Clearinghouse of Professional Information

Training Resources for Library Staff                                                                  Français

SOLS Training events and services can be found on our Calendar of Events, our schedules of Library Committee Meetings, Trustee Councils, and First Nations Gathering, our EXCEL distance education course and our offerings of Clinics and Workshops.

A special page of links to SOLS Workshops Support Materials is also maintained.

OLS-North area workshops and conferences information can be found on the OLS-North website. Scheduled events are included on our online calendar and other library related events can be added.

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Links to outside providers of training: Canadian Information and Library Studies Programs | Distance Learning | How to become a virtual librarian |  SOLS Workshops Support Materials | Stack Maintenance 101 | Training Tools

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Canadian Library and Information Studies Programs

Distance Learning

• Dynix Institute Web Seminar Archive. Past presentations of the Dynix Institute are always available free of charge in the Dynix Institute Web Seminar Archive
• Idaho State Library. Alternative Basic Library Education. Like our own programme EXCEL, the on-line courses offered by the Idaho State Library are for library staff who have no formal education in library science except that they do not focus on library management. The three categories of courses are: Collection Development, technical services and Public Services. There are additional courses on youth services, services to school aged children, and young adult services, are available through Idaho's Supplemental Alternative Library Education Program
• Getting to Success with NetLibrary: Live Web Sessions While SOLS has conducted a number of webinars on eAudiobooks from NetLibrary, more are available directly from NetLibrary. You simply to go to this site and register for the sessions. They include sessions on eAudiobooks, set-up and administration, and promotion and marketing.
• Infopeople Archived Webcasts  Attend one of Infopeople's free hour-long webcasts on topics of vital interest to library staff. Archived Webcasts are recordings of the live webcasts and can be viewed at any time.
• Infopeople Podcasts  Provides an archive of previous podcasts on various library issues from book reviews and collection development to the philosophy of library service and library change. New Podcasts are available through RSS feed subscription
• Library of Congress Webcasts for Librarians and Archivists
• Library U. (Illinois Library Systems) Free web-based training for librarians, supported cooperatively by the Illinois Library Systems and the Illinois State Library with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Courses are offered in the following categories: Administrative Skills, Cataloguing, Community Building, Customer Service, Information Services, Library Operations, Library Principles, Marketing and Youth Services.
• Lifelong Education @ desktop LE@D The University of North Texas . Online courses for librarians and library staff that deal a wide range of topics. Prices vary.
• On-line programming for All Libraries (OPAL)  OPAL is an international collaborative effort by libraries and other organizations to provide web-based programs and training for library users and library staff members. Examples of OPAL public online programs include book discussion programs, interviews, special events, library training, memoir writing workshops, and virtual tours of special digital library collections. Link to OPLA library training events
• The Partnership - Education Institute Course Calendar. Program partnership created by the Executive Directors of the British Columbia Library Association, the Library Association of Alberta, the Ontario Library Association and the Saskatchewan Library Association to support the professional development of librarians and information professionals. The Education Institute continues to offer programs, workshops and events in various locations throughout the year. Virtual programs and courses are accessible on-line or by teleconference from the member's workplace or home.
• Professional Learning Center (FIS, UofT) Wide range of practical workshops for information professionals and others interested in information issues or in learning new information technologies. The PLC is the largest continuing education program for the information field in the country and one of the largest in the world, offering certificate programs, web-based distance education courses, and a series of short courses on subjects of interest to the profession.
• TekDesk Tutorials
• Webjunction. Learning Center. Is a source for library staff training: online courses, downloadable lessons, training tips, and other tools to enhance your technical and policy knowledge and skills. You can also use the LC resources to develop and conduct technology courses for library patrons. Also offers free and for fee-based courses in areas of Basic Computing and Applications ( Access, Excel, Office, PowerPoint etc) Managing Public Access Computing, Networking, web Development and Using the Internet.

How to become a virtual librarian

Training Tools

• Library Instruction Round Table. Has compiled these sites to give you some ideas that could be used in developing tutorials for any type of library. With that in mind, they have included general tutorials on how to do research and search the Internet, subject-specific guides, and some sites that give advice on how to design a tutorial.
• Archival Collection Management. Training Manual. State Library of Queensland.
  This training manual integrates information from various national agencies to teach the fundamentals of Archival Collection Management
• Collection Development Training (Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records) provides practical training in how to perform collection development activities especially in small and rural public libraries.
• Five Weeks to a Social Library. A free online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. Course content is available as are the Webcasts from the original on-line course.
• Library Marketing (Ohio Library Council) Web-based training for public libraries. Six self-paced library marketing training modules, resources, examples, quizzes and exercises. create market plans.
• Ohio Reference Excellence on the Web. (Ohio Library Council) The six self-paced modules emphasize the reference process, enhanced with Ohio library photos, stories, Web links and exercises. Suitable for new library staff in any library
• Orientation! (Ohio Library Council) Web-based training for new public library employees. An introduction to basis library organizations, mission, and services. First day, week, or month of working in the library? What will you need to know?
• 25 Tools: Professional Development Resources This is a free, open access resource to free Internet tools. Each Tool activity comprises a number of short, simple tasks to help you find out more about the technology behind each tool, the tool itself and why it is so popular, how to try out the tool and reflect on its use for your own teaching and  learning and for productivity and performance support.  Many of the tool activities are inter-related, so you will also be using other tools for different tasks.

     Stack Maintenance 101

• How to shelve a book (University of Florida Libraries)
• LibraryU. Shelving with Dewy Demo  Interactive Shelving simulation (choose Demo from sidebar and then "Shelving with Dewey (Demo)"
• Page Training Manual (Aurora Public Library)  (Word file)
• Shelf reading and blocking ((University of Florida Libraries)
• Resources for public and K-12 libraries (OCLC) If you work in a public or K–12 library—or use one—you may need information about the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system rather than from it. These resources can help. (Note: Powerpoint presentations are slow to load)

  
  Formation professionnelle pour le personnel de bibliothèques publiques

• Association pour l'avancement des sciences et techniques de la documentation (ASTED) Cours de perfectionnement.
• Association pour l'avancement des sciences et techniques de la documentation (ASTED). Congrès et colloques
• Corporation des bibliothécaires professionnelles du Québec. (CBPQ) Congrès annuel
• Corporation des bibliothécaires professionnelles du Québec. (CBPQ) Formation continue.  Un programme annuel de formation professionnelle et de mise à jour des connaissances est offert aux membres (à tarif préférentiel) et à l’ensemble de la communauté bibliothéconomique et d’information documentaire. En plus du programme annuel de formation, la Corporation conçoit des activités de perfectionnement sur mesure, adaptées aux besoins de groupes de professionnels qui en font la demande
• Education Institute. Cours en français.  Développé par les associations provinciales et territoriales des bibliothèques canadiennes de The Partnership avec la collaboration de l'ASTED, l'Association pour l'avancement des sciences et techniques de la documentation. À tous les deux mercredis durant l'année, vous trouverez des sessions débordant d'idées et de stratégies qui vous inspireront et faciliteront votre travail.