Submit a webinar proposal for Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures!
Submit your idea using this proposal form for the spring and summer 2022 Core schedule. You don’t need to be a Core member to submit a proposal.
Core webinars reach a wide range of library professionals in many different areas, including…
- Access and Equity
- Advocacy in areas such as copyright, equity of access, open access, net neutrality, and privacy
- Preservation Week
- Equity, diversity, and inclusion, both within the division and the profession, as related to Core’s subject areas
- Assessment
- Emphasizing the role of assessment in demonstrating the impacts of libraries or library services
- Assessment tools, methods, guidelines, standards, and policies and procedures
- Leadership and Management
- Developing leaders at every level
- Best practices for inclusion by using an equity lens to examine leadership structures
- Leadership for talent management and human resources
- Metadata and Collections
- Best practices and knowledge in work areas that support collections and discovery
- Best practices for equity, diversity, and inclusion in the development and description of collections
- Standards and best practices for selection, acquisition, description, access, and preservation of information resources
- Preservation of both print, media, and digital resources
- Buildings and Operations
- Changing trends in organizational structures, services, staff operations, and facilities
- Best practices for inclusive practices and design
- Technology
- Best practices for inclusive practices and design
- Emerging technologies and actionable plans for library services
- Bridging the technology related needs across all types of libraries and operational areas
You can view upcoming Core webinars by visiting the Core website.
Presenters will be offered a $150 honorarium for presenting a Core webinar. Presentations are usually limited to a maximum of 3 presenters.
We seek and encourage submissions from underrepresented groups such as women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and people with disabilities.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Julie Reese, Core Director of Leadership and Learning at jreese@ala.org.
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Julene Jones
Director of Library Assessment and Organizational Effectiveness
University of Kentucky
julene.jones@uky.edu------------------------------