NJLA Professional Development Committee Minutes -

NJLA Professional Development Committee Meeting Notes
October 25th, 2019 10am

Virtual Keynote(s) Update

• Information Literacy Keynote
  • 99 attendees registered
  • Well used, discussion following
  • Zoom went fine, but Adobe Connect
  • Survey went out, just 5 responses so far.
• Next VK Topic – Gender Neutrality and Inclusiveness. Tara and Theresa are coordinating.
• James will reach out to find out what the VK budget is for this year.

Conference Program Proposal Updates

• Gender Neutrality and Inclusiveness - Tara and Theresa are coordinating.
• Library Morale Program Panel – Create a panel of librarians from different areas of librarianship to lead a positive discussion around library morale.  Also, create a resource of low cost ways to improve employee morale.
• Information Literacy – The presenters from the extremely popular VK will present as a panel.
• Fixing Stuff and Creating Community - Repair Cafes - Larissa Brookes Ridgewood Library NJ and John Wackman, Repair Cafes of Hudson Valley http://www.repaircafehv.org/about, will talk about how Repair Cafés have helped their residents and create community.  Co-Sponsored by New Jersey Makers Day
• More In Discussion

Conference Pre-con: NJLA Crash Course in Library Leadership

• Advocacy - Kurt Hadeler, Director of Mahwah Public Library and Joy Laforme, Mahwah PR Assistant
• Six Thinking Hats Activity - https://blog.iqmatrix.com/six-thinking-hats
• Pham Condello –Personality Assessment
• More In Discussion

Memberclicks Update

• The https://njla.org site is now the Memberclicks based site
• All membership updates, event registration and E-lists are now running through Memberclicks.
• On November 1st the old NJLA Members Google Groups will be disabled.  All other Google Suite features such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar etc will remain available.  We will look into whether a message can be set up for people who try to use the disabled groups after November 1st.
• Another reminder about Memberclicks will be sent out before the deadline.

“Know Your Why” Podcasts

• These are still in the works and being scheduled.  We hope to have some complete before the release of the next PD Newsletter in January.
• We discussed how to create diversity of the podcasts in different ways.

Professional Development Newsletter

• Next Issue: January
• Contents
  • Welcome Message from the PD Newsletter Editor (Theresa)
  • Promotion of Professional Development Committee events
  • Podcast info (Tonya Garcia and Cara Berg will be interviewed. We will publicize whichever one is scheduled by January).
  • Virtual Keynote promo (gender program)
  • Promotion of other NJLA and NJ Library events
  • Spotlight on NJLA (Keisha Miller will be working with the Librarians of Color Roundtable on a submission)
  • Pathways to Success (This is a new section where a person working in NJ libraries will share how they arrived in their current position. Tara will work on this first one.
  • Inspiration Corner (a NJ library worker will share tips and resources that they utilize to stay current in the field). Theresa will work on this.
  • Info from past events (NJLA Adult Services Forum - Eric will contribute)
  • Calendar of PD Events
  • Newsletter Editorial Board
• Please send any any upcoming events to share (inside or outside of libraryland) as well as pictures and overviews from professional development events you have attended to pdnewsletter@njlamembers.org
• All NJLA created newsletters should be together within Memberclicks, James will investigate

Future Meeting Dates

• Nov 22, 2019 10am Hillsborough, Somerset County Library
• Jan 24, 2020 Online