GPLS Offices Closed

admin — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:08:16 -0500

GPLS Offices will be closed on January 1 2013 in observance of New Year's Day.

New Year New Marketing Strategy! at Southwest Branch Library, Atlanta

admin — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:03:38 -0500

Are ready to take your business to the next level? Marketing Consultant Eric Woodson will walk you through the steps of creating a simple and profitable internet marketing strategy. In This workshop your will learn:

The Components of Web Marketing
Balancing & budgeting online activities
Integrating online & traditional marketing
Online research & analysis
Creating a web marketing plan

6:00 PM-7:45 PM

All programs are free and open to the public. For more information, please call 404.699.6363.

Managing for People Who Hate Managing

dlandrum — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:02:25 -0500

Congratulations on Your Promotion!

But there's a catch: instead of spending the majority of your time doing the job you love—a job you're still expected to get done, by the way—you're now also a manager.

You weren't trained for this. Nobody prepared you for having to deal with emotions and conflicts and personalities, all while trying to meet ever-greater goals and more pressing deadlines.

Not exactly what you had in mind … is it?

Drawing on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, Devora Zack explains that personality-wise and management-wise, we're either thinkers or feelers. Basically, thinkers lead with their heads and feelers lead with their hearts. Almost nobody's 100% thinker or feeler, yet most of us lean one way or the other.

Working with—rather than fighting against—your strengths is key to understanding not only how you make decisions and manage but also how people react to your decisions and respond to you.

Join us as we explore how this way of seeing yourself and others makes managing less of a stumble in the dark and more of a walk in the park.

What You Will Learn

How to find your best management style
How to adapt to your employees’ personalities
Why making employees feel good isn’t in their best interest
The importance of treating others how THEY want to be treated

The Impact of an Ice Cream Sundae (WebJunction Webinar)

admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:26:57 -0500

A webinar exploring how libraries and community organizations can become innovative partners and collaborators, mixing resources, programs, personnel or funding.

When community organizations collaborate to share their resources with one another, they make the biggest possible impact on the most lives. Learn easy, understandable and powerful strategies that will give you renewed energy to create bold and imaginative collaborations among all types of community organizations.

Presented by: Kathy Jacobs, Director, Yankton (SD) Community Library.

More info and registration

Realize Your Mission: How to Use Employee Engagement to Reach Your Goals

dlandrum — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:49:33 -0500

Employee engagement has been one of the most common buzzwords in recent years. Many organizations think of employee engagement as a necessary evil to drive results. While engagement is absolutely critical for success, many organizations misunderstand the best ways to use it to improve employee performance, productivity, and bottom line results. Our goal is to eliminate this frustrating cycle: A series of HR initiatives (AKA “flavor of the month”) that makes a limited impact, and leaves managers and employees alike feeling annoyed with the whole idea.

In this webinar we will present the fundamental principles that truly increase employee engagement. We will describe 4 steps that will lead to lasting impact on employee engagement. The result will be higher employee retention, greater productivity, greater employee and manager satisfaction, much more happiness at work, and accomplishing your goals on time. Every time.

Takeaways:

Use employee engagement the RIGHT way, and save hundreds of thousands in wasted Dollars
Move away from ineffective praise to Strategic Recognition
Use our Engagement Trifecta that drives deep and lasting change
Create jobs that keep employees motivated
Stop the entitlement attitude that you see everywhere around you
Prevent the huge rush of people to the door at 5:01pm

GPLS Offices Closed

admin — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:09:49 -0500

GPLS Offices will be closed on January 21 2013 in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday.

Commerce Public Library reopening

admin — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:31:48 -0500

The newly renovated and enlarged Commerce Public Library will reopen at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 23,

The new facility will feature a children's library more than doubled in size, a new "young adult" area, self-checkout, a fax machine, a new and larger Heritage Room/genealogy section, more natural light, 20 computers (it currently has 10) available to the public, three new touch-screen children's computers, new rest rooms, and even an area for drinking coffee.

A grand opening ceremony is planned for Saturday, Feb. 2

Creating a Culture of Innovation in your Library and Community

admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:29:00 -0500

A webinar exploring how to grow and sustain innovation in libraries and in communities.

We hear about libraries that are leaders in innovation, implementing ideas that keep the library growing and vital. Perhaps you have watched from the sidelines and wished you could kickstart some innovation at your library, but you're not sure where to start. Come to this webinar for an active and lively discussion on how to find innovative ideas, how to connect with the people to help make them happen, and how to get buy-in and support for your ideas. There is a lot to be learned from other libraries' examples and experiences.

More info and registration

Cherokee County Friends Book Sale (Jan 24-26)

admin — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:54:51 -0500

Friends of the Library of Cherokee County will be hosting their annual book sale at the R. T. Jones Memorial Library located at 116 Brown Industrial Parkway in Canton on the following dates:

Preview sale for Friends members only - Thursday, January 24 – 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm; Memberships are $15.00 and available at the door
Friday, January 25 – 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – open to public
Saturday, January 26 – 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – open to public

Fiction and non-fiction hardback ($1.00) and paperback books ($.50) will be available for sale along with specially priced books from $3.00 and up. Videos, DVDs, books on tape, and cassettes are priced from $.50, with children’s books and videos priced from $.10 to $1.00.

Donations of clean used books (no encyclopedias) can be donated at R. T. Jones anytime before the sale. Also, stop by or call R. T. Jones (770-479-3090) early in January to volunteer to help with the sale. Your help is greatly appreciated.

For more information regarding the Friends of the Library sale or to volunteer at R. T. Jones, please call the Emma Ingle, Manager (770-479-3090).

Author Terry Kay at Conyers library

admin — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:22:42 -0500

The Nancy Guinn presents An Evening with Award-winning novelist Terry Kay. The free program is sponsored by the Georgia Council of the Arts, the Georgia Writers Association, the Friends of the Nancy Guinn Library and the Rockdale Genealogical Society.

Friends of Cherokee County Libraries Book Sale

admin — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:26:10 -0500

The Friends of Cherokee County Libraries is hosting a used book sale at R.T. Jones Memorial Library

Hours for the sale are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. A preview sale for Friends of the Library members is scheduled for 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday. The sale will be in the library's meeting room.

Author Anne B. Jones at McDonough Public Library

admin — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:54:26 -0500

Sunday, January 27, 2:00PM McDonough Public Library, Author visit and book-signing

Tides of Fear author Anne B. Jones will talk about the writing process and answer questions. She'll also bring books to sell and sign after the reading and discussion.

For more information visit: http://annebjones.com