One of the most valuable assets for a library is the personnel. Managers are instrumental drivers in fostering, mentoring, and developing productive and fulfilled library staff. Improve success and overcome challenges in personnel management including hiring, personnel review, and addressing disciplinary issues. Examine the importance of staff development, coaching, and training.

In the library profession every project is unique, with varying scopes, resources, and requirements. Even for a seasoned librarian, it can be difficult to keep track of project tasks and due dates. Designed for non-project management professionals, this course is a practical introduction to essential project management skills.

Libraries regularly adapt to new technologies, changing user needs, and evolving societal trends as they fulfill their missions to meet the needs of their communities. Through this course, learners will formulate strategies for managing change and mastering the skills and relationships necessary to build a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Library collections contain many types of video formats, from Blu-Ray discs to streaming videos. Using the Resource Description and Access (RDA) instructions relevant to cataloging tangible and digital video recordings, gain proficiency with descriptive elements, choice of preferred source of information, access points, and relationship elements for video content.

Audio recordings require a unique cataloging skillset from working with print books. This workshop covers the RDA instructions relevant to cataloging carrier-based and digital audio recordings. Topics covered include descriptive elements, choice of preferred source of information, access points, and relationship elements. This course is designed for catalogers who feel comfortable with RDA records for print resources and would like to feel more confident about RDA for audio materials.

Limited library budgets can lead many organizations to seek grants to help fund special initiatives, projects, or services. Writing a grant proposal can be a daunting task, tracking all the required forms and documents, in addition to finding a funding source. Grasp the fundamentals of a strong grant proposal, the typical grant review process, and how to ease into the world of grants by locating sources for funding.

This final course in the Metadata Principles and Practices Series focuses on the role of expressing relationships in metadata to enhance resource discovery.

This third course in the Metadata Principles and Practices Series covers the processes by which institutions customize existing metadata standards, exchange and harvest metadata, transform metadata from one standard to another and migrate metadata to a newer standard. Topics to be covered include: metadata quality factors, application profiles, the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, metadata crosswalks and stylesheets.

* This course is eligible for micro-credentialing (optional) - What is micro-credentialing?

In this second course in the series "Metadata Principles and Practices," students will discover how metadata standards are created and explore several standards commonly in use today. Topics include: XML DTDs and schemas; types and examples of metadata currently in use today. This course should be taken after "Metadata Basics," but can be taken without the other two workshops in the series.

* This course is eligible for Micro-Credentialing (optional) - What is Micro-Credentialing?

Do you catalog? Do you plan digital projects? Do you wish to better understand the role of metadata and how it works? This 2-hour course will cover the basics of metadata. Topics include: defining metadata; outlining the purposes and functions of metadata; list the components of a metadata infrastructure and keys to successfully launching a new metadata standard; understand how well formed XML provides a framework for expressing metadata in an online environment.