Weekly listing sourced primarily from Wyoming State Library Training Calendar with free training online, and free Texas workshops, updated as new events are added. See what’s happening on the CE calendar. Confirm the date and time when you register, or follow links for archive information. Events listed in Central Time
Tuesday, Feb. 16 (1-1:20 p.m.)
Quick Bites – Sibling Care and Teens as FFNs (Colorado State Library)
How often do you see teens caring for younger siblings in your library? Youth caregivers are an often overlooked part of a community’s early childhood landscape. Join Kate to learn more about youth caregivers and how library staff can more effectively support them and the younger siblings in their care.
For more information and to join, visit: https://create.coloradovirtuallibrary.org/calendar/month/2021-02/
Tuesday, Feb. 16 (1-2 p.m.)
Graphic Novel Showcase: Titles for Young Readers Coming this Spring (Booklist)
Graphic novels have been proven to help reluctant readers engage with more books, inspire creativity and imagination, and boost confidence in struggling readers (it’s no wonder we have #ReadGraphic fever)! Join us for our second graphic novel showcase to get the scoop on upcoming graphic novel titles for young readers from Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Tundra Books, and Yen Press! Plus, we’ll hear from author/illustrator Cale Atkinson about a hilarious new book series!
For more information and to register, visit: https://www.booklistonline.com/webinars
Tuesday, Feb. 16 (1-2 p.m.)
Getting a Seat at the Table: Ways to Become Irreplaceable at Your School (Follett)
Join award-winning Media Specialist Carrie Friday as she walks you through different ways you can advocate for school libraries in your own school, your community, at the district level and to anyone else who will listen. In this webinar, Carrie will show you ideas you can immediately implement so that you can change the perception of the library and your position, and start gaining some ground to be a library light for all to see.
For more information and to register, visit: https://www.follettcommunity.com/s/webinars
Tuesday, Feb. 16 (2-2:45 p.m.)
Beyond Virtual Facilitation: How to Maximize Engagement and Tackle Wicked Problems in Your Virtual Meetings (CharityHowTo)
Join us for a hands-on training where you will learn the virtual facilitation tools, tips, and tricks needed to build trust, spark ideas, and foster collaboration in your virtual meetings.
For more information and to register, visit: https://www.charityhowto.com/nonprofit-free-webinars
Wednesday, Feb. 17 (10-10:30 a.m.)
TexShare Vendor Webinar: Women Rock, Celebrating Powerful Women and Mighty Girls
Discover ways librarians and their patrons can use Book Connections to hook, explore, and connect with books about women and girls.
Focus on using Book Connections (Teaching Books)
Audience: K-12/Public Librarians
For more information and to register, visit: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUldumgqT4iH9JPd-zbeiAPVBU5w4hJLUtD
Wednesday, Feb. 17 (10-11 a.m.)
Engagement with Soft Skills: Using Board Games at the Library (Nebraska Library Commission)
For years now employers have identified ‘soft skills’ as one of the largest deficiencies of newly hired employees. These ‘soft skills’ generally encompass communication, critical thinking, leadership, problem solving, and teamwork. All of these can be nurtured and strengthened by playing board games. Libraries of all types strive to engage with their communities. By playing board games both of these two issues can be addressed. Join George Bergstrom, the Southwest Regional Coordinator in the Professional Development Office of the Indiana State Library, to discuss how libraries can help their communities foster these skills.
For more information and to register, visit:http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/scripts/calendar/eventlist.asp?Mode=ALL
Wednesday, Feb. 17 (12-12:45 p.m.)
Boards & Asking Styles: A Roadmap to Success (CharityHowTo)
Join Brian Saber to learn how to use his iconic Asking Styles to improve your board’s governance and ability to fundraise. Learn the personality of your board and how it is impacting board meetings (especially today’s virtual ones), leadership, strategic planning and fundraising. Understanding your board members’ Styles will make your board stronger in every way.
For more information and to register, visit: https://www.charityhowto.com/nonprofit-free-webinars
Wednesday, Feb. 17 (12-1:30 p.m.)
The Enduring Copyright Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (United States Copyright Office)
This virtual event will highlight the Supreme Court Justice’s unique and lasting influence on copyright, from her notable opinions impacting copyright law and policy to the inspiration she’s given creators of copyright-protected works, including movies, books, operas, and more.
For more information and to register, visit: https://tinyurl.com/yxsccfyw
Wednesday, Feb. 17 (1-2 p.m.)
Lifting Voices: Books Like Us: The Power of Seeing Yourself Reflected in a Book (Mackin)
Simon & Schuster editors and authors from the Denene Millner Books and Salaam Reads imprint share the moment when they were able to connect with a character that reflected their own personal narrative. Seeing themselves reflected in a book had a powerful impact on their sense of self and shaped the editors and writers they would later become. Moderated by Kendra Levin, Editorial Director, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
For more information and to register, visit: https://www.mackin.com/hq/category/webinar/lifting-voices/
Wednesday, Feb. 17 (1-2 p.m.)
Designing Virtual Opportunities, Managing Remote Volunteers (VolunteerMatch)
In this webinar we will discuss best practices for creating those opportunities and developing meaningful relationships with remote volunteers, including building and empowering remote teams, managing projects by letting go but not checking out, and creating a two-way communication plan to share the work of remote volunteers with the organization and share what’s happening at the organization with remote volunteers.
For more information and to register, visit: https://learn.volunteermatch.org/
Wednesday, Feb. 17 (1-2:30 p.m.)
Children’s Lively Minds: Life Changing Professional Development for Early Educators (Early Childhood Investigations)
Join Nadia Jaboneta and Deb Curtis as they share stories and approaches that transform teachers’ views of children’s competence and the profound importance of brain development and schema explorations during play. You will hear engaging ideas to work with teachers, using a variety of reflective tools and profound yet simple information, to help teachers really see children of all ages, and the roles they can play to enhance the teaching and learning process.
For more information and to register, visit: https://www.earlychildhoodwebinars.com/webinars/
Wednesday, Feb. 17 (2-3 p.m.)
What Most People Don’t Realize About the COVID-19 Slide (edWeb.net)
COVID-19 disruptions have had a modest impact on students’ reading performance and a more significant impact on math performance. But is there more to the story? And what critical steps should school and district leaders take to get their students back on track? Get the answers in this research-based edWebinar for K–12 educators and education leaders.
For more information and to register, visit: https://home.edweb.net/webinars/
Wednesday, Feb. 17 (2-3 p.m.)
Behind the Book Author Takeover with Jerry Craft and Robin Ha (Follett)
Join author/illustrators Jerry Craft and Robin Ha as they discuss the value of graphic novels for readers, common misconceptions about graphic novels, and the importance of diversity in this growing genre.
For more information and to register, visit: https://www.follettcommunity.com/s/webinars
Wednesday, Feb 17 (2-3 p.m.)
Monthly donors are changing the world. How to find and keep more of them! (Nonprofit Hub)
Please join us for this session on February 17th, 2021 when Erica Waasdorp, President, A Direct Solution and Author of Monthly Giving. The Sleeping Giant, will show you 10+ ways to find new monthly donors for your organization, increase monthly donor retention and upgrade them to higher levels. If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, it’s the importance of sustainable revenue coming in. Funds you can count on, no matter what happens.
For more information and to register, visit: https://nonprofithub.org/hubinars/
Wednesday, Feb. 17 (2-3 p.m.)
Why Build a Course When a Job Aid Might Do? (Training Magazine Network)
What do cave drawings, assembly instructions, and recipes have in common? They are all job aids. Good job aids help people to be more successful in their work. How? By reinforcing learning, providing just-in-time reference material, and other types of guidance. Join Dawn Mahoney and Matt Pierce as they discuss why job aids work as well as a few tips for crafting better job aids. They will also discuss the various types of performance support tools you might consider when planning your content development.
For more information and to register, visit: https://www.trainingmagnetwork.com/calendar
Wednesday, Feb. 17 (3-4 p.m.)
Serving Library Users with Mental Illness: A Crash Course on Controlling Clashes (Network of the National Library of Medicine)
This webinar increases your understanding of mental illness, teaches effective methods of communicating with mentally-ill patrons who are creating a disturbance in the library, helps you protect staff and patrons in rare instances of possible violence, and shows you how to locate resources you can lean on when necessary.
For more information and to register, visit: https://bit.ly/3cfblJ9
Thursday, Feb. 18 (9-10 a.m.)
COVID-19 Vaccination Policies: What to consider? (Indiana State Library)
Are you wondering what to consider in forming your library’s policy on COVID-19 vaccinations? This webinar addresses the legality of mandatory vaccine policies during a pandemic and examines the pros and cons of such policies to help you determine which type of COVID-19 vaccine policy to propose to your board.
For more information and to register, visit: https://indianastatelibrary.evanced.info/signup/calendar?ln=ALL
Thursday, Feb. 18 (12-1 p.m.)
How to Build Trust and Connection Online (Charity Village)
Do you feel disconnected from your clients & team when communicating online? Is it taking longer to build a connection and establish trust with the people you interact with? You aren’t alone. Learn how a few simple changes in your online communication habits will promote incredible results from your team, students and clients.
For more information and to register, visit: https://charityvillage.com/learning-centre/webinars/
Thursday, Feb. 18 (1-2 p.m.)
Digital Wellness in a Remote First World – Yes, There’s an App for That! (Bloomerang)
As our reliance on technology increases, so do our levels of stress and burnout. But it doesn’t have to be this way. While technology can disrupt our work and life, when used intentionally, it can also help us be healthier, more mindful, and more productive. No matter your position at your organization or whether you work remotely, this fun session will unpack what digital wellness is and highlight the latest apps that can help you be more mindful and create and sustain greater well-being in your life and work in a remote first world.
For more information and to register, visit: https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Thursday, Feb. 18 (1-2 p.m.)
Grant Writing in 2021: What’s Different and What’s the Same? (TechSoup)
During this webinar, we will discuss trends in giving, what has changed, and what remains the same so we can weather the storm and continue providing important, mission-driven services.
For more information and to register, visit: https://www.techsoup.org/community/events-webinars/default
Thursday, Feb. 18 (2-2:30 p.m.)
TexShare Vendor Training:Celebrate Black History Learn about Charles R Drew
Dr. Charles R. Drew is known as the father of the modern blood bank. His contributions to medical science in the early 20thcentury benefit us to this day in the processes of blood plasma and blood donation. This session will draw information recognizing him from the following ProQuest resources: Ebook Central, ProQuest Sci-Tech Premium Collection, Publicly Available Content in the ProQuest platform, Twentieth Century American Poetry, and HeritageQuest Online
The objective of this session:
- To illustrate searches and content in ProQuest TexShare resources that expand understanding about Charles R. Drew.
For more information and to register, visit: https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?MTID=e1b0808c53492ad80b819b829498d7626
Thursday, Feb. 18 (2-3:30 p.m.)
Envisioning Future Library Experiences: Service Design Techniques for Responsive Libraries (WebJunction)
The second in a two-part webinar series, this session will expand on design principles applied by case study libraries, who have been working with the design teams. The case study participants will share how they took learned design techniques to brainstorm future services for their communities. The goal is to demonstrate concepts and relevant applications to help envision how you might improve your library’s capacity to bring joy, vibrancy, learning experiences, and innovative opportunities to the community!
For more information and to register, visit: https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction.html
Thursday, Feb. 18 (3-4 p.m.)
Double Take: “Why Was This Picture Made?” (Library of Congress)
When examining pictures of the past, sometimes asking the question of “Why?” leads one down an unexpected path. In this session, Sara Duke, Curator of Popular & Applied Graphic Art, will invite participants on an exploration of an image from the Library’s collections, with that question in mind.
For more information and to register, visit: https://tinyurl.com/yydxqcqm
Thursday, Feb. 18 (3-4 p.m.)
Getting a Foot in the Door: Building Curriculum Bundles (Cherry Lake Publishing Group)
This free webinar for librarians will discuss how to get resources into the hands of those who need them. Specifically we will explore: Taking initiative and communicating with Teachers; Instructional menus; Building out sample curriculum bundles; Group activity to practice what you’ve learned.
For more information and to register, visit: https://tinyurl.com/y3k9dwtq
Saturday, Feb. 20 (10-11 a.m.)
Tech for Girls Club : Code a Ping Pong Game (PACER Center)
In this virtual Tech for Girls workshop, participants will use Scratch to code their own ping pong game. Girls will learn how to code sounds, movement and point scoring to their game. No coding experience required. Zoom access links for this workshop will be emailed to participants the week of the virtual meeting.
For more information and to register, visit: https://www.pacer.org/workshops/