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Continuing Education from CMLE!

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At CMLE we take our commitment to providing our members with information and continuing professional training opportunities very seriously. We will continue to build on the courses and seminars we have offered, and hope to expand things for you. The library field is fast-moving and ever-changing; and we are here to help our members to keep their skills sharp, and to be able to better serve patrons’ needs.

We have set up a Continuing Education page on our site, with a Google calendar of all kinds of events that might be interesting to you. Most of these are offered as webinars, or online classes; and a few are in person seminars or conferences. Many are free, and some require payment. We will also include professional conferences, so you can keep up with the ideas being shared in your area of the library world. No individual person, or library, will be interested in all of these; but we will have a broad range of topics, to be sure you have all kinds of possibilities for building new skills and making yourself more valuable! And, seeing some of the things other libraries are discussing – even if you do not want to participate in the class – may give you some ideas about new things to try, or new people to contact to talk further about a topic.

We will also be offering regular continuing education programs through CMLE. We want to be sure our members have a chance to talk about topics of specific interest, or frustration; and to be able to gather and connect with their local colleagues. So, we will offer monthly training at the CMLE Headquarters, as well as streaming it through Go To Meeting for members to attend virtually.

To build on the training we will offer each month, we will offer additional material on our blog posts on the same topic. In October, our Topic Of The Month will be the broad subject of Hiring, including recruiting plans, succession plans, writing successful job ads, and motivating staff once they have been hired. In November, we will cover Advocacy. In that month, we will look at connecting with your funders, identifying stakeholders, writing an advocacy plan for your library, and provide templates for you to use to contact people to share your good library news. And in December, our monthly topic will be Stress Management. By the end of the year, and in such a busy season, we know everyone will need some tips on stress and relaxation, avoiding burnout at work, and ways to increase your professional satisfaction in your workplace.

Take a look around the calendar, and feel add it to your own Google calendar for easy viewing any time! (Just click the blue plus sign in the bottom right corner of the calendar.)

Do you have other suggestions for training? Email us! We always want to hear from our members!

Events, training, webinars, and more!

UrbaneWomanMagDo you struggle to find online training? Do you have a need for just-in-time education? Looking for events to attend? Look no further than CMLE’s set of event/training resources!

CMLE’s Event Listing – Usually local in nature, events that might be of interest.

Minitex’s Webinars and Training – Come get your webinars and training. Always diverse and extensive!

Notable Dates for your Noggin – Fun ideas for your library or media center.

National Online Training – More training than you can shake a stick at! Check back often, constantly being updated.

 

Last Call: ProQuest Historical Mpls. Tribune Training

Image by Anna-Stina. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Commons' licensing.
Image by Anna-Stina. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Commons’ licensing.

CMLE would to remind you of a last call for attendance at a face-to-face training on May 9th  for any interested library/school media staff in the Central MN region.

Description: Examine the functionality of the full-image collection of the Historical Minneapolis Tribune 1867-1922, as well as the tools and options it provides for all researchers. Explore selected examples of searches, topics and content associated with Minnesota, national, and world history during the dawn of the 20th century.

No charge, but registration is suggested by sending email to cmle@stcloudstate.edu (Great River Regional staff need not email; already registered)

The lab will have 18 computers, but feel free to bring your own device, as there will be easy access to the wireless.

Friday, May 9, 2014, 10 am-noon

Rasmussen College, 226 Park Avenue South, St. Cloud, MN 56301

Audience: Academic, public, and special librarians, or K-12 school media staff

Contact: Patricia Post, papost@stcloudstate.edu, 320-308-4779

Note 1: A big thank you to Pat Grelson, Rasmussen College for sharing her lab on the day of this training!

Note 2: ProQuest also offers Minneapolis Tribune training via webinar.

Upcoming Training on Historical Minneapolis Tribune

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CMLE is happy to announce a face-to-face training in May for any interested library/school media staff.

Examine the functionality of the full-image collection of the Historical Minneapolis Tribune 1867-1922, as well as the tools and options it provides for all researchers. Explore selected examples of searches, topics and content associated with Minnesota, national, and world history during the dawn of the 20th century.

No charge, registration information will be coming soon.

Friday, May 9, 2014, 10 am-noon

Rasmussen College, 226 Park Avenue South, St. Cloud, MN 56301

Audience: Academic, public, and special librarians, or K-12 school media staff

Contact: Patricia Post, papost@stcloudstate.edu, 320-308-4779

Note: A big thank you to Pat Grelson, Rasmussen College for sharing her lab on the day of this training!

 

 

Looking for a Free Library Webinar in March?

dog at deskThe free, online content just keeps coming! In March alone, the Open Education Database (OEDB) folks share 46 possibilities. From what I have seen, most are available in archived format, and don’t even require registration! So, go for it, you deserve to improve your skill set to make you even more awesome than you already are!

Get the full March 2014  list at http://tinyurl.com/p3ncdmq

Never got to review the list of February offerings? It’s not too late….see our previous post from February at http://tinyurl.com/p2lkbfu