Date: Friday, May 19th Time: 10:00-12:30 Location: Gail Borden Public Library 270 N Grove Ave, Elgin Are you interested in learning more about management in a public library? Are you new to a supervisory or management role and want practical pointers on how to succeed? Join us for a panel and small group discussions on … More Management From All Sides
Date: Saturday, February 4, 2017 Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm Location: Des Plaines Public Library, 1501 Ellinwood Avenue, Des Plaines Your personal and professional brand is important. It matters when you seek a new position, promotion, or any kind of new pursuit. During this panel discussion, you will learn how to present yourself within your community … More Build Your Personal Brand
Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 Time: 2:00-4:30pm Location: Arlington Heights Memorial Library (Hendrickson Room), 500 N Dunton Ave, Arlington Heights Increasingly libraries across the country are seeing a need to provide social services to the populations they serve. Many libraries are starting to work more closely with social service agencies in their communities and some libraries … More Extending Our Reach: Libraries, Social Workers, and Community Partnerships
Date: Friday, June 12, 2015 Time: 9:30 am-12:00 pm Location: Downers Grove Public Library, Meeting Room A&B Community engagement is a buzz term right now in the library world for good reason. Now more than ever, libraries must look outside library walls to work with the community in new ways. Join the RLA-CE Committee for … More Creating Community Connections
Thanks to everyone who attended our May 22 program Be a Librarian Problem Solver led by Skokie Public Library’s Steven Jablonski and Jon Yates, Problem Solver for the Chicago Tribune. We learned a great deal about what to do and where to go when our patrons have difficulties with companies, utilities, agencies, and more. As … More Be a Librarian Problem Solver! Roundup
We had a great turnout at the old NSLS building in Wheeling this morning. 53 area librarians turned out to see Emily Kornak from the Barrington Area Public Library and Shannon Scanlan from the Arlington Heights Memorial Library talk about how they tailor library services to meet the needs of their business and job seeking … More Business Reference 2012! Roundup
On March 20, Amy Alessio did a fascinating program on cookbooks, crafting books and related genres – which ones we should purchase and what to weed from our collections. Her presentation was full of clever ideas for programs – Knit a Cupcake (for teens), displays – combine cookbooks with fiction titles and lots more. Check out … More Amy Alessio recap
Thanks to everyone who attended Making Lemonade Out of Lemons at PLA. We hope you all learned something and that the Free CE will start to percolate throughout the country. For those who are interested, here are the links I’ve promised. Well, most of the links. I’m actually writing this on Monday and will schedule … More Making Lemonade Out of Lemons – RLA-CE’s PLA Presentation
On November 10th, approximately 60 librarians attended Mobile Solutions for Libraries. Toby Greenwalt has graciously supplied us with his slides from the presentation, and a short 10-minute videoclip is now posted to YouTube for your viewing enjoyment. Mobilie Solutions for Libraries: Where We Are, Where We’re Going View more presentations from Toby Greenwalt
RLA CE committee member Steven Jablonski presented an updated version of his RLA program “Gotta Love Dot Gov” at the 2011 Reaching Forward conference. Here it is for those who missed it.
