Please excuse the cross posting.

We've rescheduled the final, free webinar in the ALA Management series for small and rural library employees.  Late last year, MSL partnered with ALA Publishing and the state library agencies of Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts to bring a free, 5-part series of training webinars to library staff working in small and rural libraries in our states.   All the webinars are being recorded and we'll have access to them for the next year.  You can access the recordings at https://bit.ly/359u0Pp.<https://bit.ly/359u0Pp>

Balancing Library Management with Day-to-Day Responsibilities: A Guide for the Rural Library<https://alapublishing.webex.com/alapublishing/onstage/g.php?MTID=ea263d420c0fdb69c466497ea70a0bb02> with Gwin Grimes

Monday, June 29th at 1pm Eastern.

In this workshop, rural library management expert Gwin Grimes will show you how. You'll learn how the principals of time management and prioritization apply uniquely to the environment of the small, rural library. You'll learn where to micromanage, where to delegate and how to make sense of it all.

Gwin Grimes was hired in July 2016 as director of the Jeff Davis County Library in Fort Davis after a long career in 070.4 and a subsequent foray into 374/641.7. Her other experience working in a library was in the early 2000s as a graduate assistant in Information Commons at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth while she pursued a master's degree in liberal arts and later was hired to work full time in the library's circulation department. When she is not working as the only full-time employee of JDCL, she studies for her master of library science degree as part of the Transforming Libraries into Community Anchors in Rural Texas cohort at Texas Woman's University.

Learning objectives/practical takeaways:

  *   How to prioritize tasks in a constantly changing environment, a.k.a. the juggling act
  *   To make lists or not to make lists -- what was the question again?
  *   Delegation for people with control issues (that's us)
  *   It's more than just training
  *   What to do when you are the team

You can register for the event on ALA's Webex Site<https://alapublishing.webex.com/alapublishing/onstage/g.php?MTID=ea263d420c0fdb69c466497ea70a0bb02> (Direct Link: https://bit.ly/2UCrpLM). This event is free to any library employee in Maine.

If you have any questions, please contact ALA at [log in to unmask]


Stephanie Zurinski,
CE Coordinator | Data and Evaluation Specialist
Maine State Library
230 State Street
64 State House Station
Augusta, ME  04333
207-287-5632