Program Type:
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Program Description
Event Details
Half-day Course + Three-week Workshop
Learn essential data literacy skills to make informed decisions and tell compelling stories about your library.
Data is everywhere, but how can librarians collect the right kinds of data and make the most sense of the data they have in order to make sound decisions? This online course will cover the best practices for collecting data from your community, including discussing survey design from a user experience perspective. You will learn techniques for cleaning, analyzing, interpreting, and visualizing data. You will leave with practical tips to recognize your data weak spots and become empowered to create a more data literate library.
This course includes one half-day (four hours) 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.
Who should take this course?
This course is geared toward people with an emerging level of data fluency. It will be most relevant for library managers or staff who deal directly with data.
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.