Program Type:
Online CourseProgram Description
Event Details
Half-day Online Course 9:00 am - 1:00 pm + Three-week self-paced workshop
Empower yourself and your team by learning fundamental budget management skills.
Many librarians get promoted into management positions without learning essential management skills such as budget management. This online course will cover the foundations of managing a department or team budget, including budget planning and creation, resource allocation, budget monitoring, and financial reporting. You will learn how to use Microsoft Excel to streamline budget management and leave with templates to use in your daily work.
This course includes one half-day of live, online presentations from an expert speaker, as well as three weeks of a guided asynchronous workshop with facilitated peer cohorts and assignments. In this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to practice what you’ve learned through prompted activities, share and crowdsource issues with peers, and get feedback from peers and your facilitator.
Learning Outcomes
After you attend this course, you’ll be able to:
- Understand and articulate the connection between budgeting and strategic planning
- Differentiate between types and purposes of budgets
- Use Excel functionally
- Plan and create a budget
- Allocate resources intentionally and strategically
- Monitor and report on your budget with confidence
Who should take this course?
This course is best suited for library managers, aspiring managers, or anyone who is new to managing a budget.
Course Features
This is an online course with a half-day of live, online speaker presentations and an asynchronous 3-week workshop and will include:
- Live sessions: Guest speaker presentations by leaders in their field. (All sessions are recorded for on demand access for six months after the course ends.)
- Facilitated discussions: Audience participation in Q&A and discussion with guest speakers.
- Asynchronous workshop: Project-based weekly assignments to connect what you’re learning to your professional life. Includes written feedback from an expert in the field who functions as the workshop facilitator, as well as peer conversation via discussion forums.
- Early access on-demand resources: Access to a series of past live session archives from Library Journal and School Library Journal courses to explore at your own pace.
- Online Classroom: The virtual learning platform that holds all course content and is accessible for six months after the course ends.
Expected time commitment
If you attend or watch the recordings of all live sessions and participate fully in the asynchronous workshop, you'll spend approximately 4 hours per week on this course. You'll earn 12 hours of PD credit and a Library Journal certificate of completion.
CALL Training Partner for this Event: Library Journal
Additional Information
Enrollment Statement
I understand that a space will be reserved for me in this learning opportunity at a cost to CALL, and if I am unable to attend this learning opportunity, I will cancel my enrollment as soon as possible and before the start date.