Continuing Education Archives

This presentation covers topics such as establishing a Friends group, the distinct roles of Friends groups versus Library Boards, and strategies for overcoming challenges like differing expectations and conflicts. You'll also learn about setting boundaries, improving communication, and recruiting members to ensure long-term success.

Mark McCarthy, Lead Accessibility Engineer and IT Accessibility Liaison at the University of Illinois, gave expert advice on the specific challenges and concerns brought by attendees.

This session provides a brief overview of the current landscape of mis/disinformation and of the human and tech-based options for combatting it. It then takes a deeper dive into the role libraries can play by highlighting those research-based skills and literacies and discussing how to develop and facilitate engaging and effective programming on the topic.

This session covers types of children’s material with a focus on cataloging children’s literature and non-fiction. Tips for evaluating records, assigning Dewey and LC call numbers, and local fields of interest to children’s materials such as award winners are discussed. Also covered are strategies for managing and organizing children’s collections to enhance accessibility and discoverability.
 

Libraries are seeing an unprecedented number of book challenges and attacks on our nation's libraries. Amanda Jones – a school librarian from Louisiana and author of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America – talks about her journey from being the target of a harassment campaign to finding the positives and deciding to fight back.