Continuing Education
SCRLC Webinar: Raising Awareness, Eliminating Barriers, Changing Culture – Making the Arts more Accessible and Inclusive Online and Off
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesGaelynn Lea will share her personal experience of living, learning, loving, and working as a touring artist with a disability. She will discuss the barriers disabled artists and audience members still face and highlight activism and social efforts that can help further the goal of equality for all. Gaelynn will discuss why disability education, coupled […]
WNYLRC Webinar: Grave Matters Symposium – Exploring WNY’s Diverse Cemeteries
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesJoin us as we explore the diverse histories of Western New York cemeteries and the communities they belong to. Registration is required. Registrants will receive a link to the webinar one day prior to the event. Itinerary 10 - 10:15 am: Opening remarks 10:15 - 11:15 am: Jim Boles - "The Niagara County, NY Poorhouse […]
Webinar: Social Media 101
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesWebinar Description: Great, your library has decided to step into the world of social media! Now, what? This one-hour webinar will start you on your way to promoting, posting, tweeting, friending and trending. Learn social media basics, beginner best practices, management and policy tips, audience cultivation techniques, and some best practices around social media. About […]
METRO Webinar: Ethics of the Decentralized Web & Uses for the Law, Journalism, and Humanitarian Work
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesWeb 1.0 and 2.0 started out full of idealism, too. What is to prevent the decentralized web from being corrupted by profit, market domination, and bad actors? What is the normative or social layer we need to build alongside the tech? This event is part of a series of workshops presented by Metropolitan New York […]
LILRC Webinar: The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections: A Novel – With Author Eva Jurczyk
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesPlease join LILRC to meet librarian and author Eva Jurczyk and hear her discuss her acclaimed mystery novel, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (Poisoned Pen Press, 2022). “Toronto librarian Jurczyk’s first novel is a valentine to librarians that doesn’t shy away from their dark sides.” Kirkus. “The Department of Rare Books and […]
PILLARS Symposium 2022 – Accessibility in Education
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesThe PILLARS Symposium 2022 will take place on one day this year on July 13, 2022. This year's topic: Accessibility in Education Featured speaker: Judith Heumann Link to more information.
SCRLC Webinar: Basic Health Reference and MedlinePlus
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesDescription: This one-hour webinar will provide an overview of the resources available on MedlinePlus, go over basic navigation on MedlinePlus, and will touch on basic health reference and other helpful resources to support your work. This project is funded by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under […]
LILRC Webinar: Drive Your Library’s Marketing Decisions with Market Research
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesMany library workers have the best of intentions. They think they know their users very well, but they don't. Many spend hours promoting events and programs, services, and resources, but there are so many "no shows," or the services being promoted are not being used. This is simply because many library workers become heavily involved […]
ESLN Webinar: Ready, Set, Policy! Using the 2022 “Collection Management” Guide
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesPresenter: Stephanie Cole Adams Based on requests from public libraries across the state, ESLN and PULISDO partnered on the creation of an annotated "2022 Public Library Collection Management Policy Template & Guide." Join us for this 1-hour session on using this resource to update or adopt policies to be ready for materials challenges...and more. We […]
NNYLN Webinar: 404 Page Not Found! and the Rotting of the Internet
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesThe Internet is rotting! Every day millions of links from websites, PDFs, and search engine results become broken un-resolving 404 messages. This isn’t a new problem. The Internet has always been a sea of websites that come and go as servers age, businesses change priorities and new information arises. Our dependence on access to information […]