Submit by March 8, 2016
Access the online course submission form here.
Download this PDF of the online course form to help you prepare your submission.
ASCLA invites ALA members who are subject matter experts and experienced librarians with knowledge of interest to ASCLA members, to submit proposals for ASCLA online learning to be presented between April 2016 and August 2016, as a part of ASCLA’s outstanding online learning offerings. See the list of suggested hot topics below. All proposals must be submitted electronically.
ASCLA members include, but are not limited to:
- Library staff providing services to special populations, including library users with disabilities and adults and youth who are incarcerated or detained
- Independent librarians and consultants
- State libraries and their employees
- Public libraries serving or working with the populations above
- Library networks and cooperatives
What courses are we currently offering? Check them out at the ASCLA online learning webpage.
Webinar presenters and online learning instructors are compensated for their work and will receive training and support for Adobe Connect, the webinar technology platform used by the division.
Proposal topics for courses and webinars may include, but are not limited to the following:
- ADA updates for libraries
- Assessing accessibility knowledge
- Basics and best practices for prison/jail libraries
- Basics of running a hospital/medical library
- Benchmarks and evaluation
- Budgeting for the first time manager
- Collaborative digitization
- Adult programming in correctional libraries
- Correctional/prison librarianship 101
- Creating training for patrons who use accessibility tools
- Data analysis and assessment
- Designing effective surveys
- E-books and cooperatives – best practices
- Future trends in library service
- Grants: how to find grant funding and write your proposal
- Helping library users with learning disabilities
- How to be a consultant
- How to be a futurist
- How to deliver online training
- How to hire a library consultant
- Innovative service ideas for library cooperatives
- Law librarianship for correctional librarians
- Library cooperatives: basics of managing services
- Low-literacy adults
- Marketing library services to special needs populations
- Marketing on a shoestring budget
- Mobile and emerging technologies for those with special needs, including apps and ipads
- Nonprofit leadership
- Outcomes-based education
- Outreach to visually or physically handicapped populations
- Partnering with community organizations
- Serving library patrons with cognitive or mental impairments
- Standards and guidelines to improve library services
- Training staff to serve library users with disabilities
- Utilizing focus groups to prioritize services for people with disabilities
- Working with refugees
Questions about submissions or about ASCLA’s online learning programs should be sent to Andrea Hill, ASCLA web manager and primary online learning contact at ahill@ala.org