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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
  • Providing Virtual Outreach Services
  • Security & Patron Privacy Tips
  • SWAN Fine Free Planning & Discussion
  • The Cataloging Maintenance Center (CMC)
  • Unique Chat Services
  • Using Collection HQ for Collection Development
  • Virtual Book Clubs

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)
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