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Don't Miss These Upcoming Infopeople Learning Opportunities

 

 

Creativity and Connection: Engaging Older Adults through the Arts - an Infopeople Webinar. April 18, 2023. 2-3:30 Eastern time, 11-12:30 Pacific time. Elderly woman in a wheelchair painting a watercolor. Infopeople, Lifetime Arts, and Institute of Museum and Library Services logos.

 

Creativity and Connection: Engaging Older Adults Through the Arts

No-Cost Webinar

Participants will learn:

  • Concrete information about how to design and execute this proven program model in libraries
  • Diverse insights from library workers across the country who have implemented effective creative aging programs and partnerships
  • Key techniques for social engagement and artmaking with older adults
  • An orientation to a new self-paced, free online course with step-by-step instructions for implementing and sustaining creative aging programs and partnerships 

 

 

 

 

 

All Work is Team Work - an Infopeople course. LSSC-approved. Instructor: Sharon Morris. May 2 to May 29, 2023. Fee: $200. A diverse trio of people working at a table around a laptop and a stack of papers.

 

All Work Is Team Work

 

Participants will learn:

  • Characteristics of effective teams
  • Tools for decision making
  • Handling difficulties with team communication
  • How to communicate difficult information
  • Skills for making a team effective
  • Roles for high performing teams

 

This course is LSSC-approved.

 

 

 

Technology in Libraries - an Infopeople Course. April 25 to June 5, 2023. LSSC-approved. Instructor: Diana Silveira. Fee: $200. Woman with a prosthetic leg working at a standing desk on a laptop.

 

Technology in Libraries

 

Participants will learn:

  • Common technologies and e-resources in libraries
  • How to use technology to succeed
  • Cybersecurity, privacy, and other current issues
  • How to assist users with technology
  • Innovative technology
  • How to troubleshoot and learn new technologies on your own without being overwhelmed

 

This course is LSSC-approved.

 

 

 

Basic Spanish for Library Staff - an Infopeople course. Instructors: Nicanor Diaz and Sylmarí Burgos-Ramírez. May 9 to June 5, 2023. Fee: $200. A woman sitting on a stack of books working on a laptop with two chat boxes. One box says "Hola" and the other says "Hi".

 

Basic Spanish for Library Staff

 

Participants will:

  • Learn to interact with Spanish-speaking library users with limited basic Spanish
  • Know the most commonly used library terms in Spanish
  • Identify the basic information needs of Spanish-speakers in the community
  • Have access to practice phrases and scenarios to help continue learning beyond the course
  • Understand the diversity among Spanish-speakers, including cultural differences and dialects with the Spanish language
  • Identify best practices for serving Spanish-speaking patrons at their library

 

 

 

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