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ALCTS webinar: Accidents Happen: Protecting & Saving Family Treasures

April 19, 2011 at 8:19 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , ,

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ALCTS webinar: Accidents Happen: Protecting & Saving Family Treasures

Date: April 26, 2011 All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon Mountain, and 11am Pacific Time.

Description: Accidents and disasters happen. When it does are you prepared? Are your family treasures stored safely in your home or elsewhere? How do you save your photos when they’ve been submerged in flood water? What do you do if your books smell mildewy? What if your basement floods or worse? Attend this session to learn answers to these questions and more.

Kraft will provide tips and tools for checking out possible hazards around the house, dealing with mold and salvaging keepsakes, documenting damage for insurance purposes, and keeping your family safe.

Learning Outcomes:

- Steps to take in preparing for and responding to a disaster
- Basic understanding of dealing with mold
- Simple techniques for salvaging keepsakes
- Awareness of available disaster assistance

Audience: Anyone interested in learning about disaster preparation and response. Strategies discussed during the presentation can be applied to home, library, or business.

Presenter: Nancy E Kraft, Head of Preservation at the University of Iowa Libraries, is responsible for directing the preservation and conservation of the library collections at the University of Iowa. In 2009 she received the Midwest Archives Conference Presidents’ Award for her extraordinary work following the historic levels of flooding that struck Iowa in the summer of 2008. Kraft has assisted in many disaster recoveries, large and small, including the Iowa Floods of 1993 and 2008, the University of Iowa Old Capitol fire, the water soaked State Historical Society of Iowa building, and a mold outbreak in the Law Library’s rare book room. Her passion is assisting the individual to preserve his/her keepsakes.

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Free. This is a complimentary webinar presented as part of the Preservation Week events. Watch for further announcements on additional complimentary webinars during Preservation Week.

To register, visit the GoToWebinar site:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/168682080

For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or jreese@ala.org.

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ALCTS webinar: Repository Metadata: Challenges of Interoperability

April 4, 2011 at 10:25 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , ,

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ALCTS webinar: Repository Metadata: Challenges of Interoperability

Date: April 13, 2011

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon Mountain, and 11am Pacific Time.

Description: This session will give an overview of some of the specific challenges in repository metadata including working with both user submitted data and automated processes. The presentation will discuss how repository data may be searched and repurposed and the fields that are needed for interoperability to work most effectively. Some relevant metadata schemes will be discussed. The speaker will offer suggestions for ways to look at data from a variety of perspectives to ensure that it meets the organization’s most critical needs.

Audience: Anyone with an interest in institutional repositories and the significance of metadata will find this webinar of interest

Presenter: Wendy Robertson, Digital Resources Librarian, is responsible for helping to expand support of electronic scholarship and e-publishing, including supporting locally published e-journals and managing the institutional repository. Robertson performs data analysis on digital collections related to batch loading, migrating from one system to another, and aggregating with other information resources.

Wendy received a B.A. in History from Grinnell College in 1988, and an M.L.I.S. from The University of Iowa in 1992. She has worked at The University of Iowa Libraries since 1988. Her previous work positions include Electronic Resources Systems Librarian in Enterprise Applications, Electronic Resources Management Unit Head, Serials Cataloger and Supervisor in Technical Services.

This is the second in a series of four webinars about institutional repositories to be offered between January and June 2011. The webinars included in the IR series are:

January 26, 2011 – Copyright and Contracts: Moving Beyond Text in IRs
April 13, 2011 – Repository Metadata: Challenges of Interoperability
May 11, 2011 – Engaging Your Campus in Utilizing Institutional Repositories, with Marianne Buehler
June 1, 2011 – Re-engineering the Institutional Repository to Engage Users, with Suzanne Bell and Nathan Sarr

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To Register, complete the online registration form at
http://www.ala.org/ala/onlinelearning/reg/webinar.cfm
for the session you would like to attend.

Fees for individual sessions:

Group Rates – ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $99

Individuals – ALCTS Members: $39; Non-Members: $49

Participants outside the United States may register at the ALCTS member rate.

Pricing for IR Series: (All 4 webinars)
Group Rates – ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $346 (save $50)
Individuals – ALCTS Members: $120 (save $36); Non-Members: $160 (save $36)
Participants outside the United States may register at the ALCTS member rate.

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact Tom Ferren, ALA Senior Registration Coordinator at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4293 or tferren@ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or jreese@ala.org.

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Final Reminder: Free Webinars on 3/16: Strategy for Social Media and Digital Identity Management

March 11, 2011 at 4:31 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , , , ,

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The Georgia Library Association is pleased to announce the March 2011 sessions of the newly retitled Carterette Series Webinars(formerly Wednesday Webinars). The series highlights trends, innovation, and best practices in Georgia Libraries. The webinars feature Georgia speakers, but registration is open to anyone, anywhere, so please forward this announcement to a friend. Topics are chosen to be of interest to employees of all library types, and each session is approved for one Georgia Continuing Education (CE) contact hour. Can’t make it to the live show? That’s okay–the sessions will be recorded and available on the CSW site for later viewing.

Strategy for Blogging and Social Networking
Presented by Casey Long and Sarah Steiner

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 10:00am – 11:00am EASTERN TIME
Separate registration is required for each hour-long session.
Blogs and social networking tools enable libraries to market resources, educate users, and build community relationships. To be effective, however, libraries must have a content strategy, schedule, and guidelines. In this session you will learn about the strategic planning techniques two libraries – dramatically different in size and staff – are using to maximize the impact of these tools while minimizing the workload of generating quality content.

Branding and Influence: Establishing Your Digital Identity and Reputation
Presented by Robin Fay

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 11:15am – 12:15pm EASTERN TIME
Separate registration is required for each hour-long session.

What is your library brand? Do you have one? What about your own brand? Do you “Google” yourself? How do you know if your social media presence is effective? Do you have digital credibility? We’ll explore tools to cultivate a digital identity, branding, and ways to evaluate social media effectiveness.

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ALCTS webinar: Linked Library Data: Tuning Library Metadata for the Semantic Web

March 2, 2011 at 8:59 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , , , ,

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ALCTS webinar: Linked Library Data: Tuning Library Metadata for the Semantic Web

Date: March 16, 2011

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon Mountain, and 11am Pacific Time.

Description: This webinar will provide a brief introduction to the linked data design pattern and the principles and terminology of the Semantic Web. Examples will focus on the metadata and value vocabularies used in various domains and the emergence of this pattern in libraries.

Additionally, the webinar will look at how linked data into the ongoing development of RDA and IFLA’s current efforts to harmonize the FRBR family of standards. The role of metadata registries in managing large and complex metadata vocabularies will be addressed. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of how linked data principles can broaden the utility of metadata standards like RDA by allowing communities to utilize only the parts of the standard that are of value to them.

Audience: This webinar is for anyone wanting an introduction to Linked Data, RDF, and the Semantic Web, and who is interested in how library data models and metadata standards could evolve to work more effectively in this space. No prior knowledge of RDF or Semantic Web is required.

Presenter: Corey A Harper has worked as the Metadata Services Librarian at New York University since 2007. Prior to that, he was a metadata librarian and a digital library developer at the University of Oregon. He has been actively involved in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) since 2002, and has focused his professional work on discussing Semantic Web technologies and Linked Open Data principles with librarians in a variety of venues.

This is the fourth is a series of five webinars on RDA. The webinars included in the RDA series are:

February 2, 2011 – Changes from AACR2 to RDA. Part 1: Description
February 9, 2011 – Changes from AACR2 to RDA. Part 2: Access Points
March 2, 2011 – RDA and Serials Catalogers: Will Our Work Really Change?
March 16, 2011 – Linked library data: tuning library metadata for the Semantic Web
April 6, 2011 – Preparing copy catalogers for RDA

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To Register, complete the online registration form at
http://www.ala.org/ala/onlinelearning/reg/webinar.cfm
for the session you would like to attend.

Fees for individual webinars:

Group Rates – ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $99
Individuals – ALCTS Members: $39; Non-Members: $49
Participants outside the United States may register at the ALCTS member rate.

Pricing for RDA Series: (All 5 webinars)
Group Rates – ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $346
Individuals – ALCTS members: $120; Non-members: $160
Participants outside the United States may register at the ALCTS member rate.

All webinars are recorded and the one-time fee includes unlimited access to the webinar recording. All registered attendees will receive the link to the recorded session so if you are unable to attend the webinar at the time it is presented, you will have the opportunity to listen to the recording at your convenience.

For questions about registration, contact Tom Ferren, ALA Senior Registration Coordinator at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4293 or tferren@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager.

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Diderot Goes Digital Why Authority, Comprehensibility, and Utility in Reference Sources Still Matter

February 9, 2011 at 9:59 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , ,

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In an environment that offers many opportunities to acquire free digital information, what is a reference publisher like World Book doing to ensure that its content is authoritative, comprehensible, and useful? Why do these characteristics still matter?

In this hour-long Booklist webinar, World Book’s Editor-in Chief, Paul Kobasa, explains how World Book has progressed from an annual publishing cycle to a daily cycle while maintaining its exceptional editorial standards. He will suggest that World Book and libraries are invested in a parallel effort to provide access to reference material and to ensure the material is both credible and creditable. Kobasa will be joined in the webinar by other members of the World Book editorial staff. World Book is the publisher of theWorld Book Encyclopedia and World Book Web.

Reserve your seat today!*This webinar will be archived and e-mailed to all registrants. If you cannot attend the live presentation, you should still register for the webinar in order to be notified when the archive is available for viewing.

*As a webinar registrant, you will receive follow-up correspondence from Booklist publications and may receive other special offers from our sponsors.

Date:
Tuesday, March 1

Time:
2:00 PM Eastern
1:00 PM Central
12:00 PM Mountain
11:00 AM Pacific

Learn aboutBooklist’s upcoming webinars

 

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TLA webinars on making the case for your library

February 9, 2011 at 4:30 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , , , ,

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The budget crisis is upon us. Now more than ever, we need to justify the role of libraries to administrators in our towns, schools, and universities.

The Texas Library Association is rolling out six new webinars to help libraries in their fights to preserve budgets, jobs, and services. Register for these new programs at www.txla.org/CE.

Collaborating for Texas Work Skills Development
Join TWDL team members on February 22, 2011 for a webinar on this far-reaching program. Learn more about current and forthcoming training and resources, as well as discovering ways to market the library’s role in workforce development.  The webinar will be held at 2 pm Central Standard Time. One hour of CE credit will be offered.

 

Have School Libraries Been Stamped with an Expiration Date?
Marty Rossi’s program on February 24, 2011 will discuss how school librarians can integrate and leverage technology to improve the learning process.  Learn more about the issues identified in the Speak Up Survey and what technology resources and tools are available to encourage connections with teachers and engage students.The webinar will be held at 3:30 pm Central Standard Time. One hour of CE credit will be offered.

Assessing Your Library
Dr. Julie Todaro will return to the TLA webinar stage on March 3, 2011. Since the days of libraries getting money and more money automatically or “just because we are there” or “because we are the heart of the organization” are over, we need to know how to make our case on our worth and value. While some of our worth and value content and justification comes from articulation of our intrinsic value and long-standing successful performance, much of it must now come from gathering and reporting out usage and impact. Join the Webinar audience to find out what you can do immediately – no matter what data you gather – and what you can plan to do in the future, given unique situations you may be facing including cutbacks, need for major changes, etc. This premium webinar will be held at 2pm Central Standard Time. One hour of CE credit will be offered. Invoices are available upon request.

Strategic planning
Dr. Julie Todaro continues her webinar series on March 10, 2011. With spring comes new growth, bird’s nests and eggs, blooming flowers and the dreaded strategic plan. Not intended to be crystal balls or long-term speculation, older planning processes used to include intricate processes with extensive involvement by diverse individuals as well as timelines that spanned five-or-more years.   The more contemporary plan is based on sound research principles and practices with data gathering strategies that include input by targeted populations, a variety of aggregated data reports as well as  scenarios that tell “stories” of future activities.  The plan – required for reportage related to funding in many library settings – provides general vision and mission, assessment strategies and outcomes with projected and actual progress. Webinar discussion will introduce plan elements as well as provide examples of a variety of plan elements. This premium webinar will be held at 2pm Central Standard Time. One hour of CE credit will be offered. Invoices are available upon request.

Using Annual Reports To Make Your Case
Dr. Julie Todaro finishes her new series on March 24, 2011. One communication technique used to assist managers in reporting out, justifying, articulating need, identifying issues and activities is the annual report. Recommended as a tool that tells a monthly or quarterly story or the mid-year and final report , the annual report had become an even more valuable tool that describes library performance and specifically library value and worth. Tune in to learn about report techniques and best practices. This premiumwebinar will be held at 2pm Central Standard Time. One hour of CE credit will be offered. Invoices are available upon request.

BONUS:  Julie Todaro will present an encore of her popular webinar from February 3:

Management and Supervision
Dr. Todaro reprises her presentation on March 28 – Although the majority of library managers at all levels of management are responsible for both functions – management and supervision – these responsibilities are dramatically different. Tune in to hear how management differs from supervision, roles and responsibilities including the contemporary wording for job descriptions, goals and outcomes, how to report out your performance to your supervisor, ways to evaluate others in the organization who are managing and/or supervising, and how you indicate what you do on a resume! This premium webinar will be held at 2pm Central Standard Time.One hour of CE credit will be offered. Invoices are available upon request.

The premium webinars by Julie Todaro are $55 for non-TLA members, $45 for members, or $35 per person in groups of 5 or more. Group members do not need to be at the same location, but a single payment is needed. Again, invoices are available upon request.

Registration and more information are available at www.txla.org/CE.  ALSO – please join the effort to save library budgets across the state at www.txla.org/take-action and www.txla.org/news/2011/01/save-our-texas-libraries!

Ted Wanner, Continuing Education Specialist
Texas Library Association
3355 Bee Cave Rd, Ste. 401
Austin, Texas 78746-6763
512-328-1518 x154 / 800-580-2852
tedw@txla.org
www.txla.org/ce

 

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ALCTS webinar: RDA Ask-the Experts on February 17, 2011

February 8, 2011 at 4:26 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , ,

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RDA Ask-the-Experts Webinar

Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 2:00 pm Eastern, 1:00 pm Central, 12:00 pm Mountain, 11:00 am Pacific. The webinar will last 75 minutes.

Description: You may have attended RDA webinars and programs, or followed discussions about RDA on lists and blogs, but you still have questions. ALCTS is holding a free webinar with RDA testers and experts to provide some answers.

The survey to collect questions was closed on January 25, 2011. The questions have been collated and submitted to our experts, who will try to answer as many of them as they can in the available time.

Who are the Experts?

Linda Gabel, OCLC
Erin Stalberg, North Carolina State University
Trina Grover, Ryerson University, Toronto
Kathryn La Barre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, GSLIS

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How do you attend? Sign up here. The webinar is free.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/525524416

For questions about registration, contact Tom Ferren, ALA Senior Registration Coordinator at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4293 or tferren@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager.

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Battle Bullying with Books: Celebrate No Name-Calling Week

January 20, 2011 at 2:48 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , ,

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Date:
Tuesday, January 25

Time:
2:00 PM Eastern
1:00 PM Central
12:00 PM Mountain
11:00 AM Pacific

 

Bullying is a hot-button topic, and while kids and adults alike acknowledge the distressing problem of peer intimidation, it remains a pervasive issue. Join Booklist Publications for an hourlong webinar on how high-quality children’s and young adult literature can help prevent bullying, including a presentation by James Howe, acclaimed author of The Misfits (2001).

Attendees will also learn about the eighth annual National No Name-Calling Week (January 24–28, 2011), created by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. Sponsored by Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, GLSEN, Albert Whitman & Company, Rosen Publishing, and Candlewick Press.

Panelists include:

  • James Howe, children’s and YA author
  • Miriam Gilbert, Director, Rosen Publishing Online
  • Michelle F. Bayuk, Director of Marketing, Albert Whitman & Company
  • Sharon K. Hancock, Executive Director, School & Library Marketing, Candlewick Press
  • Jenny Betz, Education Manager, Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)

Don’t miss what is sure to be an informative session.*
Reserve your seat today!

This webinar will be archived and e-mailed to all registrants. If you cannot attend the live presentation, you should still register for the webinar in order to be notified when the archive is available for viewing.

*As a webinar registrant, you will receive follow-up correspondence from Booklist publications and may receive other special offers from our sponsors.

 

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Booklist’s YA Spring Announcements webinar

January 19, 2011 at 9:10 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , ,

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YA Alert: New Teen Titles for 2011

Date:
Tuesday, February 8

Time:
2:00 PM Eastern
1:00 PM Central
12:00 PM Mountain
11:00 AM Pacific

Young adult literature remains one of the most exciting areas of the publishing world, and it’s challenging to keep up with the latest news and books. In this information-packed Booklist Publications webinar, attendees will learn about the year’s hottest YA releases. Booklist’s Young Adult editor Gillian Engberg will be joined by publishing representatives who will fill you in on their leading teen titles for spring and beyond. Sponsored by Egmont USA, Bloomsbury Children’s Books/Walker Books for Young Readers, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, and Disney Book Group.

Panelists include:

  • Elizabeth Law, Vice President and Publisher, Egmont USA
  • Beth Eller, Director of School and Library Marketing for Bloomsbury Children’s Books/ Walker Books for Young Readers
  • Liz Hartman, Executive Director, Publicity & Institutional Marketing, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
  • Dina Sherman, School & Library Marketing Director, Disney Book Group

Reserve your seat today!

This webinar will be archived and e-mailed to all registrants. If you cannot attend the live presentation, you should still register for the webinar in order to be notified when the archive is available for viewing.

*As a webinar registrant, you will receive follow-up correspondence from Booklist publications and may receive other special offers from our sponsors.

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ALCTS webinar: Finding Savings in the Collection Budget January 19, 2011

January 11, 2011 at 6:50 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , ,

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ALCTS webinar: Finding Savings in the Collection Budget

Date: January 19, 2011

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon Mountain, and 11am Pacific Time.

Description: Faced with budget cuts, libraries have had to identify savings within their collections budget that meet administration’s needs while trying to avoid major detriment to the information needs of the community. Through content analysis, discovery of alternative access to resources, and a couple of tough decisions, we’ll explore ways to save a lot of money without causing (serious) controversy.

Audience: Budget managers, collection management/development librarians, library managers, serials and acquisitions librarians.

Presenter: Jane Schmidt is the Head of the Collection Services Team at Ryerson University Library. She graduated from University of Alberta and started out at Ryerson working with serials holdings data as an intern through the Young Canada Works program, despite the fact that she declared that she would never work with serials after doing an inventory for Dalhousie’s Sexton Library during her first year at library school. In addition to her work in Collections and Acquisitions, she is also a business liaison librarian specializing in Marketing and Global Studies. She is passionate about weeding and efficiency, doesn’t tend to “sweat the small stuff”.

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To Register, complete the online registration form at
http://www.ala.org/ala/onlinelearning/reg/webinar.cfm
for the session you would like to attend.

Fees for individual webinars:

Group Rates – ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $99

Individuals – ALCTS Members: $39; Non-Members: $49

Participants outside the United States may register at the ALCTS member rate.

Special pricing is available for the following webinars as a series:
January 19, 2011 Finding Savings in the Collection Budget
March 23, 2011 Culling your Collection: the Fine Art of Weeding
April 27, 2011 Organizing the Evaluation of Electronic Resources
May 25, 2011 Case and Commentaries: Intellectual Property Issues for Librarians

Pricing for ALCTS Series Webinars: (All 4 webinars)
Group Rates – ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $346 (save $50)
Individuals – ALCTS Members: $120 (save $36); Non-Members: $160 (save $36)
Participants outside the United States may register at the ALCTS member rate.

All webinars are recorded and the one-time fee includes unlimited access to the webinar recording.  All registered attendees will receive the link to the recorded session so if you are unable to attend the webinar at the time it is presented, you will have the opportunity to listen to the recording at your convenience.

For questions about registration, contact Tom Ferren, ALA Senior Registration Coordinator at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4293 or tferren@ala.org <mailto:tferren@ala.org> . For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager.

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