More free professional development resources for librarians

Based on the number of views of the post on keeping up to date in technical services, there is a lot of interest in the topic of... well, how to keep up to date in the field.

While the resource I have to share with you today is not specifically for technical services, it contains many free, timely, and useful training resources that are available during the month of October.  Some of the live events have already occurred but there are recordings for most of them in the archives of the organization that hosted them or there is a notice that a recording will be posted at some point in the future.  There is a lot of variety in the topics covered.

The resource is on a website hosted by OCLC called "WebJunction".  I've found the website to be a useful resource for professional development resources over the years.  The page of most interest today contains resources collected by the Wyoming State Library.

 https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/free-webinars-for-library-staff.html

If you might want to bookmark the WebJunction website and browse around on it when you have time.  There is a lot of interesting content there ranging from short instructional lessons that can be used by teachers to webinars for library staff and papers about new and emerging trends in libraries.

Hope that you find something of interest here!

For those of you who are tech services types, I'll post something specifically for you soon.

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