This session covers the employment services that WorkOne provides. From Career Counseling to Job Referrals to Hiring Events to Workshops to Training Assistance, WorkOne has much to offer. After this workshop, attendees will understand the value and accessibility of WorkOne services.
Date Recorded: 3/26/2024
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Bryann H. Gibson, Sr. Outreach and WorkOne System Liaison / WorkOne
In this webinar, you will learn about the talking book library. Who they are, what they do, who they serve, and the programs and services they provide.
Date Recorded: 2/28/2024
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Abby Chumin, librarian at the Talking Book and Braille Library / Indiana State Library
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Over the last decade many areas in the state of Indiana have paid increasing attention to individuals living with dementia, primarily due to the rapid growth of the elderly population. Thrive Alliance and Bartholomew County Public Library have formed a partnership to work with individuals that are experiencing memory issues. This partnership has included working with music, delivering educational programs to the community at large and to the staff at the library, circulating kits targeting this population, and many more services. Come learn about how Thrive Alliance and Bartholomew Public Library evaluated and implemented these services.
Date Recorded: 1/11/2023
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenters: Sue Lamborn / Thrive Alliance and Sandy Allman / Bartholomew County Public Library
An introduction to how to assist patrons in the application of digital resources. Emma will be discussing the Affordable Connectivity Program and ways to assist digital skills development.
Presenter: Emma Woods, Digital Inclusion Fellow / Indiana State Library
Date Recorded: 07/12/2023
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Emma is an Americorps member serving through the American Connection Corps program run by the Purdue Center for Regional Development and Lead for America. In her previous role, she served the Uplands region of Indiana in developing county and regional-level digital inclusion plans.
Building on the ideas presented in the Digital Inclusion 101 webinar, this webinar will further detail the resources available to bridge the digital equity gap.
Presenter: Emma Woods, Digital Inclusion Fellow / Indiana State Library
Emma is an Americorps member serving through the American Connection Corps program run by the Purdue Center for Regional Development and Lead for America. In her previous role, she served the Uplands region of Indiana in developing county and regional-level digital inclusion plans.
Date Recorded: 06/14/2023
Format: Archived YouTube Video
An introduction to how to assist patrons in the application of digital resources. Emma will be discussing the Affordable Connectivity Program and ways to assist digital skills development.
Presenter: Emma Woods, Digital Inclusion Fellow / Indiana State Library
Emma is an Americorps member serving through the American Connection Corps program run by the Purdue Center for Regional Development and Lead for America. In her previous role, she served the Uplands region of Indiana in developing county and regional-level digital inclusion plans.
Date Recorded: 5/31/2023
Format: Archived YouTube Video
2-1-1 is a free and confidential service that helps Hoosiers across Indiana find the resources they need. Dial 2-1-1 to speak to a community navigator. 2-1-1 is available 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Date Recorded: 03/16/2022
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenters: Presenters: Lizzy McGrevy, Domestic Violence Outreach Specialist, Indiana 211 Partnership Inc, and Seth Pennington, Program Director, FSSA.
This webinar is eligible for Library Education Units for Indiana Librarians. The following policy applies: Any time a staff member views an online event (or a library purchases a site license for an online event) by any of the Training Providers Approved by ISL for LEUs, the library’s designee in an administrative or Human Resources role shall create and award LEU certificates in-house.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committees are a great first step towards strategically ensuring that those facing barriers to library services in our communities are given access and opportunities. During this webinar, three different libraries will share their experiences with starting, maintaining, and moving forward with EDI committees. They’ll share what inspired them to begin, how they formed the committee, where they are now, and how they hope to keep growing in the future.
Date Recorded: 3/15/22
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenters: Shelby Couch and Robyn Bowers, Hussey-Mayfield Public Library / Angie Garrett, Amy Russell, and Ashley Meyers, Kokomo-Howard County Public Library / Whitney Woody and Keeley Waters, Johnson County Public Library
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Creating welcoming spaces for members of the LGBTQ+ community is easier than you might think. In this session you’ll learn some of the small and big things you can do to help create those spaces for not just patrons, but also your coworkers and employees.
Date Recorded: 9/17/21
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Jayne Walters, Indianapolis Public Library
How do you serve people in your community who are unable get in to your library? How do you find those people? What kind of programs or services could be offered to them? These questions plague libraries everywhere. Learn how we identified our target patron groups, partnered with community agencies to identify patrons, young and not so young, who would benefit from outreach programming, and how we used materials and staff on hand to add outreach to our service repertoire.
Angie Bates is currently the Assistant Director of Perry Memorial Library in Henderson, North Carolina, but she’s not always been a librarian. She taught in elementary schools all across the United States from 1986–2009. In 2010, she graduated from North Carolina Central University with my MLS and began her new career as a youth librarian. She has been blessed to experience many sides of public librarianship; youth and adult services, cataloging, and now administration. Her next adventure is to go beyond her library’s walls through outreach services.
Date Recorded: 2/26/20
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenter: Angie Bates / Perry Memorial Library, Assistant Director (Henderson, North Carolina)