The Public Library Association is an approved provider of Certified Public Library Administrator (CPLA) courses. This series of continuing education programs is designed to meet both the requirements for CPLA certification and the needs of library managers wanting to enhance their skills outside of the CPLA framework.
The basic content of the workshops is of equal interest to librarians pursuing certification and librarians desiring to enhance their professional skills in more informal way. The workshops have been designed to be practical rather than theoretical and include interactive exercises and group work. Librarians pursuing CPLA certification will be required to take both a pre-test and a post-test and will be asked to do outside readings or complete a project.
All of the PLA courses for CPLA are interactive and include a variety of group exercises based on a case study about a medium-sized county library with multiple branches. Using the same case study throughout each training program will give participants an opportunity to apply what they are learning in a practical way in the “real” library – and to see the effects of the decisions they make throughout each of the two-day programs.
The September schedule of courses is below – more information about each course as well as registration is available at www.pla.org.
Course: Budget and Finance
Date: September 11 & 12, 2007
Instructor: Sandra Nelson
Location: Kansas City Metro Library and Information Network, Kansas City, Missouri
Course: Planning and Management of Buildings
Date: September 5 & 6, 2007
Instructor: Cheryl Bryan
Location: Ohio Library Council, Columbus, Ohio
Course: Current Issues
Date: September 19 & 20, 2007
Instructor(s): George Needham and James McPeak
Location: Peninsula Library System, San Francisco, California
Course: Current Issues
Date: September 25 & 26, 2007
Instructor(s): George Needham and James McPeak
Location: Southern Adirondack Library System, Saratoga Springs, New York
Course: Marketing
Date: September 26 & 27
Instructor: Wayne Piper
Location: Atlanta-Fulton County Central Library, Atlanta, Georgia
