The Massachusetts Library System is pleased to announce that we have contracted with ALA to provide our members with access to their live webinars.  These webinars are free to MLS members who register through our calendar.  Please do not register directly with ALA. Members who register directly with ALA are responsible for paying their registration fee. 

Please help us keep MLS sponsored training free for all members. If you are unable to attend the live webinar, please cancel your registration. A cancellation link can be found in your confirmation email, or you may contact Sarah Donnelly at sdonnelly@masslibsystem.org to cancel. 

Description

Does your departmental or organizational staff need a morale boost to realize their full potential? Is your library looking for creative approaches to better serve individuals, families, students, businesses, and community partners while maximizing your staff’s skills and talents? Sometimes what we need in administrative planning is a new way of learning, thinking, and doing! Try the in-reach role, the ability to develop our inner best and bring that to the table. In-reach, a play on “library outreach,” helps to develop fresh and different perspectives – and boost morale. In this session participants will learn seven easy-to-use in-reach techniques or can-do-isms. It will show how in-reach can stretch us to tap a reservoir of inspiration and goodwill – whether we are navigating internal communications or discovering community needs. It will teach how to cultivate a kind, cheerful, and even-tempered attitude in oneself and staff. In-reach skills reduce friction and tap creative intelligence to move an organization forward.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this webinar, attendees will:

• Examine three tips or principles on how to activate library in-reach (the ability to bring out the best in ourself and others).
• Identify benefits of library in-reach. 
• Determine two ways to put in-reach into action to build department and/or organization morale.

Who Should Attend

This session is designed for library staff at all levels.

Presenter

Dorothy Stoltz is a professional librarian, author, consultant, mentor, and trainer. She has decades of librarianship experience having served as programming and outreach manager and community engagement director. Throughout her career Dorothy has advocated for the quality of our thinking and our love of learning as being incomplete without the support of each other. Dorothy retired as director for community engagement with the Carroll County (MD) Public Library in 2021. She is author of six books for ALA Editions: Inspired Thinking (2020), Transform and Thrive (2018), Inspired Collaboration (2016), The Power of Play (2015), Tender Topics (2013), and Every Child Ready for School (2013) – and for Waldo Publishers: Activate Peer Learning in Your Library and Community (2023). Dorothy is owner of Waldo Publishers, LLC (WaldoPublishers.com) which presents books inspired by the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson to “activate from within.” She offers a range of mentor, consulting, and training services on creativity and peer learning for libraries and other organizations, through Stoltz Creative Consulting.

Accessibility Information

If you have questions or requests regarding accessibility, contact ce@ala.org or at 312-280-5100.