RA for All Virtual Appearance: Illinois Heartland Library System Member Day

 

Today I am attending and appearing at the IHLS Member Day 2021.

Illinois Heartland Library System is one of 3 systems in IL. Chicago Public is its own system, RAILS [for which I am on the Board of Directors currently] is basically the northern half, and IHLS has all the rest.

And I stress that last point....all the rest. It is a lot of area to cover, but today, they are all gathering online for a great day of learning and it is FREE. From the website:

Member Day 2021: Celebrating Libraries, Building Partnerships

November 18, 2021 

A virtual day of professional development, networking, and inspiration for library leaders, staff, and trustees of IHLS's member libraries

Open and FREE to all staff of IHLS libraries thanks in part to our generous sponsors!

Member Day is Illinois Heartland Library System's biggest continuing education and networking event of the year! IHLS Member Day started as an annual day of member appreciation and has developed into a full one-day conference chock-full of learning opportunities and Professional Development Hours. It has also been designed to provide a large-scale networking opportunity for all IHLS membership, both with system staff and with each other.

I was honored to be asked to present during this event. This entire day of learning is available to every single person who works at an IHLS library for no cost. They just need to be a library staff member. Talk about inclusive continuing education opportunities. Well done! And since it is virtual and recorded, everyone can participate when they are able to. Double well done!

Fo ray part, I am taking the goal of the day to INSPIRE, so I am presenting my Secrets of Stellar Readers' Advisory Service program. This program is a greatest hits of how to provide interactive RA from any library, by any staff member. 

If you only have enough time for me to be somewhere for 45-60 minutes, this program gets you the most useable content.

You can all access the slides at this link or by clicking on the screen shot of the first slide below.

Click here to access the slides 

See some of you later.