Coming Soon! Services Responses from e-Learning@PLA. Learn about each of the 18 new Service Responses through interactive exercises and an access to an online community. Also, stay tuned for updated New Planning for Results, Creating Policies for Results, and the new How to Get the Director's Position You Want e-Learning course.
The Public Library Association's online learning program e-Learning@PLA is designed to help users learn more efficiently and to facilitate ease of collaboration between colleagues and instructors. E-Learning@PLA provides high quality training at times and places that are convenient for the user, on topics that will help library managers and staff manage more effectively. Offerings are based on titles in PLA’s bestselling publications, including the popular Results series, an interrelated group of management publications for librarians.
The courses are interactive and provide learners with meaningful and memorable learning experiences. During the courses, learners work with staff members from the Anytown Public Library and Tree County Public Library to solve real library problems. Some courses allow learners to share their ideas with each other through online forums live chat sessions with instructors and colleagues at scheduled times throughout the courses. Others are available on-demand.
One in-depth currently available through e-Learning@PLA: New Power Tools for Planners. Click on the course title to access a class description, start dates, and cost. Classes for each course are offered frequently and registration for each class closes one week before the class start date.
Power Tools for Planners
Are you thinking about using The New Planning for Results to develop a plan in your library? The new online templates, Power Tools for Planners, were developed with you in mind. These seven essential tools provide you with the help you need to make informed and effective decisions during the planning process and to write a clear and persuasive plan. These seven Power Tools are not training exercises. They are designed to be used by library staff as they work through the New Planning for Results process. The Power Tools are interactive electronic decision-making templates that help you to understand your choices at each step of the planning process, give you the information you need to select the most effective choices for your library, and provide you with a way to record and print those choices.
Cost is:
PLA member, $39; any 3 classes for $99*
ALA Member, $59; 3 for $149*
Nonmember, $79; 3 for
$199* * The three class offer is for the same person
registering for three different classes, or 3 different people from the same
library registering for the same course or 3 different courses at the same
time.
Registration Reopening Soon!We expect to have registration available again on September 2, 2008 with the launch of the new website so check back at that time to register.
Descriptions of the Power Tools
Tool 1: Select Your Facilitator: Do you need a facilitator? If so, what kind of facilitator? Where might you find a facilitator? This tool includes a decision tree to help you begin the process of determining who should facilitate your planning process, a complete list of your possible choices, and a detailed explanation of the pros and cons of each of your options.
Tool 2: Plan to Plan: What are the steps in the planning process? How long do they take to complete? When will you start the planning process? How much will the process cost? This tool includes an interactive planning calendar and a budget spreadsheet. As you make your decisions they will be recorded on Plan to Plan summary sheet, which you can print and use to guide your process.
Tool 3: Service Reponses: Do you and your staff want to know more about the 13 library service responses? Do you need electronic copies of the complete text of all of the service responses for your committee and staff to review? This tool provides links to five to eight library Web sites that highlight each of the service responses and includes downloadable machine-readable copies of all the complete text of all of the library service responses.
Tools 4 and 5: Writing Goals and Objectives: Have you and your staff had trouble writing goals and objectives in the past? Do you find yourself arguing about semantics and not content. These two tools demystify writing goals and objectives. They include automatic goal and objective generators – you fill in the blanks, press a button, and your goal or objective is displayed. You can make any changes you want and then save and print the final product.
Tools 6 and 7: Write Your Plan: What are the five key characteristics of effective plans? How can you be sure your final plan is effective? These two tools focus on writing your final plan. The first tool gives you a chance to actually edit sections of real plans and then to compare your editing suggestions with those of experts. The second tool includes links to a number of plans on the Web, so that you can compare your final plan with plans developed by other libraries.
Free Access to "For Results" Workforms
PLA is pleased to offer electronic versions of the workforms from the popular PLA Results series of library management guides:
- Creating Policies for Results
- Demonstrating Results
- Human Resources for Results
- Managing Facilities for Results
- Managing for Results
- The New Planning for Results
- Staffing for Results
- Technology for Results
You can download these workforms, enter data from your library, and save them on your computer. All of these forms are available free of charge to the thousands of librarians who are using the books in the series to make management decisions in their libraries. The instructions and workforms included in each title can be accessed by clicking on the link below. Electronic versions of all of the workforms used in The New Planning for Results are available free from E-Learn Libraries, Inc.
Results Workforms
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