Continuing Education
METRO Webinar: Innovative Approaches to Serving Vulnerable Patrons
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesOak Park Public Library in Illinois has built a comprehensive, combined social services and public safety model over the past six years. Rob Simmons, Oak Park's Director of Social Services and Public Safety, has been instrumental in creating innovative programs such as free mental health assessment and counseling services, educational support for low-income students, supportive […]
LILRC Webinar: Barrier Busting – Designing Truly Accessible Services for Youth
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesTwenty percent of the children you serve have a disability. Welcoming them into your library is easier than you think. Learn about the culture of inclusion, the materials that expand access and the tools you need to reach your community. Explore: Universal Design for Learning Representing children with disabilities Supporting families Virtual accessibility And much […]
METRO Webinar: Facebook + Data Privacy – How Facebook Mismanages Information and What It Means for Users
Online Via Zoom NY, United States2021 was quite a year for Facebook. New details that emerged from leaked documents proved that, as nefarious as Facebook is for users here in the United States, the reality for other countries is far worse. Join our data privacy + security experts Dan Ayala and Gary Price for a discussion on how Facebook functions […]
METRO Webinar: Abolitonist Futures – A PLSN Discussion Group (February Edition)
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesWant to learn more about prison abolition? Looking to explore the role of information in the prison industrial complex? Excited to discuss ways we can collectively offer resources to address violence caused by mass incarceration? Join the club (literally!). This monthly discussion group with Prison Library Support Network will look at a rotating calendar of […]
LILRC Webinar: Just Pursuit – A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness with Laura Coates
Online Via Zoom NY, United States“A firsthand, eye-opening story of a prosecutor that exposes the devastating criminal punishment system. Laura Coates bleeds for justice on the page.” —Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist. When Laura Coates joined the Department of Justice as a prosecutor, she wanted to advocate for the […]
METRO Webinar: Facebook Going Meta – The Future for Online Interaction and What to Do About It
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesFacebook broke news in 2021 that it is creating an umbrella company through which it is poised to create a virtual reality. Living life through avatars in a new world has long been the subject of science fiction; now, though, technology is moving closer to making virtual reality, well... a reality. Join our data privacy […]
RRLC Webinar: New and Upcoming Kids Books
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesHundreds of new books are published every month. But who has the time to read so many books? In the form of book talks, Charlie Kelly will highlight new and upcoming culturally relevant kids books which include picture books, chapter books, novels, graphic novels, poetry, biography, and nonfiction titles. Ms. Kelly has attended webinars by […]
The CLRC Sustainability SIG Presents: Introduction to Drawdown
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesWebinar Description: Climate change is upon us and presents the biggest challenge of our time. Our survival and the survival of future generations on this planet depends on finding solutions to the full range of issues that climate change affects. Drawdown, an international project, seeks to find those solutions. While it is impossible to cover […]
LILRC Webinar: Footprints – Jewish Books Through Time and Place – A Digital Humanities Project
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesFootprints:Jewish Books Through Time and Place is a project dedicated to collecting information about individual copies of Jewish books printed between 1450 and 1800. Based on a range of material sources and through a wide network of collaborators and contributors, Footprints collects and aggregates information about the movement of copies of Jewish books printed in […]
METRO Webinar: Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library Professionals, Part 2 – Exceptions and Limitations
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesCopyright affects so much of the creative content we interact with and create... not just a painting we may see in a museum or a novel we are reading, but also the emails we ourselves send, the blogs and articles we write, and the photos we take and post. "Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library […]