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Work from Home Resources
​Continuing Education, etc.

Resources for webinars and other continuing education resources

  • ALA Archived Webinars Look for the on-demand options which state they are FREE
  • edX: Take free online courses from the best universities and institutions in the world — Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Microsoft, Tsinghua University, The Smithsonian and more.
  • Class Central: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) delivered online and accessible to all for free.
  • InfoPeople Infopeople provides library staff quality continuing education opportunities that are tailored to library needs and developed by experienced library professionals.
  • Kansas State Library
  • Learning Express Library: Follow the link from our website to take courses in Microsoft and others
  • LinkedIn Learning: Has a one-month Free Trial option
  • LLAMA (Library Leadership and Management Association): Primarily geared towards management, but another source for library webinars
  • National Network of Libraries of Medicine
  • Programming Librarian
  • Public Library Association
  • School Library Journal: Primarily webinars geared towards children's librarianship
  • Ted: Talks about management, public service, and many other topics. 
  • Tech Soup: Look for options with no charge.  Free options include things like Excel 101, and a newly created “remote work” track of courses  
  • Texas State Library: Lots of great archived webinars
  • Webjunction: One of the best resources for library webinars. You need to create an account, but that should be free.
  • Wyoming State Library: This is one of the best resources for combining all of the current webinars being offered this week. However, it is primarily for LIVE webinars, as opposed to archived webinars.

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Learn the databases

  • ReferenceUSA Learning Center


Other tools

  • Hennepin County Library Staff Development Resources: A really great resource this library system created for their library, with lots of great resources for continuing development.
  • Webinars: Recommended webinars created by Jill Sodt of Mott Community College Library.  
  • Free Webinars and Trainings for Academic Library Workers (COVID-19) This was created for employees of academic libraries, so may have limited use, but may have some useful links
  • Library Staff Training and Development: Webinars Here's another one that looks like it's geared to academic libraries, but still good links.

Recommended Webinars

If you really enjoyed a webinar, please let me know and I'll put it here to recommend it to everyone else!
  • E-Read Texas: If you haven't yet watched this webinar, please do so. It goes into more about the SimplyE program.
  • Mitigating COVID-19 When Managing Paper-Based, Circulating, and Other Types of Collections: Presented by CDC specifically for libraries and similar institutions, a good look at guidelines and ideas, especially for when we finally go back to work. One of the first links on the page is a link to the webinar recording.
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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Policies
    • Notary
    • Meeting Rooms
    • Little Free Libraries
    • Seed Library
    • eBooks
  • Catalog
  • Virtual Branch
    • Resources for Kids and Teens
    • Resources for Adults >
      • Citizenship
      • Computers
      • High School Equivalency
      • Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center
      • Internet
      • Software
    • Resources for Job Seekers >
      • Career Center Plus
      • Resume
    • Resources for Businesses >
      • Reference Solutions >
        • Reference Solutions Case Study
    • Resources for Do-It-Yourselfers >
      • Chilton Car Repair Manuals
      • Small Engine >
        • Tractors
    • Resources for Genealogists
    • Resources for Students >
      • Tutoring
      • College Prep
      • Graduate Admissions
      • School Center
    • Resources in Spanish
  • Genealogy Library
    • Genealogy Lock In
    • Newspapers
    • Yearbooks
  • Events
  • FAQ
  • Support
    • Volunteer
  • Summer Reading Club
  • Contact Us
  • Databases