Pretty much every public library is expected to offer technology classes to the public, typically beginning with the basics. What happens when you've reached a saturation point and your patrons want more? What do you do when staff members become bored with the material and want to branch out and try new things? Wittmann discusses how to read the signs and what to do to strike the balance between teaching the basics and introducing patrons to what's on the horizon. 

You don't have to be a tech genius or a professional speaker to create successful webinars ... just a good check-list and a backstage buddy. Bates offers her best tips for ensuring your webinars rock. 

Learnings from the FOPL 2015 Statistics and Polls on using new metrics for libraries to seek funding, attract users and build strategies. Includes a look at where we should focus our strategies in 2016. 

Get tips from our “Games & Gadgets” guru on how to use tech to empower your community!

Ebooks have been flooding into library collections for years. They are valuable for teaching and learning. However, finding ebooks has never been as straightforward as their print counterparts due to the multitude of ways of managing their catalog records, and using ebooks from many different vendors in various formats. Hear how one library took a multidimensional approach to enable their users to discover, access, and use ebooks. 

Learn how to create a research impact report including the role of scholarly identities, and the importance of using ResearcherID/AuthorIDs and ORCID to claim researcher output. Get a template for creating an impact report with h-index and citation figures and hear how to integrate altmetrics (or alternative metrics) into an impact report to show evidence of research impact outside of scholarly publishing. 

Hear about the societal trends that IFLA identified in a recent report after consultation with information industry leading thinkers. Scheeder, a long-time industry practitioner, looks at the societal trends identified by the IFLA report and discusses what they mean for the change agenda for libraries and librarians.

Our industry watcher gives you his top tech trends to be watching for in 2016!

What is gamification and how can it be used to enhance the learning experience? Gamification is the use of game design elements in nongame contexts to make them more fun and engaging. Adding gaming elements can increase attention, interest, and overall library experience. Learn more about gamification in libraries and hear about various ways to design and promote creative learning games in the library for outreach and learning purposes. 

Learn the do's and don'ts of team teaching information literacy in an online environment and why team teaching works best. Our speakers cover what works, what doesn't and what they would do differently. They focus primarily on teaching students using tutorials but their comments benefit librarians creating workshops and class lessons for all types of libraries.