Category Archives: Continuing Education

Workforce Literacy: Supporting Job Seekers in Your Community FREE Webinar

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 * 2 pm Eastern * 60 min

Registration: http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/workforce-literacy-supporting-job-seekers.html

As job seekers of all kinds continue to come to the library for resources and support, libraries continue to find new ways to respond to this essential community need. Workforce literacy impacts a variety of patrons, including ex-offenders reentering the workforce, small businesses looking to grow, young first time job seekers, military personnel and veterans, and older adults seeking new skills to stay in the workforce. Work SC brings a comprehensive, yet accessible, set of tools to South Carolina residents through the State Library, and Jason played no small part in making it happen. Find out how your library, large or small, can adapt these service models and partnerships to provide the resources and support your local community needs to thrive in today’s workforce.

Presented by: Jason Broughton, Outreach Coordinator, South Carolina State Library, and 2015 Library Journal Mover & Shaker

Can’t attend the live session? Don’t worry. All webinars are archived and included in the WebJunction course catalog so you can watch when your schedule permits and receive a certificate of attendance.

Building a Collection for Youth with Disabilities- Webinar

One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Building a Collection for Youth with Disabilities

Gain a basic understanding of some of the more common disabilities and disorders that children in your community may have (i.e. Down syndrome, ADHD, autism, dyslexia) and what materials your library can provide to support those families better.

Learning Outcomes:

  • To have a working knowledge of common neurodevelopmental disorders, learning disorders, and physical disabilities.
  • To identify materials appropriate for 6 types of disabilities that can be part of a circulating collection.
  • To reach out and collaborate with their community’s special education staff and special needs organizations
  • To obtain the necessary funding, package the non-print materials, and market the collection to the community.

Read more. Register.

Registration fees:

$40 for ASCLA members

$50 for ALA members

$65 for non-ALA members

$45 for ALA student members and retired members

Group Rates

    $99 single login

$38/person multiple logins. (min. 2 people)

The Reader-Friendly Library: Evaluating the Visitor Experience online course

The Reader-Friendly Library – Evaluating the Visitor Experience.

This course would be of particular benefit to ASCLA members because it will support learners to use the assignments to research the needs of targeted groups of visitors with the aim of increasing the accessibility and inclusiveness of their libraries through practical and achievable steps. In this way the learners who serve particular groups of excluded readers will find the tools of direct and ongoing use to widen access to the library collection. Six weeks of assignments and online interactivity can offer a good introduction observational research and experience in recording and collating the findings. The changes tried out and monitored during this time will of necessity be small-scale and experimental but will offer a sound platform, confidence and skills to take the work further in the future.

Find out how your customers really use your library. Test out objective research methods and versatile tools to make customer-centred changes in your library space.  Read more. Register.