Member Services
LE@D
NEFLIN offers LE@D - Lifelong Education @ Desktop - online continuing education courses through the University of North Texas. These high quality, Internet delivered, self paced CE courses will provide professional development opportunities to librarians and library staff. And they're FREE as part of your NEFLIN membership!
1) Identify the LE@D course you are interested in taking (see list below) but do not register for it until you get the code from NEFLIN (see 2).
2) Contact NEFLIN to request the unique course code to take the class for free. Tell us your name, your library and the name of the course.
3) We'll email you the code and instructions.
For help, email LE@D Support or call 940-565-2502. They will respond within 24 hours. Include your name, the email address you used when you registered, the course you have registered for and the organization you are affiliated with (NEFLIN). This information will help them locate your account more quickly.
LE@D Courses - Click on title for course description
Are You Really Ready for Volunteers?
Basic Budgeting
Becoming an Effective Trustee
Capturing History: Digitization Projects
Change Management and Leadership
Copyright Issues in the Classroom and School Library
Creating and Maintaining an Engaging School Library Website
Creating Collaborative Lessons in the Elementary School Library
Creating Collaborative Lessons in the Secondary School Library
Creating Compelling Programming in Your School Library
Ethical Standards for Library Leadership
Ethics in the Real World: Library Case Studies
Financial Management
Financial Management in Tough Times
Gifts for Libraries: Be Careful What You Wish For
Grant Writing Basics
Improving Co-Worker Relations
Improving Your Communication Skills: Presentation Skills for Librarians
Influence: Even When You Don't Have Power or Authority
Info-Age Etiquette
Keeping Your Library Looking Good
Leadership in Libraries: Becoming an Everyday Leader
Library Privacy and Confidentiality: Law and Policy
Managing Difficult Patrons with Confidence
Microsoft Office: Excel 2003
Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
Microsoft Word 2003 and Publisher
Microsoft Office: Using Templates in Word and Publisher 2007
Meetings for Results
Mentors and Proteges: Creating Successful Workplace Programs
Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults
Online Research Strategies for Librarians NEW
Providing Excellent Customer Service in a Multi-Cultural Environment
Reaching Reluctant Readers
Reaching Teenagers
Retailing Methods and Techniques for Libraries
RFID Technology
Seven Steps to a Successful Volunteer Recruitment
Supervision Without Micromanagement
Strategic Planning: Quick, Cheap and Decent
Strategic Planning: The 5 Minutes Introduction
Technical Services: What They Do, Why They Do It, How It's Changing
Trends in Children's Literature
Understanding Budgets
Using Databases
Volunteer Recognition for High Impact
Volunteer Screening and Placement
Volunteers: Policy and Procedure Development
Volunteers: Recruitment, Development and Supervision
Weeding: It's Not an Option