Events at NFLS

Events at NFLS - Spring 2012

The "What's Going On - Spring 2012" calendar (PDF) - list of all NFLS events (meetings and classes)
Online Calendar of NFLS Events
NFLS Continuing Education (CE) | Other CE Opportunities
Class recordings & handouts: 2012 posted below | Pre-2012

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2012 Upcoming Classes - full descriptions and registration below:
[printable copy here]

Excelling @ Email (webinar) - Wed., Jan. 11: 1pm | Webinar recording
20 Things You Can Do To Make Your Library Website Better Right Now (webinar) - Tue., Jan. 17: 10am | Webinar recording
Perfecting Your Presentations (webinar) - Thurs., Jan. 26: 1pm | Webinar recording
Project Compass Training (workshop) - Wed., Feb. 8: 1-4pm @ NFLS mtg. room
Summer Library Program Planning Workshop: Dream Big! (workshop) - Thurs., Feb. 16: 8:30–3pm @ GB Botanical Garden
Library Signage: What Message Are We Sending Our Patrons? (workshop) - Tue., Feb. 21: 9:30am–11:30am @ NFLS mtg. room
DIY Advocacy (workshop) - Tue., Feb. 21: 1-4pm @ NFLS mtg. room
Future of Libraries (webinar) - Tue., Feb. 28: 2pm
Ins and Outs on Chapter 43 (workshop) - Wed., March 7: 1-4pm @ NFLS mtg. room
CCBC Presentation (workshop) - Wed., April 18: 9am-4pm @ Kress Family Lib., De Pere
The Low-Down on Libraries “Down Under” (webinar) - Tue., April 24: 2pm
Taking and Posting Digital Photos @ Your Library (workshop) - Tue., May 1: 9:30am–12pm @ NFLS mtg. room
Grant Writing 101: Developing Winning Proposals (webinar) - Thurs., May 17: 1pm

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Excelling @ Email (webinar)
Wednesday, January 11: 1 pm
Presented by: Jean Anderson, Continuing Education & Multitype Coordinator,
South Central Library System.

Did you know that roughly 150 billion emails are sent on a daily basis? How
many of these emails are in your in-box? Do you find yourself checking email
often throughout the day? Is your workday governed by what comes in your
email?

This webinar will help you excel at email by covering:

- Using filters, tags, labels, and other tools in your email program
- Five steps to process your email
- Tips to organize the email your save or archive

Join us for this fun webinar where you will learn how to conquer your email inbox!

This webinar is worth 1 CE credit.

Webinar recording

NFLS CE Activity Report Form: Excelling @ Email

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20 Things You Can Do To Make Your Library Website
Better Right Now (webinar)
Tuesday, January 17: 10 am
Presented by: Laura Solomon, Library Services Manager, Ohio Public Library
Information Network. Co-sponsored with the South Central Library System.

Let's face it--we can't always overhaul our library's entire website. Sometimes,
we just need ways to improve on what we have, due to cost, expertise or
political barriers. There are lots of things you can do with very little to improve
your library's site. Some are small, some are bigger, but all can make your site
better for your visitors.

Get some quick and practical ideas about potential ways to polish your site
without busting your library's budget or eating up tons of staff time.

This webinar is worth 1 CE credit.

Webinar recording

NFLS CE Activity Report Form: Twenty Things to Improve Websites

Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS is the Library Services Manager for the Ohio Public
Library Information Network and the former Web Applications Manager for the
Cleveland Public Library. She has been doing web development and design for
over twelve years, in both public libraries and as an independent consultant.
She also authored a statewide website usability study in 2004 that evaluated
the site of every public library in Ohio. She specializes in developing with Drupal,
as well as in web code and accessibility standards. She is a 2010 Library Journal
Mover & Shaker. Her book Doing Social Media So It Matters: A Librarian’s Guide
was published in late 2010. As a former children’s librarian, she enjoys bringing
the “fun of technology” to audiences and in giving libraries the tools they need
to better serve the virtual customer.

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Perfecting Your Presentations (webinar)
Thursday, January 26: 1 pm
Presented by: Jamie Matczak, Continuing Education Coordinator, NFLS

We are all called on to “present” at some point in our jobs. Whether you are
communicating information in front of your library board or training a group of
patrons, solid presentation skills are essential. Are you unsure how to organize
what you want to say? Are you debating what information should be included?
When should handouts be “handed out?” Learn tips and tricks on presenting
like a pro!

This webinar will cover:

- 8 Steps to Powerful, Oral Presentations
- 9 Techniques for Maintaining Audience Attention
- 10 Ways to Organize Presentations
- Building Audience Rapport
- Polishing your Delivery
- Planning Visual Aids and Handouts

This webinar is worth 1 CE credit.

Webinar recording

NFLS CE Activity Report Form: Perfecting Your Presentations

Jamie Matczak is the continuing education, youth, public information and
NEWIL coordinator for the Nicolet Federated Library System in Green Bay,
as well as an adjunct instructor for Lakeland College. Her “presentation”
experience includes K-12 substitute teaching, fitness instructing, library
trainings, reading at church and the ability to entertain her nieces and
nephewsfor hours at a time.

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Project Compass Training (workshop)
Wednesday, February 8: 1-4 pm
NFLS Meeting Room
Presented by: Jamie Matczak, Continuing Education Coordinator, NFLS

Libraries have all been providing workforce recovery services for several years,
and this need will continue. What services is your library already providing to
current job seekers? What else could your library offer? Is your community
aware of the services available? Who are natural partners in your community
to assist you? What does it mean to be a 21st Century job seeker?

As part of a nation-wide initiative, this workshop will answer these questions
and more as you take this opportunity to reevaluate and repackage your library
services for job seekers. You will gain new ideas from workshop colleagues, as
well as librarians across the nation. You will go back to your library with new pers-
pectives and energy for providing workforce recovery services for your library patrons!

This workshop is worth 3 CE credits.

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Summer Library Program Planning Workshop: Dream Big!
Thursday, February 16 8:30am– 3pm
Green Bay Botanical Garden
Presented by: Patti Sinclair

We’re going to “Dream Big” this year at the beautiful Green Bay Botanical Garden!
Former children's librarian and the editor who brings creative energy to the
Consortium's SLP manual, Patti Sinclair will introduce workshop participants to
craft and program ideas that will encourage kids to take time next summer to
create and read at your library! Ideas, fun, door prizes and laughter will be in abundance!

This workshop is worth 4.5 CE credits.

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Library Signage: What Message Are We Sending Our Patrons? (Workshop)
Tuesday, February 21: 9:30am–11:30am
NFLS Meeting Room
Presented by: Gail Santy, Central Kansas Library System, Reference & Outreach Services

Merely adequate signage identifies the resources in your library and tells people
what they can and can’t do. Great signage communicates your competence,
understanding and care for the people using your library.

Gail will lead you through deciphering what constitutes a good sign and how to
send the right message to your patrons. She will show practical, affordable ideas
for do-it-yourself signs on a very low budget.

This workshop is worth 2.5 CE credits.

Gail Santy is a consultant and department head of Outreach Services with
the Central Kansas Library System. Like most librarians, she wears many
hats: reference, collection management, marketing, outreach, advocacy,
and cheerleading. At age three, she knew she wanted to be a “library lady.”
Gail worked as a German and Russian translator in Military Intelligence for nine
years and raised three sons prior to attending and graduating from San Jose
State University with her MLIS in 2007. She has lived on five continents and is
now very happy to call Kansas her home.

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DIY Advocacy (Workshop)
Tuesday, February 21: 1 -4 pm
NFLS Meeting Room
Presented by: Gail Santy, Central Kansas Library System, Reference & Outreach Services

Do It Yourself Advocacy is a continual, grassroots advocacy campaign concentrating
on establishing relationships, creating a standard of excellence, working with an acute
focus, and using a combination of methods, technology and social networking tools.
A well-planned DIY Advocacy campaign will be unexpected, unconventional, and interactive.

This workshop will focus on putting theory into practice. Using the ALA Library
Advocate’s Handbook as a guideline, participants will leave the session with a
toolkit and practical, do-able, inexpensive ideas they can put into practice
immediately and sustain throughout the year. You will gain practical tools for
beginning an advocacy campaign or take your current practices to the next level!

This workshop is worth 3 CE credits.

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Future of Libraries (webinar)
Tuesday, February 28: 2 pm
Presented by: Sarah Houghton, Assistant Director, San Rafael Public Library,
San Rafael, CA. Co-sponsored with OWLS

After two decades of continuous library technology increases and a budget crisis
that has affected nearly every library in the world, we are left with the question:
what will the library of the future look like? We have seen huge cuts in expensive
brick and mortar spaces and collections, in-person services and programming, and
other face-to-face library services. At the same time, we are finally realizing the
high return on investment for library web, mobile, hardware, and software services.
The budget crisis may force us to face our inefficiencies and drastically re-engineer
our services and the way we provide those services to our customers. The legacy
system is burning down all around us. What will emerge from the ashes?

This webinar is worth 1 CE credit.

Sarah Houghton is the Acting Director at the San Rafael Public Library and is best
known for her blog: Librarian in Black. She was named a 2009 Library Journal Mover
& Shaker as a Trendspotter. She speaks internationally at online and realspace events
for libraries and other institutions. Sarah received her MLIS from the University of
Illinois-Urbana Champaign and an MA in Irish Literature from Washington State University.

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Ins and Outs on Chapter 43 (Workshop)
Wednesday, March 7: 1- 4 pm
NFLS Meeting Room
Presented by: Paul Nelson

In 2012, the Division for Libraries Technology and Community plans to convene
a task force to review statutory requirements for library systems, specifically
with an eye toward making them contemporary with the issues facing libraries
and their patrons. The task force will develop recommendations by early fall.

This workshop will help you to identify and understand the current statutory
requirements of Chapter 43 as they relate not just to library systems but to
library development and governance in general.

This workshop is worth 3 CE credits.

Paul Nelson is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UW-Madison
School of Library and Information Studies. He served as Director of the
Middleton Public Library for 22 years and has been active in library legislative
activities for the past 20 years.

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CCBC Presentation (Workshop)
Wednesday, April 18:
Kress Family Branch Library: De Pere, WI
Presented by: CCBC Staff

Schedule:
9-9:30 am: Book browsing
9:30-11:45: Choices presentation, Books Birth- Grade 12
11:45-1: Break/Browsing
1-2:30 pm: Discussion
2:30-3 Browsing

The Children’s Cooperative Book Center will talk about birth-grade 12 books
from the “Choices 2012” publication in the morning. The afternoon session
will consist of a discussion on book selection and evaluation.

This workshop is worth (TBA) CE credit.

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The Low-Down on Libraries “Down Under” (webinar)
Tuesday, April 24: 2 pm
Presented by: Ryan Siriwardene, Library Officer, RMIT University

Curious about what kinds of library services are offered halfway around the globe?
Are they offering Ebooks? Facing budget cuts? Performing storytimes? Ryan Siriwardene,
Library Officer at RMIT University in Melbourne, will present a live webinar on academic
and public library differences and similarities in the land “Down Under.” (Yes, he will be
presenting at 5 am HIS time).

This webinar is worth 1 CE credit.

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Taking and Posting Digital Photos @ Your Library (Workshop)
Tuesday, May 1: 9:30 am – 12 pm
NFLS Meeting Room
Presented by: Jeff Dawson, Director, Lester Public Library

Jeff Dawson is not a professional photographer. He is a library director with
a photographic eye. Join Jeff for a hands-on learning experience; shooting
interesting digital photos of your library and community. Explore what makes
a successful photograph. Connect with your community by sharing photos via
online social media. Discover ways to incorporate your photos into posters,
books and other marketing materials. Bring your digital camera for an interactive
session of point and shoot.

This workshop is worth 2.5 CE credits.

Jeff Dawson has over 23 years of library experience in a variety of libraries and
levels of responsibility. Jeff worked in academic libraries in Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and
Arizona. From 2000 to 2007 Jeff served at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public
Library, Topeka, Kansas, in several capacities, including Reference Librarian, Business
Librarian, Adult Services Supervisor and finally Manager of Youth Services and Bookmobile.
Jeff’s exploration into digital photography, social software and Internet marketing
began in Two Rivers, Wisconsin as Lester Public Library Director in March 2007.

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Grant Writing 101: Developing Winning Proposals (Webinar)
Thursday, May 17: 1 pm
Presented by: Erica Reynolds, Partnership Development, BiblioCommons

Learn tips for finding the right funding opportunities, tricks of professional grant
writers, and the secrets to successful grant writing that will garner your organization
the funds to help you attain your goals and improve your communities.

This webinar is worth 1 CE credit.

As a librarian and research administrator, Erica Reynolds is the former Director
of PreAward Services at University of Missouri-Kansas City and spent over 10
years working in academic, special and public libraries. Along with serving as
the project director for a major federal grant encouraging partnerships among
public libraries, museums and public broadcasting, Erica specializes in user
experience, community partnerships, and Web development. Erica has recently
joined the team at BiblioCommons, a software company providing integrated
online discovery and web software solutions for public libraries including a next
generation web catalog, Mobile suite, and CMS options.

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