2025 - A Day for Collection Management and Technical Services
We are excited to be offering the Day for Collection Management and Technical Services. We have a great line up below and we will end the day with a roundtable discussion.
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5.13.2025 - Google Forms: Gather all the Things for Action
Are you already using Google for email, calendar and shared document functions? Use it to handle purchase requests, suggestions for management, track professional development, and log technology and customer service issues. Create forms on . . .
5.22.2025 - 2025 Directors’ Retreat: Working Through Uncertainty – Strategies for Adaptation and Support
We are excited to announce the 2025 Directors' Retreat: Working Through Uncertainty – Strategies for Adaptation and Support . We will be returning to the Punderson Manor Lodge & Conference Center this year. The retreat will kick . . .
We are excited to start this new genealogy networking group. Here is an opportunity to share your challenges and successes with your peers. This meeting will be held through Zoom which is user friendly to all devices. You will . . .
Join us for networking meeting of special libraries. Come share your successes and challenges with your fellow special libraries colleagues. This will be virtual via Zoom you will receive the link to the meeting 2 hours prior to the . . .
6.12.2025 - Designing for Diversity in Your Library’s Communications
Being intentional and inclusive in the design of your library’s communications, in both physical and digital library spaces, can support and enrich your library’s accessibility, diversity, and equity. The graphics, language, or format . . .
6.18.2025 - Quiet Leadership 2.0: Distinguish your leadership capabilities, build confidence, and pathways to find support as a quiet leader
Quiet leadership challenges the extroverted norms and expectations. As an extension of the popular webinar Quiet Leadership, Quiet leadership 2.0 takes it a step further by discussing healthy and successful working environments for the quiet leader. . . .
7.16.2025 - Practical Budget Management: How to Avoid Disaster, Make Smart Moves, Report Responsibly, and Stress Less About your Budget!
Whether you’re a newly minted library staffer responsible for the budget for Summer Reading, a Director concerned with making the most of your budget, or have budgeting responsibilities somewhere in between, budgeting can be intimidating. Join . . .
Modeled off the Chicago-area Adult Reading Round Table, the Guided Reading Round Table (GRRT) will lead library staff through an in-depth genre study. Over the course of a year, we will explore historical fiction, with a specific focus on the . . .
Modeled off the Chicago-area Adult Reading Round Table, the Guided Reading Round Table (GRRT) will lead library staff through an in-depth genre study. Over the course of a year, we will explore historical fiction, with a specific focus on the . . .
12.2.2025 - Guided Reading Round Table (GRRT): Historical Fantasy
Modeled off the Chicago-area Adult Reading Round Table, the Guided Reading Round Table (GRRT) will lead library staff through an in-depth genre study. Over the course of a year, we will explore historical fiction, with a specific focus on the . . .