Online Training Opportunities for Public Library Staff
With public health officials imploring us to stay home, many of us have time on our hands. How should we fill it? There are a million good ideas out there, but the OLC’s Professional Development Committee (PDC) has come up with a curated list of online training opportunities to make the most of your time right now. Take advantage of these courses and learn something new, sharpen your skills, or discover an aspect of librarianship that you hadn’t explored before.
Online Training Opportunities That Will Make You Smarter (and Less Stir Crazy)
Ohio Reference Excellence (ORE) Online
OLC’s self-paced training modules that cover many aspects of the reference process (includes certificate of completion).
LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) course suggestions:
- Computer Literacy for Windows 10
- Help Yourself: Tech Tips
- Windows Quick Tips
- Microsoft Word: Essential Training
- Microsoft Excel: Essential Training
- Google Calendar: Essential Training
- Gmail: Essential Training
- Google Drive: Essential Training
- Digital Body Language
- Canva Tutorials
- Practical HTML for Marketing Projects
- Social Media for Nonprofits
- Learning Instagram
- Digital Citizenship
- Information Literacy
- Foundations of Project Management
- Customer Experience: Journey Mapping
- Customer Service Foundations
- Empathy for Customer Service Professionals
- Ideas that Resonate
- Course: Reaching Out of Your Comfort Zone
- Communicating with Charisma
- Overcoming a Fear of Public Speaking
EBSCOHost Databases
- Basic Search (this tutorial covers basic searching for all EBSCOHost products)
- Consumer Health Complete:
- Explora Primary Schools
- Explora Secondary Schools
- Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
- Small Business Reference Center
- Job & Career Accelerator
- LearningExpress Library
EBSCOHost Online Training:
Niche Academy Webinars
- Building Confidence in Digital Resources
- On the Go with Senior Services
- Information Literacy and Libraries in the Age of Fake News
- Serving Individuals with Autism
NoveList Webinars:
- Crash Course in Romance
- Crash Course in Horror
- Crash Course in Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers
- Crash Course in Fantasy
- NoveList MicroTrainings (YouTube Playlist)
OCLC
Public Library Association (PLA)
Other Webinars
- Bringing Play to Adult Services Programming: It’s Not Just for Kids
- Ryan Dowd – Body Odor: The Most Dreaded Conversation of All Time
- Mango Languages
- Reference USA
- Transparent Languages YouTube Channel
- Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS)
- Library of Congress Catalogers Learning Workshop
- Librarian’s Guide to Homelessness
Special thanks to OLC’s Divisions and Committees for helping PDC compile this list.