Sunday, February 1, 2015

Professional Development Events in February

This list is provided by Georgia Public Library Service.

The GPLS CE calendar has been updated with free, online continuing education events for February.

Some highlights include:

Wednesday, Feb. 11 (1–2 PM)
Creative Ways to Get More Facebook Engagement in 2015 (4Good)
You see the potential that Facebook offers for engaging supporters and creating more exposure for your nonprofit. But with declining reach, and more competition in the newsfeed, reaching your supporters is more challenging than ever before. This free webinar will show you innovative ways to get more engagement on Facebook, from high-quality fans.
For more information and to register for this program, visit: https://4good.org/john/creative-ways-toget-more-facebook-engagement-in-2015


Wednesday, Feb. 11 (1–2 PM
Practical Uses of Altmetrics (Library Journal)
There is growing interest in altmetrics and people are hungry for stories about how people are using
them. Many institutions are utilizing new metrics to help showcase research, do analysis, bring value to their institutional repositories and more. This webinar features users telling their stories about what
they are doing with these new modern metrics.
For more information and to register for this program, visit:
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/01/webcasts/practical-uses-of-altmetrics/


Thursday, Feb. 12 (2–3 PM)
Library Learning Goes Online (American Libraries Live)
Get the inside scoop on pressing library topics from leaders in the field—free--with American Libraries
Live. It’s a streaming video program that you can view in your library, at home, or while sipping coffee at your favorite wi-fi enabled coffee shop. This is not just a webinar with voice-overs drilling through PowerPoint slides. You’ll watch presenters live onscreen, and you can ask questions in real time via chat.
For more information and to register for this program, visit: http://americanlibrarieslive.org/


Friday, Feb. 13 (11 AM–12 PM)
Professional Associations: Requirements, Pathways (with and without $!) and Extreme Benefits (GALE Geek)
One of the tenets of professionalism is association membership and activity. Although most of us are
not fully or even partially funded, association membership AND activity can yield great rewards both for individuals and their organizations. Join Julie Todaro, ALA Presidential candidate for 2016-2017, author of Mentoring A to Z (2015) and Library Management for the Digital Age (2014), as she outlines how all library professionals can benefit from associations. Attendees will get a firsthand account of the 30+ web documents Todaro has made available from her Presidential website.
For more information and to register for this program, visit: http://tinyurl.com/n8mpyep


Wednesday, Feb. 18 (11 AM–12 PM)
Anatomy of an Ad Campaign (Nebraska Library Commission)
Heather Imhoff, Head of Public Information Services at Des Plaines (IL) Public Library, will share how the library used state per capita grant funds to plan and launch a multi-channel consumer advertising campaign promoting the eResources available for free with a library card. Includes the who, what, when, where and why as well as real costs, examples of the campaign, and tips for launching a campaign of your own.
For more information and to register for this program, visit:
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/scripts/calendar/eventshow.asp?ProgID=13841

Thursday, Feb. 26 (1–2 PM)
The Golden Age of Gaming: Board Games for Grown-ups (WebJunction)
Board games have social, creative, and educational potential. Schools are using games and game
mechanisms as enrichment activities with application to the Common Core. It's time that libraries got
"on board" as well! Following on the successful "Board in the Library" series published on WebJunction, this webinar will provide practical advice on how to choose the right games for your community, how tset up your own circulating board game collection—including a quick inexpensive starting collection — and how to plan board gaming events. Learn more about modern board games—their rules, mechanics, classifications and themes. Game on!
For more information and to register for this program, visit:
http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/golden-age-of-gaming.html

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