Category Archives: Event

Summer Reading- FREE Webinar from LearningAlly

Join the conversation about summer reading and its importance in helping students maintain progress and return to school in the fall confident and prepared. Come with your questions for our expert panel and hear more about:

  • • Best practices and research on summer reading from NSLA
  • • How to motivate struggling readers from author of Raising Passionate Readers
  • • Real-life methods from teachers currently using audiobooks with students
  • • Quick tips for sharing Learning Ally at-home access with parents
  • • Creating daily reading habits in students with print-based disabilities

LearningAlly is a national non-profit dedicated to helping blind, visually impaired and dyslexic students succeed in education. 

To Register, click HERE.

National Library of Medicine Resources- FREE Webinar

Focus on NLM Resources: HealthReach
Presenter:  Laura Bartlett / Outreach and Special Populations Branch, National Library of Medicine
Date / Time:  May 7, 2015 / Noon – 1 pm (ET)
Online / No Registration Required
Summary:
HealthReach is a resource of quality multilingual, multicultural public health information for those working with, or providing care to, individuals with limited English proficiency.
Resources include:
  • Health education materials in various languages and formats (brochures, fact sheets, videos)
  • Provider tools (including best practices, cultural information, and effective use of interpreters)
  • Special collections on Emergency and Disaster, Women’s Health, and Mental Health
During the presentation the site will briefly be demonstrated. New initiatives, such as the funding and acquisition of new materials, will be discussed.

 

Community Engagement and Assessment: NY 3Rs FREE Webinar

Date:  June 11, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. EDT
Program: Community Engagement and Assessment with Susan Currie, Director, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY.
This is a “the nuts and bolts of assessment” webinar that describes how one library developed a community engagement process based on data collected, benchmarking, perception surveys; a community based “Blue Ribbon Panel”, data visualization, and developed community education materials as well as developed a template for a strategic decision timeline and key stakeholder analysis.
  • Identify and utilize a variety of local assessment tools that may be used in conjunction with state and national resources.
  • Describe a current and ongoing example of data collection and assessment for a community engagement initiative.
  • Provide a template of how to present information gathered to represent and communicate the value and impact of the library to funding sources and the community.
  • Understand how to utilize data gathered to develop strategies for going forward.