Continuing Education Courses

All courses are included in the registration fee.

CE Course:  8:00am - 12:00pm ET (7:00am - 11:00am CT)

Title:  Leadership and Management: Best Practices for Leveraging Community Connections to Improve Access to Health Information

Objective: This session will use hands-on exercises to engage attendees in the development of their own definitions of and strategies for community engagement through a leadership lens. Additionally, attendees will gain practical skills they will be able to implement which demonstrate and exemplify leadership skills and practices.

Methods: This session will present some material in a traditional presentation format, but the primary means of instruction will be with active learning techniques. The beginning of the session will involve some pre-instruction polling that will be used to gauge attendee’s current knowledge. The end of the session will include activities that gauge knowledge and understanding after the session material is covered.

Participant Engagement: While there will be some material presented to the attendees, this session will primarily use several different active learning techniques. This includes, polling and other means of gathering input from attendees; small group exercises; think-pair-share; individual reflection.

Learning Objectives:

• Attendees will be able to define leadership skills needed for community engagement in their own words.
• Attendees will be able to explain processes and best practices for community engagement.
• Attendees will be able to identify one or more areas in which they can implement leadership concepts into their current community engagement work.
  

Instructors:  Heather Holmes (NNLM-MUSC) and Tony Nguyen (NNLM at UMB). 

MLA CE Credits: 4

CE Course:  1:00pm - 5:00pm ET (12:00pm - 4:00pm CT)

Title: Wellness in the Workplace

You’re a library worker. You’re already helping those in your community find health information. As a library worker, what are you doing to manage your own well-being? Individual and community well-being are inherently connected. Thus, it is critical that workplaces be an area of wellness for their employees. Join us to discover ways to improve your own personal well-being and create a healthy workplace.  If you are a supervisor, how are you helping to ensure your staff stays healthy (physically, emotionally, etc.)? We will also discuss ways to increase overall wellness for all staff in libraries so that we have happy, healthy, and safe work environments.

Class participants will explore the aspects of a healthy workplace including physical, mental, and emotional components. We will look at the evidence on the benefits of having a healthy working environment matters to you, to the library, and to your community. We will discuss what does and does not make a healthy working environment. Participants will learn about and explore changes they can make at an individual level to improve workplace health and wellness. We will also discuss changes that could and should be made at the team and organizational levels to improve workplace health and wellness for everyone.

Objectives:

• Describe the benefits of a healthy workplace
• Explore what a healthy work environment looks like
• Identify changes you can make at the individual level to improve your health and wellness at work
• Identify changes to make at an organization level to improve the overall health and wellness in your library
• Increase awareness of evaluation tools related to news articles and other online content related to health and wellness
• Increase awareness of resources from NLM and NIH related to health and wellness in the workplace

Instructor: Bobbi Newman (NNLM at University of Iowa)

MLA CE Credits: 4

Funding for continuing education is provided by NNLM Region 2 Honorarium Sponsorship.