Regional Workshops

We’re coming to you!

The NC LIVE team and special guests will be visiting a library near you this fall! Join us at an NC LIVE Regional Workshop to learn about NC LIVE, network with peers, and gain transferable skills to take back to your community. While much is similar to past years (still free, still includes lunch!), this year we’re offering three tracks for the day: the NC LIVE Training Track, the Leadership Development Track, and the Open Educational Resources track.

TRAINING TRACK

Whether you’re staffing a reference desk, teaching information literacy classes, promoting library resources, or managing electronic databases, it’s important to know the ins and outs of your NC LIVE resources to help your communities succeed. In the NC LIVE Training Track, you’ll get hands-on training with NC LIVE resources from the experts. The registration form will ask you to rank the resources/services you’d most like to learn about at the workshop, so each agenda is catered to that day’s attendees. We’ll explore content, navigate databases, and brainstorm ways to use them in your communities. 

In addition to resource training, NC LIVE is offering *new* sessions on the skills you need to thrive at your library. Our most requested topics include: project management, cultural competence, grant writing, event planning, and more! Stay tuned for more details. 

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRACK

Finding the time and funding to develop your leadership skills can be challenging. That’s why NC LIVE offers a free Leadership Development workshop series this fall. Guest facilitators will share their knowledge on specific leadership competencies through active learning exercises that will give you an opportunity to experience and learn to navigate common leadership challenges. Some of the competencies we will cover include:

• leading organizational change
• managing conflict
• finding talent
• developing strategy
• navigating workplace politics

Whether you are in a leadership position already, or aspire to be, consider registering for an upcoming NC LIVE regional workshop. Is there a local library leader that you'd like to suggest as a session facilitator? Send a message to help@nclive.org. 

 OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES TRACK

NC LIVE is providing faculty, instructors, librarians, instructional designers, and distance education staff an introduction to open education and the Open Education North Carolina (OENC) initiative. Through sessions tailored for librarians and faculty, attendees will learn about the OENC initiative, how to promote OER adoption on campus, and how to apply for a $1,000 grant! 

• Morning Workshop: For librarians, instructional designers, distance education staff, and any others who would like to champion open education on their campuses.
• Afternoon Workshop: For faculty who are interested in learning about open educational resources, how to adopt them, and how to apply for a $1,000 grant.

Fall 2019 Workshops

SANDHILLS REGIONAL WORKSHOP

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 | 10AM-4PM

Union County Public Library | Monroe, NC

• Anne Moore, UNC-Charlotte
• Alan Unsworth, Surry Community College
• Dana Eure, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

MOUNTAIN REGIONAL WORKSHOP

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2019 | 10AM-4PM

UNC-Asheville | Asheville, NC

• Leah Dunn, UNC-Asheville
• Tammy Baggett, Durham County Library
• Susan Brown, Chapel Hill Public Library

NORTHEAST REGIONAL WORKSHOP

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2019 | 10AM-4PM

East Carolina University | Greenville, NC

• Alexia Riggs, Campbell University
• Stephanie Crowe, UNC-Wilmington 
• Lesley Mason, Caldwell County Public Library
• Georgia Williams, Chowan University and Laura Johnson, Livingstone College