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Tag Archives: basic skills
Basic Skills 2025 Courses & Registration Dates
The course schedule for Basic Skills 2025 is now posted!
Registration for the February Customer Service class will be open from December 22nd until January 24th. If you would like to register after that date, please contact me.
The Communication course (usually open in January) is now available to access at any time! Just register for a (free) account on our Niche Academy page and click the course link:
You can find the rest of the 2025 schedule and registration dates below:
If you have any questions at all, please contact: Holli Duggan.
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Tagged basic skills, certification, Continuing Education, education, Niche Academy
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Basic Skills: Communication – New Course Available!
A new version of the Basic Skills: Communication course is now available!
This course is available as a self-paced online course. You may register and take the course at any time. In this class, we will cover general communication skills, as well as some specialized forms of communications such as advocacy and marketing.
This new Communication course is located in the NLC Niche Academy. In order to register and access the course:
- NLC Niche Academy: my.nicheacademy.com/nlc
- In the upper-right corner, click the “account” icon (next to where it says “Home”)
- Enter your email and password to sign in or to create a new account
- Click “Create a free account” and fill out the short form
- Click “Create my account”
- Screenshots:
- Once you’ve created your account and are logged in, click the “Basic Skills: Communication” course.
- Read through the introduction, then click the blue “Begin” button to start the course.
Basic Skills courses are open only to Nebraska residents or those who are employed by a Nebraska library. The Basic Skills courses are sponsored by the Nebraska Library Commission and Nebraska’s Regional Library Systems.
Class participants who are enrolled in the Nebraska Public Librarian Certification program, and who successfully complete the course will earn 2 CE credit hours.
More tutorials and courses will be added to the NLC Niche Academy, so keep checking back!
If you have any questions, please contact Holli Duggan.
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Tagged basic skills, certification, Continuing Education
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Basic Skills Update: Postponed Classes
The three Basic Skills classes that were postponed earlier this year will be offered again!
- Library Technology
- 10/5 – 10/16
- Registration is open today!
- Finance:
- 11/16 – 12/4
- Registration opens on 10/12
- Intellectual Freedom:
- 12/14 – 1/4
- Registration opens on 11/16
There will be more classes added and an updated 2021 schedule, so if you are unable to attend these dates, there will be more options coming up. These classes will hopefully help if you need to finish up your Basic Skills certification requirements.
Please note that Finance and Intellectual Freedom do fall over holidays, but they are scheduled to allow for extra time, if needed. These classes, like the other Basic Skills classes, do not require you to be logged in at any specific times.
If you have any questions at all about these or any of the Basic Skills classes, please contact Holli Duggan, CE Coordinator.
Basic Skills Postponed and Certification Update
As situations continue to change daily, we have decided to postpone the upcoming Basic Skills classes. We are going to be focusing on developing more self-paced modules which will be announced as they are available.
The one exception to this change will be the “Introduction to Cataloging” class which begins on April 1st and will be open until May 31st. Additionally, the “Understanding MARC 21 Bibliographic Records” class (which is part of the cataloging certification, not a Basic Skills class) will begin as scheduled on March 30th.
So, what does this mean if your certification is due in 2020?
No worries!
For both librarian and library board certifications that are due in 2020, you will be able to extend your certification for one year. For example, if your current certification date is 05/01/20, your new date would be 05/01/21. Linda Babcock will be reaching out to individuals and library boards via email about this extension process.
For those of you who are not due for certification renewal in 2020, but are worried about completing CE hours or keeping up with the Basic Skills requirement as we move through this difficult time, we understand and are able to work with you for extensions or offering additional resources. We absolutely want to do everything we can to help.
If you have any questions or concerns at all, please don’t hesitate to contact Linda Babcock or Holli Duggan.
Basic Skills Schedule Changes
***Basic Skills Postponed and Certification Update***
Due to the closures and difficulties related to COVID-19, there will be some changes to the upcoming Basic Skills course schedules.
Library Technology will be postponed until April 6th. Registration will be reopened and be available until March 27th. If you have already registered, you do not need to register again. If you would like to cancel or change your registration, please contact Holli Duggan.
Library Finance will be postponed until May 4th.
Intellectual Freedom and Core Values will be postponed until May 25th.
Additionally, each Basic Skills course will be “open” for an additional week (though still 2 CE hours each) to allow more time to complete the required work, if needed.
The upcoming Introduction to Cataloging course will still begin on April 1st, but will be open until May 31st.
Details about each of the courses and registrations can be found on the NLC Training & Events Calendar.
If you have any questions at all, please contact:
Basic Skills: Introduction to Cataloging Self-Paced Module
Did you miss out on the Organization of Materials Basic Skills class in April? Do you still need this class to complete your Basic Skills requirement? Here’s another chance!
Due to the number of students interested in this class and the Nebraska Library Commission’s ongoing evaluation of the Basic Skills classes as a whole, we have decided to open a second self-paced section of the course with a shiny new name. Introduction to Cataloging!
As this is a new self-paced format, we are limiting enrollment to 35 students. The content of the class will not be greatly different from previous Organization of Materials classes, but this new module will be self-paced, instead of the instructor-led format that you may be familiar with from other Basic Skills classes.
Registration and more details can be found on the NLC Library Training & Events Calendar:
If you have any questions, please contact Holli Duggan, Continuing Education Coordinator.
