Hi everyone,
Whether you were in Charlotte or back at home, I hope you had a truly wonderful 2022 SLA Annual Conference. A reminder that you can still watch all of the live and recorded sessions via the conference website (as long as you registered). See below for links to all of the LMD sessions!
10 Project Management Must-HavesSpeakers: Melissa Fraser-Arnott, Janel Kinlaw
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Presentation Duration: 30 minutes
https://cdmcd.co/v9pqmADoes it seem like everyone has a theory or philosophy when it comes to project management? How about some good, old practical suggestions!? This presentation will cover helpful tools and tricks to cover project management for libraries.
Don't Be ROI Shy!Speakers: Mary Ellen Bates, John DiGilio, Gabriele Hysong
Presentation Duration: 45 minutes
Co-sponsor: Legal, Transportation
https://cdmcd.co/dEbapJAre you worried about the viability of your library? Does calculating your library's return-on-investment keep you up at night? Let us help you! This panel will dive into the tips and tricks for delivering the hard numbers that prove the value of our services. Learn from real-life examples of how specialized librarians utilize ROI in their work.
Getting New Employees Over the Year-One HumpSpeakers: Dan Bostrom, Eugene Giudice
9:35 AM – 10:05 AM
Presentation Duration: 30 minutes
Co-sponsor: Legal
https://cdmcd.co/6Zmn3BWith libraries struggling to balance priorities and more employees working from home, getting new hires to feel like part of the team is harder than ever. This session, geared primarily towards middle managers, will cover the steps leaders need to take to orient and make their new hires feel comfortable in the critical first year. The panel will pay special attention to how new hires from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds can feel more at home with your library.
Honing Your Burn-Out DetectorSpeaker: Emma Moore
Presentation Duration: 45 minutes
https://cdmcd.co/q95w8jThe pandemic has taken a toll on the library workers. Managing stress and utilizing emotional intelligence can help prevent burn-out and make your teams feel more at ease during difficult times. Valuing these tools can also help promote healing and empower your teams to care for one another. This presentation will focus on using emotional intelligence to address equity, diversity, and inclusion and shaping a culture that is appealing to a wide variety of workers.
Marketing During COVID and BeyondSpeakers: Melissa Fraser-Arnott, Nabi Hasan
Presentation Duration: 30 minutes
https://cdmcd.co/w3qwd4The pandemic forced libraries and information services to modify their processes that favoured digital delivery and new ways of connecting to library users. In this session, information professionals will discuss how their marketing practices changed during the pandemic and what changes they expect to maintain in the post-COVID world.
Using Data Visualizations to Present Leadership DecisionsSpeakers: Timmie Mirza
Presentation Duration: 45 minutes
Co-sponsors: KM, Data
https://cdmcd.co/YkpEQxLeadership roles involve presenting information and negotiating with others, using data as a powerful source of evidence. Presentations should be clear and conclusive, but data itself isn't very user-friendly for listener comprehension, nor is it typically acceptable to share in its raw state. Visualizations make understanding information easier to grasp. This workshop will provide tips for leaders and managers about how to use data visualizations to inform and to persuade internally, to stakeholders, and clients. It will break down preferred visualization types for conveying certain types of data, and describe what components of a data visualization can be most necessary or powerful to an audience.
What Do We Do Now? Service Review in the Post-COVID WorldSpeaker: Elizabeth Nash
Presentation Duration: 30 minutes
https://cdmcd.co/Z4q7xmLibraries and information services developed new services and partnerships throughout the pandemic to help their patrons and communities. Which of those services are here to stay and which will need to be dropped as we reposition ourselves in the post-COVID world.
What True Library Leadership Looks Like: Tips for Leading from All RolesSpeakers: Daniel Hickey, Amy Stubbing
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Presentation Duration: 45 minutes
https://cdmcd.co/Wkw7M7You don't have to be a leader to lead; you just need to understand and exemplify the values of your organization. In this conference session, panelists will discuss how true leadership doesn't necessarily come from hierarchy. True leaders represent efforts to better the organization but also the individuals within that organization. Panelists will share examples of what that looks like from around the field.
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Dan Bostrom
Member Engagement Manager
Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS)
dan.bostrom@railslibraries.info630.734.5152
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