Profession and Community Development Committee (PCDC)

Please submit any Professional Development Training or Webinar Opportunities through our newly created form.

• SU has converted several professional development workshops to an online video conference format. Visit the Professional Development website to register.
• Choose from over 4,000 courses that you can complete on-demand. From business skills and marketing, to audio and video production, to web design and CAD, go to LinkedInlearning.syr.edu. Sign in using your NetID and password.
• A list of free webinars and trainings specifically for academic librarians.
• EdX Online Courses
• Master the Microsoft Office Suite. Tech Soup offers some free training, and Microsoft tutorials are also available.
• Library Juice Academy
• Lyrasis Consortium
  • Learning Library of recorded classes
  • Live, online classes
• LibraryWorks Training Opportunities
• Tech-Talk is a premier collection of articles and videos, written each week by top training experts for busy professionals and aspiring students. It helps people stay up-to-date in using technology and become better communicators in the workplace.
• W3C/UNESCO Online Course "Introduction to Web Accessibility" (ends April 30)
• Basics of Inclusive Design for Online Education
• An Introduction to Accessibility and Inclusive Design
• Universal Design and Teaching about Universal Design & Accessibility - Recorded Sessions from AHG 2017 - 2019
  Watch or listen to over 30 hours of sessions from sessions that address Universal Design and Teaching about Universal Design.

• Works in Progress Webinar: Accessibility and Digital Collections

Conferences

• ACRL Choice Webinars 
• Electronic Resources and Libraries (ERL) annual conference recorded sessions 
• ER&L 
  ER&L has opened their virtual conference up to anyone. You will need to create a registration, the link brings you to their announcement which contains the registration link.
• Library 2.020 Wholehearted Libraries Mini-Conference 
  Please note that you need to be a member of Library 2.0 (free) to view them. If you aren't a member, just click "Join" on the top right of the homepage

COVID-19-specific

• AL Live— "Libraries and COVID-19: Managing Strategies and Stress" 
• IMLS Offers Webinar on Mitigating COVID-19 When Managing Paper-Based, Circulating, and Other Types of Collections 
• ACRL Presents: Copyright for Campus Closures

Data/Technology

• Applications and Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Libraries 
• A New Way to Evaluate Academic Librarian Scholarship: a Presentation and Open Feedback Forum 
• Open Data Activism in Search of Algorithmic Transparency: Algorithmic Awareness in Practice 
• Visualizing Library Assessment Data 
• What Key Faculty Findings Reveal for Libraries 
• Why So Few? The Underrepresentation of Women in Technology and Software Development 

Information Literacy/Instruction

• "Information Instruction at a (Social) Distance: Moving Library Instruction Online" 
• Creating the Big Picture: Improving Instruction Programming through Curriculum Mapping 
• Designing, Timing, and Determining the Feasibility of Curatorial Interventions to Support Data Reuse 
• Librarian Toolkit: Working with Online Instructors and Students 
• Supporting Graduate Students as Emerging Scholars 
• Virtual Program on Integrating Social Justice and the Framework in Information Literacy Instruction 
• Working on Ourselves: Mitigating Unconscious Bias in Literature Searching 
• “I Wanna Be in the Room Where It Happens”…Using Curriculum Mapping to Support the Information Literacy Goals of Online Programs
• ACRL/DLS: Distance Library Instruction Virtual Poster Session Archive

Management

• ACRL Presents: Managing Remote Workers
• ACRL IS Management & Leadership: The Practical Application of the Theories Behind Team Building
• ACRL IS Management & Leadership: Managing Up with EDI in Mind
• ACRL Presents: Beyond "Managing Change": Leading Through Seismic Shifts

Research

• The Library’s Role in High-Value Profiles of Researchers and Institutions 
• Measuring Research Productivity at Individual, Discipline and Institutional Levels 

Other

• ICON - Conservation: Together at Home Webinar Series