LE@D (Lifelong Education @ Desktop)
LE@D (Lifelong Education @ Desktop) online courses help library staff deal with the daily challenges that are a part of their work life.
Location: Online on your computer
Audience: Utah librarians
Instructor: University of North Texas Library school instructors
Skill level: Introductory
Cost: Free (paid for by Utah State Library)
Computer requirements: Windows XP or 2000 or better; Mac OS X or better
Online library training through Le@d: Lifelong Education @ Desktop, University of North Texas Library School. Sign up & then receive login info for the course. Please, one course per person at a time. You will need to turn in an evaluation of your experience when you are through. See more about the courses
Courses available:
- Basic budgeting
- Become an effective trustee
- Capturing history: digitization projects
- Change management and leadership
- Copyright basics for libraries
- Creating and maintaining an engaging school library website
- Creating collaborative lessons in the elementary school library
- Creating collaborative lessons in the secondary school library
- Creating compelling programming in your school library
- Ethical standards for library leadership
- Ethics in the real world
- Financial management
- Financial management in tough times
- Genealogy: an introduction for library staff
- Gifts for libraries
- Grant writing basics
- Homework help: your project is due WHEN?
- Improving co-worker relations
- Improving your communication skills: presentation skills for librarians
- Influence even when you don't have power or authority
- Info-age etiquette
- Keeping your library looking good
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- Leadership in libraries: becoming an everyday leader
- Library privacy and confidentiality: law and policy
- Managing difficult patrons with confidence!
- Meetings for Results
- Mentors and proteges: creating successful workplace programs
- Multicultural literature for children and young adults
- Providing excellent customer service in a multi-cultural environment
- Reaching reluctant readers
- Reaching teenagers
- Retailing methods and techniques in libraries
- RFID technology
- Strategic planning: quick, cheap, and decent
- Strategic planning: the 5 minute introduction
- Supervision without micromanagement
- Technical Services: what they do, why they do it, and how it's changing
- Trends in children's literature
- Understanding budgets
- Using databases
- Volunteers: recruitment, development, and supervision
- Weeding: It's not optional
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Questions? Contact:
Colleen Eggett
Training Coordinator / Consultant
(800) 662-9150 x776 (Utah toll-free) or (801) 715-6776
ceggett@utah.gov
