Continuing Education
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 […]
Webinar: Blogging as Librarians
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesWebinar Description: Are you interested in learning how to share your experiences as a library staff member in a creative and powerful way? Come join a panel discussion with three contributors to the ACRLog as we discuss the benefits of blogging! Three key takeaways will be: Best & worst practices for blogging Recommended tech, services, […]
LILRC Webinar: Coffee+Conversation: Social Media Librarians Virtual Meetup
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesJoin your fellow social media librarians for our next virtual meet up. We will have an open conversation about new and ongoing challenges. All are welcome! ~~~~~~~~~ This program will not be recorded
METRO Webinar: In an Ever-Expanding Library, Using Decentralized Storage to Keep Your Materials Safe
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesAbout This Session Libraries understand the headache of storing materials. How do you create room for an ever-expanding collection? What if you don’t want to weed materials to make room? Enter decentralized storage—a network of P-2-P servers that store materials across a global network in exchange for cryptocurrency. What problems does this solve? What problems […]