Knowledge is power. Increase your strength by attending workshops, webinars, and other opportunities. Lists include SEWI offerings, Wisconsin library organizations, Wyoming State Library’s Free Training, Webjunction, and more. Click on on any tab that interests you to find what’s coming up.
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- Jan 23-24: Wild WI Winter Web Conference (WI library systems & DPI)
- Mar 28-29: Power Up: A Leadership Conference for Youth Services Managers & Staff (UW-Madison)
- Jan 23: Reclaim Your Success: Lessons from Disrupters – Success Strategies from Women Who Break the Mold (American Management Association)
- Jan 23: Leadership in Youth Services, Part 3: Moving Beyond Youth Services (Association for Library Services to Children)
- Jan 24: Self Care: Preventing Burn Out (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 24: WHY-brarian (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 2: NCompass Live: Best New Teen Books of 2018: Popular Teen Novels – New Books They Need to Read (Nebraska Library Commission)
- Jan 8: Presenting the 2019 Carnegie Shortlist (Booklist)
- Jan 15: Presenting the 2019 Morris Award Finalists (Booklist)
- Jan 29: Building and Maintaining a Graphic Novel and Comics Collection (Utah State Library)
- Jan 9: Be Found: The Secrets of SEO for Nonprofits (Firespring)
- Jan 10: How to Write Effective Web Copy (Bloomerang)
- Jan 11: People – Difficult or Different? (Effectiveness Institute)
- Jan 17: Do You Speak Possibility? (Colorado State Library)
- Jan 22: Social Media 101 for Nonprofits (Firespring)
- Jan 24: Step Up Your Library Signage (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 29: 3 Steps to Effective Storytelling to Grow Your Memberships (Wild Apricot)
- Jan 31: How to Use Facebook’s Free Fundraising Tools to Drive Donations (CharityHowTo)
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- Jan 22: Providing Great Library Service With Skill and Empathy (Utah State Library)
- Jan 23: Reclaim Your Success: Lessons from Disrupters – Success Strategies from Women Who Break the Mold (American Management Association)
- Jan 23: Size Doesn’t Matter: Transforming Big Ideas into Small Library Environments (Programming Librarian)
- Jan 23: The Future Is Now: Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality in Public Libraries (WebJunction)
- Jan 23: Emerging Tech Trends in the Library – Part 9 (Infopeople)
- Jan 23: Leadership in Youth Services, Part 3: Moving Beyond Youth Services (Association for Library Services to Children)
- Jan 2: How to Avoid Fundraising’s Quiet Killer: Donor Attrition (Firespring)
- Jan 9: How to Build and Sustain Your Major Gifts Pipeline (Nonprofit Hub)
- Jan 9: Accelerating Promising Practices for Small Libraries New Applicant Webinar (Institute of Museum and Library Services)
- Jan 10: Asking Styles: A Revolutionary Concept in Fundraising (CharityHowTo)
- Jan 16: Introduction to Fundraising Planning (GrantSpace)
- Jan 31: How to Use Facebook’s Free Fundraising Tools to Drive Donations (CharityHowTo)
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- Jan 15: Implicit Bias in the Library Workplace (Infopeople)
- Jan 17: Do You Speak Possibility? (Colorado State Library)
- Jan 23: Great Expectations: Customer Service and the Future of Libraries (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 23: Pull Your Shelf Together: Community Organizing in Libraries (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 23: Silos No More: Harness Library Wide Teams for Success (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 23: A Step-by-Step Guide to Library Hiring (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 24: I Inherited a Mess! What Do I Do Now? (Texas State Library & Archives Commission)
- Jan 24: Size Doesn’t Matter: Transforming Big Ideas into Small Library Environments (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 30: Practical Management or Practical Magic: The Hiring Process from Both Ends: Seeking a Job and Hiring Talented People (LLAMA)
- Jan 8: Health Literacy Begins at Your Library (WebJunction)
- Jan 10: Design Squad Global Inventing Green: Engage Kids in Hands-on Engineering around Sustainability (National Girls Collaborative Project)
- Jan 17: Making the Move from Summer Reading to Summer Learning (Association for Library Services to Children)
- Jan 17: Innovative Libraries Online Conference: Libraries at the Center of Community Life (State Library of Iowa)
- Jan 23: Size Doesn’t Matter: Transforming Big Ideas into Small Library Environments (Programming Librarian)
- Jan 23: 60 Teen Programs in 60 Minutes (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 24: Big Programs, Little Budget (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 24: National Mentoring Month: Strategies for Mentoring Girls in STEM (National Girls Collaborative Project)
- Jan 24: Size Doesn’t Matter: Transforming Big Ideas into Small Library Environments (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 2: NCompass Live: Best New Teen Books of 2018: Popular Teen Novels – New Books They Need to Read (Nebraska Library Commission)
- Jan 8: Presenting the 2019 Carnegie Shortlist (Booklist)
- Jan 9: NCompass Live: Graphic Novel Collection and Programming (Nebraska Library Commission)
- Jan 15: Presenting the 2019 Morris Award Finalists (Booklist)
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- Jan 4: We, Surveilled and Afraid, In a World We Never Made: Data and Library User Privacy webinar (WilsWorld Shorts)
- Jan 10: Nonprofit Tech Trends 2019 (Idealware)
- Jan 15: TechSoup Tour: How to Access Donations, Discounts, and Resources (TechSoup)
- Jan 17: Handling the Holiday Device: Tips and Best Practices (edWeb)
- Jan 23: The Future Is Now: Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality in Public Libraries (WebJunction)
- Jan 23: Emerging Tech Trends in the Library – Part 9 (Infopeople)
- Jan 23: Leading Transformational Learning Through Making (edWeb)
- Jan 24: National Mentoring Month: Strategies for Mentoring Girls in STEM (National Girls Collaborative Project)
- Jan 8: Become a PowerPoint Jedi with the Force of Templates & Masters (Training Magazine Network)
- Jan 17: Handling the Holiday Device: Tips and Best Practices (edWeb)
- Jan 18: Your Guide to Free Tax Prep Services (American Libraries Live)
- Jan 22: Providing Great Library Service With Skill and Empathy (Utah State Library)
- Jan 17: Making the Move from Summer Reading to Summer Learning (Association for Library Services to Children)
- Jan 23: What Makes a Great Children’s Librarian? (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 23: 60 Teen Programs in 60 Minutes (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 23: Let’s Talk About Race (Wild WI Winter Web Conference 2019)
- Jan 23: Leading Transformational Learning Through Making (edWeb)
- Jan 24: National Mentoring Month: Strategies for Mentoring Girls in STEM (National Girls Collaborative Project)
- Jan 29: Footprint Foothold: Helping Students Manage Their Online Reputations (edWeb)
- Jan 30: Moving Diversity Forward: Using Embedded Diversity Practices to Enhance Learning Opportunities for Youth (American Association of School Librarians)
- Feb 13: CCBC Shorts: A (Brief) Monthly Look at Books for Children & Teens (CCBC/SCLS)
- Mar 20: CCBC Shorts: A (Brief) Monthly Look at Books for Children & Teens (CCBC/SCLS)
- Mar 28-29: Power Up: A Leadership Conference for Youth Services Managers and Staff (UW-Madison)
- Apr 17: CCBC Shorts: A (Brief) Monthly Look at Books for Children & Teens (CCBC/SCLS)
- May 8: CCBC Shorts: A (Brief) Monthly Look at Books for Children & Teens (CCBC/SCLS)
In-Person Opportunities
- Power Up: A Leadership Conference for Youth Services Managers and Staff
UW-Madison
March 28-29, 2019
Pyle Center, Madison
Info & Registration - WAPL Conference
May 1-3, 2019
Rothschild
Info forthcoming - WLA SSCS One-Day Conference
May 23, 2019
Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau-Claire
Info forthcoming
- Tech Days East 2019
Tue, Sept 10 at Franklin
Wed, Sept 11 at Appleton (Bubolz Nature Center)
Thur, Sept 12 at Monono
Information will be coming - WLA Conference
Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells
October 8-11, 2019
Info forthcoming
Online Courses
Self-Paced Online Courses (free)
- Gale Courses (Check your local library or library system for availability)
- Webjunction Course Catalog
- GCF LearnFree.org
- Wisc-Online Basic Computer Skills Mooc
- Wisc-Online Computer Science Courses (includes sections on career skills, programming, IT skills, and web development)
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