Library of Michigan Webinar Archives

You can find recordings of Library of Michigan coordinated webinars below by topic. If you are looking for recorded PCI webinars please visit LM's Niche Staff Skills Academy.
 

2020 SRLC PRESENTS

• The ABC's of Library Leadership-Andrew Sanderbeck
• From Potluck to Projects to Planning-Cindy Fesemyer
• It's All About "We"!-Andrew Sanderbeck
• Binding Glue: Trauma, Resilience, and the Small Town Library-Patrick Lloyd
• The Connected Library-Patrick Lloyd
• Swipe Right: How to Partner Up-Cindy Fesemyer
• Beds, Bugs, & Books: The Basics of Bed Bugs-Sue Stejskal

ADULT SERVICES

• GetSetUp Orientation

CONTINUING EDUCATION

• Continuing Education Stipend

DIGITIZATION

Please contact Biz Gallo, Library of Michigan Digitization Consultant with any questions. 

• Introduction to Digitization
• Planning Your Digitization Project
• Scope and Selection for Digitization
• Copyright Considerations for Digitization
• Funding Your Digitization Project
• Metadata for Digital Collections
• Digital Capture: Digitization Process & Quality Control
• Digital Asset Management Part 1: Access & Creating Digital Collections
• Digital Asset Management Part 2: Preservation, Fixity & Storage
• How to Pick Your Pixels: Format Selection & Specifications for Digitization
• How to Pick Your Partner: Working with Digitization Vendors
  
• How to Pick Your Project Preparing for an Audiovisual Digitization Project
• How to Pick Your (News)paper Selection, Resources, and Workflows for Newspaper Digitization
  
• How to Pick Your Particulars Descriptive Metadata for Digital Collection
• Let the Sunshine: Digitizing Public Records
• How to Pick Your Policy: Creating a Digital Preservation Policy
• How to Pick Your (Web) Presence Creating & Sharing Digital Collections
• How to Pick Your Program Hosting a Community Scanning Day

E-RATE

• E-Rate Fundamentals
• Charting Your Course for Funding Year 2025

GRANTS & TIPS

Please contact Karren Reish, Library of Michigan Grants Coordinator with any questions.

• Improving Access to Information Grants: Informational Webinar
• Improving Access to Information Grant Application Webinar
• LSTA Improving Access to Information Grant Application Webinar: Digitization Focus
• LSTA Improving Access to Information Grant Application Webinar: Budget Focus
  
  
  

LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION

• QSAC Information and Updates
• Bookmobiles: "Zooming" Through Your Community on Wheels!
• Engaging Equity Endeavors: Serving BIPOC Communities from the Lobby to the Boardroom
• Engaging Equity Endeavors : Unshelving the Fear in your DEI Mission
• FY 2023-2024 Annual Report Refresher
• Custom Reporting with LibPAS

LIBRARY LAW

Please contact Clare Membiela, Library Law Consultant with questions or requests for handouts, etc.

• Library Contracting
• Narcan In Michigan Libraries: What The New Laws Mean
• "FOIA" Eyes Only! Library FOIA Update
• Library Establishment Statute
• A Graphic Mistake: Photos & Copyright
• Playing Board Games-Mitigating and Managing Board Conflict?
• Top 10 Library Law Resolutions
• Employment Law Basics for Libraries
• Library Board Authority & Duty
• Library Law 101 for Library Staff
• Privacy Law Update
• Bylaws
• Trustee 101: The Basics
• Trustee 102: Advanced Trustee
• Remote Work
• Library Privacy Act Amendments 
• Millage Law for Libraries: Know before you go for one
• Risk & Crisis Management for Libraries
• What Makes a Good Policy
• Taking the Oh No! Out of the OMA
• Smile! First Amendment Audits and Public Libraries
• How to Run a Public Meeting
• Contracting for Public Library Service
• Employment Law Scenarios
• Library Law & Virtual Programming
• Policies Before Posting (Public Libraries & Social Media)
• Public Library Financial Policies

• "Policy-ana" Syndrome and How to Avoid It
• Actions Not Words - Addressing Illegal & Harmful Behavior
• Weapons in the Library
• Open Meetings Act Refresher
• Library Fundraising
• Public Funds and Finance for Library Trustees
• Michigan Paid Leave and Minimum Wage Changes
  
    Virtual Millage Series 2023
  • Session I - Before Your Millage
  • Session II - Legal Issues: Millage Proposals & Millage Campaigns
  • Session III - Legal “Dos & Don’ts” of Campaigning
  • Session IV - Tips for Obtaining a Millage in Contentious Communities
    
    Virtual Millage Series 2024
  • Session I - Establishment & Millage Amounts
  • Session II - Library Millages
  • Session III - Assembling a "YES" Committee
  • Session IV - Communicating to Campaign

PLOUD

Please contact Library of Michigan with any questions. 

• Ploud September onboarding cohort workshop one
• Ploud September onboarding cohort workshop two
• Ploud September onboarding cohort workshop three
• Ploud September onboarding cohort workshop four

PUBLIC LIBRARY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Please contact Karren Reish, Library of Michigan Grants Coordinator with any questions. 

• Basic Library Accounting
• Budgeting Basics
• Budgeting Process
• Internal Controls
• Library Establishment and Governance
• Uniform Chart of Accounts Update
• Public Library Financial Management Guide

SAVE THE DATA
All things related to Library Data. Casual, quick, and new each month. If you are interested in any files related to any of the presentations, please contact Joe Hamlin. 

• What to Do With Negative Data
• What to Expect When You're Expecting PLS Data, Part 1
• What to Expect When You're Expecting PLS Data, Part 2
• Survey Dos and Don'ts
• Easy, Breezy, Usability Testing
• Making Accessible Reports
• Summer Reading and Wandoo Reader
• Alternate Methods of Data Capture
• Making Time for Qualitative Data Assessment

MEL.ORG
You can find MeL webinar recordings on the MeL.org website under Library Staff Training and on the MCLS site under MeL Training & Events.

YOUTH SERVICES

For additional information, links to handouts, or questions, please contact Cathy Lancaster, Youth Services Coordinator.  Support for these webinars is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Best Storytelling Practices* series and Summer Reading** series are listed separately, further down the page.

• Ready to Read Presents: Engaging Bigs & Littles During Storytime with Jenifer Strauss (Recorded 1/23/25)
• Ready to Read Michigan Storytime Tune-Up with Jenifer Strauss (Recorded 1/19/2023)
• Oceans of Possibilities with Zahrra Aljebori of Detroit Zoological Society (Recorded 2/15/22)
• From Diversity to Inclusion: How to Audit Your Collection and Why (Recorded 12/15/21)

• Storytimes for Everyone! with Pamela Martin-Diaz (11/2021)
  Session I 
  Session II
  Session III
• Bringing "TALK: Text and Learn for Kindergarten" to Your Library (Recorded on 5/25/21)
• Escape Rooms from the Ground Up: In Person, outreach, & digital versions (Recorded 10/6/20)
• Childhood Trauma in a Time of Crisis  (Recorded 05/05/2020)
• Don't Sweat the Flops: an Interactive Virtual Workshop for Young Adult Library Staff (Recorded 05/15/2020) 
• STEM in the Kitchen with Longway Planetarium's Laurie Bone (Recorded 5/12/2020)
• Motion! with Longway Planetarium's Laurie Bone (Recorded 04/28/2020)
• Starting a School Outreach Program from Scratch: What Worked, What Didn't, and Everything In Between (Recorded 01/15/2020)
• Read By Grade Three: What Public Libraries Need to Know
• Creating a Tween Collection with Karen M. Smith
• No Place to Go: Homeless Youth and Libraries 
• Teen Clubs
• Adapted Sensory Programming for All Ages and All Budgets
• Water, Water Everywhere: Summer with the Michigan Learning Channel
• Learning for a Better Tomorrow: Let's Talk About Race
• Braille Enhanced StoryWalk ®
• Zoo Adventures Begin at Your Library
• Adventures in Summer Marketing

*Best Storytelling Practices: A Webinar Series with Jenifer Strauss of Story Be Told

• Best Storytime Practices: The Power of Pre-writing and Writing Activities with Kids (Recorded on 4/20/21)
• Best Storytime Practices: Helping Children Build a Bigger Vocabulary (Recorded on 3/23/21)
• Best Storytime Practices: Grab-And-Go, Tell-And-Do (Recorded on 2/23/21)
• Literacy All Day, Every Day: How to Present Easy-to- Use Language and Literacy Tips to Parents and Caregivers  (Recorded 05/19/20)
• DIY Puppets and Props to Support Imagine Your Story  (Recorded 05/08/2020) 
• Singing Our Way to Literacy! (Recorded 04/24/2020) 
• Beyond Storytime: The Care and Feeding of Teens at Your Library  (Recorded 03/24/2020) 
• Parade of Elephants: Ready to Read Michigan 2020 with Jenifer Strauss  (Recorded 02/20/2020)
• Stepping Gently Outside of Your Comfort Zone (Recorded 01/21/2020)
• Act It Out and Play (Recorded on 4/16/19)
• In a Galaxy Far, Far Away  (Recorded 2019)
• Touch the Brightest Star: Ready to Read Michigan 2019
• Storytime is Your Time to Shine!
• Put the Book Down and Engage! (Recorded 10/24/17)
• Full Body Storytime: Moving and Grooving with Stories, Songs, Rhythms and Rhymes (Recorded 12/19/17)

**SUMMER READING

• Materials and Recordings for the CSLP 2021 Summer Symposium are now available (Recorded 12/2/21)
• All Together Now! with the Detroit Zoological Society (recorded 2/9/2023)
• Eat Up @ Your Library! Summer Food Service for 2020 (recorded 05/9/2020)

These webinars are supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Updated 10/09/2024