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The American Library Association, its 8 divisions, 21 round tables, and offices host many conferences, meetings, forums, institutes, and other events. Use the filters to explore our many available options. Toggle between list and month views using the buttons below.
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Fundamentals of Institutional Repositories 2024 - Session 1.0

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This 6-week online course is an introduction to fundamental concepts of institutional repositories (IR), including considering IR platforms, promoting the IR, faculty publications in the IR, additional sources of IR content, IR metadata, and accessibility of IR content.

Collection Management
Archives & Records Management
eLearning
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Design Basics: How to Create Better Visuals

In this workshop, participants will learn tips and tricks for creating effective and engaging graphics. Participants will learn the fundamentals of good design and come away with a list of free tools to put their ideas into practice.

Technology
Marketing & Outreach
eLearning
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Fundamentals of Digital Library Projects 2024 - Session 4.0

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This six-week online course introduces students to the breadth of considerations, standards and skills needed to successfully launch and manage a digital library program.

Collection Management
Technology
eLearning
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Dementia Inclusive Library Service

Learn how to grow dementia-inclusive service in public libraries of all sizes, financial capacities, and community contexts.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Programs & Services
eLearning
Webinar
Online
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Past to the Future: Intersections of Digitization, AI, and the Digital Humanities

Bryan Benilous, Chief Consultant, Paperboy Digital Consulting, will discuss how digitization of material collected by libraries, feed AI and how AI is being used to improve digitization. He will explore challenges with the existing ecosystem (silos, paywalls, biases, copyright, etc.) and dig deeper into how Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is utilized and how it is being improved by AI.

Technology
eLearning