WebJunction Course Catalog

Format: Webinar, original date March 13, 2024
Hosted by: WebJunction
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Are you feeling the strain of serving patrons with complex needs? Is your library seeing increased patron behavioral issues and mental health concerns? This session reviews ideas and approaches for how libraries can support both high-needs patrons and staff. As a result of this webinar, you will be able to:

• Articulate the changing needs of library patrons and how these impact staff 
• Learn strategies for assessing your library’s unique needs
• Discuss helpful programs, collaborations, and/or services for high-needs patrons
• Apply person-centered strategies to begin creating cultural change in your library
• Anticipate potential barriers to change

Presented by: Beth Wahler and Sarah Johnson

Format: Webinar, original date April 16, 2019
Hosted by: Infopeople, as part of the California State Library Mental Health Initiative webinar series, Where Compassion Meets Action
Length: 1 hour

Presented by: Xan Goodman

Format: Self-paced Course
Developed by: WebJunction, in collaboration with Washington State University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation 
Length: 2 hours

Overview
Describes the considerations when determining guidelines for the items that will be included in your digital collections, the appraisal and accessioning process, and sourcing items for your collections from partner organizations and community members.

• Determine the types of items to include in their institution's digital collections
• Select suitable methods to gather digital collections
• Document your digital collection guidelines and procedures
• Identify any collaboration or partnership opportunities for gathering collections and items
• Incorporate cultural and community needs in collection curation decisions

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Format: Webinar, original date December 5, 2019
Hosted by: WebJunction and Library Journal
Length: Length: 1 hour

How does a library respond to a community in deep crisis around race and social justice? That’s the question that Richland Library in Columbia, S.C., grappled with in 2017. Recognizing that there was no single answer, they launched initiatives on multiple internal and external fronts. Starting with a Social Awareness Taskforce, geared toward community engagement and courageous conversations, they explored topics surrounding social and criminal justice, women’s rights and race. By using innovative approaches like Circles of Dialogue and mobile empathy labs, nearly 1,500 people have participated in the library’s race, equity and inclusion programming. To further their efforts, they have also focused internally, empowering staff to lead the charge to understand their biases, macroaggressions, and cultural competence through Let’s Talk gatherings, Check Your Bubble worksheets, and other effective tools. Hearing how Richland Library moved the needle on honest dialogue, empathy, and equity with their staff and community, you will be inspired to dig in and do the work at your own library.

Presented by: Tamara King, Ci Ci Holloway and Dee Robinson

Format: Self-paced Course
Developed by: Media Smart Libraries Team–University of Rhode Island
Length: 2 hours

Children and youth today live in an age of 24/7 information and it is important that they are prepared to be media literate so that they have the skills and competencies to deal with the abundance of media messages in our society. One of those forms of media is film. “YouTube has over a billion users — almost one-third of all people on the Internet — and each day those users watch a billion hours of video, generating billions of views” (YouTube, 2017, para. 1). Film education teaches children and youth to “understand how the film and moving image texts that they consume make meaning, encourages them to watch films from a variety of sources and inspires them to create films of their own. In so doing they are empowered to be culturally literate – to be able to ‘read’ the films and moving image texts they see every day and ‘write’ their own for others to watch too” (Bradford City of Film, 2014, para. 1).

In this module, public librarians and school librarians will learn about film education, instructional practices and strategies, programming, how to facilitate film discussions, and develop activities and lessons appropriate for children and youth. Since it is important that children and youth also be creators of media, youth and school librarians need to learn about the importance of filmmaking and the film production process.

Module Objectives

Learners will:

• Critically analyze film using a film discussion guide
• Develop plans for implementing film and filmmaking programming in their library
• Describe why librarians should bring meaningful film programming and hands-on digital media education into school and public libraries

Course Design: WebJunction

Format: Webinar, original date September 12, 2019
Hosted by: Infopeople
Length: 1 hour

Are you interested in creating a bilingual storytime at your library? Whether you are working with a Spanish speaking partner or are a fluent speaker, it can be daunting to create a bilingual storytime that supports families wishing not only to share their culture, but also support raising a bilingual child.

Bilingual storytimes are a great way to create a welcoming space for new families and strengthen a child’s early literacy skills. It allows non-english speaking families to see themselves and their culture through books, rhymes and movement. It is also an opportunity to nurture cognitive and language development for families in their native language as well as a chance for monolingual families to share in the cultural and linguistic diversity.

In this webinar, presenter Addie Rogers discusses how to create a Spanish-English bilingual storytime that is culturally inclusive and will strengthen the relationship with your Spanish speaking community. She also covers the importance of early literacy practices on a bilingual child’s development. While this webinar focuses mainly on Spanish-English storytimes, the principles and theories can be used for any language.

Presented by: Adilene (Addie) Rogers

Format: Webinar, original date May 15, 2013
Hosted by: Infopeople
Length: 1 hour

• Want to start programming but don’t know where to start?
• Need help on providing quality programs on a limited budget?

This webinar will introduce the beginning program coordinator to the basic tools necessary to plan, implement and evaluate successful library programs for adult programming on a budget. From book discussions and author visits to craft programs and film screenings, this webinar is designed to help public librarians create programming that underscore the role of the public library as an important cultural, recreational and educational institution in the community.

This webinar will provide participants with ideas and samples of programs they can bring to their own library. A step-by step process and details including getting started, program types and associated costs, resources for low cost programs, and marketing and evaluating programs.

Presented by: Dana Vinke

Format: Webinar, original date February 5, 2021
Hosted by: WebJunction
Length: 1 hour

Social wellbeing, individuals living the good life in a thriving community, is something public libraries can influence! Join these rural library directors for a tour of the most popular tools for helping libraries improve social wellbeing in their communities created from the Rural Library Service & Social Wellbeing Project research. Learn from library directors who leverage all available resources to create feelings of delight, power, cultural identity, and belonging for community residents with outstanding results. Participants will leave understanding key actions libraries can take to improve social wellbeing outcomes in their own communities, both immediately, and over the long haul.

Presented by: Emilie Braunel, Jerianne Davis, Susan Green, Richard Styre, and moderated by Margo Gustina

Format: Webinar, original date May 5, 2022
Hosted by: WebJunction
Length: 1 hour