Menu of Interactive Sessions

Request an ICfL-facilitated session today! Our staff have a range of expertise and are available by request for brainstorming, consultation, or instruction related to the topics listed below. To inquire about a particular topic, we encourage you to contact the ICfL staff member via email.

Doug Baker

  • Assistance with E-Rate filings and broadband needs assessments
  • Technology consulting and deployment
  • Technology refreshes and upgrades
  • eBranch website assistance and management
  • Emerging technologies
Contact Doug

Annie Gaines

  • Brainstorming continuing education and professional development resources to support your career goals
  • Apply for funding to attend conferences, take library science courses, or bring trainings to your library with our CE Grants
  • Considering the ALA Code of Ethics in library work
  • Zines & mini-comics
  • Foresight and futures thinking
Contact Annie

LeAnn Gelskey

  • Accessible reading formats and inclusive library services
  • Talking Book Service (TBS) and National Library Services (NLS) resources
  • Outreach strategies for underserved and hard-to-reach communities
  • Building and sustaining community partnerships
  • Program planning and facilitation for discussion-based programs
  • Staff training on accessibility, outreach, and evolving service models
  • Program support and services for aging adult library populations
Contact LeAnn

Ismael Mendoza Medina

  • Supporting library outreach to the Latine community
  • Supporting culturally relevant staff trainings
  • Assistance with bilingual/bicultural events
Contact Ismael

Jennifer Redford

General

  • Early STEM
  • Flannel Board STEM
  • Early Coding/Computer Science
  • Early Literacy for Frontline Staff
  • Intro to Storytime
  • Healthy Outcomes for Families through Storytime
  • Book Displays, Marketing Your Collection
  • Getting Started with Summer Services
  • Community Based Summer Services

Teens

  • Intro to Computational Thinking
  • Intro to Connected Learning
  • Intro to Teen Brain Development
Contact Jennifer

Clay Ritter

General

  • Idaho Public Library Statistics
  • Library Districting Process
  • Library Meeting Guidelines and Best Practices
  • Non-Profit/Library Partnerships
  • Public Library Friends & Foundations
  • Public Records Management

Library Operations

  • Library De-Escalation & Conflict Management
  • Library Supervision & Staffing
  • Public Library Budgeting
  • Public Library Facilities and Operations Management
  • Public Library Internal Strategic Planning
  • Public Library Project Management Best Practices

Library Governance

  • Board of Trustees Best Practices
  • Board of Trustees Financial Management
  • Board of Trustees Roles & Responsibilities
  • Idaho Library Law Information
  • Library Director Hiring
  • Library Policy Best Practices
  • Parliamentary Procedure
Contact Clay

Marina Rose

Online databases:

  • LiLI Overview
  • Database-specific training (ie. Consumer Health Complete, Gale eBooks, etc.)
  • Analyzing database use & cost
  • Brainstorming sessions on database options for your community/library

Ebooks and Eaudio

  • Idaho’s Reciprocal Lending Agreement
  • Libby Basics
  • Sora Basics
  • Brainstorming sessions on other ebook/eaudio tools

Cataloging & ILL

  • Overview of OCLC services offered through ShareIdaho program, includes OCLC documentation and training on various services
  • Brainstorming sessions on alternative solutions (other than OCLC)
Contact Marina

Staci Shaw

Libraries and Early Learning

  • How to Conduct an Early Learning Community Needs Assessment
  • Aligning Library’s Strategic Plan and/or Programs and Services with Idaho’s Early Learning Coalitions and Initiatives
  • Play-Based Programs Services & Environments
  • Parent & Caregiver Engagement
  • Every Child Ready to Read 1&2
  • Incorporating Early Math Skills and Concepts into Programs Services & Environments

School Libraries

  • Elementary School Circulation Policies that Support Third-Grade Reading Proficiency
  • Motivating Children/Teens to Read

General

  • Five Types of Nonfiction Every Library Should Include
Contact Staci

Chelsea Summerlin

  • Business, economic, and workforce development outreach and programming in libraries
  • Customer service and programming training on teaching digital skills and managing customer techspectations
  • Digital skills and technology training on topics including but not limited to AI, cybersecurity, and the architecture of the internet
Contact Chelsea

Kristina Taylor

  • Support for Local Library Outreach through ICfL’s Youth Services Programs
  • Support for Bilingual Library Services through ICfL’s Youth Services Programs
  • Connecting Idaho Libraries to Carceral/Reentry Resources or Service Models
  • Improving Indigenous Collection Development in Your Library
  • Partnering with Idaho Tribes and Tribal Libraries
  • Indigenous Idaho: Future, Past & Present course as a Library Staff Group Training – see the Indigenous Idaho webpage
Contact Kristina