Scholarly publishers face the challenges of keeping up with the rapid pace of change, technological and otherwise. Meanwhile academic researchers have both more opportunities than ever before. Join this webinar to learn how field visionaries are embracing the future of information exchange and paving a clearer path for researchers, librarians, students, and the public.
Join Library Journal and School Library Journal for our inaugural LibraryCon Live! virtual conference. We're excited to offer a day-long celebration with beloved authors of fandom stories and characters, from pulse-pounding sci-fi horror to innovative reboots of classic series to mind-bending speculative fiction across formats. You'll also learn from librarians and industry insiders on how to plan and host your own Comic Con-style event.
The digital age has provided students with access to a vast variety of free online resources, alongside their library's offerings, making the way they find and use reference resources more complex than ever before. Previous research and discussions around scholarly reference largely focus on how resources specifically support students when they are conducting research. Oxford University Press took a wider perspective, exploring how students more generally seek contextual information.
This new online course is a hybrid of content with fresh perspectives from our original foundational course blended with an advanced pathway to extend the learning. During the three weeks, you will learn how to become more culturally literate, to be a more effective advocate for your community, and ensure that your collection is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. You will walk away with an understanding of the key diversity & cultural literacy concepts and learn how to recognize stereotypes, tropes, and microaggresions, see what a “Diverse & Inclusive” collection looks like, and be able to conduct an audit and diversify your collection.
Libraries are a natural place for book clubs, and librarians have been facilitating book clubs for years. But not all librarians report success with the book clubs they’ve hosted, and the very idea of the book club keeps evolving, often raising more questions than answers about the best way to proceed. So how can you keep your approach fresh, exciting, and most important—successful—in a saturated landscape? Over three weeks, you’ll learn from the experts how to build a better book club, from inception through execution, including how to design the most effective survey, how to facilitate the most productive and enjoyable group dynamic, and how to measure success.
Looking for innovative ways to engage and inspire teens in your library or classroom? This course will explore STEM-centric and creative programming ideas for your young adult users that will equip them with the 21st century skills they need for the future, and that they’re want to get involved in! Prepare your teen audience for careers that don’t even exist yet and have fun with dynamic multimedia projects, cutting-edge gaming initiatives, and more, helping to create lifelong learners along the way.
Join us in this free webinar about recent innovations at Recorded Books and RBdigital—including updates to the patron mobile app and administrative platform, new blockbuster titles, five new streaming content services, and Marvel Comics. See how collections development and promotion of your services can take less administrative time with better results.
We have at our fingertips more tools than ever before. But are you using these resources to their fullest capacity? In this course, we’ll explore how to maximize the platforms you use to make the biggest impact. From the latest, must-have apps for your phone and power tips for using your device, to the ins and outs of Instagram, to fresh design ideas for your school or library, get the inside scoop via top professionals in marketing, design, mobile tech, and more. Learn how you can build your library’s brand and create a social media presence that wows. Best of all? You’ll come away with professional skills you strengthen your own professional profile.
The annual Library Journal Directors’ Summit is an intimate two-day think tank that brings 100+ library leaders and strategic minds from beyond libraries to engage in timely conversations on strategies libraries will be implementing to successfully navigate change now and into the future. Valuable networking time is balanced with robust programming that spans high level thinking to nitty gritty application.