Measuring What Matters to Stakeholders

Time: 8am-12pm
Location: Michigan Room A
Presenters: Beth Layton & Cynthia Olney

Librarians and stakeholders generally agree that libraries add value. However, decision makers often decide to cut funding or even eliminate libraries. This workshop will provide a framework for assessing the local environment, developing a planned response, evaluating outcomes and using this evaluation to demonstrate value, advocate for the library, and improve library services and programs.

Community Engagement 101: The Art of Building Community Partnerships

Time: 1pm-4pm
Location: Michigan Room A
Presenter: Deborah Charbonneau

Community engagement and building community-based partnerships are essential to effective health information outreach and various library programs and services. The overall goal of this course is to offer concrete skills and several perspectives useful for engaging stakeholders and establishing relationships with a range of community-based organizations and potential partners. Participants will take part in group discussions to explore new models and tools for engaging and retaining community partnerships. A number of examples and a case study will be used to promote a problem-solving approach for in-class interactions. Participants will have opportunities to learn practical and strategic approaches for achieving optimal community cooperation and collaboration adaptable to their own environments.

Emerging Technologies for the Busy Librarian

Time: 8am-12pm
Location: Michigan Room B
Presenters: Gabriel Rios & Melissa DeSantis

The dynamic content of this 4-hour class is designed to increase your knowledge of emerged and emerging technologies impacting our profession. Topics discussed will be updated until the last month prior to the class but could include: wearable technology, the Internet of Things, 3D printing, quantified self, mobile devices, personal cloud services, privacy, and collaboration tools. Popular social media services applicable to libraries will also be discussed. Students and healthcare professionals use emerging technologies to interact with health information on a daily basis. It is essential for librarians to investigate and experiment with these technologies and services to improve access to timely and relevant health information at the point of need. This class is designed to give the busy librarian an overview of what is coming down the technology pipe in the short and long term. It also encourages participants to experiment with these technologies and services. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss case studies from institutions taking innovative approaches as well as discuss methods for keeping up-to-date with new technologies.

Instructional Design: Proven Principles and Practices for Librarians Who Teach

Time: 1pm-5pm
Location: Michigan Room B
Presenter: Joey Nicholson

An interactive course for both librarians new to teaching or with experience, who are seeking best practices or would like to strengthen and refresh their instruction. Through small group work, individual exercises, group discussion, and lecture, you will learn how to apply proven principles, theories, and practices when designing effective instruction to actively engage learners.