Best Practices from America’s Best Small Libraries - Learn for Free

Library Journal is offering a new webinar series on Best Practices from Small Libraries.  Sign up to take advantage of these great sessions in which winners and runners up from a decade of LJ’s Best Small Libraries in America award, plus other rural and small library voices, will share hands-on, real-world tested expertise. 
 

“Providing exceptional library service on a small library budget and staff size presents special challenges, but also unique opportunities to meet core community needs.” This new webcast series, a combination of live and on-demand presentations, is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The first two sessions are:  Marketing & Outreach for Small Libraries, Tuesday, August 25, 2015, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT and Funding & Fundraising for Small Libraries, Tuesday, September 1, 2015, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT. 

You need not be present to win!  Register for any session you're interested in and you will get an email reminder from Library Journal post-live event when the webcast is archived and available for on-demand viewing at your convenience!

For links to registration information, see Kristi Chadwick’s email on the All Regions list on Friday, August 21, 2015.

10 Ways to Make Your Library Great in 2008

From the WebJunction "Learning Webinars" website:

10 Ways to Make Your Library Great in 2008—via Web 2.0

1/16/08 - 2 - 3 PM ET
As you think about your resolutions for the New Year, why not resolve to make your library a great educational asset within your community? This webinar will show you how to leverage social networking tools such as del.icio.us and Librarything to enable knowledge sharing and create collections of information around professional development. Ten key themes are presented to empower library staff as well as to increase a library's value within the community. Presented by guest speaker Ed Rossman, adult services librarian at Shaker Heights Public Library and author of Castles Against Ignorance: How to Make Libraries Great Educational Environments.

Note that registration for this free webinar is optional. If you wish to register and receive email reminders with instructions for attending, please visit the WebJunction website - http://www.webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=15543