Continuing Education Resources
The path to paralibrarian certification requires a fair amount of learning. This section will maintain a list of links to online educational opportunities available to all to facilitate applicants' efforts to engage in continued education. This is not an exhaustive or definitive list, and not all opportunities on the linked sites will be useful for certification - this is a starting point to help you on your way. Please be aware that not all of these resources are free.
While our focus is on assisting paralibrarians meet their certification goals, we encourage all library professionals to use these links to their advantage in ongoing professional development efforts.
Calendars of events
These are some of the sites we've used to find upcoming live virtual events. Most are free or require a free account.
NHLA calendar of events
Maine State Library calendar of events
ALA webinars calendar
Library 2.0 webinars
Libraries Learn calendar
Reference and User Services Association upcoming events
Georgia Library Association Carterette series
Texas State Library and Archives Commission upcoming events
National Library of Medicine calendar
Northeast Document Conservation Center events
New England Conferences
There are far more professional conferences than we could list here, but we’ve highlighted some based in the New England area.
NHLA Spring & Fall conferences
NH Children's Librarians of NH Spring & Fall conferences
NH Young Adult Library Services conference
NH School Library Section conference
NH Library Trustees conference
New England Library Association annual conference
New England Technical Services Librarians Spring conference
MA Library Association conference
ME Library Association conference
VT Library Association conference
CT Library Association conference
RI Library Association conference
On-demand webinars
There are so many places online to find workshops and webinars that it can be overwhelming! These are some of the places our members have found useful content for their certifications.
InfoPeople archives
WebJunction recordings
TSL and Archives Commission Continuing Education
Techsoup archive
Programming Librarian (ALA) webinars
ALA Connect Live series
The Information School Spring webinar series
ACRL Presents webcasts
Idaho Commission for Libraries Info2Go!
IMLS on-demand webinars
ASERL archive
Northeast Document Conservation Center training programs
U of SC Augusta Baker Lectures
NCLA "Help! I'm an Accidental Government Information Librarian" Webinars
FDLP Repository Training
ACRL (ALA) Instruction Section
NNLM (NIH) Class Recordings
Community College Consortium for OER
OCLC training
Online courses
Some topics need much more than an hour to explain; for that, there's multi-session classes. These links are non-credit courses although they may have credit hour equivalencies.
ABLE (ICfL) courses
Library Juice Academy
InfoPeople planned training
The Information School online courses
Project ENABLE
NEDCC preservation training
Coursera (not directly library related)
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