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Leading From Any Position

If you’ve never had a chance to do a workshop with Becky and John, here’s your chance.  They are amazing, inspiring, and engaging.

Leading From Any Position: Influencing Library Effectiveness and Responsiveness

Instructors:  Becky Schreiber and John Shannon

Dates and Locations:      April 22-23, 2013 at the Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza

April 25-26, 2013 at the Doubletree Hotel Ontario Airport

For more information and to register for this course:  Click the link to Online Registration at:

http://infopeople.org/training/leading-any-position-influencing-library-effectiveness-and-responsiveness

Fee:  $75 for those in the California library community

Special Note Regarding Fee: Thanks to the generous support of the California State Library, the $75 fee for this workshop covers not only two days of training, but also meals for those days and one night in the hotel where the workshop is held. It also covers the one-day follow-up session, including continental breakfast and lunch on that day. In other words, this is a real bargain! Due to the special funding, registration is limited to the California library community.

Leading From Any Position is a workshop developed by Becky Schreiber and John Shannon of Schreiber Shannon Associates to give you the knowledge and skills to analyze work processes, make data based decisions, and facilitate more effective meetings – from any position in the library. We will provide strategies for helping your library be more agile in responding to user needs by creating an organizational culture of exploration and knowledge sharing.

Some of the benefits of coming to LFAP:

•     You will be able to steer the direction of your work instead of being at the mercy of the usual distractions, inefficiencies, and disconnections.

•     You’ll have more influence and have less frustration when you clarify individual work priorities within the context of the system’s priorities.

•     Your credibility will expand when you start supporting your opinions with data, building the capacity of your work team to study an issue, build data, and make informed decisions to move into the future.

•     You will enhance your meetings when you learn to be a better team member, facilitating decision-making even when you are not in charge.

•     You will improve your library’s culture starting from your own position, by changing your behavior and holding others accountable in diplomatic and effective ways.

Who Should Attend:  As its title implies, LFAP is open to anyone from the California library community with an interest in developing skills to be more influential in their work. We are hoping to attract those of you who are enthusiastic about contributing your best to your library, but who may have met obstacles in that effort. This workshop is also appropriate for library business managers, procurement officers, public information officers, systems staff, facilities managers or anyone else on staff who wants to improve the organizational culture through their own initiative.

If you have questions about registration, please contact Gini Ambrosino, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 916-690-6595.

How to Fail at Social Media (Webinar)

How to Fail at Social Media (and How to Get it Right) presented by Laura Solomon.
Wednesday, March 20th at 12 Noon, Pacific Time

Lots of experts will tell you how to succeed at social media, but very few will lay out a clear path to failure. In this webinar, you will learn what the most common points of failure are for libraries, and why libraries often aren’t getting what they want out of this medium. You’ll also see real-world examples, both good and bad, and find out if your library is on its way to a social media shipwreck –and how you might be able to change course.

Laura Solomon is the author of two books on social media and libraries, and she has seen many libraries enter the social media waters with no idea of how to navigate.

For more information and to participate in the Wednesday, March 20, 2013 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/how_to_fail.

Webinars are free of charge, you can pre-register by clicking on the Join Webinar button now or go directly to the webinar by clicking on Join Webinar within 30 of the start of the event. If you pre-registered you will receive an email with login link and a reminder email the day before the event. If you did not preregister and you can register in the 30 minutes prior to the event and directly enter.
If you are unable to attend the live event, you can access the archived version the day following the webinar.  Check our archive listing at:  http://infopeople.org/training/view/webinar/archived

Simply Irresistible: Storytimes for 2 and Under

An Infopeople online course, February 15, 2013 to March 4, 2013

Do you want to establish your library as a leader in early literacy? Build strong relationships with parents and caregivers of young children? And best of all, do you want to work with a storytime audience that is “simply irresistible”? Join experienced Infopeople Instructor and expert storytime presenter Colleen Willis to learn how to:

  • Prepare and deliver a literacy-based storytime
  • Use “parent patter” during the program
  • Identify and equip an appropriate space
  • Select age-appropriate resources and activities

Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and Infopeople Partners, $150 for all others.

For a complete course description and to register go to http://infopeople.org/training/simply-irresistible-storytimes-2-and-under

 

Basic Graphic Design for Library Staff Webinar

Basic Graphic Design for Library Staff webinar, presented by Stanley Strauss, Wednesday, December 12, 2012, Noon Pacific Time

This webinar will last approximately one hour. Webinars are free of charge.  Please note: we have changed hosting services from WebEx to Adobe Connect, so we advise you to test your browser before the webinar: http://intesolv.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

For more information and to participate in the Wednesday, December 12, 2012 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/basic-graphic-design

For the past 20 years personal computers have allowed us to create publications of all kinds easily without requiring a basic understanding of graphic design. While the results have sometimes been less than successful, there are some quick and simple solutions to making them more attractive and effective.

During this webinar, attendees will learn how use shapes, manipulate images, and work with text and fonts to enhance their basic desktop publishing efforts. We’ll also work together on redesigning examples of library signs to make each more customer friendly.

At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will know:

•The 3 basic elements of graphic design and how they work together.

•The 7 pieces of information that should be on every library publication.

•How to make publications readable and error free.

•How to find and use type fonts effectively.

•How to find, move and manipulate images.

•The relationship between good graphic design and great customer service.

This webinar will be of interest to library staff at all levels tasked with creating promotional materials, designing and producing flyers, brochures, publicity items, and providing input on their library’s website.

If you are unable to attend the live event, you can access the archived version the day following the webinar.  Check our archive listing at:  http://infopeople.org/training/view/webinar/archived

For more webinar tips, see: http://infopeople.org/webinar/tips

Rethinking Reference Online Course

Rethinking Reference Collections

An Infopeople online course, November 6, 2102 to December 10, 2012

Formats for reference resources are evolving and library staff and user expectations are evolving along with them. Are you ready to rethink the purpose and development of your library’s reference collection? Rethinking your collection enables you to suggest changes to reference collection development that better reflect the realities of today’s demand and usage. You’ll be able to make decisions about purchases and policies that help build a reference collection for the future.

In this popular course, you will explore:

  • How reference resources are changing
  • Methods for measuring usage of reference resources
  • Weeding guidelines
  • Collection decisions that meet staff and user needs
  • Ways to promote use of reference materials

Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and Infopeople Partners, $150 for all others.

For a complete course description and to register go to http://infopeople.org/training/rethinking-reference-collections.

 

 

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Career Growth Webinar Coming to a Computer Near You!

Successful Librarians Share Their Stories of Career Growth and Advancement, a webinar with Deb Hunt and David Grossman
Date:  Thursday, September 6, 2012, 12 noon Pacific Time

This webinar will last approximately one hour. Webinars are free of charge.  Please note: we have changed hosting services fromWebEx to Adobe Connect, so we advise you to test your browser before the webinar: http://intesolv.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

For more information and to participate in the Thursday, September 6, 2012 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/librarians-share-their-stories.

  • How are some librarians finding practical ways to cope, successfully navigate, and even thrive in the face of a lingering recession?
  • How can you recognize and avoid the most common mistakes that can determine the difference between success and failure in any career situation?
  • How can you to reinvent yourself and prepare for success in a new career in a very different or less traditional role?
  • What secrets can be learned from successful individuals who have become leaders in the library/information profession?
  • What new career opportunities are possible for you and how can you plan a strategy to pursue something new?

This webinar will assist library staff, both professional and paraprofessional, in understanding the wide range of career opportunities available to them and how to visualize a path to success. A number of successful and unsuccessful stories will be discussed.
Attendees will review and analyze successful and unsuccessful case studies to help them chart a path to career advancement, such as moving into a less traditional library role or making a lateral move into a very different career.  They will also learn how to identify, select and acquire the most relevant “front runner” or leadership “personas” that contribute to professional success in the current climate.

If you are unable to attend the live event, you can access the archived version the day following the webinar.  Check our archive listing at:  http://infopeople.org/training/view/webinar/archived

Open Source Software for your Library

Are you using Open Source software at your library? You may already be blogging with WordPress, creating documents with Open Office, or managing content with Drupal. There are many more Open Source solutions for everyday tasks.

With space still available in this online course, you can join author and self-described “evangelist” Nicole Engard to increase your awareness of how your library can benefit from flexible and affordable Open Source solutions.

Title:  Practical Open Source Software for Libraries (An Infopeople Online Learning Course)

Dates:  Tuesday, May 1, 2012 – Monday, May 28, 2012

Instructor:  Nicole Engard

To register for this course:  Click the link to Online Registration at:

http://infopeople.org/training/practical-open-source-software

Fee:  $75 for those in the California library community and Infopeople Partners, $150 for all others.

With the growing popularity of applications like Koha, Evergreen, Open Office, and Ubuntu, the library community is abuzz about open source software. Open source usually refers to an application whose source code is made available for use, change, or improvement in a public, collaborative manner. More than just programming, open source is about following a philosophy of free distribution and access. The open source world and the library world live by the same principles.

What does open source mean to you and your library? The benefits are immediately evident:

  • More flexibility and freedom than using software purchased with license restrictions
  • More affordable options than other alternatives on the market
  • The ability to provide exceptional service with ever-decreasing budgets

This course will introduce you to what open source is, how easy it is to implement, and how to evaluate open source software options. You’ll be able to separate the facts from misconceptions and come away with a toolbox of over 60 open source applications that you can start using right away at your library.