Presentation & guide archive
2024
- 2024 Conference Guide (PDF)
- State of SWAN (PDF)
- Keynote: From Confusion to Confidence: Improving Mental Health Crisis Intervention
- Aspen for library staff (PDF)
- Basic copyright for library staff (PDF)
- Be a WorkFlows detective: Following clues to unravel confusing service scenarios (PDF)
- BLUEcloud Analytics basics (PDF)
- BLUEcloud Analytics Q&A for public services (PDF)
- BLUEcloud Analytics Q&A for technical services (PDF)
- Circulation best practices: Moments at the service desk (PDF)
- Collection management: Weeding, storage, renovations (PDF)
- Crisis plans from an HR perspective
- RAILS Delivery: bins, bags, and beyond (PDF)
- Library newcomers & the immigrant experience (PDF)
- Local records management (PDF)
- School partnerships: Issuing student cards (PDF)
- Utilizing the Illinois Digital Archives (PDF)
- Closing: In the year 2075: We predict the future of SWAN (PDF)
2023
- 2023 Conference Guide (PDF)
- Keynote: Plot Your Course (PDF)
- First Amendment Auditors 101: presentation template (PPTX)
- Aspen for Power Users (Grouped Works & Metadata) (PDF)
- Dealing with the Unexpected: Book Banning, Protests, Incivility in Libraries (PDF)
- Getting Started with Digital Archives (PDF)
- Information Security in Libraries (PDF)
- Employee Mental Health: Making it a Priority in Today’s Workplace (PDF)
- MessageBee in Practice at Libraries (PDF)
- Roundtable: Collection Management / Vendors / etc. (PDF)
- Roundtable: Programming (No PDF Presentation)
- Roundtable: Hiring, Staffing, Retention (PDF)
- SWAN Support: Pulling Back the Curtain (PDF)
- User Groups: What We Do & What We Did the Past Year (PDF)
2022:
- 2022 Conference Guide (PDF)
- Keynote: Big Ideas and Big Challenges (PDF)
- Get Involved: SWAN User Groups (PDF)
- Pseudo Libraries: Locker/Drive-Up Panel (PDF)
- Engaging Patrons with Aspen Panel (PDF)
- WorldShare ILL: Working Smarter Not Harder (PDF)
- BLUEcloud Circulation: Lessons from the Field (PDF)
- Using Data to Tell a Story (PDF)
- Book Club Kit Panel (PDF)
- Streamlining Materials Processing: Working Smarter Not Harder (PDF)
- Engagement Panel (PDF)
- The "Illusion" of Privacy (PDF)
- Closing: Core Principles of SWAN Membership - Equity of Service (PDF)
2020 (Web Series):
- Coping with Compassion Fatigue (webinar)
- Providing Virtual Outreach Services (webinar)
- Security & Patron Privacy Tips (webinar)
- SWAN Fine Free Planning & Discussion (webinar)
- The Cataloging Maintenance Center (CMC) (webinar)
- Cataloging Genealogy Items (webinar)
- Unique Chat Services (webinar)
- Using Collection HQ for Collection Development (webinar)
- Virtual Book Clubs (webinar)
2019:
- 2019 Conference Guide (PDF)
- All Things Welcome: Library of Things (p1) (PDF)
- All Things Welcome: Library of Things (p2) (PDF)
- All Things Welcome: Library of Things (p3) (PDF)
- Confronting and Overcoming the 8 Reasons Libraries Lose (PDF)
- Confronting the Opioid Crisis in the Stacks - Narcan in Libraries (PDF)
- Haunted Library Tour (PDF)
- Let's Talk About the F-Word... Facilities (PDF)
- Library Librations (PDF)
- Microsoft Licensing and Your Library (PDF)
- Organization of the Month: Public Library Partnership Program (PDF)
- Readers Advisory Rethink: Flip the Script and Think Like a Reader (PDF)
- RFID Panel (p1) (PDF)
- RFID Panel (p2) (PDF)
- RFID Panel (p3) (PDF)
- School Districts and Public Libraries: Two Great Things that Go Together! (p1) (PDF)
- School Districts and Public Libraries: Two Great Things that Go Together! (p2) (PDF)
- SWAN EXPO 2019 - Introduction (PDF)
- Transforming Teen Spaces Big & Small (p1) (PDF)
- Transforming Teen Spaces Big & Small (p2) (PDF)
- Using iPads in Youth Services (PDF)
- What is BLUEcloud? (PDF)
- What Managers Need to Know (PDF)
- What They Hear is What They'll Fund - Keynote (PDF)
2018:
- 2018 Conference Guide (PDF)
- CPL Reciprocal Online Validation Guide (PDF)
- Design Thinking Workshop (PDF)
- Top Employment Law Developments 2018 (PDF)
- New to SWAN or Interested in Joining (PDF)
- Protecting Patron Privacy (PDF)
- Protecting Patron Privacy Handout (PDF)
- Real Tiny Progress (PDF)
- Reciprocal Borrowing Behind the Curtain (PDF)
- Serial Control (PDF)
- Serving Homeless Patrons (PDF)
- SWANx18 State of SWAN (PDF)
- Symphony Acquisitions Tips and Tricks (PDF)
- Targeting Autism (PDF)