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Need Help Planning an Inservice or Staff Development Day?
Inservice or Staff Development: How can IFLS help?
Planning a staff development day? Congratulations! IFLS staff can provide sessions on a variety of topics. Below is a partial list. To request an IFLS staff presenter for your staff development day, please submit a HelpDesk ticket.
If you need assistance planning the day or finding speakers for topics not listed below, also submit a HelpDesk ticket.
Potential topics:
Your library is part of the MORE automation and resource-sharing consortium
- About MORE: membership, administration, budgets, decision-making
- About Sierra
- Circulation: patron records, checkout, check-in, placing holds, filling holds, notices, fines and fees
- Collection management: adding item records, assigning call numbers, handling damaged items, weeding, working with CABS
- Serials: magazine management
- Acquisitions
- Maintenance tasks: outstanding holds, long in transit, missing in transit or from holdshelf
- Advanced Sierra: searching in Sierra (including Browse Query), Create Lists, special patron records, statistical tools including Decision Center
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
- Interlibrary Loan basics
- WISCAT Basics
Reference and Readers Advisory
- IFLS Databases (Ancestry; Novelist Plus)
- Libby basics and beyond
- Searching techniques for the MORE Catalog and MORE Libraries app
Customer Service
- Intellectual Freedom/Book Challenges/Responding to Challenges
- Child development/teen development
Additional Offerings
- Public library service 101
- Team-Building Activities
- Values Exercise: finding the common values that are a priority for staff
- Collection Development basics (selection and weeding)
Online Options from IFLS-Recommended Sources
- For training about BadgerLink resources, contact Jen Champoux, BadgerLink outreach and Training Specialist: jennifer.champoux@dpi.wi.gov.
- There are many options on the IFLS Niche Academy Page, including but not limited to:
- For tutorials about Privacy, we recommend Privacy and Wisconsin Public Libraries Tutorial for Front-Line Staff and Privacy and Wisconsin Public Libraries Tutorial for Managers and Directors.
- For de-escalation and help with enforcing rules, Ryan Dowd’s Core Homelessness Training (3.5 hours) is a great start.
- IFLS staff can help recommend several other online resources that are specific to the needs of your staff!