While promoting professional development among library workers is a priority for many academic libraries, library administrators often discuss the challenges involved in designing flexible, sustainable professional development programs that meet the diverse needs and interests of library workers. With investment in professional development around online teaching and learning becoming an institutional priority upon the onset of the COVID-19, we set out to create a flexible and sustainable professional development program that could facilitate conversations around teaching and learning in our libraries and that could be inclusive of all library workers throughout our distributed, multi-branch university library system. In this paper, we share our approach to developing virtual, miniature Communities of Practice (Mini CoPs), describing in detail the process of designing these groups and the formation of two distinct leadership roles within this program, the Community Coordinator and the Community Facilitator. We then describe our program evaluation strategies and findings from the first cohort of Mini CoPs. Based on our findings, we suggest that this program design presents a model for developing inclusive and sustainable professional development programming for librarians and library staff that has applicability even beyond the current constraints facing higher education. We close with a reflection on some of the potential limitations of our model, along with proposed next steps to consider.

虽然促进图书馆工作者之间的专业发展是许多大学图书馆的当务之急，但图书馆管理员经常讨论设计灵活，可持续的专业发展计划以满足图书馆工作者的各种需求和利益所涉及的挑战。随着围绕在线教学的专业发展投资已成为COVID-19成立之初的一项机构优先事项，我们着手制定一个灵活而可持续的专业发展计划，该计划可以促进我们图书馆中有关教学的对话，并且可以包括我们分布式多分支大学图书馆系统中的所有图书馆工作者。在本文中，我们分享了开发虚拟的小型实践社区（Mini CoPs）的方法，详细描述了设计这些小组的过程以及该计划中社区协调员和社区促进者两个不同领导角色的形成。然后，我们描述我们的程序评估策略和第一批Mini CoP的发现。根据我们的发现，我们建议该计划设计提供了一个模型，用于为图书馆员和图书馆工作人员开发包容性和可持续性的专业发展计划，该模型的适用性甚至超出了当前高等教育面临的限制。最后，我们对模型的一些潜在局限性进行了反思，并提出了要考虑的下一步建议。然后，我们描述我们的程序评估策略和Mini CoP的第一个队列中的发现。根据我们的发现，我们建议该计划设计提供了一个模型，用于为图书馆员和图书馆工作人员开发包容性和可持续性的专业发展计划，该模型的适用性甚至超出了当前高等教育面临的限制。最后，我们对模型的一些潜在局限性进行了反思，并提出了要考虑的下一步建议。然后，我们描述我们的程序评估策略和Mini CoP的第一个队列中的发现。根据我们的发现，我们建议该计划设计提供了一个模型，用于为图书馆员和图书馆工作人员开发包容性和可持续性的专业发展计划，该模型的适用性甚至超出了当前高等教育面临的限制。最后，我们对模型的一些潜在局限性进行了反思，并提出了要考虑的下一步建议。