Resources
Discover more ways to support your professional learning goals.
This curated collection includes a sampling of articles, online courses, professional organizations, and other tools that ISL professionals from a wide range of roles and settings have found useful.
While exploring these resources, it may be helpful to focus on specific competencies you want to develop (see Framework and Self-Assessment), your own personal learning goals (see Learning Plan), and/or broader strategies for professional learning. The Key Terms page can offer additional insight into Pathways language.
Marketing and Social Media: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Third Edition)
Book provides a guide for how to develop a comprehensive marketing campaign that integrates contemporary ideas and social media strategies.
Becoming a Learning Organization
Article explores the concept of a “learning organization”—an organization that prioritizes continuous learning and professional growth—using a case study and documenting the processes, lessons learned, and factors that impacted the results.
Leadership and Leader Development: Perspectives from Museum and Academic Library Professionals
Article examines perceptions of leadership and explores the gap between the views of managers and non-managers. Draws on theory and practice and includes suggestions for more intentional, equitable, and focused efforts.
Taproot Foundation
Online forum connects nonprofits with skilled volunteers. Provides virtual and in-person opportunities with opportunities sorted by time commitment, skills needed, and organizations’ type and purpose.
Association of Midwest Museums (AMM)
Organization connecting museum professionals to resources and solutions across the Midwest region of the U.S. Offers an annual conference, quarterly e-newsletter, workshops, job listings, and more.
Change your Game/Cambia tu juego: Inventive Identity Toolkit
Toolkit for exhibit designers and educators provides practical tips to help visitors explore their inventive identities.
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Award No. 2215274. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.