Leadership Development
Accepting Applications for 2025 Class of ¾«¶«´«Ã½Emerging Leaders - Last Week to Apply
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The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) is now accepting applications for the 2025 class of Emerging Leaders (EL). Details on the program criteria can be found on the Emerging Leaders web page. The deadline to apply is Friday September 6, 2024. Apply now...
Core Webinar Series: Library Facility Master Planning
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CHICAGO—Core/Buildings & Operations: Buildings for College and University Libraries and Planning & Design Committees are pleased to present the four-part webinar series “Library Facility Master Planning." Library leaders with responsibility for one or...
Core Webinar: Trailblazing Pathways Across the Digital Divide
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Join Core for the webinar "Trailblazing Pathways Across the Digital Divide" on September 3, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Participants will learn about a partnership between an academic library, Student Affairs, and campus IT to fund laptops for high-need students.
Core Webinar: Library In-Reach to Boost Morale and Realize Our Full Potential
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Core hosts the webinar "Library In-Reach to Boost Morale and Realize Our Full Potential" on October 23, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. In this session participants will learn seven easy-to-use in-reach techniques or can-do-isms.
Accepting Applications for 2025 Class of ¾«¶«´«Ã½Emerging Leaders
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The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) is now accepting applications for the 2025 class of Emerging Leaders (EL). Details on the program criteria can be found on the Emerging Leaders web page. The deadline to apply is Friday, September 6, 2024. Apply now...
Applications Now Open for the Core Online Course Scholarship for Library Professionals from Developing Countries
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CHICAGO–Core is now accepting applications for the Online Course Scholarship for Library Professionals from Developing Countries to participate in our online Fundamentals courses held between September 11, 2024 and December 22, 2024. One free seat per...
Core Webinar: Safety by Design
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Core hosts the webinar "Safety by Design" on August 28, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Get safety principles from an experienced security consultant and hear from a group of librarians and library architects putting those principles into real-world contexts.
Core Webinar - Past to the Future: Intersections of Digitization, AI, and the Digital Humanities
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Join Core for the webinar "Past to the Future: Intersections of Digitization, AI, and the Digital Humanities" on July 17, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. The presenter will discuss will discuss how AI is being used to improve digitization.
Core Webinar - Design Basics: How to Create Better Visuals
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Join Core for the webinar "Design Basics: How to Create Better Visuals" on July 17, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Participants will learn the fundamentals of good design and come away with a list of free tools to put their ideas into practice.
Core Webinar - Transforming LibGuides: A Case Study
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Join Core for the webinar "Transforming LibGuides: A Case Study" on September 17, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Presenters will explore the technical and political processes of overhauling and streamlining their LibGuides and A-Z database list.
Meet the 2024 Class of Emerging Leaders at a Poster Session during ¾«¶«´«Ã½Annual Conference
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The Emerging Leaders’ program facilitators are excited and pleased to invite attendees of the ¾«¶«´«Ã½’s (ALA) 2024 Annual Conference to meet the 2024 class of Emerging Leaders (EL) at a celebratory poster session Friday, June 28, 2024...
Best of Core at ¾«¶«´«Ã½Annual Conference: Libraries, Campus Partners, and Student Success
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Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core at ¾«¶«´«Ã½Annual Conference: Libraries, Campus Partners, and Student Success" on August 6, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Attendees will learn about and explore existing campus partnerships as well as partnerships just forming.
New Core Web Course: Fundamentals of Institutional Repositories
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CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is excited to announce the release of a new course, Fundamentals of Institutional Repositories (FIR). This 6-week online course is an introduction to fundamental concepts of institutional repositories (IR)...
Core Webinar: Accessible and Inclusive Library Design
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Join Core for the webinar "Accessible and Inclusive Library Design" on June 11, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Explore ways to make your library more accessible and inclusive to patrons and staff, including following ADA guidelines and examining patron experience.
Core Webinar: Participative Leadership in Decision Making
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CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Participative Leadership in Decision Making" on May 28, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Participative leadership techniques are used in a variety of situations, but one of the ways they can be effective is when major changes are...
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: An Integrated Approach to a Diversity Audit
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CHICAGO—Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: An Integrated Approach to a Diversity Audit" on May 22, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. Collection diversity audits are not a new phenomenon for libraries. While many public and school libraries have taken these...
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Cultivating Equitable Hiring Practices for Academic Librarians; Bridging Perspectives of Applicants and Hiring Committees
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CHICAGO—Core hosts the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Cultivating Equitable Hiring Practices for Academic Librarians; Bridging Perspectives of Applicants and Hiring Committees" on May 21, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. After experiencing inconsistent search committee...
Core Webinar: Moving Out of One-and-Done Strategic Planning
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Join Core for the webinar "Moving Out of One-and-Done Strategic Planning" on May 15, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. This webinar will share the process at a midsized academic library as a new plan was developed under new library leadership.
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Stewarding Relevance; Subject-Diverse Weeding
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Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Stewarding Relevance; Subject-Diverse Weeding" on May 8, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. This presentation, intended for collection development librarians, subject selection specialists, collection managers, and collection support staff, provides an overview of the planning, implementation, and method for a customized collection assessment and weeding of a large multi-subject research collection.
Preservation Week® Webinar: Historical Newspapers in Public Libraries
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Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures hosts the free Preservation Week® webinar "Historical Newspapers in Public Libraries" on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Join in for discussion of digitization, preservation and access for local historical newspapers with the Columbus Metropolitan Library's Local History & Genealogy team.