If you’re in the area, join us for an intro to open source at the Princeton Public Library, hosted by the Princeton-Trenton SLA Chapter.
Hi All,
Nicole Engard, Open Source Evangelist at LibLime will be presenting the facts and will the dispel myths about open source. This presentation will not only introduce librarians to what open source is and what it means for libraries, but also provide attendees with links to a toolbox full of freely available open source products to use in their libraries.
When: Wednesday December 17th, 2008. Networking begins at 5:30
Where: Princeton Public LibrarySee attached registration form for further details.
Hope you will be able to join us,
Princeton-Trenton SLA ChapterThe registration form can be downloaded in Word Doc format here.
Archive for December, 2008
Teaching Open Source in Princeton
Online Cataloging Course at Mpls Community and Technical College
Interested in brushing up your library cataloging skills? Want to do it in a supportive, course-based learning environment? Want do it online? Then consider registering for Minneapolis Community and Technical College’s INFS 2200 Introduction to Cataloging course.
Taught as part of MCTC’s Library Information Technology A.S. degree and certificate programs, this 16-week, 3-credit course introduces cataloging and classification of information resources, including print, audiovisual, and digital formats. You will apply cataloging metadata standards to create original and edit existing MARC records in OCLC. You will be introduced to Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress classification schemes. You will use Library of Congress Subject Headings and other controlled vocabularies for subject analysis of resources. You will be introduced to professional and ethical standards for cataloging, emphasizing user access to information.
Throughout the course, we’ll be looking at changes being brought forward by the transition to RDA (Resource Description and Access), as well as exploring other literature related to knowledge management.
Tuition for this course is $475.68; enrollment information for non-degree seeking students is available online at:
http://www.minneapolis.edu/prospectivestudents/nondegreeseekingapplicant.cfm
To register for this course, please contact instructor Virginia Heinrich at virginia.heinrich@minneapolis.edu or 612-659-6296 for a waiver of prerequisite.
Register Now for “Introduction to Virtual Worlds” — Simmons GSLIS Online Workshop in January
Register Now for Introduction to Virtual Worlds
Introduction to Virtual Worlds
January 5 – February 5, 2009
You probably have heard the term “virtual world.” You might be curious about them or even regularly take part in one yourself. There are hundreds of virtual worlds that exist (and have for many years) and are being used by public, school, and academic libraries.
Not all virtual worlds are alike and chances are they will not all fit your needs. There are some similarities among them that will help to get started — dressing your avatar, networking with others, and learning and sharing knowledge. Don’t be afraid to jump in and find what suits you best. Customization is important for people everywhere and our library users are no different. Interact in virtual worlds to find what fit is right for you and discover library applications for avatar creation, easy machinima, community building, library programs and more!
For a preview of the syllabus, please visit http://informationgoddess.info/virtual.html
Minimum System Requirements:
· Windows 2000 OR Mac OS X or better
· Pentium or better chipset
· 2 gig RAM
· Sound & video card less than 5 years old,
· Multimedia plugins on computer: javascript enabled, shockwave, Quicktime and Windows DirectX 9 (for PCs)
· Ability to download and install software.
Faculty: Kelly Czarnecki, Technology Education Librarian, ImaginOn, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, Library Journal Mover and Shaker (2007), owner of Eye4You Alliance Island in Teen Second Life, writer for SLJ column, “The Gaming Life”, kczarnecki@plcmc.org; and Beth Gallaway, GSLIS Alum, library trainer/consultant, Library Journal Mover and Shaker (2006), and author of “Get Your Game On: Video Games and Libraries”; informationgoddess29@gmail.com
PLEASE NOTE: The Simmons GSLIS Continuing Education office will be closed from December 24th through January 2nd, reopening January 5th. Please register for January online workshops by December 19th in order to receive confirmation and login instructions by the start of the workshops. Registrations received after the 19th will not receive confirmation until the week of January 5th.
For additional information see http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/continuinged/workshops/ or contact
gslisce@simmons.edu
FUTURE PERFECT: Retooling Oral History in the Digital Age
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History presents a digital oral history workshop.
FUTURE PERFECT: Retooling Oral History in the Digital Age
Saturday, January 17, 2009, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Baylor University Campus, Mayborn Museum Complex, Waco, Texas
Both a practical workshop, with hands-on opportunities, and an open forum for screenings and demonstrations of digital oral history, FUTURE PERFECT is planned for those who create, use, and publish oral history, including students and teachers, community and academic historians, volunteers and professionals, and for those who preserve oral history collections and make them accessible to researchers.
For today’s oral historians, digital technology has eliminated the distinction between creation or collection of oral history and the management of it. Digital expertise is required at every stage of the oral history process; it is needed for recording interviews, for designing and creating intermediate and end products, and for managing preservation and access. Information systems must now be at the heart of the oral history enterprise, for without them, digital collections cannot survive in any useful way or for any length of time.
Creating and managing today’s digital assets and anticipating tomorrow’s technical innovations require oral historians to learn new skills and forge new relationships. In this workshop, participants will hear from experts about digital recording, digitization, and digital object management for access and preservation, and will also have the opportunity to share experience and insight with colleagues in all aspects of digital oral history practice.
Customize your own digital workshop experience by choosing topics most useful to you:
* recording techniques
* transcribing digital recordings
* editing digital audio/video recordings
* digitizing analog tapes
* creating and managing metadata
* making collections accessible online
* managing workflow for digital collections
* designing and publishing digital documentaries and Web sites
Workshop presenters are, from the Institute for Oral History, Stephen Sloan, Director; Elinor Mazé, Senior Editor; and Rick Fair, graduate assistant for digital projects; and from Baylor’s Electronic Library, Tony Tadey, Audio Specialist; Darryl B. Stuhr, Manager of Digitization Projects; and Scott Myers, Digital Media Studio Academic Technology Consultant. The closing plenary session will feature a live video discussion of the future of history presented by Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and co-editor of Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web.
For registration and more information, see our Web site at http://www.baylor.edu/oral_history, or contact the Baylor University Institute for Oral History at BUIOH@baylor.edu or by telephone at 254-710-3437. A limited number of scholarships are available.
All sessions will take place on the campus of Baylor University in the classrooms of the Mayborn Museum Complex, 1300 South University Parks Drive, Waco, Texas. For maps and directions, see the Web page at http://www.baylor.edu/Mayborn.
2009 NASIG Regional Unconference website now live!
2009 NASIG Regional Unconference website now live! – http://nasigunconference2009.wetpaint.com/
Hot Topics in Serials and Electronic Resources in Libraries
Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Cost: $25.00 paraprofessionals, support staff and NASIG members; $50.00 for Non-members
Location: Kansas State University, Hale Library, Manhattan, KS 66506
Take time to post topics you want to discuss on the website now! Looking for discussion areas related to electronic resources and serials.
For more information about NASIG see: http://www.nasig.org
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ER&L 2009 – Early Registration Deadline, Presentations &, Preconferences
Electronic Resources & Libraries 2009
February 10-11, 2009
Pre-Conferences February 9, 2009
UCLA – Covel Commons
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2009/schedConf/cfp
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Early Registration is available through 12/14/08:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2009/schedConf/registration
Presentations
ER&L 09 sessions, abstracts and authors are now available:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2009/schedConf/presentations
Preconference Details
Five preconference workshops are planned for Monday, February 9, 2009. There are two workshops scheduled in the morning: “Metadata for Resource Description and Access” and “Using LibX Edition Builder & Marketing your LibX Edition.” Afternoon workshops are “XML Basics & Applications,” “Marketing/Promoting Effective Use of E-resources,” and “Eat that Elephant! Strategies and Methods for Managing SFX.”
For more details, see:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/erlwiki/Program#Preconference_Workshops
Keynotes ER&L is pleased to announce our keynote speaker Elizabeth Goodman, a PhD Student at the UC Berkeley school of Information and a former design researcher with Intel. Her writing, design and research focus on ubiquitous computing and the experience of everyday places and activities. She is particularly concerned with how information and communication technologies affect work and play in cities. She will bring her research into the library setting for ER&L attendees.
ER&L ‘09 conference details are online at:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/erlwiki/Main_Page
If there are questions, email Bonnie Tijerina at bonnie.tijerina@gmail.com
CE course: Serving Diverse Populations in the Library
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the following online continuing education/non-credit course:
Course title: Serving Diverse Populations in the Library
ALA-APA approved for Certified Public Library Administrator (CPLA)candidates)
Dates: January 7 – February 11, 2009
Times: Online synchronous sessions Wednesdays from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. US Central
Cost: $300
Instructor: Lori S. Mestre, Ed.D. GSLIS Adjunct Associate Professor
Intended audience: Librarians and information professionals needing training in providing service to diverse populations: CPLA program candidates needing an elective course for certification.
Purpose of the course: To create an awareness of and sensitivity to diverse information needs of multiethnic/multicultural/
| multilingual populations served by libraries. It focuses on developing skills for planning, implementing and evaluating programs for addressing the information needs of diverse communities through information needs assessment and analysis; program planning, public service, outreach and collection development. It explores multicultural resources and services using a framework that focuses on: People (who work in libraries and their understanding of the concepts of diversity and multicultural librarianship); Collections (building collections to serve an increasingly diverse multicultural, multiethnic and multilingual society); and Services (to diverse groups and populations in libraries and organizational culture from a managerial perspective).
For additional information and to register, visit http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CPLA/diverse.html or contact Marianne Steadley, Steadley@uiuc.edu , 217-244-2751. For information on other continuing education courses offered by GSLIS, visit |
Webinar: Learning for Learning Profesionals: Competencies, Strategies and Resources”
via CE BUZZ
CLENE and Webjunction are co-sponsoring a great Webinar on Thursday, December 11, 11 a.m. PST, (1;00 CST, 2 p.m. EST): Learning for Learning Professionals: Competencies, Strategies and Resources.
REGISTRATION: http://evanced.info/webjunction/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=1546
PRESENTERS: Mary Ross, CLENERT Board member and former manager of staff development at the Seattle Public Library, will lead the discussion. She will be joined by Betha Gutsche, curriculum designer for e-learning initiatives at WebJunction, and Jennifer Homer, vice president of external relations for the American Society of Training and Development.
DESCRIPTION:
As trainers, continuing education coordinators and staff development managers, we believe in lifelong learning. We are committed to helping library employees improve their skills and build successful careers. As cheerleaders for organizational and individual learning, do we sometimes lose sight of our own learning? What are we doing to invest in ourselves? What are the competencies that we will need as we lead our libraries in future skill development and employee learning?
To celebrate Employee Learning Week, join us for an exploration of current and future competencies for learning professionals working in libraries. We will look at strategies for our own development and the resources available to help us pursue them.
ASTD’s Employee Learning Week, December 8-12, features champions, who successfully connect staff learning with achieving results. For more information, go to: http://www.employeelearningweek.org/.
Mary Ross, CLENERT Board member and former manager of staff development at the Seattle Public Library, will lead the discussion. She will be joined by Betha Gutsche, curriculum designer for e-learning initiatives at WebJunction, and Jennifer Homer, vice president of external relations for the American Society of Training and Development.
This hour-long webinar is co-sponsored by WebJunction and ALA’s Continuing Library Education Network and Round Table (CLENERT).
Register here: http://evanced.info/webjunction/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=1546
Electronic Medical Resources for your Library
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