Register Today for the April Professional Development Webinar
AzLA Professional Development
Please join the AzLA Professional Development Committee for the April webinar.
This webinar is free to all librarians and library workers. Feel free to share it with your library colleagues.
Can't attend the live webinar? Register and you'll be sent a follow-up email with a link to the recorded webinar to watch at your convenience.
Registration Link:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R3Rgx2wRSMmwRc7XvchvAA
Program Description:
Migrating to Zoomland, USA has amplified a problem we have all experienced: the agonizing meeting. Maybe you’re in your 4th back-to-back meeting of the day without a break, one person takes the whole thing off course, nothing gets accomplished, or the dreaded “This should have been an email!” And that’s how we all end up in a “room” full of folks with cameras off so they can hide their uncontrollable eye-rolls and facepalms - an option that won’t be available when/if we ever meet in person again. In this interactive session, participants will learn how to become better facilitators in order to host more productive, meaningful, and useful gatherings. This meeting-about-meetings will discuss what makes in-person, virtual, and hybrid meetings go poorly and how to address those problems in advance and in the moment. Participants will walk away with tools for intentional preparation, tips for encouraging discussion from silent voices, and advice for useful follow-ups. Meetings may never be a blast, but they definitely don’t need to be terrible.
What participants can expect:
Collaborative docs
Multiple screens or browser tabs
Active participation, best if you can use chat
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TRqNm-vgBQsG9lDJNJvW3FLIvcfz53_GFWf0p1WdOJc/edit?usp=sharing
Presenters:
Bridget Wipf is the librarian for Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences at Northern Arizona University. Bridget is passionate about making libraryland a better place for employees and patrons alike, and has spent much of her career trying to empower fellow library workers to create meaningful change from the ground up. When she isn’t attached to a computer or a classroom, you can find Bridget reading true crime and telling her dogs to stop snoring.
Chris Holthe is the Experiential Learning Librarian at Northern Arizona University's Cline Library and has worked to provide high-quality educational experiences in both public and academic libraries for the past ten years. Chris specializes in incorporating immersive technologies and experience-based learning opportunities into the curriculum, most notably through the application of extended reality experiences (virtual reality and augmented reality). Chris is also a published author and seasoned presenter.
Lauren Clementino
AzLA Professional Development Chair
Reference Supervisor
Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library