Professional Development | Council of Chief Librarians

Listed below are selected professional development opportunities of possible interest to CCL librarians and library staff, with descriptions from providers or creators. If there are errors or you have additions, email pd@cclibrarians.org. Items are listed in chronological order within categories, in Pacific Time. Make sure to confirm registration requirements, deadlines, start times.

11 April 2024: Professional Development Opportunities for Librarians and Library Staff

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Upcoming Opportunities

Monday, April 15, 2024, 9a - The GPT Dilemma: The Pros, Cons, and Impacts on Learning (webinar), University Maryland, Baltimore County: Join discussion the pros and cons of GPT in education, considering its impact on your learning, future career, and life in an AI-driven era, using examples from Dr. Chen's experience teaching two Data Science courses (one undergraduate and one graduate level). Part of Webinar Series: AI Privacy and Ethics: Unpacking the Questions Surrounding Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education.
Monday, April 15, 2024, 9:30a - Fostering Inclusive Mentorship: Strategies for Supporting Librarians Across Their Careers (webinar), Colorado State University Libraries: Colorado State University Libraries is working to re-envision its faculty mentoring program, centering inclusivity in the process.
Monday, April 15, 2024, 11a - Interactive Presentation on Anti-racism in Teaching Online (webinar), ACRL Distance and Online Learning Section: The inaugural professional development offering by DOLS Anti-racism and EDI Committee, facilitated by Dr. Maha Kumaran, initiator and co-founder of the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada Network. Dr. Kumaran's research is primarily directed towards equity, diversity, and inclusion among the library workforce, diversity in library collections and services, and libraries’ ability to meet and serve the needs of diverse user groups.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 9a - Telling Your Story: Effective Faculty Outreach (webinar), University of Central Missouri's Library Science and Information Services.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 9a-4p - Information & Democracy: Education, Access, Libraries, and Society (ID:EALS) Symposium (free symposium), Institute for Information Literacy Purdue University: The 2024 symposium will highlight innovative research investigating the relationship between information use and different types of identifies. The symposium emphasizes information challenges such as inequitable access to health information, mis/mis-information, conspiracism.
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 10a - Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Metadata (webinar), Digital Public Library of America: Capturing information about gender and sexuality in descriptive metadata often surfaces questions and unique considerations about how to effectively maximize exposure of diverse collections without mislabeling or putting members of vulnerable communities at increased risk.

Conference

April 15-18, 2024, beginning at 10a - All Things Open Week 2024, Kennesaw State University Libraries, in collaboration with Texas Tech University Libraries: Explore a variety of open scholarship practices at our second annual. Open access publishing, data, educational resources, pedagogy, science and more.

Podcasts

Mt. San Antonio College: "An exploration of professional development related topics by and for faculty at Mt. San Antonio College” with many of the podcasts focused on community college teaching and learning. The most recent podcast is the audio from a keynote given by Mt. SAC Librarian E. Chisato Uyeki on a sabbatical project, entitled, "Moving from Burnout to Resiliency."

4 April 2024: Professional Development Opportunities for Librarians and Library Staff

Upcoming Opportunities

Thursday, April 4, 2024, 11a - AI Ethics, Governance, Policy, and Practice in Higher Education: A Strategic Webcast for Leaders and Practitioners (webinar), Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education: Join an insightful and comprehensive webcast as we delve into the critical intersection of AI ethics, governance, policy, and practice within the realm of higher education.
Thursday, April 4, 2024, 2-3p - Accessible Videos (training), California Community Colleges Accessibility Center: Learn about making your web and online class videos more accessible to all users. This session will go beyond captions to explore the world of audio description and address video player accessibility. Accessibility Center team members will be joined by representatives from CCC TechConnect.
Friday, April 5, 2024, 11a - The Emerging Discipline of Information Literacy: A Conversation (webinar), ALA Library Research Roundtable (LRRT): Is Information Literacy (IL) a discipline in itself? That is the contention of the Information Literacy Handbook: Charting the Discipline (to be published 2025) and the organization that put the work together. The presentation features highlights from the Handbook as a means to define IL and to illustrate how the disciplinary features are manifest.
Monday, April 8, 2024, 9a - The Librarian is In: Q&A with Ray Pun on All Things AI (webinar), University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Do you have any burning questions about ChatGPT and other LLMs? What does the current landscape in libraries and higher education look like with the presence of AI? What about artificial intelligence and its impact on the environment? Part of Webinar Series: AI Privacy and Ethics: Unpacking the Questions Surrounding Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education.
Monday, April 8, 2024, 10a - Book Discussion (webinar), ACRL Instruction Section: A discussion of the book Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning by Susan Hrach, which aims to help instructors improve their students’ knowledge and skills through physical movement, attention to the spatial environment, and sensitivity to humans as more than “brains on sticks.” It shifts the focus of adult learning from an exclusively mental effort toward an embodied, sensory-rich experience, offering new strategies to maximize the effectiveness of time spent learning together on campus as well as remotely.
Mondays, April 8 & 22, 2024, 10-11a - Neurodivergent Leadership (webinar series), CALL: Series will cover topics like setting boundaries, scripts for self-advocacy, popular tools and tricks for meeting neurotypical work needs in a way that supports a neurodiverse employee, and how to offer support without burning yourself out.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 10a-12p - No More Neutral: How to Champion the Right to Read (webinar), CALL, Participants will learn how to clarify their library’s policies, solidify their library’s positions, and clearly communicate their library’s mission, vision, and values. Learn tactics to use to rally community and stakeholder support and how to handle communications should your library be the focus of a book challenge.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 1p - National Library Week with Meg Medina (webinar), REFORMA National: REFORMA National, in partnership with Candlewick, will be hosting Meg Medina, Honorary Chair of National Library Week this year. Meg will share her new book No More Señora Mimí and engage in a conversation about the importance of storytelling and the vital role that libraries play in communities. A brief presentation from Children in Crisis will be included, describing the support being provided to children detained at the border.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 10:30a - Simplify Techniques for Mastering Data Viz: A Fundamental Approach to Learning about Data and Visualization Software (webinar), LibraryLinkNJ: This webinar will explore three data visualization softwares that can be taught to classes, faculty, and staff on a fundamental level, and will provide a step-by-step approach to learning how to collect data and use popular data visualization software, as well as ways to incorporate these techniques into our work routine and pedagogical strategies for students.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 11a-12p - Perspectives of Value: Using Language to Change Perceived Value of the Library (webinar), PCI Webinars: This webinar will discuss how language is used and how it can change the value of the library by retraining word choice and learn how to advocate for your library.
Thursday, April 11, 2024, 11a-12p - Beyond the Budget Crunch: Building an Affordable Collection with a Multi-Model Approach (webinar), Choice: Explore core benefits and risks of various content acquisition models. Discover strategies for navigating budget constraints while ensuring sustainability and accessibility. Dive into the role of open access in library collections, weighing its benefits and drawbacks against the need for diverse content.

Courses

Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 10a-12p - No More Neutral: How to Champion the Right to Read, CALL: In this course, participants will learn how to clarify their library’s policies, solidify their library’s positions, and clearly communicate their library’s mission, vision, and values. Learn tactics to use to rally community and stakeholder support and how to handle communications should your library be the focus of a book challenge.
April, 11, 18, & 25, 2024, 11a-1p (3-week course) - Trauma-Informed Librarianship: Centering Relationships and Care, Library Journal: Geared toward public-facing librarians and staff, all levels of librarians, including managers and directors, will benefit from learning how to create trauma-informed library cultures.

Podcasts

The Librarian Linkover: Guests on The Librarian Linkover highlight the array of skills that librarians use in leadership roles in libraries, as well as how they use their library degrees to work in other industries.
T is for Training: Dedicated to improvement through learning. Also, it is about training, presenting, learning, teaching, understanding and compassion. Started in 2008 this program seeks to expand the conversation and have a good time while doing it.

Reminder

CCL and LSP topics are covered in LSP Wednesday Webinars, available live on Wednesdays at 11am and archived on the LSP website.

This weekly email has been sent as part of a pilot project of the Council of Chief Librarians (CCL), seeking to identify professional development opportunities for CCL colleagues—in addition to those offered by CCL—and disseminate information about these opportunities through email, CCL website and other appropriate methods.