ER&L Workshops
ER&L offers a selection of professional development workshops virtually and in-person workshops for the ER&L community that is e-resources librarians, e-resources paraprofessionals, technical services staff, and other library staff.
Where does ER&L get workshop topics?
Well, from you! This list of workshops should look like the tactical and practical topics you need because our courses come from ER&L community requests, your feedback at the ER&L conference, and through community surveys.
Deep-dive into new content with Subject Matter Experts
ER&L workshops are multi-lesson courses designed to take the attendee deep into the subject matter with a knowledgeable, experienced instructor(s). These courses are created based on community input and align with our tracks.
Past In-Person & Virtual Courses
2026
2025
- Creating Data-Driven Dashboards: Excel & Power BI
- Divining with Data: How to Answer Questions for ERM (and Life!) with Data
- Don’t Sign Before Reading! Licensing Fundamentals
- Practical Copyright for the Modern Information Professional
- Preparing to negotiate the deal: analyzing licenses, evaluating terms of the deal, and developing strategies
2024
- Authentication and Authorization Fundamentals: Identity Management, Authentication Systems, Browser Technicalities, and Troubleshooting
- COUNTER-intuitive: up close and personal with usage metrics
- Optimizing E-Resource Management with Process Improvement, Project Management, and Problem Solving Techniques (Fall)
- Optimizing E-Resource Management with Process Improvement, Project Management, and Problem Solving Techniques (Spring)
- Teaching Staff to Troubleshoot e-Resources: Practical processes to develop troubleshooting training
- Utilizing Workflow Analysis to Build a Culture of Continuous Process Improvement
- UX Odyssey: Reaching Stellar Insights with User Research Data
- Visualizing Collections Data with PowerBI: A Workshop for Creating Custom Collection Analysis Reports
- Visualizing Library Data Usage with Tableau Public
2023
- Electronic Serials Cataloging
- Is this thing on? Learning the Basics of Establishing e-Resource Access
- Preparing, Negotiating, & Implementing Transformative Agreements
- Privacy and Learning Analytics: A Data Ethics Workshop for Library Professionals
- Teaching Staff to Troubleshoot eResources
- Visualizing Library Data Usage with Tableau Public
2022
- Creating Documentation and Training for Easy e-Resource Management
- Excel for Libraries: Manipulate and analyze data to answer questions and present data in a meaningful way
- Negotiate like an MBA: How to conduct principled negotiations for library resources
- Optimizing E-Resource Management with Process Improvement, Project Management, and Problem Solving Techniques
- Teaching Staff to Troubleshoot e-Resources: Practical processes to develop troubleshooting training
- Utilizing Workflow Analysis to Build a Culture of Continuous Process Improvement
2021
- Fundamentals of Text Mining: Curating, Preparing, Analyzing, and Visualing Textual Data
- Is this thing on? Learning the basics of establishing E-resource access
- Learn to Text Data Mine with Jupyter Notebooks on Google Colab
- Optimizing E-Resource Management with Process Improvement, Project Management, and Problem Solving Techniques