Join us and learn how to cultivate and promote inclusive collections with our online course!
We know your schedule is tight. That’s why we’re introducing a series of brand new crash courses: 2-hour, expert-led virtual courses that are recorded for on-demand viewing. Join us in January and learn how to drive library engagement by enhancing your marketing skills and how to operate more efficiently by building robust relationships with your board. | Featured Crash Course: Library Marketing Crash Course - January 25 | Getting communities to participate in library programs and services has only become more difficult since the start of Covid. This crash course will help you jumpstart your library marketing by teaching you the foundations of effective and budget-friendly marketing. You will learn how to assess the strengths and weaknesses of your current marketing efforts and how to change course when necessary. You will also have the chance to work on an interactive project with peers to ensure you get hands-on practice developing marketing content to increase traffic to your library. Attend this crash course and learn strategies for marketing programs and services that you never learned in library school. | Course Leader Cordelia Anderson, (she, her) CEO of Cordelia Anderson Consulting and author of Library Marketing and Communications: Strategies to Increase Relevance and Results | Featured Crash Course: Library Boards Crash Course: How to Create and Maintain Successful Board Relationships - January 31 | Continuity and successful relationships between library leaders and boards are more important than ever. This crash course will help you learn tangible skills to build and maintain successful relationships with your board. You will learn how to navigate board dynamics and expectations without sacrificing the support of staff, particularly your frontline folks. This crash course will discuss tactics for embodying the bridge between sometimes competing interests or expectations, and how to do so equitably. | How to Engage Your Board in Your Advocacy and EDI Efforts led by: Melanie Huggins | Roles, Expectations, and Boundaries: How to Cultivate Relationships with Your Board led by: Valerie Kocin | Spring 2023 Crash Courses | Our courses are perfect for your team! Group rates available now! Request a discount for groups of 3 or more and work with your colleagues on a project for your library. Purchase 15 or more registrations and apply them across multiple courses. | |