Continuing Education


One of the many benefits of ABOS membership is the opportunity to attend Continuing Education opportunities. Currently ABOS offers webinars and Driven Discussions. 

In addition, as a member you have access to all recordings of previous Continuing Education opportunities.


Previous topics include:

  • Airtable for Outreach 

  • Book Bikes

  • Bookmobile Routes and Schedules

  • Books by Mail

  • Community Gardens & Seed Libraries 

  • Community Partnerships 

  • Dam-it Jim, I'm a librarian not a mechanic! Fake it till you make it. Musings of a first-year bookmobile driver.

  • Daycare and Preschool Outreach 

  • Developing Policies & Procedures - Best Practices for Outreach Services

  • Digital Outreach

  • Evaluating Outreach Programs and Services

  • Getting Started with Your Mobile Library: Creating and Maintaining Mobile Services 

  • Healthy Boundaries, Healthy Services 
  • Large Print Book Discussion Groups 

  • Laundromats, Literacy, and Library Outreach 

  • Library of Things 

  • Live Music in Programs

  • Memory Cafes

  • Memory Kits 

  • Multi-Generational Programs

  • Now What?: Older Adult Services in 2022 

  • Outreach To Businesses

  • Outreach to Schools

  • Pop Up Libraries 

  • Purchasing A New Outreach Vehicle

  • Rural Outreach 

  • Serving Homeless Populations 

  • Serving Immigrants and Refugees 

  • Serving the Incarcerated 

  • So You Want To Start A Podcast

  • Social Worker In The Library 

  • STEM/STEAM

  • Story Time Kits for a Pandemic World            

  • StoryWalks®  

  • Teen Outreach

  • Youth Outreach Programming


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Association of Bookmobile & Outreach Services

1190 Meramec Station Road, Suite 207

Ballwin, MO  63021-6902

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