Wisconsin Trustee Training: August 22-26, 2022

Library board trustees, directors, staff, volunteers, and Friends group members are invited to participate in Trustee Training Week, a series of five webinars taking place August 22 through 26, from 12pm to 1pm daily.

There is no charge to attend, and all webinars will be recorded. Contact hours for continuing education toward public librarian re-certification: 1 per webinar.

Register for each webinar by clicking on the title below. . .

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Monday, August 22
Materials Challenges and Your Library from the Trustee Table
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Regardless of whether or not your library has had a request for reconsideration of library materials, the increase in challenges is dramatic, and quite frankly, upsetting. Becky Spratford, an expert in serving leisure readers through the public library with over 20 years of experience as a locally elected library trustee, Reaching Across Illinois Library System board member, and Illinois Library Association Executive Board member, will walk you through everything you need to do to prepare for a request to ban titles at your library.

From the steps you need to take right now, to how to properly handle a challenge from your seat at the trustee table, Becky will help you to put the emotions aside and protect intellectual freedom.

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Tuesday, August 23
Here to Stay: Recruiting & Retaining Dedicated Library Workers
The highly competitive job market makes it much harder for libraries to attract and keep library staff – including directors. While libraries might struggle to compete with other employers on wage scales, they can create a culture of inclusivity, inspiration, and belonging that appeals to creative and hard-working employees.  

This session will include practical tools for library boards like improving board-director relationships, reviewing job descriptions, and investigating options for improved salaries and benefits, and more to make your library a great place to work and help reduce staff turnover and shortages.

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Wednesday, August 24
Effective & Efficient Meetings: Parliamentary Procedure
Planning great meetings and running them effectively and efficiently is crucial to a strong organization. This webinar will help make parliamentary procedure understandable and useful to you as well as focus on the tools to help you with the meetings you conduct and attend.

After this webinar, the attendees will not only have a better understanding of parliamentary procedure but will have the knowledge and skills to help run an effective meeting.

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Thursday, August 25
Making Sense & Cents of a Library Building Project: the Library Trustee Role
Public libraries around Wisconsin are building, expanding, and/or renovating their spaces. Your Library Director or Building Consultant is recommending to the board the need for additional library space. What is the role of the library board? How can the library board support the project?

John Thompson will share some tips and insights on the library board role, an overview of the process, some of the costs involved, and how potential choices might impact the project and library services.

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Friday, August 26
From Stories to Action: How to Talk about Your Budget to Activate Support and Secure Funding
The core of any library's strategic plan, management plan, or development plan is the organization's own mission, vision, and values system. But very often, the plans describe the “features” of the library, like hours, collections, staffing levels, and facilities rather than the expected or hoped for outcomes. And library leaders are ready to share powerful stories about how the library impacts users, but not often about their own work.

Learn how to talk about your funding in a new way by talking about you, your staff and board, and why you do the work you do.

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All you need too participate in a webinar is:

For the video, either...

• an internet-connected computer; you can test your computer & connection ahead of time, or
• an iOS or Android device; you can download the free Zoom app from the App Store or Google Play ahead of time

For the audio, either...

• earbuds, headphones, or speakers connected to your computer or device, or
• use a telephone or speakerphone to call in (long distance rates apply)

New to webinars?

• As soon as you register for a webinar, a confirmation email will be sent to you from Jean Anderson <no-reply@zoom.us>.
• You'll receive an email reminder prior to the webinar, which will have a link which reads, "Click Here To Join" — this is the link you'll use to connect to the session.
• Before joining a webinar, please close other software or processes on your computer that might compete with your Internet bandwidth. (Programs like automatic updates, instant messaging, email, etc., if running during the webinar, may degrade the quality of the webinar's audio and video.)

The Wisconsin Trustee Training Week webinar series is supported by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) Public Library Development Team with funding support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.