For event details, locations, and registration please go to https://norweld.evanced.info/signup/calendar Don’t Guess What People Want: Design Good Surveys to Find Out 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (LibraryWorks) The Librarian’s Guide to Authors 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (PCI Webinar) How the Age of Misinformation Can Work For and Against Your Library: Strategies for Success 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (LibraryWorks norweld.org Serving Northwest Ohio Since 1974 419.352.2903 SEPTEMBER EVENTS CONTINUING EDUCATION Emergency and Crisis Management in Libraries 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (PCI Webinar) Passive Aggressive Behavior: Sources and Solutions for your Library 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (LibraryWorks) StackMap Demo 1:30 PM—2:30 PM (Live Webinar) Transform and Thrive: Fostering Wellness in Our Work 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (PCI Webinar) Director’s Roundtable Oak Harbor Public Library 10:00am to 12:00 PM Canta Conmigo!: Ten New Songs for Bilingual Storytime 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (PCI Webinar) September 4 September 5 Watch for additional webinars that may be added soon! September 11 September 11 Project DAWN (Deaths Avoided with Naloxone) and Bed Bug Discussion 10:00am to 12:00pm Ft. Meigs Historical Site September 18 September 19 September 25 September 26 September 20 September 13
Emergency and Crisis Management in Libraries Categories: Crisis Management, Management, & Professional Development Library staff are often not formally trained to handle basic emergency preparedness. Emergencies are not always clear-cut, especially in libraries. Unique challenges arise like damage to resources or patrons confiding with you about personal matters that could constitute getting emergency services involved. This webinar will help you to prepare your library to handle shut downs and other emergency services through formation of policies and training. As a result of this program, attendees will: Delineate between emergency and crisis at various levels and unique library emergencies Identify best policies and practices for creation of an emergency manual Implementing plans and responses including mandated reporting Understand each stage of the process including preparedness and response and recovery Date September 4, 2024 Time 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM EST Your Knowledge Expert Jennifer Blair
Transform and Thrive: Fostering Wellness in Our Work Categories: Wellness & Professional Development Join us to discover how to do more than balance too many projects and not enough time but foster wellness and promote self-renewal. As Emerson inspires: “Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.” This session does not tell one what to think, but rather shows how to activate creative thinking and how to enrich daily activities in practical ways. As a result of this program, participants will be able to: Demonstrate an ability to create wellness in their work by using the entrepreneurial spirit: starting with the end in mind, tapping dignity, unity, and harmony in our thinking and daily activities. creatively reducing bureaucracy Explain at least three actions successful librarians take to activate the skill of discernment when prioritizing and making decisions Cite at least three resources that can be used to further hone their skills in fostering wellness in their work Date September 11, 2024 Time 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM EST Your Knowledge Expert Dorothy Stoltz
¡Canta Conmigo!: Ten New Songs for Bilingual Storytime Category: Children Is your bilingual storytime in need of new content? Learn ten original translations of songs to refresh and revitalize your Spanish bilingual storytime! As a result of this webinar, participants will be able to: Incorporate new songs, rhymes, action, and manipulative songs into bilingual storytime programs. Understand how to adapt these songs for babies, toddlers, or preschoolers. Identify basic translation methods utilized to produce translations of songs and rhymes. For optimal learning, participants should have a basic grasp of bilingual storytime and Spanish. For manipulative songs, participants should have an egg shaker, scarf, and rhythm sticks available. This program is part of PCI’s collaborative learning project with California Libraries. (CALL) Date September 18, 2024 Time 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM EST Your Knowledge Expert Sheridan Cazarez
The Librarian’s Guide to Authors Categories: Collection Development & Professional Development Every community is home to authors. Whether independently or traditionally published, authors are out there wanting to connect with you. In this webinar, we’ll explore the relationship between authors and librarians, including the unique ways each group is attracted to books and how to use those attractions to work together. As a result of this program, attendees will: Learn about marketing and promotion challenges for authors and how to help How to work with authors who approach the library How they can support authors and create a mutually beneficial relationship Participants will also receive a free copy of Cari’s short ebook, THE LIBRARIAN’S GUIDE TO AUTHORS. Date September 25, 2024 Time 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM EST Your Knowledge Expert Cari Dubiel
NORWELD KITS Polaroid Professional LED Table Top Photo Studio Kit Portable Projector Portable Puppet Stage Sewing Machine Wolverine SNaP-20MP Digital Converter 3Doodler Start+ 3D Printing Pen Cricut Maker Dremel 3D Printers GoPro Hero5 Insta360 One X 360 Camera Playstation 4 Event Kit EQUIPMENT Animal Science Bot ley Breakout EDU Code and Go Mouse Code-a-Pillar Coding Critters Create a Chain React ion Cubet to Dash and Dot Robots Early Learning AR Electric Origami Expeditions Fossil Fun Fun with Math Gears! Gears! Gears! GraviTrax STEM KITS Meta Quest 2 VR Headsets Money Skills Object-Retrieval Teambuilding Kit Ozobot Evo Classroom Kit Rigamajig Junior Building Set Robots, Robots, Robots Screen-Free Coding Games Snap Circuits Snap Circuits 2 Sphero BOLT Sphero indi Robot Spirographs Squishy Circuits STEM Play Stop Motion Animation The Science of Superpowers World of Rocks & Minerals K’NEX Simple Machines-Gears K’NEX Simple Machines-Levers & Pul leys K’NEX Simple Machines-Wheels & Axles Keva Planks Lego Boost Lego Coding Express littleBits Code Kit littleBits STEAM Set Magna-Tiles Magnets Makey Makey MazeRun Ball Maze Measure This! Merge AR/VR The Northwest Regional Library System provides a variety of educational kits to full member libraries. Please visit our website to view the most current information about each kit, including inventory and loan period, and to place a reservation request.
NORWELD KITS All About Animals All About Colors All About Feelings and Emotions All About Friendship All About Kindness All About Numbers All About the Alphabet All About the Five Senses Behind the Little Red Door SocialEmotional Activity Ki t Community and Careers Get Ready for Kindergarten Gingerbread Man Goldilocks and the Three Bears Learn with Blocks Let’s Learn Sign Language Little Red Riding Hood Make a Sound Play Rapunzel Building Set Read Sensory Storyt ime Sing Talk Three Billy Goats Gruff Three Little Pigs World Music Wr i te Yoga for Kids EARLY LITERACY KITS STORYTELLING SETS Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao Bedtime Bonnet Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Duck & Goose: Goose Needs a Hug Festival of Colors Five Green & Speckled Frogs Five Little Ducks Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story Gingerbread Man Goldilocks and the Three Bears It Looked Like Spilt Milk Itsy Bitsy Spider The Jacket I Wear in the Snow The Kissing Hand Little Blue Truck Little Red Hen Mar isol McDonald Doesn’t Match No, David! The Napping House Old MacDonald Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? The Rainbow Fish The Rainbow Fish: Counting The Snowy Day Story Wands There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Three Billy Goats Gruff Three Little Pigs Under My Hijab The Very Hungry Caterpillar Reminiscence Collections Cat Dog Farm Four Seasons Great Outdoors Handyman Homemaker Pat r iot ic MEMORY KITS Decades Collections Remembering the Fi f t ies Remembering the Sixt ies
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NDQ4NTQ1