LEARNRT Round Table

Project M: Staff Day Success

In order of appearance from left to right:  M. Alan McGinley, Faith Mulberry, Kirby McCurtis, Jenna Boles, Tina Rawhouser

Working with a CLENERT (LearnRT) past president and long-time board member, the EL group will research best practices for planning and implementing all-staff development days in libraries of all sizes. The group will identify and gather planning and budgeting tools, templates, assessments and evaluations, practical and affordable program ideas, digital media and case studies that demonstrate “staff day success,” events that are valuable to and valued by library employees at all levels. The resources will be compiled and edited as an online publication, Staff Day Success. Distribution for this online publication may be free to members of the Learning RT, and at a reasonable cost to others.

Project N: Webinar Learning Series

In order of appearance from left to right:  Sonnet Brown, Natalie Clewell, Angela Nolet, Jennifer Spriggs* (sponsored by Learning Round Table)

The Learning Round Table (formerly CLENE) has successfully partnered with WebJunction in the last year to deliver two webinars - Learning for Learning Professionals and Libraries as Learning Organizations. The goal of this Emerging Leader project is to build off of our success and create a sustainable education program that delivers regular webinars on topics of interest to the LearnRT membership.  The program will serve as a model to other units in ALA who would like to deliver learning opportunities to their members.

 Under the guidance of experienced webinar producers, the project team will design and plan a series of webinars on topics of interest to trainers and managers/coordinators of training and staff development. Project participants will be involved in determining topics, finding presenters, creating a schedule, marketing and overseeing the project. The Emerging Leader group assigned to this project will have the opportunity to present in at least one of these webinars.