FOPL Member CEOs and Board Members:
Please feel free to share these links with your staff.
FOPL has been monitoring the situation closely with a number of surveys, government teleconferences, ad more with our partners at OLA, OLBA, SOLS, and OLS-North.
Please check in regularly here (or add them to your RSS feeds (I use the free Feedly aggregator):
Websites and Blogs:
- The FOPL blog:http://www.fopl.ca
- SOLS: http://www.sols.org
- SOLS: Blog:http://www.sols.org/blog
- SOLS: LearnHQ COVID-19 pages: https://resources.learnhq.ca/covid-19
- SOLS/OLS-N Governance Hub: https://www2.librarygovernance.ca/gov-hub
- OLS North: http://www.olsn.ca/en
- OLA: http://www.accessola.org/web
- CULC: http://culc.ca/
- CFLA: http://cfla-fcab.ca/en/home-page/
- IFLA: https://www.ifla.org/
- Stephen’s Lighthouse: https://stephenslighthouse.com/
Twitter:
- FOPL: @FOPLNews
- SOLS: @solslib
- OLA: @ONLibraryAssoc
- CULC: @culc_cbuc
- CFLA: @CFLAFCAB
- IFLA: @IFLA
- CanadianLibrarianhip.ca: @LibrarianshipCA 8: Stephen’s Lighthouse:@sabram
Facebook:
- FOPL: https://www.facebook.com/Federation-of-Ontario-Public-Libraries-160173540675944/
- FOPL OpenMediaDesk: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FederationofOntarioPublicLibraries/
- OLS North: https://www.facebook.com/olsnorth/
- OLA: https://www.facebook.com/accessola/
- Librarianship.ca: https://www.facebook.com/LibrarianshipCA/
- CFLA: https://www.facebook.com/cflafcab/
- IFLA: https://www.facebook.com/IFLA.org/
- IFLA Public Libraries Section: https://www.facebook.com/iflapubliclibraries/
All Canadian Libraries are free to use the hundreds of cool links we suggest for your website and social media work/learn/play/stay-at-home at FOPL’s OpenMediaDesk Facebook Group. We post many ideas to use or adapt daily – even weekends. Your communities are begging for things to do at home (kids, adults and seniors!) including all of your digital resources and e-books. Now is a great time to promote (or expand) these in context.
Here are some recent important links that have been posted to the FOPL blog.
BIG NEWS: FOPL OpenMediaDesk Facebook Group Open to all Ontario Libraries
https://fopl.ca/news/big-news-fopl-openmediadesk-facebook-group-open-to-all-ontario-libraries/
HR & Training Posts:
HBR: How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion
https://fopl.ca/news/hbr-how-to-manage-coronavirus-layoffs-with-compassion/
Directory of On-Demand Recordings of Webinars from Library Organizations, Vendors, and Others
Binge-Worthy E-Learning from PLA
https://fopl.ca/news/binge-worthy-e-learning-from-pla/
How to Guide Your Employees to Post More on Social Media
https://fopl.ca/news/how-to-guide-your-employees-to-post-more-on-social-media/
LearnHQ: Taking time to focus on your own professional development
LearnHQ: Programming, Staffing and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
https://resources.learnhq.ca/programming-staffing-wellbeing/digital
How to Organize a CCC: Community COVID Choir
https://fopl.ca/news/how-to-organize-a-ccc-community-covid-choir/
COVID-19 Legislative Updates
Our FOPL/OLA public affairs consultants release a regular newsletter that updates us on the fast-moving changes. We share these on the blog:
Counsel: COVID-19 Update Government of Canada actions on COVID-19
https://fopl.ca/news/counsel-covid-19-update-government-of-canada-actions-on-covid-19-7/
April 14 | Ontario Extends Declaration of Emergency
https://fopl.ca/news/april-14-ontario-extends-declaration-of-emergency/
April 11 Counsel: COVID-19 Update Government of Canada actions on COVID-19
https://fopl.ca/news/counsel-covid-19-update-government-of-canada-actions-on-covid-19-6/
April 9: Counsel: COVID-19 Update Government of Canada actions on COVID-19
https://fopl.ca/news/counsel-covid-19-update-government-of-canada-actions-on-covid-19-5/
April 8: Counsel: COVID-19 Update Government of Canada actions on COVID-19
https://fopl.ca/news/counsel-covid-19-update-government-of-canada-actions-on-covid-19-4/
April 7: Counsel: COVID-19 Update Government of Canada actions on COVID-19 CERB
https://fopl.ca/news/counsel-covid-19-update-government-of-canada-actions-on-covid-19-cerb/
Counsel: Quick Reference Guide to Targeted COVID-19 Relief
https://fopl.ca/news/counsel-quick-reference-guide-to-targeted-covid-19-relief/
PL and Municipal Situations and Responses:
What is an essential service?
https://fopl.ca/news/what-is-an-essential-service/
New COVID-19 Resource: Virtual AGM Guide
https://fopl.ca/news/new-covid-19-resource-virtual-agm-guide/
Council’s role in communicating during coronavirus outbreak
https://fopl.ca/news/councils-role-in-communicating-during-coronavirus-outbreak/
Sample TPL cool COVID-19 Messaging for Members during the closures.
https://fopl.ca/news/sample-tpl-cool-covid-19-messaging-for-users-during-the-closures/
Technology:
How to lock down Zoom to improve your privacy and security
https://fopl.ca/news/how-to-lock-down-zoom-to-improve-your-privacy-and-security/
10 free Zoom alternative apps for video chats
https://fopl.ca/news/10-free-zoom-alternative-apps-for-video-chats/
How to Elevate Your Presence in a Virtual Meeting
https://fopl.ca/news/hbr-how-to-elevate-your-presence-in-a-virtual-meeting/
How to Make Video Conferencing From Home Less Terrible
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-video-conferencing-from-home-less-terrible-1842396694
PLOG
IMPORTANT: Deadline Extension – 2019 Annual Survey of Public Libraries / Prolongement de la date limite – Enquête annuelle 2019 sur les bibliothèques publiques
IMPORTANT: Deadline Extension [Contracting Organizations] – 2019 Annual Survey of Public Libraries / Prolongement de la date limite – Enquête annuelle 2019 sur les bibliothèques publiques
CEO & Board Planning
What is a library? In a post-COVID world, how will they change?
http://www.feedspot.com/?dadi=1#feed/f_605509/article/6032764005?dd=4311523045261059
Now and Next: What a Post-COVID World May Bring for Libraries http://www.feedspot.com/?dadi=1#feed/f_605509/article/6032764005?dd=4311523045261059
The Four Possible Timelines for Life Returning to Normal: The coronavirus outbreak may last for a year or two, but some elements of pre-pandemic life will likely be won back in the meantime
MHSTCI: Formal message regarding public library board meetings
https://fopl.ca/news/mhstci-formal-message-regarding-public-library-board-meetings/
Cheers and be well,
Stephen
Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA
Executive Director, Federation of Ontario Public Libraries