| |  Meet the Challenge of Today's Economy
Budgets tight? Discover the free and low-cost resources on WebJunction to help your library meet the challenge of today's economy.
Visit our Winter Offer page for more information.
|  Virtual Town Hall Meetings This month, WebJunction will be facilitating a series of three virtual town halls focusing on topics related to libraries in tough economic times. Join us in this new format designed to engage all attendees with questions, brainstorms, stories, and to collect practical strategies. To register or suggest topics for focus, visit our Events page. |
Harness Your Intellectual Capital
Check out the latest additions to the WebJunction course catalog.
If you are affiliated with a WebJunction Partner, be sure to access these courses via your affiliation's course catalog to take full advantage of many free and reduced-priced courses. For more information on affiliations, see the User Guide.
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Champions of Learning: CLENE and WJ Celebrate Employee Learning Week
Is your library a champion of learning? ASTD's Employee Learning Week features champions who successfully connect staff learning with achieving results. WebJunction and CLENE celebrate the week by exploring our own development as learning professionals. Join us for a webinar that looks at strategies and resources to propel ourselves and our libraries toward championship.
|  Featured Group: WordPress4Libraries
Member Laura Crossett has created group on WebJunction for anyone using WordPress for publishing or blogging at their library. Visit the group's page to share your experiences working with WordPress.
| WJ-MN Supports Minnesota Libraries
WJ-Minnesota offers support for History Day @ your library with helpful resources for Minnesota libraries. The WJ-Minnesota team also attended the Minnesota Library Association Conference in November where WJ-Central staffer Michael Porter gave a presentation on features of the new WebJunction.org.
| Libraries and the Bilingual Child
How can librarians honor and respect parents' efforts to keep the home language alive while their child acquires a second language, and why does this matter? Join us for an informative webinar on this topic presented by Latino Children's Literacy Consultant, Oralia Garza de Cortes.
|  Winter Deadlines Approaching for Drexel's Online Programs
As a WebJunction member you qualify for 10-25% off tuition with Drexel when you take courses online. To start taking classes online this January, your completed application and all supplemental materials are due in the next few weeks. Exact deadlines vary from program to program so please check your individual program of interest's deadline date. If you have any further questions, or need help completing your application package, please contact Valerie Malinowski.
| | | | In this issue
- WebJunction Spotlights
- Special Winter Offer
- Town Halls in December
- Featured Member and Group
| |  | | | Upcoming Webinars
Times listed in U.S. Central Standard Time
Bite-size Digital History
December 3, 10-10:30 pm CST
Town Hall: Focus on Tough Economic Times
December 4, 12-1 pm CST
Libraries and the Bilingual Child: Understanding Issues of Language Acquisition
December 9, 12-1 pm CST
Laptop Labs: Creating, Maintaining, and Using Them (MaintainIT)
December 9, 2-3 pm CST
Top 10 Tips for Effective Application Training in the Virtual Classroom
December 10, 2-3 pm CST
Learning for Learning Professionals: Competencies, Strategies and Resources (CLENE)
December 11, 1-2 pm CST
Town Hall: Focus on Tough Economic Times
December 12, 1-2 pm CST
Town Hall: Focus on Tough Economic Times
December 18, 2-3 pm CST
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| | | | What's Hot on WJ
The new place to find hot topics on WebJunction is www.webjunction.org/hot. We'll update the page monthly to highlight new and popular courses, documents, presentations, discussions, groups and webinar archives. | | | | Our Services
WebJunction provides helpful online learning, portal and community services to a wide variety of library organizations. Learn more about our services at webjunction.org/services.
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