BookED American Booksellers Association

ABA's Lightning Talk series features booksellers presenting 5-10 minute talks on tech tools, organizational strategies, communication methods, or innovations they’ve made in their stores. On January 11, 2024, Laura DeLaney of Rediscovered Books (Boise, ID) discussed Testifying In Committee. 
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Video Recording  
Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.
 
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ABA's Lightning Talk series features booksellers presenting 5-10 minute talks on tech tools, organizational strategies, communication methods, or innovations they’ve made in their stores. On January 11, 2024, Emma Kaas of Norwich Bookstore discussed Taking Annual Inventory.
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Video Recording  
Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.
 
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It’s critical that owners and managers understand Human Resources (HR) practices. This three-hour seminar will be divided into three 45-minute segments with a ten minute break between each segment. In segment one, booksellers will receive a foundational understanding of what HR is, what it is not, and clarity on federal HR rules and regulations that are in place to protect a business. Segment two will provide booksellers with more specifics on HR hot-topics in the small business space including onboarding, employee record keeping, termination, communication and more. The seminar will conclude with a panel discussion with plenty of room for Q&A.
Part 1
HR Essentials for Small Business with Martin Patrick, GTM HR Consulting, Inc. Part 2
HR Talent Lifecycle with Randy Egolf, VP, Human Resources, Joseph-Beth Booksellers Health and Heart with Chonteau McElvin, Director of Conscious Culture, Spiral Circle  Part 3
Panel Discussion with Q&A, featuring:
Randy Egolf, Joseph-Beth Booksellers - Cincinnati, OH Chonteau McElvin, Spiral Circle - Orlando, FL Eileen McCormick, Green Apple Books - San Francisco, CA Martin Patrick, GTM HR Consulting - Clifton Park, NY Files & Links
Video Recording Slide Deck Handbook Policy Checklist ABA Bookstore Resource Library HR Talent Lifecycle Joseph-Beth Culture Committee Joseph Beth Leadership Competencies  
Recorded February 11, 2024 at Winter Institute 2024 in Cincinnati, OH
Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.
 
 
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ABA's Indies Introduce interview series spotlights debut authors handpicked by booksellers from around the country. In each episode, a bookseller from the Indies Introduce panel interviews an author featured in the program to celebrate the release of their book.
In this episode, Donna Liu of Kepler's Books (Menlo Park, CA) interviews Aimee Lim, author of The Spindle Of Fate (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group), available June 4 at your local independent bookstore.
 
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ABA's Indies Introduce interview series spotlights debut authors handpicked by booksellers from around the country. In each episode, a bookseller from the Indies Introduce panel interviews an author featured in the program to celebrate the release of their book.
In this episode, Kelly Evert of Village Books (Bellingham, WA) interviews Briony Cameron, author of The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster), available June 4 at your local independent bookstore.
 
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ABA's Indies Introduce interview series spotlights debut authors handpicked by booksellers from around the country. In each episode, a bookseller from the Indies Introduce panel interviews an author featured in the program to celebrate the release of their book.
In this episode, Kromeklia Bryant of Solid State Books, Washington, DC interviews K. A. Cobell, author of Looking for Smoke (Heartdrum/HarperCollins Children's Books), available June 4 at your local independent bookstore.
 
 
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