T is for Training 160: I Could Have Taught That

On this T is for Training, Stephanie Zimmerman started us off with a conversation on ILEAD USA: Innovative Librarians Explore, Apply and Discover, which she participated in.  iLEAD USA is being used in 10 U.S. states. The videos from the keynotes and invited speakers from this event are at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX5frlby3mLroZdaOO4CFJVV6P-N6XlM2.  Information on the iLEAD Pennsylvania teams is at https://ileadusapennsylvania.wordpress.com/.  Stephanie noted that there was a heavy use of Twitter during the live event.  The iLEAD Twitter name is @ILEAD_USA and they used the hashtag of #ileadusa.

Stephanie’s iLEAD presentation and handouts are at:

• http://www.slideshare.net/Slzimm1/community-engagement-46237441
• http://www.slideshare.net/Slzimm1/community-engagement-presentation-notes-basic
• http://www.slideshare.net/Slzimm1/managing-stressstaying-positive
• http://www.slideshare.net/Slzimm1/managing-stressstayingpositivehandout

A summary of the Pennsylvania group is at http://compendium.ocl-pa.org/join-us-at-ilead-usa-by-participating-in-the-streaming-video-presentations/

Stephanie mentioned this book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, which Eli Neiburger mentioned in his presentation.  The Project Gutenberg version is at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201.

The near-final topic was on how to make conference more appropriate for long-term participants. (Dear Conference Organizers, yes, this is an issue.  How can we help?)

In a tangent, the crew talked about how public libraries are chartered in New York and Maryland.  For NYS info, go to http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/libs/pltypes.htm.

On the call were Angela Paterek (@trainingpassion), Stephanie Zimmerman (@slzimm1) , Andrea Snyder (@alsnyder02), Jill Hurst-Wahl (@jill_hw) and Maurice Coleman (@baldgeekinMD). You can listen to the show here.

T is for Training 159: I was on a bit of a rant…

Libraries are all about lifelong learning.  How do we support/push/encourage people towards learning about things that they don’t know (and perhaps even don’t know what they don’t know)? How do we get people to become sponges soaking up information and skills, rather than mugs waiting to be filled with knowledge? We recognize that we need to make it safe for people to ask about the things that they don’t know, and make it safe to try something and fail.

The crew talked about many aspects of this, including:

• When people have a “moment of need”, can they figure out how to learn the important information?
• Do people fear failure or fear success?
• How do you meet people “where they are” (in what they need to know)?

At the end of the show, we talked about weeding your responsibilities and finding joy in your work.

On the call were Andrea Snyder, Maurice Coleman, Paul Signorelli and Jill Hurst-Wahl. You can listen to the episode here.