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With a regional focus on continuing education, TBLC offers training in the form of webinars, in-person workshops, conference-style events, and blended learning courses.

On-Demand

TBLC houses all webinar recordings on Niche Academy. Additional On-Demand training is available through the TBLC Niche Academy as well and can be viewed by category.

Upcoming Live Workshops

19 Mar

A Peek at Personalities

Are you an employee? A manager? Do you have a spouse? Children? Friends? Acquaintances? Do you volunteer in an organization? Are you on committees? Do [...]
21 Mar

TBLC Tech Conference: AI for ALL

03/21/2024    
9:30 am - 2:30 pm
Join us for an exciting exploration of the world of artificial intelligence and its potential to revolutionize our lives. Our conference offers a unique opportunity [...]
27 Mar

Intermediate Book Repair Webinar

03/27/2024    
10:00 am - 11:30 am
$0.00
During the webinar, participants will watch narrated action videos of the repairs with live step by step instructions. Attendees will learn how to repair common [...]
28 Mar

Creating Accessible Instructional Materials

03/28/2024    
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
$0.00
Have you attended multiple webinars and trainings on accessibility and feel a little overwhelmed with information and resources? Join me as we focus on specific [...]
03 Apr

Safety, Brave Spaces, and Self-Care

04/03/2024    
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
$0.00
How safe do you feel in your library? How safe do your patrons? This session discusses safety from various perspectives, draws from trauma-informed and trauma-responsive [...]
10 Apr

Mother Goose on the Loose

This interactive workshop will give you the tools to plan and facilitate the award winning, hands-on early literacy program, Mother Goose on the Loose, and [...]
16 Apr

Tapping Into Employee Talents

We say that our staff members are the most important resource for achieving the library’s mission and goals. Supervisors spend valuable time to recruit, interview, [...]
22 Apr

RA for All: Flip the Script and Think Like a Reader ~ Booktalk Your Way to the Friendliest Library in Town

9-10:30 AM RA for All: Flip the Script and Think Like a Reader: Readers Advisory belongs in every library, no matter its budget. The implementation [...]
25 Apr

Authority Control: Creating and Maintaining Consistency

04/25/2024    
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
$0.00
Authority control, the process of ensuring consistent use of access points in bibliographic records, helps library users discover all relevant information within a library’s catalog. [...]
26 Apr

President's Retreat: Seeing and Solving Problems Differently

TBLC Board President, Mary Beth Isaacson, invites you to this new learning and togetherness opportunity where we leave the walls of libraries and retreat into [...]
02 May

AI and Metadata: Opportunities & Challenges – the ChatGPT Vision

05/02/2024    
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
$0.00
How can ChatGPT and other AI content creators help us in our data creation, management, and maintenance? Does AI have a place in our cataloger’s [...]
03 May

Unlocking Teamwork Magic - New Date

Unlocking Teamwork Magic provides teams and emerging leaders with the tools and strategies needed to build and maintain empowered, and highly motivated teams. Participants will [...]
09 May

How to Search for Grant Opportunities for Your Library

05/09/2024    
10:00 am - 11:00 am
$0.00
As  library personnel, it's important to know the various ways and places you can search for grant opportunities. Getting to know a funder from information that [...]
06 Jun

Doing Digital Preservation: Small Steps to Ensuring Access - 2 Part

06/06/2024 - 06/07/2024    
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
$0.00
For libraries that collect and create digital objects, digital preservation is the elephant in the room. Digital objects are fragile and even libraries that are [...]
09 Jul

The Art of the Reference Interview

07/09/2024    
10:30 am - 11:30 am
$0.00
Whether as a refresher or an introduction, this Know &Go session details the art of the reference interview, including the behaviors of reference service providers, [...]
24 Jul

Alphabet Soup: Decoding Cataloging Speak

07/24/2024    
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
$0.00
Cataloging and metadata have so many acronyms -- how is that even possible? BIBFRAME? FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD, LRM? MARC? RDA? XML? What does it all [...]
20 Aug

Designing Quality Survey Questions

Surveys are revered for their ease of use and promise of reaching many, but we must be able to craft rich, concise, and focused questions [...]
27 Aug

Cricut for Beginners

08/27/2024    
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
$0.00
Cricut is a brand of electronic cutting machines that allow users to draw and cut various materials precisely for various crafting projects, such as vinyl [...]

Other Trainings

Tech-Talk is a technology skill-building resource that is available to library staff statewide. Get fresh ideas each week on creative ways to use technology and communicate with co-workers. Sign-up for Tech-Talk and receive an email every seven days with helpful articles, “how-to” videos and access to the Tech-Talk membership area with more ideas on how to be productive and innovative at work. You can also ask questions and get a personal response. To subscribe to the weekly emails, join the Division of Library and Information Services email list.

WebJunction Florida provides timely and relevant learning content for you to access anytime, from anywhere. This service is produced by OCLC and sponsored by Florida’s Division of Library and Information Services.

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