This series looks really good! Note especially that our own Susan Mann will be one of the authors/presenters, as well as Bob Walton, former TSLAC Automation Consultant and Julie Todaro, Austin Community College Dean of Library Services
Jennifer John Patterson Continuing Education Coordinator Central Texas Library System, Inc. 512-583-0704 x16 ________________________________ From: Ted Wanner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:36 AM To: Staff Development and Continuing Education Providers Interest Group Subject: [ceproviders] New CE program from TLA Collegues in the Staff Development & CE Providers Interest Group - TLA is about to launch a new CE program in October. Some of you have already heard about this program through other channels. We call it the Strategic Initiatives CE Series. The series is a partnership between the Texas Library Journal and the TLA CE office. Each issue of TLJ will feature special articles on a particular family of topics, followed in the next month by a webinar from each author. This new program has begun for many reasons: * It responds to feedback from the TLA membership that they want free or low-cost CE through distance education. This request has been expressed in several surveys, including the 2009 Conference Survey, the Transforming TLA Survey, the Technology Task Force Survey, and the Strategic Plan Survey. * It focuses on broad topics prioritized by the membership in the last Strategic Planning Survey, now formally set in the TLA 2009-2012 Strategic Plan: communication (including, but not limited to, advocacy), collaboration, leadership, and innovation. * These topics also establish a niche for TLA outside of the basic library training that the Systems and ESCs cover so well, and signifcantly different than the great high-end technical courses from Amigos Library Services. The multimedia channel is also unique, combining print articles with live webinars for each presenter. The Fall series will focus on communication. Later seasons will cover collaboration (winter), leadership (spring), and innovation (summer). The number of webinars will vary, but we plan to have enough programs to cover multiple library types. TLA Strategic Initiatives CE Series: Fall 2009 Tuesday, October 13, 3:30-4:15pm Dr. Julie Todaro, "School Library Data: I've called you all here today to..." Julie Todaro, dean of library services for Austin Community College, will show how to use the school data from the recent TLA voter opinion survey to market school library programs and improve communications with local PTAs, support groups, and administrators. She has worked with school library administrators on this issue and chairs the TLA PR Committee. Todaro's webinar will provide realistic, replicable strategies for convincing others to speak out for school libraries. Tuesday, October 20, 2:00-2:45pm Susan Mann, "Building Relationships and Influence That Will Help Your Library" Susan Mann, director of Hillsboro City Library, will provide "in the trench" training on cultivating and influencing elected officials and making sure libraries, librarians, and friends groups are at the decision-making table. Having skillfully negotiated the art of being heard, Mann offers a unique, creative, and practical program for the taking charge of your library's future. Mann follows up with a live online discussion on building relationships and "making a good friendship count": dealing with controversial matters, using relationships to support PR, and reviewing examples of when things go right and wrong. Tuesday, October 27, 2:00-2:45pm Robert Walton, "'Big' Challenges (and Opportunities) for Academic Libraries" Robert Walton, chief executive officer of Claremont University Consortium, and former executive vice president and chief financial officer for Innovative Interfaces, Incorporated, will address the trends and changes he sees facing academic libraries. Now, as an academic administrator, he'll share strategies for advancing academic libraries for the next generation of higher education. Walton's webinar will feature a panel of Texas academic librarians reacting to Walton's ideas and discussing what, from an administrator's perspective, makes librarians credible in the higher education arena. To register: Please visit www.txla.org/ce (TLA members can also register on the Members Only section of the TLA web site - if you do so, the system will automatically populate the registration form with data). Email will be sent to registrants with detailed information on how to log in to the webinar before the event. We carefully chose the ReadyTalk system as our platform, which combines robust cost-efficient technology with great support service, the ability to handle large numbers of attendees, simple control panels for both presenters and participants, and a registration system that could work seamlessly with our existing processes. Participants will need to log in to BOTH a conference call and a web site. The conference call is toll free. The web site requires no special downloads, although it does require Javascript. Participants who are uncertain of their system's ability to connect to an outside webinar can visit https://www.callinfo.com/test.html?host=readytalk to instantly test their computers for working Java. Participants will be able to print certificates of CPE credit for the live events. Non-credit recordings of the webinars will also be available for viewing at a later date. Look for the launch of the Strategic Initiatives Series in the next issue of Texas Library Journal! (coming to you around October 1) Ted Ted Wanner CE Specialist Texas Library Association [email protected] ******************************************************* You are currently subscribed to ceproviders as: [email protected]. Subscription is automatic, based on member preferences. If you would like to be removed from all of your unit distribution lists, please update your membership setting "I do not want to be automatically subscribed to my Unit electronic distribution list(s)" via the Modify Membership Information/Choices found in the Members Only Section of www.txla.org.
