This session examines several resources that will allow you to easily access the state or federal information you need. We cover the features and capabilities of the State Publications Access Program database, govinfo.gov and more!

Learn how to conduct expert internet research by creating a search strategy! This session takes an in-depth look at the five steps of creating a search strategy so your internet research is more efficient, less time consuming, and gets you the results you need.

Maps are a valuable tool to give you information about a wide variety of topics, including land ownership, waterways, city layouts, and more. In this session, we will explore various types of maps, the information they hold, and how to access them easily.

Need basic tips on navigating the Census website for data? This session provides step-by-step instructions on how to use the data.census.gov website to retrieve data files from the decennial Census and the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Additional Census data harvesting tools are also introduced.

PowerPoint has been the go-to presentation tool for years, but it’s not your only option. There are many other tools available online for FREE! This class examines PowerPoint alternatives Prezi, Canva, Powtoon, and Visme, while exploring their functions and how they can be used to create vibrant, engaging presentations.

Whether you want to put your to-do lists in order or easily collaborate on projects with a group, you can find the solution to your organizational woes with these free online project managers! This session will go over the features and uses of project managers Trello, Wrike, and Clickup, and how they can help make your work life easier.

Stress is an unavoidable part of life, but unmanaged stress in the workplace can be detrimental to your health, your quality of work, and may lead to burnout. In this session, you will learn about the effects of stress as well as a variety of resources and techniques to aid stress relief, helping you to avoid total burnout and experience the best work life possible.

The holiday season and tidings of good cheer are among us! Although gatherings with family, friends, and coworkers can be fun and jovial, there oftentimes can be an undercurrent of frustration or difficult and triggering conversations that can ruin that fun and even those relationships. Join us as a licensed professional counselor discusses what boundaries are, why they are important to maintaining healthy relationships both personally and professionally, and how you can set necessary limits with those around you.

Over the past year, stress has become a prominent presence in our daily life, and we want to give you the tools to help! In this session, licensed professional counselor, Jenna McDonnell, will bring you through the biology of stress, provide guided exercises to promote regulation and relaxation, and give practical tips on how to cope when living "stress-free" isn't an option.

Adverse events are a part of life, as much as we wish they weren’t. In this session, Licensed Professional Counselor, Jenna Powell, returns to discuss that while we can’t prevent every bad event that happens, we can make empowered decisions around how to handle our emotional responses when they do.

With our increasingly online work environment, it can be difficult to navigate the ins and outs of digital communication. How many exclamation points are too many in an email? How do I get my point across effectively without my tone being misinterpreted? In this session, we will explore the answers to these questions and learn more about professional digital communication in meetings, emails, chats, and social media.

Have you ever left a meeting and thought "that could have been an email?" In this session, we will discuss how to make meetings more efficient and productive. From learning which topics actually require a meeting to the best practices to ensure all runs smoothly, you’ll come away with the tools to lead a productive meeting for you and your team.

Do you find it difficult to organize your tasks and finish them on time? Or become easily overwhelmed just thinking about your to-do list? There are tools to help! Join us as we discuss the best practices to develop a productive work life and the free tools that can help you along the way.

There is an ever-increasing need to connect with patrons virtually and webinars are the perfect solution! This session will examine the best tools and practices of webinar presentations to help you provide a satisfying experience for your patrons. The presenter is Julie Cox, Reference Services' Outreach and Training Librarian.

Join us as Wolfner’s Adult Services Librarian discusses all the wonderful services that Wolfner Talking Book and Braille Library provides for the blind and visually impaired, those with reading disabilities, organic dysfunctions, and people with physical disabilities that affect the use of traditional books throughout Missouri, and how to determine whether you or someone you know are eligible to use their library. She will also cover several common accessibility issues within documents and websites that can be addressed so that anyone can access your materials with ease.