Free Online Continuing Education Opportunities

Guest Submission: Joy Schwarz

Please check the NEWI list of free webinars to find online continuing education opportunities you may attend from where you are. Most sessions are 60 minutes long, and are provided – at no charge to you – by associations, agencies, companies, and library systems. There’s a lot to choose from, so here’s a sample of topics that may be of interest to you.

Managing stress & building resilience; click title to register:

• 5 Skills to Help You Feel Unstuck - Noon on Wednesday, July 13
• Emotional Skills: Beyond Brené Brown's Atlas of the Heart - 6pm on Thursday, July 14
• Mental Health Wellness: How Employers Should Evolve with Employee Expectations - 2pm on Thursday, July 21
• The Overcomer in You - 3pm on Thursday, July 21
• Wellness and Resilience Strategies - 9am on Friday, July 22
• The Relationship Between Personal Stress and Community Resilience - 11am on Tuesday, July 26

Diversity, equity, and inclusion; click title to register:

• More than Lip Service: Making Diversity, Equity and Inclusion a Reality at Your Org - 1pm on Wednesday, July 6
• Compliant Hiring Best Practices: Removing Bias and Discrimination - 2pm on Wednesday, July 6
• There’s a Week for That: Exploring Federal Government Resources for Diverse Weekly Celebrations - 1pm on Thursday, July 14
• Why Are We Still Having Hard Conversations? - 10am on Wednesday, July 20
• Believing the Unseen: Invisible Disabilities - Noon on Wednesday, July 27
• Managing Implicit Bias in Your Library – 1pm on Thursday, July 28

A sample of webinars on other topics; click title to register:

• Weed ‘Em and Reap: Getting Your Collection from Awful to Awesome - 2pm on Thursday, July 14
• Cheat Sheets Made Easy: Creating Job Aids for Employee Training - 3pm on Wednesday, July 20
• The Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table Guide to Addressing Comic Book Bans, Censorship, and Challenges - 1pm on Thursday, July 21
• 5 Signs of a Toxic Work Environment and How to Fix It - 3pm on Monday, July 25
• The Post-Pandemic Library: Managing Issues Now That They are Our Daily Routine - 1pm on Wednesday, July 27
• Empower Your Library Against Book Bans - 3pm on Thursday, July 28

Special event this month:

• Where Intellectual Freedom and Social Justice Meet: A Call to Action, a Freedom to Read Foundation symposium - 11am-3pm on July 12 and 13

NEWI is a continuing education (CE) partnership of library systems located in North Eastern Wisconsin. The NEWI website aims to be a central source of CE info for staff working at libraries in four library systems: Manitowoc‐Calumet Library System (MCLS), Nicolet Federated Library System (NFLS), Outagamie Waupaca Library System (OWLS), and Winnefox Library System (WLS).

For more information, please contact Joy Schwarz, Continuing Education/Training Librarian at Schwarz@winnefox.org