Continuing Education

American Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibition

June 2024

• When to Tap-In and Tap-Out: Nurturing Resilience and Renewing Bonds in Library Teams

• Team of Teams: A Collaborative Model for Work Groups

• The Importance of Using Booktok and Bookstagram for Librarians, and How You Can Get Started

• Navigating Excellence: Developing Effective Leadership and Management Skills in Modern Libraries 

• Paddling the Canoe Together: Three Pacific Island Librarians Share Ways to Serve Indigenous Communities

• You Are Not Alone: Leveraging Community Advocates Against Book Bans

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2024 Oklahoma Library Association Annual Conference 

March 2024

• Highway to Hell: The road to hell truly is paved with good intentions

• Building a Marketing and Communications Team from Scratch 

• Career Management: Be the CEO of your Career

• Self-Censorship in the Library: Let's Talk About It

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Library Journal’s Director’s Summit

Dec 2022

• Leading Inclusion in Libraries

• Building an Equitable Workplace Culture

• Driving Digital Equity

• How to Serve Low-Tech Patrons in a Hybrid Environment

• Strengthening Staff Support 

• Trauma and Resilience for Leaders and Managers; a round-table discussion

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Interacting with the Media

Media Insiders

Oklahoma Library Association

Nov 2022

• How to respond to reporters

• In-person, on-camera, tough questions interviews

• Verbal agreements with reporters

• Holding journalists accountable for accurate reporting

Tri-Association Conference

Mountain Plains Library Association

Montana Library Association

Pacific Northwest Library Association

Aug 2022

• Understanding the Politics of Library Funding

• Preparing for an Intellectual Freedom Challenge

• 10 things Library Boards Do That Hurt the Library

• Hitting Your Limit: Trauma and Library Workers​

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Joint Library Association Conference

Oklahoma Library Association

Mountain Plains Library Association

March 2022

• New Directors 101

• Using Geocaching for Programming and Outreach

• Adult Literacy

• What To Do When Disaster Strikes

• The Importance (or un-importance) of Classics in Public Library Collections

• Book Talk Ideas, Tips, and Tricks

• Creating a Community Partnership Toolkit

• Making and Nurturing Peer Relationships Among Managers

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Oklahoma Library Association Conference

Oklahoma Library Association

July 2021

• Grant Writing for Libraries

• Creating and Reviewing Book Talks and Graphics for Social Media

• How to Build and Maintain an Effective Team

• Succession Planning

• Community Connections

• Supporting Podcasting at Academic Libraries

• Advocacy in a Time of Pandemic, Polarity, and Insecurity

• Managing Social Media for Rural, Municipal, and Tribal Libraries

• A Broader Look at Self-Care

• Tabletop Role Playing Games

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