The Great Safe Place: Secure Library Workplaces Webcast 

This is a 60 minute pre-recorded webcast. With our online anytime format, you will immediately receive the link to the webcast, password and the link to the webcast handout upon successful registration. You do not need any special software to view and listen, just a computer!  Since passwords are changed frequently, we suggest viewing the webcast as soon as possible after registering.

Description:

Some folks work in communities and institutions where everyone is honest, emotionally healthy, and well mannered. The rest of us need to create workplaces where people and property are safe. Planning, policies, training, careful supervision and management, and applied technology can protect employees, customers, vendors, and visitors as well as your workplace's property.

Agenda: Click here for agenda

The Key Idea:  Safe libraries require a plan for physical and personal limits; can everyone say no?

Outcomes:

• Invite local law enforcement officials to discuss potential local security problems.
• Join neighborhood watch, Chamber of Commerce, and other community groups with an interest in safety.
• Evaluate current policies on dealing with hostile and potentially dangerous visitors to the library.
• Require everyone who works of the library to know and enforce policies regarding library user behavior.
• Discuss and execute procedures with staff on when to call in police assistance.

Presenter:

Pat Wagner has been a trainer, educator, and consultant for 40 years, having worked with clients in 48 states and Canada. She is a manager and producer at Pattern Research, Inc. Pat likes to find the essence in models of human behavior and organizational design and build effective and engaging formats for learning: face-to-face, in print, and online. She has been a poet, playwright, printer, publisher, and graphic designer, and loves books, gardens, and the arts.

Cost:

Each registration entitles the registrant only to access the webcast. Registrations may not be shared in any way or viewed in a group setting. You may not broadcast or redistribute in any way without prior approval from Mid-America Library Alliance. That includes, but is not limited to, displaying webcast via projector, large screen tv, or overhead projector.

• MALA Member: $20.00
• Non-Member: $40.00

MALA Webcast Billing/Refund/Credit Policy:  We prefer all webcasts to be prepaid.  If you prefer to be billed, there is a $5 charge for this service.