Like many other organizations, the Oregon Library Association was forced to cancel their annual conference this year because of Covid-19.  To honor library workers in the Pacific Northwest,  ESU worked with the association to create a series of free webinars, which they will make available each day this week.  For those of you looking for new professional development opportunities they can do from home, these could be a nice way to attend a conference without leaving your dining room!

 

Here's info on today's session.

 

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The School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University invites you to join us Tuesday for the first of this week’s free webinars celebrating the work of Pacific Northwest library staff.

 

Building Community through Book Clubs, presented by Davina Morgan-Witts, BookBrowse.com

 

Tuesday, April 28

1 p.m. PDT / 2 p.m. MDT / 3 p.m. CDT / 4 p.m. EDT

 

Join the webinar: https://emporiastate.zoom.us/j/95726159114

Explore actionable insights from BookBrowse’s 2019 report, “The Inner Lives of Book Clubs,” based on two surveys of more than 5,000 book club members. Topics include: How the world of book groups is much broader than most perceive it to be; common factors of successful groups; what book clubs look for in their books; what people want from a book group, and how public libraries are well-placed to meet this need. The program also will touch on ideas for taking in-person book clubs online during the COVID-19 pandemic. All attendees will receive a free PDF of the full 60-page report.

 

Davina Morgan-Witts is the publisher of BookBrowse.com, one of the internet’s leading resources for inquiring readers. BookBrowse has researched book clubs and readers in general for more than 15 years, during which time it has surveyed more than 20,000 readers. Find more information about BookBrowse for Libraries at https://bookbrowse.com/lib, and about the report at https://bookbrowse.com/innnerlives

 

Join the webinar:  https://emporiastate.zoom.us/j/95726159114

 

Learn more about this and other SLIM webinars on our website:   https://sites.google.com/g.emporia.edu/slim/continuing-education/webinars

 

I'll post more info about other webinars shortly.

 

Tina