Welcome to the Upcoming Library Events listing. Here you’ll find important dates of upcoming conferences, webinars, training opportunities, and library initiatives. CMLE will be updating this list throughout the year so stop back weekly for updates!
Looking for some less serious days to celebrate? Check out our Notable Dates for your Noggin post, published at the beginning of each month!
We’ve updated our listing of Library Events! Please visit the new one, and make sure to update your bookmarks.
Check out WebJunction’s Training page for information about these sessions, which are free and available to staff of libraries throughout the Minitex region. Pre-registration is required.
Archived versions of earlier WebJunction webinars are also available on the webpage.
The WebJunction website also contains a monthly list of other freely available training opportunities that are available to the library community.
Also, remember, WebJunction Minnesota, which provides access to online, self-paced courses and other features, is available to all members of the Minnesota library community. See the WebJunction Minnesota website for more information
The 7th Annual Library Technology Conference will be held March 19–20 at Macalester College in St. Paul. The 2014 conference will feature keynotes from Mita Williams, blogger and user experience librarian at the University of Windsor, and Barbara Fister of Gustavus Adolphus College, a Library Journal columnist and blogger on library trends in content creation and more.
The 23rd Annual Minitex Interlibrary Loan Conference will take place on Tuesday, May 6, at the Continuing Education & Conference Center on the Saint Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota. Phil Simon, technology expert, frequent speaker, and award-winning author of six management books will be keynote speaker. More information and registration materials will be available in early March.
The 12th Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) will be held Tuesday, June 3, at the Continuing Education & Conference Center, University of Minnesota, St. Paul. The keynote speaker will be Dan Cohen, founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). MDL is a service hub for to the DPLA. More information will be posted in early spring on the annual meeting webpage.
2014 eLearning Summit will be held July 30–31 at the University of Northwestern – St. Paul. The keynotes will be Cable Green, Director of Global Learning for Creative Commons, and Robbie Kendall Melton, Associate Vice Chancellor of eLearning and Emerging Mobilization Technology for the Tennessee Board of Regents.
Videos of the 2013 eLearning Summit keynotes are now available.
On December 10th at 1 pm CT, WebJunction will be offering a free online webinar, The Power of Transformational Stories. It will explore how to identify, frame and share stories to illustrate the value of libraries within our communities.
Click here for additional information and the registration link.
Note: Sometimes it can be uncomfortable talking about our successes without it sounding awkward and self-serving. But like a good story, it must be written if it is ever to be truly appreciated.
The Lake Superior Libraries Symposium was created to help library staff develop enhanced professional networks and promote resource sharing and communication between organizations. Join library staff and technologists from Northwestern Wisconsin and Northeastern Minnesota this January at the Mid-Winter Unsymposium.