Below are the headlines from the 06/12/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• Power Up 2021 Conference: Call for Proposals
• Diverse BookFinder's Free Online Collection Analysis Tool
• Palaces for the People / Libraries as Social Infrastructure Discussion: Part 5
• Advancing Equity & Inclusion in the Workplace Symposium
• LearningExpress Library: Virtual Training
• Civic Engagement During the Time of COVID19
• Whose Turn is it Anyway? Online Board Gaming and Libraries
• myLIBRO App Demo Recording
• Positioning the Library for a Post-Pandemic Sustainable Future
  

Below are the headlines from the 06/05/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• Public Libraries Reopening Guide
• Compassionate Accountability: Dealing with Problem Behaviors in the Library
• CARL Training Registration
• NEWI Update: Webinars in June
• Customer Service Online Training, via Ryan Dowd
• Crossroads: REALM Project Updates, Phase 1
• Youth Services Programming Palooza Recording

The latest version of reopening guidelines for public libraries has been released. The Wisconsin Public Libraries Reopening Guide, a collaborative effort between the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and the Wisconsin public library community, provides a process to help libraries develop their own reopening plans.

This reopening guide focuses on the safety of staff and the community and is specific to the needs of libraries and library services during this COVID-19 public health event. The decision about how and when to reopen a library remains a local decision.

> > Read more about Public Libraries Reopening Guide Released

Below is an outline of the June 3, 2020 Crossroads newsletter from WebJunction:

• REALM Project Updates: Test Plan and Preliminary Literature Review Released
• Recent Articles on WebJunction
  • Social Library Collection
  • Thinking Outside: Libraries and Placemaking in Pandemic Times
  • Library Storytimes during COVID-19 – Connecting with Families
• Upcoming Webinars
  • Libraries Prepare to Answer Civil Legal Questions in Times of Crisis (6/11/2020)
  • Getting Started with Virtual Storytimes (6/16/2020)
  • Whose Turn Is It, Anyway? Online Board Gaming and Libraries (7/28/2020)
• Additional Online Learning

Join ALA on Thursday, June 4, 1:00 - 2:15 pm CT for “The Library Community Moving Forward in the New Normal." This free webinar will offer insight and discussion with leaders from state, public, academic, and school libraries on the continued efforts and strategies to reopen library facilities across the country.

​Attendees will benefit from hearing about preliminary results from the recent national “Libraries Respond: COVID-19 Survey,” and have the opportunity to ask questions and compare and contrast planning and guidance across the range of library types to inform your own robust planning and services
responses.
 
Facilitator: Patty Wong, Incoming ALA President-elect, Santa Monica Public Library
 
Speakers:
Ramiro Salazar, PLA President, Director, San Antonio Public Library
Jon Cawthorne, ACRL President-elect, Wayne State University
Mary Keeling, AASL President, Library Services Supervisor, Newport News (Va.) Public Schools
Jake Speer, State Librarian, Indiana State Library
Lucinda Nord, Executive Director, Indiana Library Federation
 
Presented by the American Library Association
Source: "The Library Community Moving Forward in the New Normal", American Library Association, May 15, 2020.
http://www.ala.org/united/forward (Accessed June 1, 2020). Document ID: 747158f3-a22e-4be0-8f40-d5c25c95364c

The call for proposals is now open for Power Up! Power Up is a leadership conference for library youth services managers and staff, and will be held in Madison, Wisconsin on March 25-26, 2021. Proposals are due by August 3, 2020. Submission details and instructions are available at https://go.wisc.edu/power-up-21.

• ​Q&A with Ryan Dowd – 1pm on Thursday, June 4
• Compassionate Accountability: Dealing with Problem Behaviors in the Library – 10am on Thursday, June 11
• Getting Started with Virtual Storytimes – 1pm on Tuesday, June 16
• Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries Mini-Conference – 2 – 5pm on Wednesday, June 17
• 5 Languages of Workplace Appreciation – 1:30pm on Thursday, June 18
• Is Strategic Planning Dead? Preparing for the Future When Tomorrow is Uncertain – 12pm noon on Monday, June 22
• Preparing Your Organization for Your Retirement – 9am on Wednesday, June 24
• Library Services to Latinos & Spanish Speakers – 2pm on Wednesday, June 24

Missed a webinar? It might have been archived, so check NEWI’s list of webinar recordings you can watch for free, anytime.
 
NEWI is a continuing education (CE) partnership of library systems located in North Eastern Wisconsin.  The NEWI website aims to be a central source of CE info for staff working at libraries in four library systems: Manitowoc‐Calumet Library System (MCLS), Nicolet Federated Library System (NFLS), Outagamie Waupaca Library System (OWLS), and Winnefox Library System (WLS).