Today's session is being recorded, as are all of our webinars and I'll be sending a certificate to all of you who attended today, as with all of our live webinars.
You can access any of our recorded webinars, as well as webinars from other providers and our library-specific courses in our catalog.
I want to give an extra thanks to OCLC and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and state library agencies for their support of this opportunity for all learners and libraries.
So, we're really excited to talk more about this today.
I wanted to be sure and thank all of our supporters for their continued support of WebJunction.
So, we're going to go ahead and get started with today's session, "The WebJunction Experience."
And as I said, I'm Jennifer Peterson and I'm the Community Manager here at WebJunction and I also help manage our webinar program and I'm really excited to be working today with my colleague, Kathleen.
>> Kathleen Gesinger:  So excited to be here today and be a part of our learning experience together.
>> Jennifer Peterson:  Let's go ahead and get started.
>> Kathleen Gesinger:  All right.
Thank you.
We're so excited to be here, Jennifer, and I've enjoyed preparing for this and have our experience together as we explore finding our learning flow.
While learning comes in many forms and formats and moments, in my experience, learning happens most effectively when I find my flow.
It's the space of focus and openness to what I'm doing or learning in that moment.
It doesn't mean that learning is always easy, but we're in a receptive place.
It can be you let go of whatever's holding you back and begin to fully engage in learning.
And for some of us, that could mean letting go of the fear of learning something new, feeling overwhelmed with yet another thing to learn.
It could mean letting go of the idea that learning takes so much time when none of us have enough time and it could me silencing the inner critic and just in ourselves that we are here to learn and in those moments where we need to learn that you can do it.
And another piece of finding your learning flow is when you engage in topics that are meaningful to you.
Feeling invested in a topic can help with your engagement and motivation.
We hope you'll find a topic area or related resources or self-paced material that will help meet your needs.
So, to support you all in today's learning process, we built a learning guide with a number of steps to build a learning plan.
Today is focused around WebJunction's offerings, but also the basis of any learning topic that you'd like to learn more about.
We'll come back to this particular guide here to reflect on what we're sharing and how you could build -- begin to really build out your plan.
If you don't have a copy of this, that is okay.
It's a tool you'll want to build out after today's session, as you focus on what you want to learn and this is just one way, I think, of -- to get organized along your life-long learning journey.
We know that not all learning is formal and organized like this.
We don't live in a clear and four-paged learning experience but we're hoping it's one way to get started.
>> Jennifer Peterson:  I want to jump in because I love the first question that came in today.
If this learner guide could be used and repurposed for other --
as other content and, yes, yes, yes.
As with all of the resources, you can mix and match, customize, if you have specific local questions you want to ask, yes.
>> Kathleen Gesinger:  Thank you for being engaged already and for that question.
Today is to set up the learn experience and you can build out you plan and how you can use this throughout your experience and learning process because we know learning never ends, right?
So, imagine I will be using this for many years to come, as well.
So, this is a great opportunity to kind of -- for us to refocus on think about our learning flow and we wanted to allow a little bit of time for you to think about a time when you found your flow.
So, thinking about a time when you looked up from your computer or an interaction at a library or your library and you thought, whoa, where did the time go?
It's almost a transcendent experience.
It's really that moment where you really have -- you find clarity and something new.
For me, personally, I had a training I'm currently taking around leadership and self-discovery.
We were focused on examining the idea of our inner critic, the internal critic.
It was a time when space and time was created to sit with this uncomfortable topic and acknowledge where that darn voice was coming from.
I looked up from my computer and adjusted my headset and felt like I walked a million miles and I hadn't left my desk.
It was such an amazing experience and I realized, whoa, I have found my learning flow.
Jennifer, do you have any example for today?
>> Jennifer Peterson:  Sure.
I have found that in my experience as a parent -- when it works well, I'm definitely in a space of good learning flow.
Sometimes, it can be uncomfortable, but I think for me, what happens is there's very much of a kind of collaborative -- I would even say my kids serve in some ways as mentors to me.
So, really opening myself up to recognizing that I'm learning from sort of unlikely teachers.
In a very collaborative way, generally, that kind of clicks for me as a learning flow.
It happened when I worked in libraries.
It happened working with patrons collaboratively as well.
That clicked with unlikely teachers, I would say.
>> Kathleen Gesinger:  Oh, I love that.
There are many opportunities to learn from people you might not have expected.
And I'd encourage all of you to consider a moment that you've experienced a learning flow as well and I encourage you to write that in chat so we can begin to share those experiences.
I was thinking as we were setting up today that sometimes reading a books is sometimes a great example of finding a flow where when we open a book and find a whole new world and everything shifts and dissolves away.
That's totally a flow.
You're finding that place.
Which I think is why reading can be so enjoyable to really experience a whole different experience.
And set aside some of that time.
So, I'll encourage all of you to think about an example, maybe where you were or what you were learning and share that in the chat and we'll key an eye on chat and share that, as well.
Oh, I'm -- so I'm hearing I'm visual and written with my learning.
Oh, interesting.
Really getting into that visual, really putting pen to paper.
Really being really hands-on in terms of your learning can really get into a flow.
I'm getting outside of your head and down on to paper.
Today is my off-the-reference-day so I've been catching up on webinars.
That's great.
I get my flow in the kitchen, watching techniques and short videos and practicing.
Oh, I love it.
Hands-on.
We'll be right over.
[LAUGHTER]
Yes, you may practice, Kendra, at any time.
[LAUGHTER]
and I flow with vision boards and books and doing YouTube videos.
These are great examples.
Reflection is my most powerful learning place, which must mean I must be good at being wrong.
It's an empowering thing about learning to realize we can fail.
It can be hard.
In the library world, it's hard to remember that.
Thank you for sharing that.
Using the integrated video and work areas helped to show me how I liked to learn, watching and working at the same time.
These are excellent examples.
I encourage you to share, if you haven't yet.
We'd love to hear from all of you.
We are going to move along, as we really consider our learning flow and thinking about our learning style or preference.
Many of you have brought forward some really great examples of how your learnling style or how you prefer to learn to thinking about where is the place I like to be in?
What are the ways?
I like hands-on, pen to paper.
I love the idea of being visual and writing with your learning as a key piece to your learning.
So, we also wanted to give you an opportunity to think about flow from that perspective.
So, thinking that the topic itself isn't the only piece, but it's really about your learning preference, so, how you like to learn.
And, many of you have shared that today.
I often think, we all have such different needs.
Some people need a clean desk or a quiet room to find your learning flow.
Some might need an active, buzzing library or room to feel focused and ready to learn.
I've heard someone share here at WebJunction, you know, it's the engagement and conversation where learning happens for her.
Some need to be around others to be engaged.
Some need to be able to make a mess and just experiment and I think being able to think about -- about making a mess, whether that's just a physical mess in your kitchen or if that's a physical mess just scratching notes, writing, brainstorming either on paper or in person with another learner or someone you like to think through ideas or problems.
Getting in to that space.
So, I'd like to invite you to consider these four areas.
I know that there are not four quadrants of learning style or preference.
We wanted to explore and just have you share a little bit about your preference here on the screen.
I'll ask you to open up your annotation tools.
those are available in the top-left corner of your screen.
You'll find a little box.
If you click on the little triangle next to the box, you'll find a checkmark.
I'll invite you all to select that checkmark.
Thinking about different methods or styles for you, are you interested in that guided experience, conacademy was a great example.
Learning from the guided experience and putting it into practice there.
Thinking about mixing and matching.
Do you like to read a book?
Then you talk about it with a friend or colleague?
Do you need to start from scratch and have a clean slate?
So, again, this -- you may feel the flow in all these different places knowing that learning can change depending on topic, which I wanted to introduce some of these concepts, as we get started today.
>> Jennifer Peterson:  Hopefully this appeals to those of you who like to learn through practice.
We like to give people tools in this online environment, as a way to exercise that.
>> Kathleen Gesinger:  
Absolutely.
If this is the first time you've been to a webinar where you're clicking on a screen, well, this is a great opportunity to just dive in.
If that feels risky or scary, we acknowledge that and we appreciate you giving that a try.
I'm seeing that the guided learning experience is coming up for people.
Kind of mixing and matching resources.
Really starting fresh.
Jennifer, just before today, this morning, when we were preparing, I had to clean off my desk even though we're not at my desk.
I needed to clean off my desk to feel prepared for you.
My desk is neat and tidy and that helped me get into my flow.
I appreciate all of you thinking and sharing on the screen.
And, we wanted to also just acknowledge that we hear from a lot of you -- if that's from our WebJunction member survey, through different feedback, our evaluations, through either webinars or other formats -- we hear from a lot of you that you are stressed out and one thing we really want to lead-in with today is as much as your continuing education is about growing and refining your professional skills, it is also about self-care and how can you find -- we want to just acknowledge and ask, how can you find windows of time to help you replenish your personal and professional self?
At WebJunction, we believe learning is personal and transformative and contagious.
We have an internal stated goal, kind of a team goal here that is to take care of ourselves and each other.
When that stated goal was put --
that pen to paper, it felt so empowering that it was okay to take care of ourselves so we could better meet our work.
As a team, we've created a culture that supports and encourages sharing the things we learn.
It could be a conversation we had with someone at a specific library, an email we received or an article or a ted talk or something we saw on Facebook.
Sharing these examples with each other, you know, through email or as we're getting our lunch out of the fridge, we created a culture that's about learning and sharing and growing with each other and by acknowledging that we're all growing and empowered to keep learning and to try these things.
So, I'm excited to invite Jennifer to help us kind of dive in a little bit more about what WebJunction is and who we are.
>> Jennifer Peterson:  ExcellentExcellent.
Thanks so much, Kathleen.
I recognize some of your names, so I know you already know a little bit about WebJunction or a lot about WebJunction but I just want to make sure that everyone knows that we think of learning and WebJunction as the learning place for libraries.
It's a place where staff can go to get resources to help them do their job and everything we do through WebJunction is powered by people who are committed to learning as individuals and we are all about learning at WebJunction.
We're committed to learning both as individuals, as teams, as part of the library and library staff learning community.
To libraries as places in their own communities to flourish as places of life-long learning.
So, I just wanted to point, first, to a blog post that our director, Sharon streams, did a few weeks ago.
And I'll let you read it later.
But I'll give you a quick overview.
She talks about how there are five steps of cycles for a strong library program.
We talk about the cycle of your work in libraries is very much our work.
So, we think about how the work of libraries starts with an understanding of the needs of your community, so you're constantly looking at those needs within your community.
Then, you have to build the capacity to serve those needs, which of course, make -- which involves making decisions and tough choices.
Then, you all design and deliver the services that meet those community needs.
You spend a lot of time, we know, just as we do, on outreach and communication to make sure your work -- that the community is aware of the work and that the community is aware of the impact of your work.
And part of that is evaluating the effectiveness of your services, as well as the impact and -- again, that process shifts -- through the cycle -- 
many, many times.
It's a very [Indiscernible] 
process.
It's not one-off exercise at all.
Very much like that process, we wanted to spend some time thinking about how the cycle of your learning is our learning, as well.
And this is very much our work.
So, we're going to use this cycle, today, as we work through your learning planning process and as we said, this is something that happens ongoing.
It's never ending and we are thrilled to be a part of that with you.
So, to begin, obviously, we spend a fair amount of time understanding what your learning needs are and that involves understanding what's happening in your communities and the work that you do.
Of course, focusing on making time and finding the right content or perhaps mode for that learning.
We spend a lot of time talking about learning together, so we'll be touching on that.
As I mentioned at the beginning, ways for you to customize and localize some of the learning opportunities we have.
Of course, applying what you learn, implementing, learning in action happens all the time and then of course, the process of reflection, which I love that Jaime brought up.
Reflecting on my learning is really where the opportunity comes, both to refine that learning, as well as to know how to share it with others.
So, again, this same cycle really maps to the process that we go through every day as we work in libraries, and every day as we work at WebJunction.
So, I'm going to let Kathleen tie us to the first element of your learning plan.
>> Kathleen Gesinger:  Excellent.
If you don't have the learning guide in front of you, that's okay.
We wanted to interject as we move forward, some of the key questions that we're asking you to begin to use, really as building blocks for your plan.
Key can think about?
What are things that you consider, that you would like to learn to do your job better?
Also, thinking about your community at-large and what are some areas -- what are some areas that you would like to learn more about your community so that you can better-serve your community and patrons as they come to your library?
Or if they're not in your library, building on getting a better sense of who your community is.
>> Jennifer Peterson:  As you can see, this is an example of the kind of way you can ask some of those questions through your learning process and those are also in the guide for today.
So, we thought it would be helpful to refer to our WebJunction Collection today, with our art theme, as you can see.
We've been excited about the art theme.
So, we're going to talk a little bit about all of these.
Just to be sure that you know that we provide articles and resources.
Our monthly e-newsletter -- 
actually bi-monthly, it comes to you in your email.
We are present on social media, as you all are in your libraries, as well, which we highlight in our Social Library Series.
We provide live webinars.
I saw a question come through to me, how far in advance do you post upcoming webinars?
That varies a little bit.
We try at least two months out to give you a heads-up.
As we said, all of our recorded webinars are available, as well as recorded webinars from a number of other folks who provide webinars in the library field.
Our self-paced courses.
We also have a number of projects that we host as grant-funded projects.
And then of course, you are a part of our WebJunction Collection as well.
So, we're going to talk about that, as well.
A quick visual tour of our homepage here.
You'll see, we post a fresh news throughout the week on our homepage.
Think of it as sort of a blog.
You can see, we mention new webinars and courses in the catalog and we have, here, our Crossroads sign-up.
Here are some of the places we are on social media.
Walking through these top tabs, you'll see the Course Catalog link here that takes you directly to the Course Catalog, there are self-paced courses and webinar recordings are located.
All of those accessed through the catalog, you'll receive a certificate for that learning.
Just a reminder for those of you who have ce or le credits to submit.
Our Webinar Calendar tab will take you to those upcoming events.
Also, to be able to browse the list of our webinar recordings from the past.
Our topic area tab will give you a sense of the scope of the topics that we explore, within leadership, library service, technology, staff training, we're always working to make sure that content is fresh so we're actually in the process of doing some freshening up there, so stay tuned for that.
As well as focus on staff training, which of course, is near and dear to our heart here at WebJunction.
I'll just mention that our projects tab will give you a look at some of the grant-funded projects.
Some of you have come into initial contact with WebJunction through those projects so we're always excited to hear about how that work is continued in your library.
An about us tab, WebJunction is a project of the OCLC research team so you can see a little bit more about that.
You can also find out more about those we collaborate with and our partners.
That's a quick tour of the site.
Diving just briefly deeper into the Social Library topic area, so, this is something I started a number of years ago as a way to highlight the social interactions we see you having in your community.
I seek out libraries that are doing work on Facebook and twice a month, I profile those.
We also have a spreadsheet that we collect those in, that's browseable by topic.
so, if you're looking for inspiration related to libraries who are doing events related to specific kinds of things, teen events, you can see sometimes, we even highlight specific topic within a Social Library.
We had a voters edition.
So, that's just an example.
You can also look at the see also tab to access them all very quickly.
Again, this is a way that we like to highlight -- you know, we're in the 21st century and we are using social media to reach our communities.
If you like your learning to come in bite sizes, this is a great ways to access that.
And I just loved to see some of the interaction we see when we post those to those -- those features to our Facebook page.
This library is in Australia, they commented, we love seeing what libraries around the world are doing.
This library loves to have us highlight how we are using social media.
And I think this person probably is a patron, maybe a staff person, from this library.
So, another way for you to even highlight what your library's doing within the context of libraries around the country or around the globe.
One other way we're surfacing the great work you are doing in your libraries.
>> Kathleen Gesinger:  This is just a moment to help you consider -- we'd invite you -- 
after today's session -- we don't expect you to look at the website throughout this session today, but an invitation to visit and step into the different areas that Jennifer's talked about and find things that really speak to you, identify topics that are meaningful to you, webinars.
It was neat to see that someone is spending time today, during their office time, on webinar --
catching up on webinar recordings and also identify self-paced courses.
You can begin to list some of the things that catch your eye and we'll invite you to do that today and moving forward.
>> Jennifer Peterson:  Excellent.
Thank you.
So, as you know, we named this webinar, "The WebJunction Experience."
We wanted to spend and time explaining what the WebJunction experience is and the WebJunction way.
This idea of learning as a social activity.
So, Kendra often refers to the r and d model, the rip off and duplicate model.
We encourage you all to rip off and duplicate whatever you find useful as WebJunction and we do the same.
[LAUGHTER]
Just a couple examples today, I want to emphasize that I know that within the 10 years, we have slowly adapted to learning online and -- because the bulk of our learning at WebJunction is online.
We've been excited to see that there are many ways to make online learning a social event.
For example, our chat.
We know that's one way.
As we move more and more online for our learning, I want to reassure you that there are ways for that to be social and collaborative with your teams or with others around the global.
These are examples of ways we have, over time, found to be -- 
ways to enhance our learning and to enrich our learning.
So, some of these came up over time.
Our learning guides, as we've talked about, really rose out of realizing that people like to have some sort of element of action after their -- after the event, to take and apply that learning.
We've also heard that learner guides are a great way to bring teams onboard.
So, perhaps if you have something you've been trying to move forward at your library, those learning guides can just create an opportunity for the conversation.
You'll see our guides are structured in a way that have a couple questions for consideration.
You know, if you're doing it alone or for discussion or activity-based efforts for each of those as we'll as simple action planning, a way to spur your action planning.
So, through that, we've also learned, for our webinars, you may have noticed in your registration for today, we ask people if they plan on -- if they're registering on behalf of a cohort or a group of learners.
We do this so that we can send those additional learners as your location a certificate.
Through the process, we have learned that there are people that are either watching live webinars together or viewing those recordings together.
It could even be a flipped classroom, it means people going on their own independently watching the webinar and then using that follow-up discussion as a way to share in that learning.
So, again, these are all just ideas that may help you get that learning going together as your library.
Some people talk about integrating some of the activities around WebJunction learning or other online learning into their learning plans or performance reviews, perhaps.
We definitely see the opportunity to direct -- for you to direct people to opportunities at WebJunction as a way to motivate your fellow learners, supporting them to take those next steps.
Then, we're not going to talk a lot today about learning organizations, we're hoping to focus more on your individual learning today.
But there are lots and lots of resources and webinars and examples of how you can more deliberately grow your learning organization.
So, those are all things that we are excited to continue to do.
And just a reminder of some of the cohort benefits of blending that face to face time with a webinar, we have heard that it brings a common language to a topic, perhaps something that not everybody is on the same page about.
Also, just that idea of shared goals.
So, it could be something that you bring to the team as a shared -- you know, maybe even a part of your strategic planning, making sure that learning is a part of that.
>> Kathleen Gesinger:  As we think about the building block of your learning plan, I wanted to bring some of those great ideas that Jennifer's shared, ways to share what has inspired you.
Get into the practice of sharing that with your colleagues or friends or connect with a thought partner.
Who's your thought partner?
Who can you brainstorm with when you have no idea what to do?
Think about who could you support in their learning?
Are there folks that could cover the desk for one hour so they can spend focused energy on their learning?
>> Jennifer Peterson:  Excellent.
With that idea of a thought partner, I'm going to share a story about an accidental thought partner.
This is my story just to illustrate the nature of how learning comes about in our experiences through WebJunction.
So, I met Jaime Carter at the conference in 2011 at a pre-conference for project compass.
Our training workshop that was focused on supporting library and workforce dempt  development efforts.
We both had a passion for learning innovations and she was developing staff initiative that she was excited about.
If you know me, as soon as I hear about anything like that, I say, you should do a WebJunction webinar and she graciously said, give me a couple years so I can finish working on it and see how it goes and then I'll circle back with her.
I held her to her promise and --
well, two years later, she offered to bring this self-directed achievement model to a WebJunction webinar and it's really become an amazing example of the way one library's initiative can really ripple out and this learning, again, then comes to WebJunction and provides us with the opportunity to spread that word.
So, I'm not going to talk a lot about the self-directed achievement model.
But, I encourage everyone to watch the webinar and we've got the link to the webinar on the event page.
But put simply, this formula could change your staff learning culture and actually, I'm quite certain it would change your staff learning culture, to insure that staff are given the time to learn the process of reflection with others on their team.
It's a fantastic model that really brings one learning goal to one hour of every week.
So, like I said, that's your teaser.
But I will mention that this library, at the Charlotte Mecklenburg system in North Carolina went to the webinar and their director was so excited by it and inspired by it, they came back to us and -- through jami -- and we learned more about what they did and they created a model similar called their happy hour.
And, also, in addition to telling their story, shared a number of resources, including their happy hour talking points, which are available on the site, as well.
As well as an example of their happy hour schedule.
This was the children's librarian schedule.
These are then shared on WebJunction.
This is an example of that social learning cycle.
Even a few years later, this is just from this year, we highlighthighlighted a library who's been using the model for a couple years.
This is an example of a library in a small and rule community, it is 2,000 people.
There's one full-time staffer, five part-time staff.
The article talks about 12-hour-week page who sees the opportunity to build on skills.
So, we, of course, are always eager to hear how people are adapting those models based on their local needs.
So, later, just this last year, so, here now, five years later, jami also brought another webinar to WebJunction and I just grabbed a screenshot from this presentation to remind you, again, that one size does not fit all.
There's all sorts of different ways for this learning to happen, as you build your learning culture and that webinar, too, is linked on the event page so know that if you want to explore more of that with your community -- I have one more story here.
Another example of, again, this [Indiscernible] iterative process of learning, Gretchen came to us.
She worked in Connecticut and had been using matrix to evaluate their customer service model.
But the thing that I wanted to explain about what happened here, two things.
One is that the chat -- the conversation that came through chat brought about some more sharing that happened on WebJunction and we also took the webinar and created a course based on it because it was so awesome and Kathleen will talk more about that in just a second.
This is an example of the conversation that happened in chat.
So, Sarah from the Halifax public library shared during chat that they had used this idea.
Today, I bent a rule to create good customer service and they created a survey to help talk about it.
Sarah wrote an article talking about their survey, today, I bent a rule survey.
I encourage you to check that out.
There's a whole -- there are three core questions that they asked in that survey, so I encourage you to take a look at that.
And Kathleen integrated that, then, into the course, that she created out of this amazing webinar.
>> Kathleen Gesinger:  It was a transformative webinar.
Gretchen also had shared such a great webinar, just the whole session was engaging and inspiring, the chat itself, was engaging and inspiring.
And so what we wanted to do was build that out a little bit more.
She had presented such big ideas.
We wanted to allow people to have a different experience and think through and reflect and think how they can really build new fields to deliver extreme customer service every time.
So, we built that as a self-pace course, it is in the WebJunction Collection.
What does it mean to have good customer service?
What have I experienced in my day-to-day life?
What really stood out to me?
I'm hoping you think about those pieces.
How do I provide great customer service?
We also provided a few opportunities to reinforce goings the webinar was jam-packed with so many good ideas.
We wanted to think about some of the key elements she had talked about, as well.
So, that self-paced course, inspired by the great practitioners within the library field and built into content we could share in WebJunction live in the WebJunction course catalog.
We wanted to make sure you have a sense of what you might find in the catalog.
We have a range of library-specific courses, like LibraryU.
Looking at a wide range of topics, if cataloging isn't your jam but you need to learn more, this can be a great opportunity to learn more and feel more confident as people are talking about cataloging and what you need to know and what would be most relevant to you.
Also thinking about ways to meet your news around all the new devices that are coming through your library so you can feel more confident in helping and providing customer service and helping people learn.
We partnered with Infopeople on a number of topics and have a number of great topics and recordings, as well.
Another great topic that has come in through a partnership is really focused around serving individuals on a spectrum and really thinking about ways that you can build your library to be more welcoming and more effective and this is a wonderful partnership through the Florida state university.
We were so excited to be able to add this contents into the catalog, as well.
Jennifer, also known as WebJunction.
[LAUGHTER]
she had mentioned about our project.
It is derived from some of our grant projects we work on.
We were excited and lucky to be able to work and deliver a recent -- a live online learning offering.
We've created a self-paced course, which is currently available from that experience.
And supercharged storytime was -- we included over 500 storytime prac  practitioners.
We explored early literacy concepts and best-practices.
We had an opportunity to have --
host forum discussions and assignments and have specific questions in areas for folks to practice and thinking about early literacy concepts.
One of the things we heard is the learning flow happened in a discussion forum.
Learning from each other and it was so exciting to see that piece so we were really able to harness all of that content and build it into a self-paced course and it's in the catalog, as well.
We mention this only to provide what your appetite around what content is in the WebJunction Course Catalog, as well.
We wanted to take an opportunity to offer the focus of, you know, now that you -- we encourage you to explore -- we know that you can't -- you wouldn't have hit everything today.
But really to take an opportunity to then, in your learning plan, once you've listed some ideas that you need to learn more about, thinking about what you might want to explore through WebJunction and take action on a specific topic.
I think sometimes our learning flow can happen when we're focused.
We asked through this process to identify a specific topic and think about ways that can help you find success.
One of those ways is we've heard and experienced is putting time on our calendar for learning.
It is as important as a staff meeting and meeting all of the things you need to do during your day.
So, finding a time in that one-hour or whatever increment works for you and really honoring that time, as well.
I'd encourage you to take that time for yourself and finding the location.
We talked about preferences, where and when do you like to learn?
Maybe take a course with a friend and spend time talking about what you've learned or ideas that influenced you or questions that you had.
And then this is a new one -- 
actually, it's not.
The importance of focusing on your learning.
Thinking about turning off the new distractions in our life.
Putting your can -- phone away if you can, forwarding your office phone, if you can, turning off Facebook so that you can really honor that experience and help to focus and to find your flow.
Then again, as we've talked about, learning is social and the practice of putting your learning into practice can really mean that you've shared what you've learned and that you share what's inspiing you and hopefully others will share what inspires them and share what they've learned.
If you feel like you don't have that in your organization or library, I want to invite you and encourage you to be the person to make it happen, to start that -- just in small ways.
Sharing what's inspiring you and see how that can really flourish.
There's a great comment in chat that, having a learning partner would make it more difficult to hit snooze and could create accountability.
Absolutely.
I think that we are all busy and overwhelmed in so many ways.
But having that learning partner can really help you stay accountable to yourself and to that person, as well.
So, as we think about this cycle of learning, we wanted to acknowledge that this is really -- this can really be a personal experience.
But thinking about the different steps of really allowing yourself the time to acknowledge your learning needs.
What are your learning needs?
It could be that full range of your professional learning needs, your personal learning needs.
Then, also thinking and focusing on finding time and the content.
We wanted to spend time focused on WebJunction today but we know and acknowledge and are inspired by other sources of great learning.
So many great library organizations are offering great training so we would encourage you to find the content that speaks to you.
Again, learning together.
I hope that that's been an experience that you've started today or experienced today in terms of learning together, hearing from each other and then also feeling inspired to reach out to someone who you would like to learn with.
And then additionally, applying what you've learned.
So, we didn't spend too much time on the learning plan piece for that but we think that's such an important piece you need to do to cement your learning.
I love to mention that sometimes putting that into practice, I might fail and that's okay.
And I think that's a great opportunity for us to then really reflect and share.
Oh, that didn't go so well.
Oh, this was amazing and this is what happened and this was the part of my learning that was so helpful.
And, as we think about kind of that piece of reflecting and sharing, we wanted to also invite you all to know that we welcome you to reflect to share with us, thinking about either through the webinar survey today, that could be a starting point.
Thinking and sharing what worked for you today.
What were some lessons that were really helpful?
And building out from that.
As you have other experiences similar to Jaime and the connection Jennifer made, it really led to great and inspiring work that has propelled our work and the work of so many libraries and individuals to think about how to really find their learning flow, to be better -- to be better colleagues, to be better professionals and to just feel more confident in all that you're doing.
And, we're still interested, also, to understand how you learn through WebJunction and understanding ways we could better-meet your needs, as well.
Jennifer, anything else to add?
>> Jennifer Peterson:  I haven't seen any questions.
I encourage you to post questions.
Our colleague, Aaron, who manages the articles on the site, would want me to be sure to mention that any time -- if you want to have a conversation with her, she can help tell your story.
Telling your story on WebJunction can be -- would be a webinar, as the webinar person, I would say I would love to work with you.
One thing we really didn't mention, in terms of our webinars, we are very committed to engaging with practitioners.
Most are working in libraries.
They may be leaders in the field, but we really look to seek the folks who are on the ground, doing that work.
Even if you're never presented a webinar, my job is to help you learn how to do a webinar.
So, I spend time with people, coaching you on some of the things that we've learned over the years about, you know, whether it's your slides or how to -- how to pace and present as you see, we do use our chat, as well.
So we talk about how we engage folks.
So, volunteering to be a webinar presenter, with it comes great learning and training.
If you have work you're doing in your library that you want to share with other people, know that I can help you do that.
Same thing with stories, telling your stories -- an article -- we also are always eager, much like today, I bents a rule resource, any time you have a tool or a template that you're using in your work -- I know many of you get those requests just -- you know, in and amongst your system or perhaps when you've been at a conference, you've shared some of that with someone, know that that's the kind of stuff that we can help surface and bring to the field as tools and resources.
So, as I said, you know, this is really -- us learning with you and from you and bringing that learning to everyone else.
So, don't hesitate, don't be shy.
We always say, you know, it's not the time to be humble, it's the time to be bold in sharing what you've learned and that's really the cycle of learning we can share together.
I would love -- I would love to hear in chat if you are -- if there are specific things that you've found helpful on WebJunction.
Some of you have come to know WebJunction through our grant projectss whether that's project compass or Spanish language outreach.
You know, a number of these different projects have spawned resources, as well as those connections we've made with many of you.
So, I feel huge ly honored and grateful to be a part of this community and to all of you, for bringing all that you bring to this cycle of learning.
So, I haven't seen any other questions.
I don't think -- coming through -- in addition to my email and Kathleen.
Erin is also always available to connect with folks.
So, we are your co-learners and we really would love to hear from you, as well.
>> Kathleen Gesinger:  I want to echo that and thank all of you for your time and hopefully you were able to capture some type of flow and I want to thank you for sharing your great examples.
I think, by all of you being here today, you're reeling showing your commitment to your learning and we appreciate that modeling.
>> Jennifer Peterson:  In deed.
All right.
Well, thank you, all, for joining us and thank you to our captioner for today.
As Kathleen mentioned earlier, we'll be sending you to a short survey as you leave.
We'd love to hear from you both as present Rs and folks who do the online programming.
I'll send you an email once the recording is available and we look forward to seeing you at our future webinars and hearing from you through the different channels we connect with you all.
Thank you so much.
>> Kathleen Gesinger:  Thank you.