Participants will leave this presentation with ideas on how to reach residents who may not regularly utilize the library. This presentation focuses on creative ways to partner with other local organizations, and we will share our success stories of how we were able to bring in more patrons with our outreach efforts.
Date Recorded: 7/8/2026
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Jackilyn Roseberry, Director / Fremont Area District Library (Fremont, Michigan)
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Is your organization ready if you win the lottery, get hit by a horse and buggy, retire, or simply move on in your career? If you start creating a transition guide now, you can put your library on the right path to success with or without your leadership. There are many ways to gather institutional knowledge, but this presentation will showcase the resource that I was able to create for my library using Microsoft 365, OneNote, and OneDrive. The beauty of using technology to create a library brain is that it can be easily updated, accessed remotely, and shared with others.
Date Recorded: 6/24/2026
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Wendy Moulton, Director / Abilene Public Library (Abilene, Kansas)
We will review the key publications and specialized content available in each database, execute basic and advanced search strategies, review custom tools and functionality, and showcase the promotional materials available to increase the visibility and usage of these resources at your library.
Join us to review the new additions to your EBSCO subscription:
Presenter Shana Ashwood-Viala is a Senior Customer Training Specialist at EBSCO with more than 15 years of experience serving the EdTech community. She is passionate about education, having started her career as a teacher in New York City. Shana holds a BBA in Marketing from Temple University and an MA in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She works from her home in New York, where she resides with her son and husband, spending most of their free time on the baseball field!
Date Recorded: 6/17/2026
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Shana Ashwood-Viala, Senior Customer Training Specialist / EBSCO Information Services
Discover how tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) are ideal professional development tools for focusing on enhancing skills that build instructional confidence. This session introduces a practical approach to using interactive, story-driven scenarios to strengthen teaching techniques, classroom management, collaboration, and on-the-fly problem solving skills that directly enhance patron interactions. Attendees will take away ideas for running their own adaptable scenarios they can plug into existing training, as well as tips for helping staff reflect, apply what they practiced, and transfer those skills to their instruction and presentations. This session aims to inspire library staff to adopt game-based learning for continuous improvement, ensuring instruction librarians are creative, adaptable educators in any setting.
Date Recorded: 6/10/2026
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenters: Justin Harrison, Business Undergraduate Program Librarian and Tracey Rinehart, Instruction Coordinator and Business Graduate Programs Librarian / both of Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas)
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Join us for an insightful webinar designed specifically for libraries on how to use Microsoft Teams as an effective communication tool at all levels of your organization. Learn from Emily Ellis, Director of Greenwood Public Library, as she shares her 18 years of experience transitioning staff from tools like Google Docs and Trillian to Teams.
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Believing strongly that some change is good, Emily Ellis has 18 years of experience working with an amazing staff who is adverse to “new” – especially technology. While serving as Assistant Director she somehow managed to get her building of 30+ employees to not only start using Microsoft Teams, but embracing it as a positive…over the course of a year. Now as Director of Greenwood Public Library, she is dedicated to finding other “new” ideas that improve communication, efficiency, and productivity within her building.
Date Recorded: 5/27/2026
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Emily Ellis, Executive Director / Greenwood Public Library
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This workshop will walk participants through the full lifecycle of a successful community placemaking project, from grant award to ribbon cutting. Jaime Pitt, Director of the Marion Public Library, and Kelsey Winters, Project Lead, will share their firsthand experiences obtaining a Community Placemaking Grant and partnering with Project for Public Spaces (PPS) to reimagine the library’s outdoor courtyard. Presenters will discuss the project process from design to implementation, and how meaningful community engagement and collaboration shaped this public space from start to finish. The session will conclude with lessons learned and insights on celebrating the completed project with the community, offering practical guidance and takeaways for libraires and organizations undertaking similar placemaking initiatives.
Date Recorded: 5/13/2026
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenters: Jaime Pitt, Director and Kelsey Winters, Head of Museum Services & Special Projects / Marion Public Library & History Center
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Have you ever said, “why don’t people come to our library programs?” Often events grow from ideas someone at the library has for what they think will be a great program, but what if we instead look outward, asking our communities to help develop programming that will be of interest to them. Attendees will learn how they can move from a library-centric approach — to program planning — to one that more effectively engages our communities. You’ll feel both recognized in the library’s programming offerings, but also feel engaged in the process of program development, and explore how IMLS’s asset mapping tools can reshape the way we look at collaboration.
Date Recorded: 3/25/2026
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Barry Trott, Adult Services Consultant / Library of Virginia
Join director Nicki Kirchoff on a recorded tour of her new library, inside the Love Community Center of Rushville, Indiana. This event will be hosted by Meg Pool from the Indiana State Library, and the tour will showcase the new Rushville Public Library, the Love Community Center’s other services inside the building, and the Love Community Center’s background. As we navigate the future, Nicki will share why this special opportunity to be part of Rushville’s community center was the best decision for them, and how it has impacted the community they serve. Come join us, and bring your questions!
Nicki Kirchoff has served twenty years as a public school librarian, serving grades k-12 (15 of those years in the middle school)! Nicki currently serves as director of the Rushville Public Library, with her first day on May 28, 2020. I’m incredibly lucky to do a job and have a life that 13-year old me would think is so cool. “Libraries? Books? And play outside whenever I’m not with libraries and books? How awesome is that?!” Ever since Nicki became director at Rushville Public Library, she had goals to be county wide. Nicki started talking and meeting about the Community Center, July 1, 2020. What was a long and tedious endeavor, paid off and has become a community hub county wide for Rush County.
Date Recorded: 3/11/2026
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Nicki Kirchoff, Director / Rushville Public Library
This webinar will discuss foresight (or futures thinking) and how strategically thinking about the future can support the people that work in libraries, the library organization, and the community the library serves. With insights from a group of library staff across the state of Idaho, library consultants at the Idaho Commission for Libraries have been investigating how to incorporate thinking about the future into library work and developing fun ways to share what they’ve learned. Their newest toolkit, the Things From Future Libraries Toolkit, provides a guide for anyone to put on a creative, participatory design workshop where attendees imagine and prototype an object from a library in a future they select.
Annie Gaines is the Continuing Education Consultant for the Idaho Commission for Libraries, where she connects the people who work in all types of libraries to provide training and support to reach their future goals. She has experience working in academic and public libraries (her very first job was as a teenage library page in her local public library) and has earned certificates in strategic foresight, facilitation, and instructional design.
Date Recorded: 2/25/2026
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenters: Annie Gaines, Continuing Education Consultant / Idaho Commission for Libraries
Want to bring Library Con to your library? Learn how our library held a full day, system-wide library con across three locations. We’ll share our strategy for working with community partners to offer LARP demonstrations, Dungeons & Dragons and other TTRPGs, cosplay demos and miniature painting, a costume contest, and an outdoor movie night. All of this and more to engage new library patrons while highlighting services, programs and collections.
Date Recorded: 2/11/2026
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenters: Caele Pemberton, Head of Marketing and Community Engagement and Ben Rutz, Digital Media Coordinator / Kokomo-Howard County Public Library