Tweens are not quite children, but not quite teens. What’s the best way to offer services to this group to keep them engaged at your library and in reading? Join us for this interactive session to discuss best practices for effective tween programming, policies, reading advisory, and more. Hear examples from Colorado public libraries and share your experiences in serving this important audience.
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When your supervisor assigns you to a team to implement a new project, does your heart begin to pound? Do you feel a sense of dread wash over you? If so, this session is for you!
Learn how to be a better team player in your library, on a committee, in sports, or as a family! Face your insecurities, eliminate unhealthy competitiveness, improve your communication skills, and overcome your fear of change.
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You know your style and are asking “now what?” Expand your social styles knowledge. Practice recognizing different styles, review backup styles and learn when and how to flex your style. Working today involves interacting with both colleagues and patrons, and success depends on the effectiveness of this interaction.
If you want to take your current social styles knowledge to a deeper level and learn some useful ways to use social styles for more effective interactions, this session is for you. Please note: You must have taken Social Styles: The Basics before attending this workshop.
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Yes, we held snakes & spiders. Yes, we ran through an inflatable obstacle course and climbed a rock wall. And yes, duct tape was involved. How have we taken these experiences and come back to our work places? How can the core values of libraries guide our communications and workplace culture?
Let’s talk about the risk taking, collaboration and the core values of libraries featuring ideas inspired by the Culture experience of R-Squared.
This session is part of our R-squared Conference Takeaways series. Not able to attend R-Squared? Great ideas in different experience areas are being shared by State Library staff through our CSL in Session program.
Session Drawings
During the session, participants used the drawing tools to depict one of four core library values:
Access
Learning
Community / Interaction / Sharing
Fun / Play
Public libraries have offered summer reading programs for children for many years to encourage kids to keep reading when they’re out of school for summer break. But what about adults? There are many reasons to offer summer reading programs to those over 18 too, such as sparking or renewing interest in reading, suggesting genres and formats that may be new to them, and attracting them to the library (and keep them coming back!).
In this lively, interactive session, we’ll explore the benefits of offering adult summer reading programs, discuss how to implement a simple and inexpensive program, and brainstorm ideas for more elaborate programs; we’ll also touch on multi-generational reading programs and how to evaluate adult reading programs.
Whether you’ve provided an adult summer reading program in the past, plan to offer one in 2013, or are just considering it for the future, this session will generate great ideas and spark interest. And please join us if you’re offering or considering an adult reading program at a different time of year, too!
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Everywhere you turn today, you hear mumblings about the future of libraries. Most of these discussions revolve around our collections, the increasing availability of online information, and the rise of eBooks.
What about our buildings? Is there still a need for a physical space for libraries?
Join this session for a discussion about the future of the library as a public place, featuring ideas inspired by the Creative Spaces track of R-Squared.
This session is part of our R-squared Conference Takeaways series. Not able to attend R-Squared? Great ideas in different experience areas are being shared by State Library staff through our CSL in Session program. Look for more sessions inspired by R-Squared in the coming months!
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Handout [PDF]
Project for Public Places: http://www.pps.org
R2 Blog: http://rsquaredconference.org/blog
The Space is the Service: Assessing the Physical Library in 2.012 (Part of Library 2.012 Online Conference): https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/recording/playback/link/table/dropin?sid=2008350&suid=D.49D4449E9205F1BECDF69475856E24
Reinventing Spaces and Places—Internet Librarian 2012: http://www.slideshare.net/jeffwisniewski/reinventing-spaces-and-places
Josh Linkner: http://joshlinkner.com/blog/
Book: Disciplined Dreaming
How do you engage library customers? People are naturally curious, and are driven to learn about topics of interest. Libraries can engage library customers and create a space for exploration, discovery, and collaboration. Join this session to learn more about techniques for effectively engaging library users, featuring ideas inspired by the R-Squared Conference.
This session is part of our R-Squared Conference Takeaways series. Not able to make it to R-Squared? Great ideas from the conference in different experience areas are being shared by State Library staff through our CSL In Session program. Look for more sessions inspired by R-Squared in the coming months!
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It’s inevitable, at some point in your week you’ll run into one of them. Those people who seem to turn a wonderful day into a dark one. You know these people; they seem to be chronically critical, belligerent, indignant, angry, or just plain rude. But it doesn’t have to be that way for you. Learning tactics for dealing with negative or difficult people will help you survive in the workplace. Join us for this thought provoking session.
Resource Guide – Dealing with Difficult People: http://cslinsession.cvlsites.org/files/2012/09/dealing-with-difficult-people-resources.pdf
Presentation handout: http://cslinsession.cvlsites.org/files/2012/09/Whos-Pushing-Your-Buttons-handout.pdf
Chat contributions: http://cslinsession.cvlsites.org/files/2012/09/Chat-Contributions-Whos-Pushing-Your-Buttons.pdf
Learn More Teen Read Week (TRW) is an annual event to celebrate reading for fun and to encourage teens to take advantage of reading in all its forms–books, magazines, e-books, audiobooks and more.
Join this interactive conversation to share your plans and ideas with colleagues on creating a fun and meaningful TRW for your community, including
How will you celebrate TRW at your library?
Check out the Teen Read Week Resource Guide for more print and online TRW resources.
Also, check out the edited transcript of all the great programming ideas that were shared by attendees during the session: Ideas shared in chat
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Join the conversation! Learn about trends that are emerging in Colorado libraries and share what’s happening in your own libraries. What innovative strategies are you taking to create the future of libraries?
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Confronting the Future
During the session, Sharon talked about a model from Confronting the Future, and asked participants to mark where their library falls on each of the four spectra.
Confronting the Future – Where are you now?
Confonting the Future – Where do you think you’ll be in 3 to 5 years
