Here is an opportunity to talk with your peers to share ideas, successes and challenges. This meeting will be held through Zoom which is user friendly for all devices. You will receive a link in your confirmation email and a reminder 2 . . .
4.30.2025 - Managing Challenging Interactions with Colleagues and Staff
How do you effectively work with resistant or challenging colleagues or staff members? What do you do if your direct supervisor or other leadership is creating challenges? How do you have difficult conversations at work? This week will focus on . . .
Modeled off the Chicago-area Adult Reading Round Table, the Guided Reading Round Table (GRRT) will lead library staff through an in-depth genre study. Over the course of a year, we will explore historical fiction, with a specific focus on the . . .
5.13.2025 - Google Forms: Gather all the Things for Action
Are you already using Google for email, calendar and shared document functions? Use it to handle purchase requests, suggestions for management, track professional development, and log technology and customer service issues. Create forms on . . .
Here is an opportunity to share your successes and challenges with your peers. You will receive a link in your confirmation email and a reminder 2 hours before the meeting. We hope you will join us. Please send agenda items/questions to Melissa . . .
Here is an opportunity to share your challenges and successes with other staff involved in library outreach. You will receive a link in your confirmation email a reminder 2 hours before the meeting. We hope you will join us. Please send . . .
We are excited to start this new genealogy networking group. Here is an opportunity to share your challenges and successes with your peers. This meeting will be held through Zoom which is user friendly to all devices. You will . . .
Mental Health First Aid is a training course designed to give members of the public key skills to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. Just as CPR training helps a layperson without medical . . .
Join us for networking meeting of special libraries. Come share your successes and challenges with your fellow special libraries colleagues. This will be virtual via Zoom you will receive the link to the meeting 2 hours prior to the . . .
6.12.2025 - Designing for Diversity in Your Library’s Communications
Being intentional and inclusive in the design of your library’s communications, in both physical and digital library spaces, can support and enrich your library’s accessibility, diversity, and equity. The graphics, language, or format . . .
Do you have a makerspace? Are you thinking about creating a makerspace? Here is an opportunity to talk with your peers to share ideas, successes and challenges. This meeting will be held through Zoom which is user friendly for all . . .
6.18.2025 - Quiet Leadership 2.0: Distinguish your leadership capabilities, build confidence, and pathways to find support as a quiet leader
Quiet leadership challenges the extroverted norms and expectations. As an extension of the popular webinar Quiet Leadership, Quiet leadership 2.0 takes it a step further by discussing healthy and successful working environments for the quiet leader. . . .
7.16.2025 - Practical Budget Management: How to Avoid Disaster, Make Smart Moves, Report Responsibly, and Stress Less About your Budget!
Whether you’re a newly minted library staffer responsible for the budget for Summer Reading, a Director concerned with making the most of your budget, or have budgeting responsibilities somewhere in between, budgeting can be intimidating. Join . . .
Modeled off the Chicago-area Adult Reading Round Table, the Guided Reading Round Table (GRRT) will lead library staff through an in-depth genre study. Over the course of a year, we will explore historical fiction, with a specific focus on the . . .
12.2.2025 - Guided Reading Round Table (GRRT): Historical Fantasy
Modeled off the Chicago-area Adult Reading Round Table, the Guided Reading Round Table (GRRT) will lead library staff through an in-depth genre study. Over the course of a year, we will explore historical fiction, with a specific focus on the . . .