Please check the NEWI list of free webinars to find online continuing education opportunities you may attend from where you are. Most sessions are 60 minutes long, and are provided – at no charge to you – by associations, agencies, companies, and library systems. There’s a lot to choose from, so here’s a sample of topics that may be of interest to you.

Managing stress & building resilience; click title to register:

• Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done  - 10am on Wednesday, June 8
• Beyond Resilience: A New Path to a Strong Culture - 1pm on Wednesday, June 8
• Compassion Resilience: Expectations from Self and Others - 9am on Friday, June 10
• The Relationship Between Personal Stress and Community Resilience - 11am on Monday, June 20
• How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You in the Workplace - 1pm on Tuesday, June 21
• Compassion Resilience: Compassionate Boundary Setting - 9am on Friday, June 24

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); click title to register:

• Inclusive Leadership for Social Impact - 10am on June 2
• Be Intentional, Not Identical: Creating DEI Strategies for the Library That Serves Your Community - 1pm on Tuesday, June 7
• I See a Library! Making Libraries More Accessible to the Visually Impaired - 9am on Wednesday, June 8
• Policies of Yes - 10am on Wednesday, June 8
• Ensuring Accessibility of Information Products and Services - 10am on Wednesday, June 8
• LGBTQ+ 101 - 9am on Tuesday, June 14
• Creating Healthier Productive and More Inclusive Workplaces - 1pm on Tuesday, June 14
• LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion - 9am on Tuesday, June 21

A sample of webinars on other topics; click title to register:

• Supporting Families and Young Children in Times of Fear and Anxiety - 1pm on Wednesday, June 1
• Info Lit 101 Part 3: Misinformation and Disinformation - 3pm on Thursday, June 2
• Instagram Basics for Libraries - 1pm on Wednesday, June 8
• How to Turn Real Events into Fantastic Fiction - 6pm on Monday, June 20
• From Numbers to Narrative: Getting from Data to a Visual Story - Noon on Wednesday, June 22
• Am I Doing This Right? Advice for First Time Managers - 1pm on Wednesday, June 22
• Classic Picture Books are Boring and What You Should Read in Storytime Instead - 1pm on Wednesday, June 29

Nicolet Federated Library System (NFLS) offered Compassion Resilience Toolkit training for member libraries' staff in April.

The Compassion Resilience Toolkit offers information, activities, and resources for leadership and staff to understand, recognize, and minimize the experience of compassion fatigue, and to increase compassion resilience. The training also provided guidance on how to create cultural agreements to foster positive behavior and accountability within the organization.​

Participants were able to choose from one of three locations for a full-day training session led by trainers from Rogers Health, Rogers Community Learning and Engagement, and WISE (Wise Initiative for Stigma Elimination).

NFLS was pleased to be able to move the work of Compassion Resilience forward! It is important and timely work. As one of the participants put it, "this was exactly what I needed to be able to continue to love my job."

Here are the headlines from the March 25, 2022 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• Nominate someone for the SSCS Paralibrarian of the Year Award
• June National Pollinator Month Workshops for Public Libraries
• WiLS Ideas to Action Fund application period opens April 11
• Continuing Education:
  • April Webinars from OverDrive
  • Wisconsin Libraries Talk About Race: Sensitive Conversations & Handling Pushback

Here are the headlines from the March 18, 2022 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• NFLS News: March 2022 Newsletter
• National Library Week Programming Award Announced by WLA Outreach Services Roundtable
• Submit your program proposal for SSCS 2022
• Save the Date: WAPL Annual Conference is May 11 - 13

Here are the headlines from the March 11, 2022 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• What’s News
  • National Library Week tools and more from Libraries Transform
• Grant Opportunities
  • Small Dollar, Big Impact Grant
• Library Program Ideas & Resources
  • Sponsored Challenge Announcement from Beanstack
  • Magic Village Shows: Magician & Ventriloquist
• Continuing Education
  • WLA Annual Conference: Call for program proposals
  • ‘Keeping Governance on Track’ webinars March 29 & 31