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Library Management: Managing from the Middle

Middle managers are the liaisons between their employees and library administrators. Managers can feel caught in the middle as they listen to and serve both sides. Successfully working with the administration while fostering a rapport with direct reports is a crucial driver of success. Managers will gain a foundation to successfully manage from the middle by formulating strategies to build relationships, establish workplace balance, gain senior management’s confidence, and avoid common mistakes.

Library Management: Managing Personnel

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.

Library Management: Managing Change

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.

RDA for Video Recordings

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.

RDA for Audio Recordings

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.

Getting Started with Grant Writing

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.

Metadata Relationships

Relationships are essential in metadata - linking between related resources or parts that make up a whole, keeping metadata linked with the resources it describes, adding meaning and context to resources, and fostering discovery across resources.

Metadata Quality, Customization, Exchange, and Transformation

Good metadata conforms to community standards in ways that are appropriate to the collection's materials, users, and future uses. In so doing, metadata supports interoperability while describing objects and collocating related objects. Examine the processes used to assess metadata quality and learn why some institutions may seek to customize metadata. Learn methods for exchanging and harvesting metadata and how metadata can be transformed between formats.

Metadata Standards and Types

Metadata can be guided by different kinds of standards, including content, value, format, and exchange. And, at the same time, there are different types of metadata - descriptive, technical, structural, administrative and more. Understanding how standards are developed, those commonly used today, and the types of metadata and their applications helps support the creation, management, and exchange of metadata across systems. Additional coverage addresses XML DTDs and schemas, well-formed and valid XML, and strategies for reading and interpreting metadata standards.

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