MDLibrariesTraining: Learning for All

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Learning for All: Book Challenges

Learning for All: Book Challenges primarily reviews the concepts of Book Challenges and how they situate into the overall concepts of Intellectual Freedom, Censorship, Challenges to Library Materials, and Library Responses. Additionally, this course is being published at a time (mid-2022) where many additional challenges are being thrust upon public libraries. Content comes from the 2022 Curriculum of Advanced LATI and is open to all library staff members.

This course covers:

Book Challenges
DEI and Implicit Bias
Customer Interactions, Empathy, and De-Escalation
Book Challenges -- A Historical View
Resources to Help with Book Challenges
Book Challenges in the News
Libraries and Responses to Book Challenges
Advocacy and Support
Book Challenges and Maryland

This course takes about 4 hours to complete. Contact laticoor@gmail.com to enroll.

Learning for All: Book Challenges, Censorship, and Intellectual Freedom

Learning for All: Book Challenges, Censorship, and Intellectual Freedom primarily reviews the concepts of Book Challenges and how they relate to the overall concepts of Intellectual Freedom, Censorship, Challenges to Library Materials, and Internet Censorship and Filtering. Additionally, it this course dives into related Professional Ethics topics like Privacy and Confidentiality, Copyright and Fair Use, and Digital Rights Management. All of the content comes from the 2022 Curriculum of Advanced LATI and is open to all library staff members.

This class covers:

Book Challenges
DEI and Implicit Bias
Customer Interactions, Empathy, and De-escalation
What is Intellectual Freedom?
Censorship
Challenges to Library Materials
Internet Censorship and Filtering
Professional Ethics
Privacy and Confidentiality
Copyright and Fair Use
Digital Rights Management

This class takes about 6 hours to complete. Contact laticoor@gmail.com to enroll.

Learning for All: Recovering our Workforce

This course is designed to help library staff assist customers who are jobseeking during the coronavirus pandemic. It assumes basic knowledge of the reference interview, basic resume building and jobseeking sites. (See Learning for All: Basic Workforce Training if you need to brush up on these skills.)

Topics covered include:

Trauma informed library service for jobseekers: how to expand the reference interview to identify customer needs.
Helping customers with their jobseeking in a lockdown or semi-lockdown environment (libraries are closed or only partially open).
Covid-19 recovery resources for jobseekers: SLRC Unemployment guide
New tools for jobseeking
Partnerships: reaching out to other supports for jobseekers in your community
Pros and Cons of self-employment (gig work) and where to find help.
Identifying hot jobs in your community (working with local employers and local government. Helping jobseekers find alternative careers
Programming for jobseekers

The course takes approximately 4 hours.

Teacher: Rachael Stein

Learning for All: Legal Resources

This class is based upon Library Associates Training Institute's May 2020 Expanded Early Start Program Law module. Your Staff Development Coordinator or Human Resources manager can enroll you in this class.

Learning for All: Basic Customer Service is a prerequisite for this class if you are not a librarian or library associate.

This class includes:

Legal reference interview
An overview of Federal, State and local law.
Referral to experts
Courts
Legal forms
Expungement
Elected Officials and Voting

This class takes about 4.5 hours.

Learning for All: Health

The Learning for All Health class is based on the Library Associate Training Institute's May 2020 Expanded Early Start Program Health module. Your system's Staff Development Coordinator can sign you up for this class.

This class covers:

The Health Reference interview and the difference between information and advice.
Finding quality health information.
Prescription drug resources.
Resources for finding physicians
Finding health insurance information.

This class takes about 4 hours.

Learning for All: Basic Customer Service

Learning for All: Basic Customer Service is developed from May 2020 Expanded Early Start Curriculum of LATI and is open to all library staff members. This course is a prerequisite to all other Learning for All classes.

This class covers: