July 2021 – What’s New for You in Professional Development
How to Build a Virtual Escape Room Thursday, July 8, 1-2 p.m.
Program Description:
In-person library escape rooms were a popular programming trend in the last few years and now is an excellent time to go virtual! Whether you are building a virtual escape room from scratch or want to repurpose your ideas from an in-person program online, virtual escape rooms are a great and interactive way to reach patrons during the pandemic. Creating a virtual escape room is free, easy, and can be tailored to a wide range of libraries and audiences. Participants will learn the steps to build an online escape room for free using Google Forms and best practices for converting an in-person escape room to an online format.
Presenter Bio:
Lauren Clementino is the Training and Volunteer Services Librarian and Interim Reference Supervisor at the Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library, where she has worked for almost six years. In 2019, Lauren and her coworkers planned and facilitated several in-person escape rooms. Last year, after the onset of the pandemic, Lauren began creating virtual escape rooms and accompanying online trivia to engage with patrons remotely.
Share your expertise and experience. The AzLA Professional Development Committee Monthly Webinar Series is back, and we want you. Submit your webinar proposal here. Submissions will be considered on a monthly basis.
The Professional Development Committee wants to add more voices to our group. If you are ready to help shape the direction of AzLA professional development, contact Patty Jimenez at development@azlahistory.org. We are interested in adding librarians from all types of libraries, from all over Arizona.
Want more professional development? Check out the sources below!
$ = This webinar requires a fee
Children and Young Adults
- Jul 1: Creating Anti-Racist Storytimes: Activism, Belonging and Change Worshop $ (ALA)
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Exploring STEAM Concepts through Storytime $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 7: Random House Children’s Books Fall 2021 Preview (Booklist)
- Jul 20: Fall YA Announcements (Booklist)
Information Literacy & Teaching
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Crash Course in Assessing Library Instruction $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Embedded Librarianship in Online Courses $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 8: Online Library Instruction: Best Practices for Live Synchronous Teaching $ (ALA)
- Jul 19/26: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Parts 1 & 2 $ (ALA)
Leadership and Staff Development
- Jul 5-Aug 15: LSSC Elective Competencies: Access Services $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers and Interns $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Business and Professional Writing for Librarians $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Allyship, Anti-Oppression Practices and Building Inclusive Libraries $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Fundamentals of Digital Curation in Libraries, Archives and Museums $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Dewey Decimal Classification $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Implementing and Managing Organizational Change $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 7: Decolonizing the Catalog: Anti-Racist Description Practices $ (ALA)
- Jul 8: Reading Graphic: Part One (Booklist)
- Jul 29: Graphic Design Skills for All Library Employees Workshop $ (ALA)
Library Outreach, Marketing and Advocacy
- Jul 15: Executive Directors Chat: Strategic Planning and Outreach $ (Techsoup)
- Jul 20-Aug 16: Career Services Programs for Community-Minded Libraries $ (Infopeople)
Technology & Tech Services
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Microsoft Access for Libraries $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 5-Aug 1: The SPARQL Fundamentals: The Semantic Web in Action $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Authority Control $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Controlled Vocabularies and Taxonomies $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 7: Technology Ownership: Examining the Total Cost (Arizona State Library
User Services
- Jul 5-Aug 1: Accessibility from Legal Compliance to Disability Justice $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 5-Aug 1:Gaming in Libraries $ (Library Juice Academy)
- Jul 14: The New Social Media World and the Library (Arizona State Library)
- Jul 21: Libraries for All: Serving People with Disabilities at your Library (Arizona State Library)
- Jul 27: Discovering Family History in Library Collections, Part 1 $ (ALA)
- Jul 28: Sort it Out! Using In-House Classification Systems to Maximize Comics and Graphic Novels (Arizona State Library)
For a complete listing of webinars, see below:
AZ State Library [for a complete listing]
American Association of School Librarians [for a complete listing]
American Library Association [For a comprehensive listing see ALA’s E-Learning Catalog]
Booklist [Check out the webinar archives for past classes]
EBSCO has hundreds of webinars in their training center to choose from each month.
Infopeople [For a comprehensive listing see all upcoming training | archived webinars | on demand–Niche Academy Classes]
Infopeople offers a variety of webinars and self-paced online courses on topics of high interest for library staff. Webinars are free, and the Arizona State Library has purchased a block of registrations for the online courses. Arizona library staff may register for courses by sending an email to Ann Marie Creegan at acreegan@azlibrary.gov, containing:
- The course name and dates
- Registrant’s name
- Registrant’s email
- Library name
- Library address
- Library phone number
Library Journal: Online Courses | All Webcasts | School Library Journal Webcasts
Library Juice Academy: Online Courses
Arizona library staff may register for courses by sending an email to Ann Marie Creegan at acreegan@azlibrary.gov, containing:
- The course name and dates
- Registrant’s name
- Registrant’s email
- Library name
- Library address
- Library phone number
Library Juice Academy offers a range of online professional development workshops for librarians and other library staff, focusing on practical topics to build new skills. Workshops are taught asynchronously, so you can participate as your own schedule allows, within a four or six-week period.
Medical Library Association
PCI: The Arizona State Library now has a subscription to PCI Webinars, giving Arizona library staff access to one live webinar a week and to the webinar archives. PCI Webinars offers webinars specifically for library staff. Email Ann Marie Creegan at acreegan@azlibrary.gov to register.
Public Library Association – On Demand Webinars
Archived Webinars by Topic:
- Administration/Leadership
- Adult Services
- Advocacy/Marketing
- Assessment/Evaluation
- Buildings/Facilities
- Collection Development/Readers’ Advisory
- Customer Service/Staff Development
- Literacy
- Technology
- Youth Services
TechSoup for Libraries [check here for updates]
WebJunction: Search Course Catalog Browse all Webinar Recordings
Access to WebJunction’s self-paced online library courses is now available and free to all library staff members. Simply create an account at http://learn.webjunction.org and then explore the catalog of library-focused courses and archived webinars. Certificates of completion will be available to you for any of the courses or archived webinars you complete from the catalog.
YALSA: Registration | Upcoming Live Webinars | Free Competencies Webinars | Webinars-on-Demand
The Arizona State Library has purchased a subscription for Arizona Library staff to access the YALSA member or subscriber only webinars. Email Email Ann Marie Creegan at acreegan@azlibrary.gov for access.
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