ASERL-Selectives Mailing List: FW: REMINDER: ASERL webinars: Offering Service in a Time of Global Disruption

[Cheryle Cole-Bennett (ccole-bennett]

Good morning ASERL Friends,
I am forwarding an email announcement of several new ASERL webinars that might 
be of interest.  
Please feel free to share with colleagues as desired.
Thanks!
Cheryle

Cheryle Cole-Bennett, Program Coordinator
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)
℅ Robert W. Woodruff Library
540 Asbury Circle, Suite 316
Atlanta, GA  30322-1006
Telephone:  470-222-4960
ccole-bennett [at] aserl.org

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Subject: [aserl-ill] REMINDER: ASERL webinars: Offering Service in a Time of 
Global Disruption


ASERL Friends:

A reminder that we are offering a raft of new webinars to support our members 
during this time of global disruption.  Please see below for the list of April 
sessions; more webinars are in the works for May. Below you'll also see a list 
of recorded webinars from the 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting of the Washington 
Research Library Consortium, shared with permission from our WRLC colleagues.  

All of the following information is also available on the www.aserl.org 
homepage. 

Upcoming ASERL-hosted Webinars
The Last Piece of the Puzzle: One Library's Experience with Successful MLIS 
Student Internships April 9, 2020 at 2pm ET / 1pm Central Time
REGISTER: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6196348761628324875
29 people registered as of April 5, 2020

How We Talk, How We Work
April 14, 2020 at 2pm ET / 1pm Central Time This hands-on, interactive webinar 
helps participants understand themselves better so that they can continue 
contribute to a healthy work environment.  Topics include Emotional 
Intelligence, soliciting and providing constructive feedback, active listening 
and understanding different communication styles.
REGISTER: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1202014005118459403
142 people registered as of April 5, 2020

Not Just a Number: Negotiating Salary in Academic Archives and Special 
Collections April 16, 2020 at 2pm ET / 1pm Central Time
Although this is geared for new grads, the presenters are going to focus on 
salary negotiations skills that will benefit all employees.   
REGISTER: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3206133428297890315
91 people registered as of April 5 

Self-Advocacy: Using your Voice and Presence to Better Your Environment April 
20, 2020 at 2pm ET / 1pm Central Time This interactive webinar will explore 
self-advocacy, speaking up, and putting one's ideas into action when working in 
a team environment. Attendees will learn how they can use their voice and 
presence to benefit their coworkers, the community they serve, and themselves.  
REGISTER: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5383153260318604045
92 people registered as of April 5, 2020 

Overview of UVA's Digital Project Framework April 23, 2020 at 2pm ET / 1pm 
Central Time
REGISTER: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3531359075251710475
33 people registered as of April 5, 2020

Hook Line and Sinker: Reeling in Your Patrons April 24, 2020 at 2pm ET / 1pm 
Central Time
Library spaces play an essential role for our customers and students by 
providing safe, comfortable places to study and collaborate.  Attempting to 
build community and reel our patrons into these opportunities, we began a 
program to engage users in the library spaces.  This presentation will describe 
how we recognized the need for change and implemented programming to connect 
with our users.   Some of the most successful programs will be highlighted as 
well as lessons learned and next steps.
REGISTER: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3732088117142844939
57 people registered as of April 5, 2020

Are Leaders/Managers Born, or Made? 
April 28, 2020 at 2pm ET / 1pm Central Time Strong leadership is the most 
significant driver of high morale and productivity. In fact, poorly trained, 
inadequate leaders cost large organizations billions of dollars lost in 
productivity, low morale, and turnover. On the other hand, successful 
organizations are full of strong, passionate leaders who make a real 
difference. The question is:  Are these leaders born or made?
REGISTER: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7152156418657284364
84 people registered as of April 5, 2020

Developing Digital Scholarly Research Systems April 29, 2020 at 4pm ET / 3pm 
Central Time
REGISTER: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1599918467118627854
39 people registered as of April 5, 2020

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Recorded webinars from WRLC's 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting

Cultivating Leadership in the Next Generation of Librarians
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/_MeubXNPWEE What does leadership or management 
mean to you? Is it limited to a title in your organization's hierarchy? 
Cultivating value in your organization can be challenging no matter the 
position you hold. If leadership is about influence and vision, it shouldn't be 
limited by position. Our speakers discuss what being a leader means to them 
within the context of both formal and informal opportunities to influence 
individuals and outcomes. 

Personal librarianship: Impact on Information Literacy Confidence and Academic 
Outcomes
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/FAe3rFixH6c  Many academic libraries have 
implemented personal librarian programs, seeking to improve relationships with 
students and reduce library anxiety. This session shares early findings and 
lessons from a personal librarian research study at the University of District 
of Columbia that occurred in a general education class during the fall 2019 
semester. Speakers discuss the pros/cons of our approach and how, if at all, 
personal librarians supported student success. 

Saving Their Memories: Oral History Capture and Curation
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/mRt1LV5Rcmo Interested in setting up an oral 
history program for your institution, and not sure what is involved? Speakers 
discuss George Mason's experience in putting one together, maintaining, and 
growing it, with respect to personnel, equipment, workflows, and best 
practices. 

Using APIs to Increase Alma Workflow Efficiency
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/QGpN6_4aJXA Staff at the Washington Research 
Library Consortium have developed applications to facilitate working with the 
records for materials in each member library's Alma Institution Zone. These 
applications can create or edit fields in the bibliographic, holding and item 
records without using the Alma interface or user roles. The applications can be 
especially beneficial for library staff and student assistants who do not need 
full resource management privileges to perform a discrete task. Recently 
completed apps have improved Alma workflows for the Shared Collections 
Facility, leading to significant improvement in efficiency and cost control. 

Using Alma Analytics In Our Day-To-Day Work
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/WcODy53_HLs  The Alma Analytics Training Team has 
been helping individuals build their capacity to use the Alma Analytics tool 
since July 2018. Twenty months later, WRLC libraries are able to see the impact 
of the tool on their day-to-day work. A panel of Analytics users will share 
specific examples of reports, how they are used, and how their workflows have 
changed since the migration.

The Living Alma Community Zone Community: Working with Community Contributed 
Records and Collections
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/GPqiwNY_YJs  The Alma Community Zone (CZ) is a 
centralized, comprehensive platform focused on electronic resource offerings, 
leveraging community cataloging and knowledge. The CZ is an ever-evolving and 
increasingly complex resource that librarians and paraprofessional staff must 
learn to navigate effectively. Ex Libris User communities have often voiced 
dissatisfaction with the overall quality of the metadata within the CZ, 
particularly for ebooks. Through Community Contributed Records and Collections, 
Ex Libris users have the opportunity to contribute robust metadata directly to 
the CZ-empowering users with useful tools that can help shape and raise the 
overall bibliographic standard of CZ metadata.

A New Approach to Finding Aid Displays with Web CMS
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/SERaEEb5PM8  Catholic University Libraries' 
website transitioned to a new University enterprise Content Management System 
(CMS) in 2019. The libraries' Web Team used this opportunity to implement 
substantive enhancements to the appearance of its finding aids to archival 
collections. This presentation discusses this process and the improvements, 
setbacks, and lessons learned.

Supporting Faculty Research with Online Exhibition Software Platforms: Tropy, 
WordPress, ESRI StoryMaps, and Omeka-S
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/TlflhcLmjtE  Learn about a collaboration between 
American University Library and AU's Center for Teaching, Research, and 
Learning to promote online exhibition platforms as a way of showcasing faculty 
research.  Speakers provide use cases and examples for each platform (i.e., 
Tropy, WordPress, ESRI StoryMaps and Omeka-S).

Web Accessibility Strategies for the New Decade
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/AZP49ivSyQo  Section 508 was added to the 
Rehabilitation Act in 1998 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 
became a W3C recommendation in 1999. Despite these laws and guidelines having 
now been in place for over twenty years, the progression of Web technology and 
the corresponding evolution of accessibility recommendations has made 
compliance, if anything, even more difficult. The presenter gives a brief 
overview of recent accessibility-related developments followed by a 
demonstration of accessibility evaluation and remediation techniques of varying 
technological complexity. 

Absentee Ballot Day in the Library
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/eVUCT_Kp5cY  In 2018, the American University 
Library held its first Absentee Ballot Day and helped over 1,000 students 
request absentee ballots. Gwendolyn Reece has created an Absentee Ballot Day 
toolkit, started a listserv for collaboration and will share all you need to 
host an Absentee Ballot Day at your library. The WRLC Library Directors Council 
has endorsed the idea. 

DIY VHS Preservation for Libraries
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/E0Z7FTJx_4w  By the end of the decade, library VHS 
collections will be unusable due to degradation and obsolescence. Faced with 
losing access to their collection of 4000+ out-of-distribution VHS titles, the 
American University Library developed a comprehensive do-it-yourself plan to 
preserve their collection. Chris Lewis and Phil Salvador from American 
University explain their VHS preservation project and how it fits within their 
collection management responsibilities. Their project offers a potential 
blueprint for others to develop a practical, cost-effective process to preserve 
their collections.

Getting Started with Library Privacy: Privacy Practices for Library Personnel
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/FrXWSLZcT44  Listen to this session to learn some 
concrete skills and attitudes that can help protect the privacy of our 
communities. The speakers start with the concept of "threat modeling" to help 
viewers understand the risks to their data from a more theoretical perspective, 
and then move to concrete best practices to protect our data at both 
organizational and individual levels. They look at toolkits such as the ALA 
Library Privacy Checklists, EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense training and the 
Library Bill of Rights. You'll leave with a list of actions you could take to 
improve web privacy for yourself and your organization.

Teaching Computational Skills with the Carpentries
RECORDING:  https://youtu.be/jHoAHUb9ekQ  As a means to address the ever 
increasing need for computational skills across disciplines and departments, 
many libraries and other research services providers on campuses around the 
globe have been participating in the Carpentries, a community-driven, global 
organization focused on teaching data and coding skills with evidence-based 
instruction practices. In this presentation, librarians from George Washington 
and George Mason Universities introduce the Carpentries, describe their 
participation in this effort at each school, and outline future plans for 
instruction and other services around computational literacy.

Please share any/all with your teams and colleagues as desired.  And please let 
us know if we can be of service in other ways.  Take care, all!

--jeb

John Burger, Executive Director
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) c/o Robert W. Woodruff 
Library
540 Asbury Circle, Suite 316
Atlanta, GA  30322

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