CARLI is pleased to share upcoming Professional Development Alliance offerings.
Intentionally Recruiting for Diversity in Librarianship: Reflections on a Year Later
The Diverse Librarianship Career Training and Education Program, launched in 2021, is a call to action in response to the serious lack of diverse representation in library and information science professions. This grant project aims to create a pathway model for breaking down barriers in recruitment and retention of diverse librarians by introducing high school seniors to librarianship. With the program now in its second year, program staff return to reflect on what they have learned and to highlight the work that has been completed on the forthcoming toolkit.
Tuesday, April 4, 10:00-11:30 AM CDT
PDA Event: Metadata for Digital Preservation
Metadata, and especially preservation metadata encompassing the technical and administrative aspects of description, is essential for providing continued access to your digital objects. It provides assurance that digital objects are authentic, renderable, and useable. This webinar serves as a starting point for understanding the kinds of information you will want to gather to support digital preservation, using current guidelines, standards, and models in the field to identify core information required to steward digital objects over time.
Wednesday, April 5, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM CDT
Metronet Learnabouts: Google Voice
Google Voice can be used as an alternative to a traditional desk phone and/or your personal mobile number. Come to this session for an introduction to Google Voice.
Monday, April 10, 4:00-5:00 PM CDT
Understanding Your OCLC Resource Sharing Service: How it Works and How to Set it Up
If you’re newer to your position in interlibrary loan, or you have years of experience and would like a refresher, this session is for you. Join Jenny Rosenfeld from the OCLC Resource Sharing Team on an overview of OCLC resource sharing services. She’ll guide you through a number of the features, some of them newer, that will help you speed fulfillment of interlibrary loan requests to save time for you and your library users.
Tuesday, April 11, 12:30-1:30 PM CDT
Maria C. R. Harrington will present two products developed as digital twins of nature using geospatial datasets, visualized in an immersive augmented reality application, The AR Perpetual Garden App, and a virtual reality application, The Virtual UCF Arboretum. This talk may be of interest to anyone who wishes to construct effective immersive informal learning applications of the natural world for communication, learning, and engagement.
Tuesday, April 11, 1:00-2:00 PM CDT
Accessibility Toolkit: Making Presentations Accessible
In our work, most of us have created content for a presentation, but have you taken the steps to ensure the content that you share is accessible to the widest audience possible? This presentation will give you the tools to begin.
Tuesday, April 11, 1:00-2:00 PM CDT
Providing the right kind of storage with the right number of copies for your digital files can make the difference between losing and saving your organization’s digital cultural heritage. If you are completely new to digital preservation storage, or simply need a refresher or tips for how to work with your IT department, this webinar will help you improve storage at your institution. Tara Puyat, Preservation Specialist, NEDCC, will cover requirements for storage environments as well as several affordable and scalable options to meet small and mid-size organizations’ needs for storage..
Wednesday, April 12, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CDT