T is For Training

We used the excellent article from Political Librarian Safeguarding Libraries, Schools, and Communities from Political Threats: A Strategic Framework for Engagement, Advocacy, and Sustainable Organizing as a jumping off point of what we can do as trainers/teachers/leaners to create a civil and civic minded society.

Libraries are non-partisan political entities and need to start acting like it.

Lively hour podcast focusing on Training/Teaching/Learning. Records on Thursdays notes up by Sundayish at tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Paul, Tom, Mark and Maurice discuss the recent news about IMLS, what we can do as trainers to help library staff deal with the good and the bad of modern libraries. And on Public Service and On Bullshit. Lively hour podcast focusing on Training/Teaching/Learning. Records on Thursdays notes up by Sunday at tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Maurice, Paul, Tom and Sardek talk about some ways to deal with the everyday and professional situations when your world has gone to [redacted.] Sardek is developing content to help his learners negotiate and influence outcomes in some of our most challenging "world on fire" situations. He will be drawing from

Chris Voss's book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended on It. Notes and links up this weekend on tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Maurice, Tom, Diane and Jared talked about Copyright, AI models, AI as index or author, how everything is tainted and should everything be open and not bound by copyright laws if it advances knowledge? notes on tisfortraining.wordpress.com sometime soon this weekend. Join us in two weeks at 9 pm ET on March 20th for another episode of T is for Trianing

Tried to start the show on Talkshoe. Didn't start recording, so we switched to Zoom. Look for notes on tisfortraining.wordpress.com we recorded an episode about advocacy in light of foolishness.

Maurice, Tom, Diane, Paul and Haneda–Campos comet Aaron Blumberg talked about effective advocacy for libraries, some resources, and a realistic timeline of advocacy efforts in libraries. Find links on tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Paul, Tom and Maurice use Kate Murphy's Book You're Not Listening to talk about the power of listening and the need to listen in all of our spaces. We then tangentially (I know you are all shocked) talked about other things related to listening and thinking such as the Candle Test (aka Duncker's Candle Problem) and how to create spaces where people listen to each other to build new pathways of thought. our web home - tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Paul, Mark, Tom, Diane & Maurice welcomed in Jimmy Glenos from ATD South FL chapter https://www.atdsfl.org/mentorship and returning guest Dan Bassil from Chicago www.tutormentorexchange.net/dan-bassil to talk about mentoring during January, which is National Mentorship month! Notes up this weekend at tisfortraining.wordpress.com We next record on Jan 23rd at 9 ET. Join us!

The usual crew (Maurice, Paul, Mark and Tom) were joined by Veronda Pitchford, VP of CALIFA (we love her) We talked about the power of consortia, to spread the word about various new or important library things, and to be a one-stop shop of resources for libraries of all sizes. CALIFA helps libraries market themsleves locally, regionally, statewide, & nationally. CALIFA also is the home of InfoPeople, which started as a state library training project and was picked up by CALIFA when their funding was repurposed.

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Paul, Mark, Maurice and somewhat Tom talked about activism in Libraries, Acting Locally while thinking regionally, and globally, How small acts can make powerful change. Activism comes in many forms, from pinging networks to making transformative connections for the people you directly and indirectly work with in a learning session. Notes eventually on tisfortraining.wordpress.com