In addition to webinars and courses created through WebJunction, we are pleased to include quality and relevant learning content from other organizations, including Infopeople. We recently added ten new Infopeople webinar recordings on topics core to the important work of libraries. You’ll find the details on these great new additions below. Thank you to the Infopeople team for expanding access to their webinar recordings through the WebJunction Course Catalog, and to all collaborators and supporters of a nationally coordinated approach to continuing education for library staff. Be sure to explore all that Infopeople has to offer, including upcoming webinars.
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The New Orleans Information Literacy Collective (nolaILC) is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its annual Information Literacy Forum. The Information Literacy Forum is a free conference that looks at all aspects of information literacy. While addressing the basic tenets of information literacy, past conference programs have included presentations on health literacy resources, graphic novels as informational texts, and esports.

After the success of nolaILC’s first virtual conference in 2020, the 2021 Forum will also be virtual held via Zoom, allowing participants from around the country to join. The nolaILC Board was very pleased with the feedback from the 2020 virtual... Read more

You know the feeling. "What did I miss?!"

Summer is in full swing and we are halfway through 2021 – which has many of us looking back at the last six months wondering where the time went! With so much happening, it’s likely that some things snuck by that you meant to look into. Maybe it was a webinar, an inspiring story, or an idea for your next great program. We know it’s tough to stay on top of everything, so here’s a quick look back at some of the fantastic programming and resources published on WebJunction... Read more

While many libraries have had to limit in-person services during the pandemic, the importance and demand for civil legal information related to unemployment or eviction continues to be a pressing concern. A national moratorium on evictions is expected to be lifted this summer, and attorneys representing both landlords and tenants anticipate an avalanche of eviction cases. According to the American Bar Association, the backlog of cases may take a year to clear. The pandemic got Jenny Garmon, Legal and Government Information Specialist at Kansas City Public Library, thinking about different ways to bring the library’s successful Lawyers in the Library... Read more