Free Webinars
NCompass Live
Weekly webinar series hosted by Christa Porter focusing on
library-related topics and discussions:
WebJunction
Library-related webinars and online courses:
Monthly Webinar List
The free webinar list from
the Wyoming State
Library/WebJunction presents a chronological list of webinars with program
descriptions and links to registrations. Below are some
upcoming webinars.
NCOMPASS LIVE
ONLINE CONFERENCES
ADVOCACY
ASSESSMENT & PLANNING
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
BOARDS
CAREERS
CHILDREN & TEENS
- At Your Leisure: Explora for School and Public Libraries (EBSCO)
- At Your Leisure: Lunch at the Library: Nourishing Bodies and
Minds (WebJunction)
- Apr 3: Tech for Teens: Intro to Coding & Video Games (PACER
Center)
- Apr 6: Homeschooling Help (Booklist)
- Apr 7: Making Connections on Student Mental Health in the
Pandemic (Education Week)
- Apr 13: Booklist Middle-Grade Panel (Booklist)
- Apr 14: Books That Heal for Children and Young Adults (Library
Journal)
- Apr 14: Story Time STEM with Steve Spangler: Strategies for
Connecting Amazing Science with Great Children’s Literature
(edWeb.net)
- Apr 15: Leaning into Culturally-grounded Anti-bias Child
Assessment (Early Childhood Investigations)
- Apr 24: Tech for Girls: The Science of Taste (PACER Center)
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT
COMMUNICATION
DEVELOPMENT & MANAGING CHANGE
EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION
- Apr 1: Ensuring Techquity for Multilingual Learners (Saddleback
Educational Publishing)
- Apr 6: Elevating Women in Science (Springer Nature)
- Apr 7: What Do Tattoos, Piercings, Hairstyles Have to Do with DAP in
Early Childhood Care and Education? (Early Childhood Investigations)
- Apr 8: Current Events in Context: Connecting Asian American History
and Anti-Asian Racism (edWeb.net)
- Apr 13: From Being to Doing: Anti-Racism as Action at Work (Network
of the National Library of Medicine)
- Apr 15: Leaning into Culturally-grounded Anti-bias Child Assessment
(Early Childhood Investigations)
- Apr 15: Literature as a Lens: Using Texts to Broaden Students'
Perspectives (Saddleback Educational Publishing)
- Apr 19: Looking for Mirrors in the Library: Collection Development
to Support Indigenous Patrons (Idaho Commission for Libraries)
- Apr 29: Understand The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism to Build Allyship
in Early Learning (Early Childhood Investigations)
- Apr 29-30: Archiving the Black Web National Forum (African American
Research Library and Cultural Center, with IMLS funding)
FUNDRAISING
- Apr 1: The Board's Role in Fundraising & Resource Development
(Bloomerang)
- Apr 6: How to Defeat Fundraising’s Silent Enemy: Donor Attrition
(Firespring)
- Apr 7: Introduction to Project Budgets (Candid Learning)
- Apr 7: 5 Reasons Why Direct Mail Continues to Create Fundraising
Home Runs (CharityHowTo)
- Apr 8: State of the Sector, Part 2: Checking in on 2021 (Charity
Village)
- Apr 8: Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine (Bloomerang)
- Apr 14: The Power of Blogging & Thought Leadership for Nonprofits
(Firespring)
- Apr 19: When to Make the Ask: The Formula to Drive More Donations
(Nonprofit Learning Lab)
- Apr 22: Best Practice Solutions for Recurring Donor Acquisition
Mysteries (Bloomerang)
- Apr 28: Monthly Giving: Your Nonprofit Sustainability Plan
(Productive Fundraising)
LEGAL
- At Your Leisure: Best Practices for Fair Use in OER (American
Library Association)
- Apr 6: Wild World of Copyright (Nebraska Library Commission)
MANAGEMENT
- Apr 7: An Intro to Financials for Nonprofits (Nonprofit Hub)
- Apr 13: Mental Health First Aid and Trauma-Informed Approaches for
Libraries (WebJunction)
- Apr 15: Successful Leadership Development in the Post-COVID World
(Training Industry)
- Apr 29: Engaging Your Patrons: 5 Tips from Public Libraries and
Beyond (Library Journal)
OUTREACH & PARTNERSHIPS
- At Your Leisure: Lunch at the Library: Nourishing Bodies and Minds
(WebJunction)
- Apr 7: Affordable After Hours Pick-up Service (Indiana State
Library)
- Apr 7: Media Literacy for Adults: Media Landscape and Economics
(Programming Librarian)
- Apr 9: Healthy Aging at Your Library: Connecting Older Adults to
Health Information (Network of the National Library of Medicine)
- Apr 13: Partnering through the Pandemic to Reach Patrons (iSchool @
UW-Madison)
- Apr 13: Mental Health First Aid and Trauma-Informed Approaches for
Libraries (WebJunction)
- Apr 14: Telehealth in Rural Public Libraries (Network of the
National Library of Medicine)
- Apr 14: Media Literacy for Adults: Media Engagement and Creation
(Programming Librarian)
- Apr 21: Let’s Get Together! Book Clubs for Neurodivergent Adults
(Infopeople)
- Apr 27: Smart Spaces are Community Places (WebJunction)
- Apr 28: Reimagining School Partnership Programs during the Pandemic
(Public Library Association)
PROGRAMMING
- At Your Leisure: Evaluating Virtual Programs and Events (InfoPeople)
- Apr 1: Spring Clean Your Finances (EdSurge)
- Apr 1: Citizen Science Month Educator Webinar Series #1: Citizen
Science- Labs! (SciStarter)
- Apr 7: Beyond Books: Salt Lake City Library Creates a Community
Garden (SirsiDynix)
- Apr 13: Together, Learning More! Interactive Family Learning in
California's Libraries (Infopeople)
- Apr 14: Story Time STEM with Steve Spangler: Strategies for
Connecting Amazing Science with Great Children’s Literature (edWeb.net)
- Apr 14: Media Literacy for Adults: Media Engagement and Creation
(Programming Librarian)
- Apr 19: Getting Your Citizen Science Project Off the Ground
(SciStarter)
- Apr 20: Let’s Get Digital: How to Bring Your Programs Online
(Colorado State Library)
- Apr 21: Let’s Get Together! Book Clubs for Neurodivergent Adults
(Infopeople)
READERS' ADVISORY
- Apr 6: Homeschooling Help (Booklist)
- Apr 13: Booklist Middle-Grade Panel (Booklist)
- Apr 14: Books That Heal for Children and Young Adults (Library
Journal)
- Apr 20: Library Love for LibraryReads (Booklist)
- Apr 21: Uplifting Native Voices: Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade
discuss “We Are Water Protectors” (Mackin)
REFERENCE
- Apr 1: Spring Clean Your Finances (EdSurge)
- Apr 1: FDLP COVID Support Services (Federal Depository Library
Program)
- Apr 7: Locating Historical and Contemporary U.S. Treasury Content on
the Open Web (Federal Depository Library Program)
- Apr 13: From Being to Doing: Anti-Racism as Action at Work (Network
of the National Library of Medicine)
- Apr 14: Finding Valuable Scientific, Technical, and Business
Information by Using Technical Reports Databases (Federal Depository
Library Program)
- Apr 21: New in Version 3.3 of Census Business Builder and What Is
Coming in the 3.4 Release (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Apr 29: Engaging Your Patrons: 5 Tips from Public Libraries and
Beyond (Library Journal)
SCHOOL LIBRARIES
- Apr 1: Spring Clean Your Finances (EdSurge)
- Apr 1: Ensuring Techquity for Multilingual Learners (Saddleback
Educational Publishing)
- Apr 1: Citizen Science Month Educator Webinar Series #1: Citizen
Science- Labs! (SciStarter)
- Apr 3: Tech for Teens: Intro to Coding & Video Games (PACER Center)
- Apr 6: Homeschooling Help (Booklist)
- Apr 6: Reading and Dyslexia in a Digital World: The Perspective of a
Reading Warrior (edWeb.net)
- Apr 6: Wild World of Copyright (Nebraska Library Commission)
- Apr 6: Child Sex Trafficking Prevention: A Course for Educators
(edWeb.net)
- Apr 6: Behind the Book Author Takeover with Kate Messner (Follett)
- Apr 7: Making Connections on Student Mental Health in the Pandemic
(Education Week)
- Apr 7: Amplifying Engagement with Gamification (Mackin)
- Apr 8: Current Events in Context: Connecting Asian American History
and Anti-Asian Racism (edWeb.net)
- Apr 13: Social Media 101: Keys to Reaching Your Entire School
Community (School Library Journal)
- Apr 13: Booklist Middle-Grade Panel (Booklist)
- Apr 13: AASL Town Hall: Leading Learning (American Association for
School Librarians)
- Apr 14: Books That Heal for Children and Young Adults (Library
Journal)
- Apr 14: Story Time STEM with Steve Spangler: Strategies for
Connecting Amazing Science with Great Children’s Literature (edWeb.net)
- Apr 15: What's Ahead for Hybrid Learning: Putting Best Practices in
Motion (Education Week)
- Apr 15: Literature as a Lens: Using Texts to Broaden Students'
Perspectives (Saddleback Educational Publishing)
- Apr 19: Getting Your Citizen Science Project Off the Ground
(SciStarter)
- Apr 21: Behind the Book Author Takeover STUDENT EDITION with Max
Brallier (Follett)
- Apr 21: Uplifting Native Voices: Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade
discuss “We Are Water Protectors” (Mackin)
- Apr 21: Teaching Poetry: Audio Recordings of Poetry and Literature
from the Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
- Apr 24: Tech for Girls: The Science of Taste (PACER Center)
- Apr 28: Reimagining School Partnership Programs during the Pandemic
(Public Library Association)
- Apr 29: Rising to the Engagement Challenge: Inspiring Reading
Strategies to Offset Learning Loss (Education Week)
TECHNOLOGY
- Apr 1: Ensuring Techquity for Multilingual Learners (Saddleback
Educational Publishing)
- Apr 3: Tech for Teens: Intro to Coding & Video Games (PACER Center)
- Apr 24: Tech for Girls: The Science of Taste (PACER Center)
- Apr 29: Exploring, selecting, and implementing a new library system
(OCLC)
TRAINING & INSTRUCTION
- At Your Leisure: Best Practices for Fair Use in OER (American
Library Association)
- Apr 7: Media Literacy for Adults: Media Landscape and Economics
(Programming Librarian)
- Apr 14: Media Literacy for Adults: Media Engagement and Creation
(Programming Librarian)
- Apr 15: What's Ahead for Hybrid Learning: Putting Best Practices in
Motion (Education Week)
- Apr 21: Teaching Poetry: Audio Recordings of Poetry and Literature
from the Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
- Apr 22: Kick Up the Capabilities of Your Virtual Classroom! (InSync
Training)
- Apr 27: Digital Backpack Workshops: Adapting to students’ needs
(iSchool @ UW-Madiston)
VOLUNTEERS
- Apr 7: Making the Most of Your Volunteer Program (Infopeople)
- Apr 8: Engaging Pro Bono and Skills-Based Volunteers
(VolunteerMatch)
- Apr 15: The New Volunteer Manager's Toolkit (VolunteerMatch)
- Apr 29: Social Media and Volunteer Engagement (VolunteerMatch)