Free Webinars
Basic Skills
Schedule of upcoming Basic Skills courses:
NCompass Live
Weekly webinar series hosted by Christa Porter focusing on
library-related topics and discussions:
United for Libraries
WebJunction
Library-related webinars and online courses:
Submitting CE Credits
Note: Nebraska Library
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APRIL 2025
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NEBRASKA EVENTS/MEETINGS
These may include in-person events/meetings, as well as virtual-only
events. Please check the NLC
Training and Events Calendar for more details!
BASIC SKILLS
UNITED FOR LIBRARIES
FREE TRAINING: WEBJUNCTION LIST
Below is a list of free training opportunties
compiled each month by the Maine State Library and WebJunction. For more
information, please visit
WebJunction: Free Training
ACCESSIBILITY
- Apr 10: Increasing Privacy Online: Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence in the Digital Age (TechSoup)
- Apr 15: Designing Inclusive and Impactful Nonprofit Websites (TechSoup)
ADVOCACY
- Apr 22: Communicating Our Non-Partisan Mission (Libraries4de)
ASSESSMENT & PLANNING
- Apr 8: Strategic Planning Insights: Effective Approaches and Common Trends (Fast Forward Libraries)
- Apr 15: How to Supercharge Your Grant Research (CharityHowTo)
- Apr 17: Break Through the Barriers Between Finance and Development (Blackbaud)
- Apr 17: Library Data 101 (Texas State Library)
- Apr 30: Strategy, Planning, and Outcomes: Bridging your strategy work with ground level impacts (Propel Nonprofits)
BOARDS
- Apr 1: Focus on the Future: The Art of Selling Your Board and Funders on Capacity Building (Firespring)
- Apr 10: How to Conduct Board Recruitment in 3 Easy Steps (CharityHowTo)
- Apr 24: How to Get Your Board to Fundraise (Productive Fundraising)
CAREERS
- Apr 3: Prove Your Value: Five Simple Steps to Advance Your Career (Training Magazine Network)
- Apr 23: Spirituality in the Library Workplace: Bringing Your Whole Self to Work (Colorado State Library)
- Apr 28: How to Be Productive Without Burning Out (GovLoop)
- Apr 29: Share Knowledge, Ideas, Learning, and Library Solutions! (Nebraska Library Commission)
CHILDREN & TEENS
- Apr 24: Imagining Our Future: The Essential Role of Climate Fiction and Nonfiction in Shaping Middle Grade Minds (Booklist)
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT
- Apr 9: Info2Go! Visual Literacy in Graphic Novels and Comics (Idaho Commission for Libraries)
- Apr 29: Graphic Empathy: Using Graphic Novels to Elevate Excluded Voices and Connect Communities (Infopeople)
COMMUNICATION
- Apr 22: Unlock the Power of Adobe Express for Your Library with Martha Bongiorno (Follett)
- Apr 28: Marketing for a Mission (Nonprofit Learning Lab)
DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGING CHANGE
- Apr 10: Determined to Change: Five Leadership Essentials for People-Centered Change in a Fast-Paced World (ASERL)
DIGITAL RESOURCES
- Apr 16: Unlocking Economic Opportunities: A Comprehensive Overview of U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Programs (US CENSUS)
- Apr 24: Mastering Economic Data Searches on data.census.gov (US Census)
FUNDRAISING
- Apr 3: Shuffling Your Donor Engagement Strategy for Nonprofit Success (CharityVillage)
- Apr 3: Spreading the Risk: When One Basket of Eggs is Not Enough (Bloomerang)
- Apr 16: Donor Retention | The Most Important Metric That Fundraisers Love to Ignore (Nonprofit Hub)
LEGAL
- Apr 25: DPLA Book Talk: Jacqueline Woodson on Banned Books (DPLA)
MANAGEMENT
- Apr 2: Coaching and Managing: The Intersection of Leadership (Blackbaud)
- Apr 2: Loneliness and Social Isolation: Tackling the Social Disconnection Epidemic (Colorado State Library)
- Apr 7: Discover CultureRoad – The Future of Workplace Learning & Community Engagement (ASERL)
- Apr 9: Creating Escape Rooms for Learning Using an Action-First Learning Approach (Training Magazine Network)
- Apr 29: Where Have All the Future Leaders Gone? (Training Industry)
OUTREACH & PARTNERS
- Apr 29: Cultivating Relational Connections that Lead to Co-Laboring (Nonprofit Learning Lab)
- Apr 30: Start Your Community’s Journey to Information Literacy (Indiana State Library)
PROGRAMMING
- Apr 4: Fleshing Out Your Summer Reading Plans (Nebraska Library Commission)
- Apr 10: How to Engage Older Adult Patrons through Creative Aging this Summer and Beyond (Colorado State Library)
- Apr 22: An Introduction to the National Climate Action Strategy for Libraries (Public Library Association, ALA)
READERS' ADVISORY
- Apr 8: Summer Reading & Series Nonfiction (Booklist)
- Apr 15: Library Love for LibraryReads (Booklist)
- Apr 17: Memorable Manga (Booklist)
REFERENCE
- Apr 9: The First Amendment and Libraries (Niche Academy)
- Apr 16: Andragogy: Understanding Adult Learners (Niche Academy)
- Apr 23: Disciplinary Differences: Generative AI in the Research and Publication Process (Niche Academy)
SCHOOL LIBRARIES
- Apr 1: The Secondary Literacy Crisis: Why Reading Scores Are Falling—and How to Fix It (edWeb)
- Apr 15: Building Community and Positivity Through Library Design (Demco)
- Apr 22: Transform Your District’s Strategic Plan into Action: From the Boardroom to the Classroom (edWeb)
TECHNOLOGY
- Apr 1: Bridging Social and Academic Language for Newcomer and Emergent Multilingual Students Through Tech (edWeb)
- Apr 8: Taking the Terror Out of Technology for Your Staff (TechSoup)
- Apr 23: Zero to Chatbot in 30 Minutes: Build Your First AI Learning Assistant in Half an Hour (Training Magazine Network)
- Apr 30: Pretty Sweet Tech: Computers in Libraries 2025 Highlights & Trends (Nebraska Library Commission)
VOLUNTEERS
- Apr 7: Membership Monday: Volunteer for PLA (Public Library Association, ALA)
- Apr 14: Am I Making the Right Decision? The Role of Ethics in Volunteer Engagement (Nonprofit Learning Lab)
- Apr 15: Key Volunteer Stats & Trends from 2024 and Proven Strategies (Firespring)