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Join CRD’s Connect & Communicate Series for a Webinar on
“Sisyphus, take a seat”: Documenting practices, workflows, and decisions at your library
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Creating and maintaining robust documentation can feel like an arduous, intimidating prospect. However, without good, clear documentation, we often find ourselves contending with cyclical challenges, disconnected from institutional memory or valuable context.

This session will underscore the value of documentation practices, and share: 

1. Strategies to define what sustainable documentation might look like for your library;
2. Ideas to socialize documentation practices;
3. And suggestions on how to selectively integrate AI tools to conserve staff time and jump start the initial momentum.

Register at the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/m3KL3XjbRWmDrzZIAfeZoA

Upon submitting your registration, you will receive an email confirmation that includes details about connecting to the webinar. This is the only notification you will receive. If you do not receive the confirmation email, please contact Elliott Rose at elliott.c.rose@gmail.com.

For this program, you will need speakers or headphones to hear the presenter. Participants are encouraged to ask questions via the chatbox; moderators will monitor the chatbox and facilitate question and response at the end of the panel discussion.

Please continue to share your ideas for programming topics, speakers, or formats with us! If you or someone you know is doing something great in Pennsylvania’s academic libraries, tell us about it! The Connect & Communicate Series of online programming offered by the PaLA College & Research Division aims to help foster a community of academic librarians in Pennsylvania. Please contact Elliott Rose at elliott.c.rose@gmail.com with questions.

Join CRD’s Connect & Communicate Series for a Webinar on
Grow Yourself Here: Bibliotherapy for Student Enrollment, Success, and Retention
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

When librarians in Wolfgram Library at Widener University built a Student Success Collection to support student well-being and academic success on their campus, they used the methods of bibliotherapy to curate materials and break down barriers that were preventing students from finding and accessing these resources in the main library collection.  Librarians have incorporated interaction with the new Student Success Collection into library tours for prospective students and into orientations for first-year students.  These interactions encourage students to establish new habits for finding library sources and empowering themselves with knowledge to support their well-being and success.  This presentation will share our experience facilitating bibliotherapy through our Student Success Collection and provide resources for those who may wish to create similar collections in their own libraries. 

Register at the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nML_68N-Tv2iaCKXjfg0Ww

Upon submitting your registration, you will receive an email confirmation that includes details about connecting to the webinar. This is the only notification you will receive. If you do not receive the confirmation email, please contact Elliott Rose at elliott.c.rose@gmail.com.

For this program, you will need speakers or headphones to hear the presenter. Participants are encouraged to ask questions via the chatbox; moderators will monitor the chatbox and facilitate question and response at the end of the panel discussion.

Please continue to share your ideas for programming topics, speakers, or formats with us! If you or someone you know is doing something great in Pennsylvania’s academic libraries, tell us about it! The Connect & Communicate Series of online programming offered by the PaLA College & Research Division aims to help foster a community of academic librarians in Pennsylvania. Please contact Elliott Rose at elliott.c.rose@gmail.com with questions.