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Professional Development Opportunities 
by Leslie A. Engelson

Management

Know & Go: Tips for Hiring the Right Person
Hiring is an expensive and potentially frustrating experience. Learn basic tips to improve the hiring 
process and identify common mistakes that are made during the interview process.
February 3, 2020     
$0–$35
https://www.amigos.org/node/3916

Work Smarter, Not Harder: Innovating Technical Services Workflows
Improve workflow by exploring ways to make tasks and projects efficient.
February 13, 2020
$0–$85
https://www.amigos.org/work_smarter

Using Assessment Tools to Coach
This webinar teaches a coaching strategy called mapping based on actual output from an assessment. 
Identify questions, create accountability, and facilitate activities that drive change.
March 27, 2020      
Free
https://www.trainingmagnetwork.com/events/1825?gref=calendar

Motivating Employees to Be Their Best
Learn how to tailor your leadership and communication style to better suit the needs of your staff in 
order to build group identity, create a culture of ownership, and establish a collaborative, inspiring work 
environment.
April 9, 2020      
$99–$199
https://store.mcls.org/index.php/supervisor-series-motivating-employees-to-be-their-best-508.html

Look to the Future: How to Use Training to Build a Culture that Stops Blaming 
and Gets Back to Work Already
Explore through video and interaction how to move away from blame and toward what needs to happen 
next.
April 23, 2020      
Free
https://www.trainingmagnetwork.com/events/1814?gref=calendar

Leslie A. Engelson is Metadata Librarian at Murray State University. 



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Cataloging & Preservation

Creating and Preserving Oral Histories
Attendees will learn the theory and best practices for planning an oral history project, how to select 
recording equipment, and basic interview techniques. 
February 6, 2020      
$100–$250
https://www.lyrasis.org/Content/Pages/Event-Details.aspx?Eid=F383D601-2BE9-E911-80FE-
00155D73CF3B

Free Tools for Digital Preservation: Metadata Manipulation
Get a hands-on overview of free tools that extract, embed, and monitor metadata into digital preservation-
quality files.
February 12, 2020      
$100–$250
https://www.lyrasis.org/Content/Pages/Event-Details.aspx?Eid=16865524-2BE9-E911-80FE-
00155D73CF3B

Preservation of Photographic Materials
Learn the proper care and handling of photographic materials, appropriate storage materials, and 
common issues with prints, color, film, glass, and albums.
February 25 & 27, 2020      
$150–$175
https://www.lyrasis.org/Content/Pages/Event-Details.aspx?Eid=9D363534-2CE9-E911-80FE-
00155D73CF3B

Know & Go: RDA 3R Update
Understand what the changes to RDA mean for catalogers and identify next steps.
March 2, 2020      
$0–$35
https://www.amigos.org/node/6093

Metadata and Description for Digital Special Collections
Provides an overview of current standards, schemas, and applications of metadata models and discusses 
how to evaluate a digital collection and select and design an appropriate data model. Explores ethical 
issues as related to metadata schema.
March 2–29, 2020       
$175
https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/205-metadata-digcoll.php



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Original Cataloging of Sound Recordings Using RDA
Instruction covers preferred source of information, description, access points, and content/media/carrier 
types as well as the MARC fixed and variable fields for sound recordings.
April 28-29, 2020      
$99–$199
http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/134-authority-control.php

Linked Data

Introduction to RDF
This course focuses on the basic concepts of the RDF framework and how to use vocabularies as 
Properties. Attendees will create simple RDF triples in an XML representation and demonstrate how 
the descriptions are used to link/share information about resources.
April 6 – May 3, 2020      
$175
https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/020-intro-semantic-web.php

http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/134-authority-control.php