WebJunction

Overview

WebJunction provides helpful online learning, portal and community services to a wide variety of library organizations. Our partners range from state libraries developing custom collaboration portals to library systems employing web conferencing and powerful learning management services, as well as organizations of all types accessing our deep online course catalog of technical, general and library skills courses for staff training.

In keeping with WebJunction’s mission, we offer our courses and services at the lowest possible price to the library community. We invest up front in development, customization, testing and licensing, meaning we can pass along to our partners substantial savings when compared to most commercial solutions.

Minimize the IT hassle: Our services are fully hosted and include ongoing upgrades and feature enhancements. All of our partners are backed by a professional partner management and support organization.

Perhaps the best reason to partner with WebJunction is that all our services are built on the foundation of the WebJunction.org community, a thriving group of library staff from around the nation and world participating, sharing and contributing, enabled by a suite of powerful social tools found only in the new WebJunction. By taking advantage of our services, you tap into this vibrant ongoing conversation.

A Quick Look

Services for Your Type of Library

We partner with all kinds of libraries and library organizations. Here's how we can help yours:

State, Provincial and National Libraries

State, provincial and national libraries face many complex challenges—one being to ensure the support and success of the librarians and library staff working for your member institutions. You may be tasked with providing or coordinating continuing education for all the librarians and staff in your area, or perhaps you need to help all your staff, at all levels, share ideas, best practices, and in general collaborate to be more effective. WebJunction can be a valuable partner to address these needs. Our Community Partner Program is designed to provide the customized, hosted, online learning community and blended learning tools you need.

Library Systems and Academic Libraries

Supporting a strong training and continuing education program is often a challenge—one of finding and providing timely, relevant, quality course materials and delivering them in an affordable way that doesn’t pull your staff off their duties for extended periods of time. WebJunction’s extensive Online Course Catalog contains flexible and professional courses available for substantial discounts through our Volume Course Purchase Program. Our Wimba Classroom web conferencing tool can make your job substantially easier. For larger libraries and library systems, we also offer a powerful learning managed service at a substantial discount through our Learning Partner Program.

Consortia and Regional Systems

Consortia and systems who are tasked with providing continuing education programs to member library staff will benefit immediately from Volume Course Purchasing through WebJunction's extensive online course catalog, paired with a Wimba Classroom subscription for a powerful distance learning capability. Consortia who are primarily focused on group purchasing also will see benefits from working with WebJunction -- as a social enterprise, our mission is to deliver services to libraries at the lowest price we can sustain, and that applies to everything we can offer consortial member systems.

Library Service Organizations

With your membership or participants dispersed all over the region, country or even the world, the need for a single, simple and powerful web portal to bring them all together online is greater than ever. WebJunction offers hosted Co-Branded Portals and Communities of Practice designed to meet that need. Plus your members will also be members in the broader WebJunction community, adding instant depth and value to their experience on your site.

Special, Corporate and School Libraries

Quality online training, in the right formats and flexible enough to support ever-busier library staff, is an ideal compliment to your continuing education program. WebJunction’s course catalog includes both library-specific training and courses on a broad range of technical and business topics. By buying course units through WebJunction's Volume Course Purchasing, your staff get access to great training at a price that’s within reach of your budget.

Partners & Partner Programs

Every organization that works with WebJunction is a partner to us—it’s core to our philosophy of working closely with the library community. Whether you buy a couple courses for your team or set up a custom portal and learning management solution, you will get access to the same quality and variety of support, service and best practice sharing. We offer two formal partner programs in support of specific collections of our services: the Community Partner and Learning Partner programs. For a complete list of active partners visit our Partners page.

Community Partner Program

The Community Partner Program is WebJunction’s unique offering for state, regional, provincial and national libraries or similar organizations. Community Partners use this unique blend of web portal, social tools, helpful content and online courses to help their libraries and staff share ideas, solve problems, network, develop skills and stay informed about state resources and programs for libraries. The program includes the Co-Branded Portal, Learning Managed Service, Online Course Catalog (including bundles of units), and Wimba Classroom. Pricing varies by organization size and type, with quotes available on request. The program is offered as a two-year subscription.

Learning Partner Program

WebJunction’s Learning Partner Program is an opportunity for larger libraries and library systems to take advantage of powerful tools and services to help in the implementation and management of training programs, reducing the cost and staff time required to manage training effectively. The program includes the Learning Managed Service, Wimba Classroom, and our Online Course Catalog with various options. The program is in pilot, and information is available upon request.

Testimonials

“The Georgia Course Catalog...alone is worth its weight in gold. Library staff will have access to high-quality courses at the time of need, and they won’t have to spend a penny on travel.”

Pat Carterette, Director of Continuing Education for Georgia Public Library Service

"WebJunction will help provide our state's public libraries with the tools we need to create locally relevant content, discussions and training programs. And it will save our libraries thousands of dollars in training fees, because library staff in community partner states enjoy free access to online classes that would otherwise cost from $20 to $400 or more per person. We are very pleased to have been asked to join WebJunction as a partner and to participate in the program at this level.”

Julie Walker, Deputy State Librarian, Georgia Public Library Service

"I began using Wimba to conduct online meetings for a project I had been assigned. This product has worked so well, my task force team members have voted not to meet in person again. It has not only saved us travel time and money (for mileage reimbursement), it has also allowed each staff member to be more accessible to service our customers."

"My team of five was located in five separate library locations stretching across Lee County which is an 800-square mile area. It is so easy to use. This has been a GREAT tool for us and I have another task force team ready to start utilizing Wimba for our collaborative meetings."

Catherine Vaughn, CE Coordinator of Lee County Library System in Fort Myers, Florida