Today’s Agenda: 2012 Partner Successes – Kathleen Gesinger – 45 min 2013 Programming – Jennifer Peterson - 15 min Working Groups – WJ Team - 25 min Wrap
Todays Agenda: 2012 Partner Successes Kathleen Gesinger 45 min
2013 Programming Jennifer Peterson - 15 min Working Groups WJ Team
- 25 min Wrap Up Kathleen Gesinger - 5 min November Third Thursday
Partner Meeting 15 November 2012
We asked you. What 1-3 efforts using WebJunction are you most
proud of this year?
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Getting through migration and launch!
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Since launch WJ.org has had: 255,272 visits 73,018 unique
visitors 732,601 page views
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Partner Section Page Views
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20 out of 50 Page Views are Partner Pages - Of our top 50 page
views since launch, 20 of those pages are Partner Pages. - Top 50
page views: 362,278 total 126,630 partners = 35% - Partner Site
total page views represent 33% of all page views on the site
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Top 25 File Downloads:
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Member course activity since launch: 2,941 new members have
been approved for course access 3,910 members have used the LMS
6,046 courses added to learning plans 2,972 courses completed
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Top 20 course enrollments since launch: Readers' Advisory
Services (LibraryU) Introduction to Cataloging for Non-Catalogers
(LibraryU) Dealing with Angry Patrons (LibraryU) Basic Web-based
Reference (LibraryU) Shelving with Dewey (LibraryU) Accompanying
the Young Reader.(LibraryU) Customer Service Confrontation and
Conflict Weeding the Library Collection (LibraryU) Planning Story
Times for Children (LibraryU) Customer Service Fundamentals:
Building Rapport in Customer Relationships Conflict, Stress, and
Time Management Social Networking for Users Creating a Positive
Attitude Interpersonal Communication: Communicating Assertively
Shelving with Library of Congress Classification (LibraryU) Privacy
and Information Security Customer Interactions Excel 2010: Getting
Started Basic Presentation Skills: Delivering a Presentation There
will always be storytellers (LibraryU)
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WEBINAR PARTICIPATION REGISTRATION ATTENDANCE 1411 Florida 886
Florida 1219 Illinois 654 Illinois 817 Ohio 479 Ohio 810 Texas 476
Minnesota 809 Minnesota 431 Pennsylvania 750 Pennsylvania 417 Texas
746 Virginia 391 Virginia 652 Georgia 359 Georgia 614 Washington
350 Washington 520 Missouri 313 Indiana . 10,476 Total 5898
Total
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Best Small Library in America 2010 (Glen Carbon Centennial
Library, IL, winner) Library Reading Incentive Programs for Summer
and Beyond (OH, IN) Developing Online Patron Tutorials (IL) The
Entrepreneurial Librarian (PA) Innovations from America's Best
Small Libraries 2011 (Page PIt Takes a Community to Bridge the
Digital Divide ublic Library, AZ, a finalist) Project Compass
webinar series with MN, Jobs and Small Business Task Force of
MELSA. Organizational Storytelling for Librarians Kate Marek
(Illinois) and Chris Rippel (Kansas) Developing and Maintaining
E-Reader Policies and Procedures for Libraries David Newyear (Ohio)
and Ming Heraty (Illinois) Twitter for Job Seekers: Tips for
Helping Your Library's Job-seeking Patron Brooke Roegge (Minnesota)
It Takes a Community to Bridge the Digital Divide David Keyes
(Washington) Skills for the Everyday Leader Edra Waterman (Indiana)
Virtual Connections Melanie Hedgespeth and Randy Merrell (Kansas)
NOW SPEAKING: Illinois Kansas Ohio Minnesota Washington Indiana
PARTNER WEBINAR INVOLVEMENT
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Best Small Library in America 2010 (Glen Carbon Centennial
Library, IL, winner) Library Reading Incentive Programs for Summer
and Beyond (OH, IN) Developing Online Patron Tutorials (IL) The
Entrepreneurial Librarian (PA) Innovations from America's Best
Small Libraries 2011 (Page Public Library, AZ, a finalist) Project
Compass webinar series with MN, Jobs and Small Business Task Force
of MELSA. PARTNER WEBINAR INVOLVEMENT Understanding Compassion
Fatigue in Your Library Linda Bruno (Florida) Best Kept Secret:
Marketing the Small & Rural Library Michelle A. McIntyre and
Melinda Tanner (Pennsylvania) Grant Writing for Libraries Serving
Children Sue Kimmel and Gail Dickinson (Virginia) Best Small
Library in America 2012 Julie Hildebrand (Kansas) Freedom Rings in
Philadelphia: community technology adoption Jennifer Donsky and
Lorelei Shingledecker (Pennsylvania) Energize your base: Tips and
tools to raise awareness and build support for library services
Jennifer Pearson and Hallie Rich (Ohio) NOW SPEAKING: Kansas
Florida Pennsylvania Virginia Ohio
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WebJunction Kansas Library as Community Center - Kansas webinar
training series
WebJunction Montana Development of the Community Resources
Page, Especially the Employment Resources and Training pages, done
in partnership with Job Service.
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WebJunction Illinois Facilitated 2 complete blog series focused
on specific topics & featuring guest bloggers. Summer 2012:
Growing Greener Libraries Fall 2012: The Learning Curve
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WebJunction Illinois Promoted WJIL at 3 separate conferences
including a poster session and presentation.
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Re-design of several of our pages to make them more
participatory and visually appealing WebJunction Illinois
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Re-design of several of our pages to make them more
participatory and visually appealing WebJunction Illinois
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Jay Turner WebJunction Georgia Jay Turner in Georgia was really
helpful as one of our guest bloggers and I think I will be picking
his brain fairly often in the future. Pat Carterette Star
Award
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Jay Turner WebJunction Georgia Jay has been extremely generous
in sharing! Jay always is innovating and creating. Pat Carterette
Star Award
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WebJunction Illinois I typically look at the other partners'
pages for ideas for design and organization of content.we look at
Illinois activities for ideas on CE and content. Pat Carterette
Star Award
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WebJunction Illinois Illinois has good material! I have looked
to the Illinois Page and the Missouri Page for inspiration, but I
have not developed relationships with the people behind these
pages. Pat Carterette Star Award
Leadership Library Service Technology Other Grant-related
Topics Topic areas for 2013 Editorial Update Monthly focus in
programming and content Help build community and generate content
Align with Partner training and programming efforts Experiment with
other programming and engagement opportunities
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Partnerships and Innovation (January) The Impact of an Ice
Cream Sundae Partnerships (webinar) Creating a Culture of
Innovation in your Library and Community (webinar) Staff Training
and Development (February) Self-Directed Achievement in a
Personalized Training Culture (webinar) TBD? E-Readers & Other
Mobile Devices Training for Patrons Customer Service Digital
Literacy and Inclusion Funding, Advocacy, Fundraising, and
Demonstrating Impact Library Management Improving Interpersonal
Communication Developing or improving programs Readers Advisory,
especially via mobile apps and social media Emerging Technology,
Cloud Computing and Website Development Editorial Calendar
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WebJunction Working Groups
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Collecting Stories of Impact New Training Formats Sourcing New
Content Webinar Archives Tag Taxonomy Marketing WebJunction
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What: showcase stories of how libraries are impacting lives and
helping to transform communities Why: build library staff skills to
demonstrate and communicate the librarys value. How: devise
strategies for how best to find and collect these stories and to
build skills. JENNIFER working group lead (AHNIWA support)
Collecting Stories of Impact
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What: explore new training formats and discoveries about
learning Why: to address the need for current, engaging, and easy-
to-access training content How: collaborate on exploration and
application of new ideas to enhance engagement and learning BETHA
working group lead (SHARON and DALE support) New Training
Formats
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What: identify sources of high quality library-specific
training content Why: to address the demand for this needed content
How: share and explore available options and define the steps
needed to adapt content for a nationwide audience KATHLEEN working
group lead (SHARON and BETHA support) Sourcing New Content
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What: enhance webinar archives. Why: provide certificates to
affiliated members for viewing archives and to create opportunities
for webinar programming to be built into training programs more
easily. How: include in course catalog, get your input on format
and enhancements. JENNIFER working group lead (DALE support)
Webinar Archives
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What: create and apply a tag taxonomy to WebJunction content
Why: to improve the discoverability of related content across the
website How: by developing and applying keywords to content and
topic pages across webjunction.org. AHNIWA working group lead
(SHARON support) Tag Taxonomy
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Marketing WebJunction What: identify and design new marketing
materials for the appropriate channels Why: to raise awareness and
promote WebJunction offerings that are available to library staff
How: define needs and most useful application of a refreshed
marketing effort KATHLEEN working group lead (JENNIFER
support)
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Collecting Impact Stories New Training Formats Sourcing New
Content Webinar Archives Tag Taxonomy Marketing WebJunction
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New Training Formats Sourcing New Content Webinar Archives Tag
Taxonomy Marketing WebJunction Collecting Impact Stories
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Will you be attending ALA Mid-Winter this year? Its in Seattle!
Yes No
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How would you like to connect in Seattle?
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Thanks for everything you do at WebJunction! Next Third
Thursday Meeting: 17 January 2013 9-10:30am PST/12-1:30pm EST
