As the year-end planning starts, donor surveys become an invaluable tool for understanding your supporters and crafting campaigns that resonate. This session will guide you through the best practices for designing surveys that reveal what motivates your donors, allowing you to tailor your outreach and meet year-end goals. Learn the art of asking the right…
ClinicalTrials.gov is the openly available federal registry and results database of publicly and privately funded clinical studies conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov is a vital resource for researchers, healthcare providers, patients and their families, and health sciences librarians who wish to consult the entire body of evidence on any particular…
Explore how AI enhances library services, including automated cataloging, AI-driven search tools, and personalized recommendations. Discuss ethical considerations and best practices for implementation. Presenter Dr. Treg Hopkins is the Co-Founder of Connectable, an Indiana-based nonprofit committed to enhancing adult education programs across more than 20 states through advanced data systems and artificial intelligence. As a…
In these challenging times, having objective, quantifiable data at your fingertips to support your organizational efforts is more important than ever. This workshop will provide you with easily applied ways of collecting key information, techniques for tracking progress and impact in a single repository and tips on how to make sense of findings and prepare…
Run meetings that matter David Dodson describes seven steps you can implement to create meetings that matter. The meeting started late and went over the scheduled time. Attendees were updated on events that had already occurred. Speakers talked too long and repeated themselves in unstructured presentations. Those on video tried to surreptitiously knock off some…
As the year-end planning starts, donor surveys become an invaluable tool for understanding your supporters and crafting campaigns that resonate. This session will guide you through the best practices for designing surveys that reveal what motivates your donors, allowing you to tailor your outreach and meet year-end goals. Learn the art of asking the right…
In times of uncertainty—shifting funding landscapes, policy rollbacks, and increased pressures on communities—how can organizations use data and evaluation as tools for resilience. This interactive discussion will explore questions that organization leaders can use to leverage data and evaluation for decision-making in times of change.
Al Hayden offers practical advice for strengthening, revising, and evaluating your library policies. Libraries are in need of updated policies now more than ever. Strong policy is one of the best ways to protect library staff, prevent issues, and keep unpreventable issues from escalating too far. Join Al Hayden for this webinar, which will offer…
Following a period of disruption, library leaders often need to realign service offerings with current organizational priorities and resources. In this session, the speakers will introduce a new model that was designed and applied at a large research library in an effort to redefine, reevaluate, and right-size research service offerings to better align with current…
The Fort Ben Branch of the Indianapolis Public Library was given the opportunity to become a Certified Autism Center through the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards (IBCCES) in 2023 when the branch first opened. Branch Manager, Shelby Peak, and Children’s Librarian, Sarah Tadsen, both disability advocates in their community, will share Fort…
