How can libraries promote institutional research output and expertise? By doing what they do best – collecting, organizing, and making information easily discoverable. Learn how the Brandeis University library is taking a fresh look at its scholarly communications approach and supporting infrastructure.

Join Gale and Library Journal for an in-depth webinar led by two librarians who have made supporting small businesses a priority. No MBA Required: How to Engage Your Business Community will guide you through the process of creating innovative programming, strengthening outreach efforts, fostering partnerships with business service providers, and offering digital resources that will give small businesses the best chance for success and growth.

Join us to learn how MLA International Bibliography is being used in the virtual Literature classroom to stimulate discussion, engage students in the research process and deepen their involvement in the scholarly conversation, and how faculty and librarians can use the MLA’s free teaching tools to help students develop their research skills!

Completing a research project in the digital humanities can feel like embarking on a triathlon. With a depth and breadth of content available to students, honing in on research questions, building a corpus, and analyzing content with advanced computational tools that can generate meaningful results can be a true test of endurance. In this webcast, you’ll hear three expert panelists discuss how to optimize teaching and learning in the digital humanities.

Join four OverDrive staff librarians in a roundtable discussion as they share best practices, including favorite titles, recent content trends and how our End of the Year Sale can help you maximize budget while meeting demand.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how you can open doors to new career fields and advancement opportunities for patrons. Your colleagues from Enoch Pratt Free Library and Howard County Library System will discuss the convenient career tools they currently use and share their experiences of successfully helping patrons shape their career paths. Now more than ever, libraries of all sizes are essential for patrons navigating the changing job market.

Join us to hear the experiences of the team at Sonoma County Library and to discover the importance of digital access to their collections in light of recent challenges. The COVID pandemic, local wildfires, evacuations and extended library closures have made access to digital collections more important than ever in serving community.

Given the current climate, how does your academic library compare to your peers across the country? Fighting with unprecedented challenges, how did you fair? Ex Libris recently commissioned the The 2020 State of Academic Libraries Benchmark Survey, a comprehensive survey of 233 academic libraries, administered by Library Journal. In this live panel session presented by Library Journal, we welcome three senior librarians from small and medium sized academic institutions to offer their survey insights.

From action-packed manga, thrilling sci-fi/fantasy and hero-led humor, this season’s graphic novels releases will not disappoint! Join our panel of insiders who will share new and upcoming titles and some beloved series and sequels to dazzle your shelves!

Accidents, murder and mayhem – mystery is in the air as leading publishing insiders share the latest thrillers and heart-stoppers coming out this season. Join this webcast to learn which titles your mystery-loving patrons will be curling up with during the fall and winter months.