Dear New Hampshire Librarians,
We’ve rescheduled the free webinar Balancing Library Management with Day-to-Day Responsibilities: A Guide for the Rural Librarywith Gwin Grimes for Monday, June 29th at 1pm Eastern.
In this workshop, rural library management expert Gwin Grimes will show you how. You’ll learn how the principals of time management and prioritization apply uniquely to the environment of the small, rural library. You’ll learn where to micromanage, where to delegate and how to make sense of it all.Gwin Grimes was hired in July 2016 as director of the Jeff Davis County Library in Fort Davis after a long career in 070.4 and a subsequent foray into 374/641.7. Her other experience working in a library was in the early 2000s as a graduate assistant in Information Commons at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth while she pursued a master’s degree in liberal arts and later was hired to work full time in the library’s circulation department. When she is not working as the only full-time employee of JDCL, she studies for her master of library science degree as part of the Transforming Libraries into Community Anchors in Rural Texas cohort at Texas Woman’s University.Learning objectives/practical takeaways:
- How to prioritize tasks in a constantly changing environment, a.k.a. the juggling act
- To make lists or not to make lists — what was the question again?
- Delegation for people with control issues (that’s us)
- It’s more than just training
- What to do when you are the team
You can register for the event on ALA’s Webex Site (Direct Link: https://bit.ly/2UCrpLM). This event is free to any library employee in New Hampshire. This series of free webinars were made possible to NH Libraries with funding from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
If you have any questions, please contact ALA at elsmarketing@ala.org.
Thanks for your interest,
Deborah Dutcher, Youth and Adult Services Consultant, NH State Library