Upcoming Professional Development
Build Your Professional Brand and Get Published by Barbara Alvarez Tuesday, 9/5/2017 – Friday, 9/29/2017 This course is intended for librarians who want to share their library expertise through publications, including books, magazines, blogs and other media. The content in the course will help librarians develop their personal brand by leveraging their knowledge into writing...
ASCLA Spring 2017 online learning opportunities
4/17/17 [eCourse] Story-a-thon: Creating Community Partnerships to Enhance Access to Literacy Services for Children with Disabilities Learn how to break down the walls of your library/facility to develop community partnerships specific to the disability community. Examine how their library/facility defines outreach, identify their current services for children with disability, how these services can be enhance as...
Marketing and Advocacy: Explaining Libraries to Elected Officials Webinar
Thursday, 11/10/2016 3:00 PM-4:00 PM (Eastern) 2:00 PM-3:00 PM (Central) 1:00 PM-2:00 PM (Mountain) 12:00 PM-1:00 PM (Pacific) Marketing and advocacy go hand-in-hand. Advocacy is telling your library’s story. Those who influence funding for libraries cannot make informed decisions if they do not understand the scope of your mission. Most librarians haven’t practiced the political...
Upcoming Online Professional Development Opportunities
ASCLA offers a variety of professional development opportunities online throughout the year. Currently we are offer two online courses: Improving Library Services to People with Disabilities. Library services to people with disabilities are provided by all levels of library staff. From the part-time aide charging out library materials to the library director determining policies, staff...
ASCLA Webinars–Register Today
New! Understanding Personalities in the Workplace Wednesdays, July 2, 9, and 16th, 2:00 p.m. (CST) Are you an employee? A manager? Do you have a spouse? Children? Friends? Acquaintances? Do you volunteer in an organization? Are you on committees? Do you ever deal with people in any context at all? Of course you do! This...