From assist at infopeople.org Wed Jan 2 10:28:54 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Jan 2 10:28:56 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Reminder of Infopeople's webcast on January 8 Message-ID: <002401c84d6d$55522540$fff66fc0$@org> A reminder of the next Infopeople webcast. Please let your friends and colleagues know about this event! Title: Competencies: Building Blocks, Not Buzzwords Date and time: January 8, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webcast will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for Infopeople webcasts. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the January 8 webcast, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/237/index.html What comes to mind when you hear the term "competencies"? Are competencies just the latest buzzword for leadership certification or for development of Librarian 2.0 skills? Technology training and certification programs are often the driving forces behind competency development. These are only part of the bigger picture of competency-based models for service standards, performance management, and staff development. Because competencies identify the knowledge, skills and attitudes for on-the-job performance, they are the building blocks for both individual and organizational success. To understand competencies as the foundation for career and organizational development, we will explore: * Definitions of competency and competency-based models. * Examples of core, behavioral and technical competencies. * The development and use of competencies in the library profession. * How competencies can be used to benefit your library. * Why competencies are important to you individually. This webcast will give you a basic understanding of competencies as guides for your library's recruitment and hiring, performance management, and staff development efforts. Individually you can build a powerful portfolio of competency-based experiences to advance your own career. Handouts provide examples of competencies developed by a wide variety of library-related organizations. Speaker: Mary Bucher Ross. Mary has over 25 years of experience working in public libraries and managed the staff training and development program at the Seattle Public Library for eight years. She has designed online training programs for virtual reference providers and courses for WebJunction and LibraryU. Currently continuing education coordinator for the Washington Library Association, she is also on the board of directors of the Continuing Library Education Network and Round Table (CLENERT) and was a delegate to ALA's 2nd and 3rd Congresses on Professional Education. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not register for the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webcast. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webcast: Competencies: Building Blocks, Not Buzzwords Date: January 8, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Mary Bucher Ross Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080102/cbf75288/attachment.html From jcarter at ggu.edu Wed Jan 2 12:00:47 2008 From: jcarter at ggu.edu (Janice Carter) Date: Wed Jan 2 12:01:35 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Re: Baynet Digest, Vol 27, Issue 1 (Janice is away until January 8) Message-ID: Greetings, Thank you for your e mail. I will be away from the office and unable to read or respond to e mail until January 8, 2008. Please call the Reference Desk, 415 442-7244, or e mail askalibrarian@ggu.edu for assistance. Thank you. Janice From assist at infopeople.org Mon Jan 7 16:01:17 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Jan 7 16:00:53 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Upcoming Infopeople workshops Message-ID: <00c801c85189$97e250e0$c7a6f2a0$@org> As many of you are getting back from the holidays, you may have missed some of our announcements. Please take a look at some of the Infopeople workshops coming up in the next few weeks: Moving Into Management http://infopeople.org/workshop/351 January 22, San Diego County Library Headquarters January 25, Solano County Library - Vallejo Photoshop Elements for Libraries http://infopeople.org/workshop/201 January 25, Buena Park Library District Planning, Doing, & Sustaining a Successful Bilingual Storytime Program http://infopeople.org/workshop/344 February 1, Belle Cooledge Library (Sacramento) Survival Spanish II http://infopeople.org/workshop/324 January 30, San Diego County Library Headquarters Techniques for Helping the Public Serve Themselves http://infopeople.org/workshop/363 January 30, San Francisco Public Library February 1, Saratoga Library Using Web 2.0 Tools for Staff Training http://infopeople.org/workshop/362 January 22, Saratoga Library Please visit the URL's listed for a description of the workshops and to register. If you have any questions, please email me or give me a call. Thank you. Linda Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080107/32d259c7/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Jan 9 09:52:04 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Jan 9 09:51:38 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webcast "Setting Boundaries with Library Patrons" Message-ID: <008701c852e8$58dda470$0a98ed50$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webcast. Title: Setting Boundaries with Library Patrons Date and time: January 18, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webcast will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for Infopeople webcasts. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the January 18 webcast, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/236/index.html Today's libraries serve an extremely broad cross section of our population. And while the vast majority of library patrons are pleasant and cooperative, a certain percentage is often a challenge. One of the most effective ways that we can create happy, productive libraries is by improving librarians' (individually and as a staff) ability to set boundaries. Although this aspect of any public service organization's function is crucial, it is especially important to libraries because of the varied range of roles we play in a multitude of communities. Unfortunately, as many who work on the front lines of our libraries know, setting boundaries is often easier said than done. This webcast will help participants: --Learn how using the four cornerstones of setting boundaries makes working with the public 100% easier --Learn to disengage from really nice patrons who want a friend without causing a scene, or hurting their feelings --Learn where to invest your energy to make your library run more smoothly --Learn to develop the culture your library needs to meet the needs of all your patrons --Learn a verbal formula for dealing with challenging, demanding, or overexcited patrons --Learn five rules that will make your staff more efficient, and your library a more pleasant place to work Speaker: Edmond Otis. Edmond Otis, Senior Consultant with Baron Center, Inc. and President of Edmond Otis & Associates, combines experience as a licensed psychotherapist (MFT 31194), author, trainer, and accomplished university educator, with 37 years of intense traditional karate practice. (He is internationally recognized as a world-class competitor, instructor, and coach.) Edmond blends these distinctive skills and insights into training programs that apply classic martial art principles and cutting edge research to life's most difficult personal and professional challenges-creating practical strategies and effective interventions for difficult workplace situations. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not register for the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webcast. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webcast: Setting Boundaries with Library Patrons Date: January 18, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Edmond Otis Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080109/ffa24481/attachment.html From MSCrawford at scu.edu Thu Jan 10 08:08:47 2008 From: MSCrawford at scu.edu (Mary Crawford) Date: Thu Jan 10 08:09:29 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webcast "Setting Boundaries with Library Patrons" In-Reply-To: <008701c852e8$58dda470$0a98ed50$@org> References: <008701c852e8$58dda470$0a98ed50$@org> Message-ID: <4785D28E.D1D9.0029.0@scu.edu> please remove me from this dist list. thank you >>> "Linda Rodenspiel" 1/9/2008 9:52 AM >>> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webcast. Title: Setting Boundaries with Library Patrons Date and time: January18, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webcast will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for Infopeople webcasts. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the January18 webcast, go tohttp://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/236/index.html Today's libraries serve an extremely broad cross section of our population. And while the vast majority of library patrons are pleasant and cooperative, a certain percentage is often a challenge. One of the most effective ways that we can create happy, productive libraries is by improving librarians' (individually and as a staff) ability to set boundaries. Although this aspect of any public service organization's function is crucial, it is especially important to libraries because of the varied range of roles we play in a multitude of communities. Unfortunately, as many who work on the front lines of our libraries know, setting boundaries is often easier said than done. This webcast will help participants: --Learn how using the four cornerstones of setting boundaries makes working with the public 100% easier --Learn to disengage from really nice patrons who want a friend without causing a scene, or hurting their feelings --Learn where to invest your energy to make your library run more smoothly --Learn to develop the culture your library needs to meet the needs of all your patrons --Learn a verbal formula for dealing with challenging, demanding, or overexcited patrons --Learn five rules that will make your staff more efficient, and your library a more pleasant place to work Speaker:Edmond Otis. Edmond Otis, Senior Consultant with Baron Center, Inc. and President of Edmond Otis & Associates, combines experience as a licensed psychotherapist (MFT 31194), author, trainer, and accomplished university educator, with 37 years of intense traditional karate practice. (He is internationally recognized as a world-class competitor, instructor, and coach.) Edmond blends these distinctive skills and insights into training programs that apply classic martial art principles and cutting edge research to life's most difficult personal and professional challenges*creating practical strategies and effective interventions for difficult workplace situations. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not register for the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webcast. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webcast: Setting Boundaries with Library Patrons Date: January18, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker:Edmond Otis Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080110/41c8ce6d/attachment.html From AKivel at dvc.edu Tue Jan 15 13:37:03 2008 From: AKivel at dvc.edu (Kivel, Andy) Date: Tue Jan 15 13:38:13 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Community college library position announcement Message-ID: <459F0B7C85731C449AF880D6FEABE7430660612F@diamond.4cd.net> Diablo Valley College is seeking an enthusiastic, creative and service-oriented full-time tenure track faculty librarian to begin August 2008. This position will engage in a full range of reference, library instruction, collection management and outreach activities, and contribute to the college's information literacy program. To view a full description of this position and for information on application procedures and deadline, visit our website at: http://www.4cd.net/databases/jobline/files/Librarian030308DVC.pdf Application deadline is March 3, 2008. Annual salary for first year faculty ranges from $52,600 - $79,200 depending on education and experience. Diablo Valley College is a large suburban community college, 25 miles east of San Francisco and enrolls approximately 20,000 students, about 40% of whom come from groups historically underrepresented in higher education. DVC ranks consistently as one of the most successful transfer institutions in California and its faculty is known for its intellectual vitality and deep commitment to the success of its students. Please excuse duplicate postings Andy Kivel Library Department Chair Diablo Valley College 321 Golf Club Road Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 PH: 925-685-1230, ext. 2170 FAX: 925-798-3588 Email: akivel@dvc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080115/ec9b1466/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Jan 16 10:01:22 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Jan 16 10:00:42 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Reference Interview Skills for Public Library Staff" workshop Message-ID: <005601c85869$ce20b700$6a622500$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Reference Interview Skills for Public Library Staff Dates and locations: Wednesday, February 27, San Francisco Public Library Monday, March 24, Alameda County Library (Fremont) Wednesday, March 26, Buena Park Library District Friday, March 28, San Diego County Library Headquarters Monday, April 7, Sonoma County Library (Santa Rosa) Wednesday, April 9, Los Angeles Public Library Wednesday, April 23, San Bernardino Public Library Friday, April 25, Kern County Library (Bakersfield) Monday, May 5, Sacramento Public Library - Galleria To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/361 Fee: There is a $75.00 fee for this workshop. A reference interview creates a partnership between you, as a reference provider, and library patrons seeking information. You work together towards a clear understanding of what they want to know, in order to efficiently and effectively link them to the resources needed. Your skills in doing a reference interview can lead to this successful partnership. Building a toolkit of these skills is important if: --You are new to working at a public library reference or information desk. --You want to improve your methods for clarifying what the user really wants to know. --You have spent time to answer what you thought was the question, only to discover that it wasn't the patron's real information need. --You want to use a few open-ended clarifying questions instead of a dozen either/or questions. Effective reference interview skills help you better manage the demands of a busy reference desk and provide the excellent customer service that will bring patrons back for more help. Whether you are a new reference provider, or have 20 years of experience, this workshop provides an opportunity to share your perspectives, to learn from your library colleagues, and to collectively explore best practices in the reference interview. Workshop Description: This full-day workshop focuses on the complete reference interview, from approachability to positive closure for the transaction. Through discussion and activities, you will identify the behaviors that welcome the patron and set the tone for the reference partnership. In practice exercises, you will clarify the real information need through a combination of open and "sense-making" questions. You will look at how to handle situations when library patrons may be asking for advice rather than information, especially medical or legal advice. You will take away handouts on sense-making questions, a checklist to use for self assessment, suggestions for follow-up, and a list of additional resources, as well as practical tips that can be applied immediately. Preliminary Course Outline Approachability and Setting the Tone --Elements of communication --Welcoming behaviors --Proactive welcoming --Welcoming on the telephone Ill-Formed Queries --Why the initial question may not be the real information need Clarifying the Information Need --When to use open and closed questions --When to use sense-making questions --Asking WHY without saying WHY --Determining the context for the information need Inclusion and Instruction --Making the patron a partner in the search --One-on-one instruction --How differing perspectives and communication styles may affect a reference transaction Advice, Not Information --Guidelines for dealing with medical and legal questions Positive Closure --Making an effective referral --Successfully concluding the reference transaction Instructor: Mary Ross. Mary Ross has over 25 years of experience working in public libraries and managed the staff training and development program at the Seattle Public Library for eight years. Currently continuing education coordinator for the Washington Library Association, she is also on the board of directors of the Continuing Library Education Network and Round Table (CLENERT) and was a delegate to ALA's 2nd and 3rd Congresses on Professional Education. Who Should Attend: This workshop is for any public library employee who provides reference service to library patrons or anyone who trains or evaluates public library employees in providing reference service. Prerequisites: None Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service, Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080116/2a6f670b/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Jan 17 15:11:49 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Jan 17 15:11:05 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's online course "Essential Tools and Tips for Success in Searching Today's Web" Message-ID: <024f01c8595e$570396b0$050ac410$@org> Many library staff members at all levels have told us they need training in how to do more effective and efficient web searches. The course described below is your opportunity to get that training from a master -- wherever you are, at times convenient for you. Please note that this course accommodates up to 75 participants; we will add sessions as necessary to meet demand, and we will be offering the course again in six months. We will also be offering an advanced search class, also taught by Joe Barker, starting in May. Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Essential Tools and Tips for Success in Searching Today?s Web (online learning course) Dates: February 26, 2008 - March 24, 2008 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/367 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. "Google it" is the way a lot of people find information. Often, we (and our users) "ask Google" and are amazed how often it works. But sometimes we get too much. Or, even when we know the answer is on the web, we cannot construct a search that pulls out just what we need. We get millions of search results and wonder "What next?" We lack a search strategy for navigating the billions of web pages and other stuff that's out there. --What goes on in search engines? How do they "think" about searching? --What are today's best search engines after Google? Why are they the best? --What are the most useful search commands? Will they work beyond Google? --How can I create searches that effectively zero in on just what I need? --When is it time to turn from web search engines to subject directories (like lii.org)? --How can I find good, specific directories on subjects my users or I need to explore? --Is there a best search strategy for searching for a variety of information? --How do I deal with the need to evaluate all the stuff on the web quickly? In this course, you will explore answers to all these questions and more. It is designed for those who want to refresh their web search skills or are fairly new to web searching. It consolidates the most productive essentials for finding information of many kinds, based on the instructor's 12 years of experience teaching web search. Workshop Description: This four-week online learning course will help you at the reference desk or in any situation where you think, "I bet that's on the web; let's take a look." It is designed to enhance your speed and confidence deciding where to search, why, and how. Through online readings and individual exercises, you will be able to apply and practice the essential tips and tools of web searching. The instructor will provide cheat sheets that can be used after the course. During the course, you will be doing exercises and taking quizzes to help you verify your grasp of the tips and tools explained in the weekly readings. You will also participate in online discussion forums and have a chance to submit a real question from your own experience to be searched and answered by another student in the class. We will discuss your successes and frustrations with this "ready for anything" exercise in terms of the search strategies offered in this course. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: Module One: The Best Web Search Engines Today --How search engines work --Strengths and weaknesses of Google, Ask, and Yahoo! --Essential search principles shared by almost all search engines Module Two: Using Limiter Commands to Focus Your Search Results --Essential limiter commands and how they work --Building effective searches using and combining limiter commands Module Three: When to Turn to Subject Directories --The best general subject directories today --The essentials of evaluating what you find on the web --Using Google to find specialized subject directories and link-rich pages Module Four: Being "Ready for Anything" --Developing search strategies for different kinds of questions --Analyzing questions, learning as you go, and remaining flexible Instructor: Joe Barker. Until June 2007, Joe worked full time as a reference and instruction librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Doe library and the Moffitt undergraduate library. He also maintained an online web searching tutorial which remains one of the most heavily used resources for finding and evaluating information on the web. He has been teaching web searching for Infopeople, especially in connection with answering reference questions, since 2000 on topics such as PowerSearch, State of the Art Web Searching, Extreme Googling, Making the Most of the Post-Google Web, and Web 2.0: Searching Innovations. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2 to 2? hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone from the library community with an interest in improving his or her skills and efficiency at finding information on the web. This course covers the essentials of using search engines and subject directories and shows how to integrate them into search strategies to find what you need. It also succinctly covers evaluating web information. It will be followed by an Advanced Searching online course scheduled to begin in May 2008. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: --Have an Internet connection and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. --Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). --Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. --To be most successful in this course, be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: Windows: --Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Netscape 7.1 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above Macintosh: --Mozilla 1.4 and above (which is the same engine as Netscape 7.1), Safari 2.0 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above --OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://www.infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080117/1d1246a0/attachment.html From Craig.Cruz at Krames.com Fri Jan 18 09:43:09 2008 From: Craig.Cruz at Krames.com (Cruz, Craig) Date: Fri Jan 18 09:43:53 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Feb. 6 Joint BayNet/SLA-SF Presentation: Mary Madden from Pew Internet & American Life Project Message-ID: <51321A53C517E149844F3E1766178AE8015BB7B4@sb-exchange-01.medimedia.com> As libraries consider expanding their presence online and connecting with patrons on their own terms, they often need data to make tough decisions about how to spend limited budgets and human resources on developing new library services. Research conducted by The Pew Internet & American Life Project examines the growing role of technology in our lives, our changing expectations about how to find and use information, and the impact younger generations will have on libraries and other institutions in the future. Mary Madden's talk will also touch on Web 2.0, privacy, and the changing demographics of library users. Mary Madden is a Senior Research Specialist with the Pew Internet & American Life Project in Washington, D.C. She has worked with Pew since the spring of 2002, and has authored a wide range of reports covering changing trends in technology and media use. Her recent reports have examined the burgeoning field of online identity management, the adoption of online video, and the arc of teen content creation fueled by social media. She has been interviewed by, The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, among others, regarding her research. She holds an M.A. in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University and a B.A. in English from The University of Florida. Menu: Generous hors d'oeuvres, wine, and an assortment of sparkling water will be served. Agenda: 6:00-6:45 p.m. Appetizer buffet, wine, an assortment 6:45-7:30 p.m. Business meeting, announcements 7:30-8:30 p.m. Program, with Q&A following Directions/Parking: The Solarium is located in the central atrium of the KPMG Building, 55 Second Street, San Francisco. It is a short walk from the Montgomery Street BART station, and downtown parking is also available. REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday, February 1, 2008 Cost: * Members: $25.00 * Non-members/Guests: $35.00 * Student/Retired/Unemployed: $15.00 * Program only (begins at 6:45): $5.00 You can register via PayPal at an SLA-SF Bay Region Web page at: http://units.sla.org/chapter/csfo/calendar/regform.htm You don't need to be a member of SLA or registered with PayPal to use this option. You can also register by sending a check and the form below to: Julie Takata, Librarian San Francisco Airport Museums P.O. Box 8097 San Francisco International Airport San Francisco, CA 94121 Telephone: (650) 821-9909 E-mail: julie.t@sfoarts.org ---------------Detach Here and Mail This Portion With Your Check---------- Mary Madden, Pew Internet & American Life Project Name: ____________________________________________________ Telephone: __________________ E-mail:________________________ BayNet Member:_____ SLA Member:_____ Non-member:___________ Employer/Affiliation:__________________________________________ Check enclosed for: $______________ Please make checks payable to: SF Bay Region Chapter, SLA Craig Cruz Jr. Library Manager Krames Health Sciences Library Krames Health & Safety ph. 1-650-244-4532 fax. 1-650-244-4345 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080118/520e965d/attachment-0001.html From MSCrawford at scu.edu Tue Jan 22 08:53:24 2008 From: MSCrawford at scu.edu (Mary Crawford) Date: Tue Jan 22 08:54:01 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's online course "Essential Tools and Tips for Success in Searching Today's Web" In-Reply-To: <024f01c8595e$570396b0$050ac410$@org> References: <024f01c8595e$570396b0$050ac410$@org> Message-ID: <4795AF03.D1D9.0029.0@scu.edu> Please remove me from your mailing list. 2nd request >>> "Linda Rodenspiel" 1/17/2008 3:11 PM >>> Many library staff members at all levels have told us they need training in how to do more effective and efficient web searches. The course described below is your opportunity to get that training from a master -- wherever you are, at times convenient for you. Please note that this course accommodates up to 75 participants; we will add sessions as necessary to meet demand, and we will be offering the course again in six months. We will also be offering an advanced search class, also taught by Joe Barker, starting in May. Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Essential Tools and Tips for Success in Searching Today*s Web (online learning course) Dates: February 26, 2008 - March 24, 2008 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/367 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. "Google it" is the way a lot of people find information. Often, we (and our users) "ask Google" and are amazed how often it works. But sometimes we get too much. Or, even when we know the answer is on the web, we cannot construct a search that pulls out just what we need. We get millions of search results and wonder "What next?" We lack a search strategy for navigating the billions of web pages and other stuff that's out there. --What goes on in search engines? How do they "think" about searching? --What are today's best search engines after Google? Why are they the best? --What are the most useful search commands? Will they work beyond Google? --How can I create searches that effectively zero in on just what I need? --When is it time to turn from web search engines to subject directories (like lii.org)? --How can I find good, specific directories on subjects my users or I need to explore? --Is there a best search strategy for searching for a variety of information? --How do I deal with the need to evaluate all the stuff on the web quickly? In this course, you will explore answers to all these questions and more. It is designed for those who want to refresh their web search skills or are fairly new to web searching. It consolidates the most productive essentials for finding information of many kinds, based on the instructor's 12 years of experience teaching web search. Workshop Description: This four-week online learning course will help you at the reference desk or in any situation where you think, "I bet that's on the web; let's take a look." It is designed to enhance your speed and confidence deciding where to search, why, and how. Through online readings and individual exercises, you will be able to apply and practice the essential tips and tools of web searching. The instructor will provide cheat sheets that can be used after the course. During the course, you will be doing exercises and taking quizzes to help you verify your grasp of the tips and tools explained in the weekly readings. You will also participate in online discussion forums and have a chance to submit a real question from your own experience to be searched and answered by another student in the class. We will discuss your successes and frustrations with this "ready for anything" exercise in terms of the search strategies offered in this course. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: Module One: The Best Web Search Engines Today --How search engines work --Strengths and weaknesses of Google, Ask, and Yahoo! --Essential search principles shared by almost all search engines Module Two: Using Limiter Commands to Focus Your Search Results --Essential limiter commands and how they work --Building effective searches using and combining limiter commands Module Three: When to Turn to Subject Directories --The best general subject directories today --The essentials of evaluating what you find on the web --Using Google to find specialized subject directories and link-rich pages Module Four: Being "Ready for Anything" --Developing search strategies for different kinds of questions --Analyzing questions, learning as you go, and remaining flexible Instructor: Joe Barker. Until June 2007, Joe worked full time as a reference and instruction librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Doe library and the Moffitt undergraduate library. He also maintained an online web searching tutorial which remains one of the most heavily used resources for finding and evaluating information on the web. He has been teaching web searching for Infopeople, especially in connection with answering reference questions, since 2000 on topics such as PowerSearch, State of the Art Web Searching, Extreme Googling, Making the Most of the Post-Google Web, and Web 2.0: Searching Innovations. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2 to 2* hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone from the library community with an interest in improving his or her skills and efficiency at finding information on the web. This course covers the essentials of using search engines and subject directories and shows how to integrate them into search strategies to find what you need. It also succinctly covers evaluating web information. It will be followed by an Advanced Searching online course scheduled to begin in May 2008. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: --Have an Internet connection and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. --Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). --Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. --To be most successful in this course, be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: Windows: --Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Netscape 7.1 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above Macintosh: --Mozilla 1.4 and above (which is the same engine as Netscape 7.1), Safari 2.0 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above --OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page athttp://www.infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We add new classes frequently, so to stay as up-to-date as possible, sign up for our Training RSS feed < https://www.oclc.org/western/email/default.htm > which provides daily updates on courses that have just been scheduled. If you are interested in a more collective view of training opportunities, opt for our Training Update < https://www.oclc.org/western/email/default.htm > and we will send you regular information. Or, view our website at < http://www.oclc.org/western/ >. Cataloging and metadata ---------------------------------------------------------------- CatExpress Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W119.htm Wednesday, February 13, 2008 (Registration deadline 2/8/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm Friday, February 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/19/08) 8:30 am-4:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Local Holdings Maintenance Basics Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W824.htm Thursday & Friday, February 21-22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/19/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Monday & Tuesday, March 24 & 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/20/2008) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm Thursday, February 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/4/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (Registration deadline 3/7/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-MS Live Meeting Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm Wednesday, February 27, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/26/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Collection management ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm Friday, February 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/19/08) 8:30 am-4:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm Wednesday, February 13. 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/12/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Digital Image Quality Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm Wednesday, March 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/25/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Funding Digital Projects Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/11/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Wednesday, February 06, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 02/01/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 03/07/08) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm Wednesday, February 27, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/26/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting The Challenge of Ephemera Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W388.htm Friday, February 29, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/28/08) 9:00 am-11:00 am Live Online WebEx Meeting Digitization and preservation ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm Friday, February 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/19/08) 8:30 am-4:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm Wednesday, February 13. 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/12/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Digital Image Quality Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm Wednesday, March 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/25/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Funding Digital Projects Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/11/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm Wednesday, February 27, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/26/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting The Challenge of Ephemera Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W388.htm Friday, February 29, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/28/08) 9:00 am-11:00 am Live Online WebEx Meeting Librarianship ---------------------------------------------------------------- Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Wednesday, February 06, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 02/01/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 03/07/08) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Library administration and management ---------------------------------------------------------------- Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm Wednesday, February 13. 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/12/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Funding Digital Projects Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/11/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Wednesday, February 06, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 02/01/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 03/07/08) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Reference and public service ---------------------------------------------------------------- Administering OCLC QuestionPoint http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W907.htm Tuesday, January 29, 2008 (Registration Deadline 01/25/08) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Thursday, March 27, 2008 (Registration Deadline 03/24/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Keep Up! Podcasting Made Simple http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W910.htm Tuesday, January 29, 2008 (Registration deadline 1/23/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm Online- MS Live Meeting Keep Up! Tagging, Social Bookmarking and Folksonomies http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W911.htm Wednesday, February 6, 2008 (Registration deadline 1/29/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online-MS Live Meeting Tuesday, March 4, 2008 (Registration deadline 2/25/08) 1:00-3:00 pm Online- MS Live Meeting Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm Thursday, February 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/4/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (Registration deadline 3/7/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Online-MS Live Meeting OCLC QuestionPoint: Delivering Virtual Reference http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W906.htm Tuesday & Wednesday, February 19-20, 2007 ( Registration deadline 2/13/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm Online-Live Meeting Monday and Tuesday, March 10-11, 2008(Registration Deadline 3/3/08) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm Online-Webex Resource sharing (ILL) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Custom Holdings in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W825.htm Wednesday, February 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/18/08) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Wednesday, March 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/24/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Introduction to OCLC's Policies Directory (PD) http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W504.htm Tuesday, February 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/15/08) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Tuesday, March 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/21/2008) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Local Holdings Maintenance Basics Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W824.htm Thursday & Friday, February 21-22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/19/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Monday & Tuesday, March 24 & 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/20/2008) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W823.htm Thursday & Friday, February 14 & 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/12/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Tuesday & Wednesday, March 11 & 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/7/2008) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W822.htm Tuesday, February 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/8/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Tuesday, March 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/1/2008) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keep Up! 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URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080122/0a604482/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Tue Jan 22 11:37:36 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Tue Jan 22 11:37:06 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Conclusion of Free Web 2.0 Instruction Series from Infopeople Message-ID: <00af01c85d2e$3e3e53d0$babafb70$@org> The series of free Web 2.0 workshops and online courses that Infopeople initiated last spring has now concluded. This special series was made possible by grant funding from the California State Library and the Gates Foundation Staying Connected Program, and we thank both parties for their generous support for this training. Any future Web 2.0-related training from Infopeople will be offered with the usual Infopeople fees. Several of the workshops from the free series will be made available as contract workshops, and in addition we have created a new one-day workshop that blends together three workshops from the free series -- Web 2.0: A Hands-On Introduction for Library Staff; Web 2.0: Applications for Children's Services, and Web 2.0: Using Social Software with Teens. Cheryl Gould is the instructor for this workshop, which is available as a contract workshop. We would also like to remind everyone that although the statewide 23 Things Challenge is officially over, the 23 Things are still available from the Infopeople website at http://our23things.infopeople.org/the_23_things/, and we encourage anyone who has not yet pursued this activity to undertake as a personal challenge. If you have questions about anything related to the Challenge, please feel free to contact our 23 Things guru, Eileen O'Shea, at eileen@infopeople.org. Holly Hinman Director, Infopeople Project 2471 Flores Street San Mateo, CA 94403 Email: hinmanh@infopeople.org Phone: 626-796-0913 Fax: 626-796-7122 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080122/16fa36c5/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Fri Jan 25 14:12:37 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Fri Jan 25 14:11:52 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Making Difficult Conversations Easier" workshop Message-ID: <012501c85f9f$65592940$300b7bc0$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Making Difficult Conversations Easier Dates and locations: Monday, February 25, San Francisco Public Library Thursday, March 13, Los Angeles Public Library Monday, March 17, San Bernardino County Library Thursday, March 20, Belle Cooledge Library (Sacramento) Friday, March 28, Buena Park Library District Tuesday, April 1, Alameda County Library Tuesday, April 15, San Diego County Library Headquarters To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/368 Fee: There is a $75.00 fee for this workshop. What factors make certain conversations in the library "difficult"? For some it might be that a specific topic is uncomfortable. For others, it may be that certain circumstances make us feel awkward. Often, we know that if the conversation is handled badly, it will result in serious repercussions. In some instances speaking up (or down) "the chain of command" is stressful. For many, it often comes down to personality and style. Some people really are difficult to talk to in any situation. And some of us simply have a difficult time talking to certain people - period. During this workshop participants will: --learn how to approach a difficult library conversation in a way that assures success. --learn to understand the factors that make some library interactions more uncomfortable than they should be. --learn the basics of good interpersonal communication that makes ALL conversations easier. --learn how timing and focus can help us make difficult conversations easier. --learn how to set goals and priorities so that difficult library conversations have positive outcomes. --learn the incredible value of reframing in difficult conversations. --learn to recognize and deal effectively with "difficult personalities" Workshop Description: This unique one-day workshop uses lecture, discussion, and individual and group exercises to teach participants effective, practical, and positive skills for making the most difficult conversations easier and more productive. Preliminary Course Outline THE BASICS - BETTER INTERPERSONAL SKILLS MAKE FOR EASIER CONVERSATIONS Attending Skills Are 65-85% Of The Game --Your posture creates involvement --Appropriate body motion --The eyes have it --The environment Keeping Track - Following Skills --Getting it started --Keeping it going --Useful questions --Silence is golden Reflecting Back - Staying Connected --Paraphrasing --Reflecting and clarifying feelings --Reflecting and clarifying meanings --Tying it together The Total Effect --Exceptions to every rule IDENTIFYING THE SUBJECT - TEXT AND SUB-TEXT The Big Question - Confront Or Avoid? --Timing is everything --Are you afraid? --Guaranteed - how to turn a molehill into a mountain It's Usually Not "Fact Or Fiction" --It's more like "Rashomon" --Hidden issues? You bet! Feelings Before Facts --Which carries more weight? --Which gets handled first? Personality Or Process? --What's their investment? --Where should your investment be? TURNING CONFLICT INTO COOPERATION Keep Light - No "Position" is Totally Intractable --Identify the problem --There is magic in reframing Focus - Difficult Conversations Are Not Casual Chit-Chat --Have an outcome in mind --Compartmentalize your emotions Outcomes and Solutions --Don't stand on principle --The goal is to MOVE FORWARD! Context - Separate People from the Problem Helping "Difficult Personalities" --Don't be a slave to the emotions of others --The Bulldog, The Bully, The Blamer, The Martyr, "Mr. Teflon", The Liar, "Ms Fragile", The Easily Insulted, The Instigator, and other favorites... FACE TO FACE - WALKING THE WALK & TALKING THE TALK OK. Let's Hold Some Difficult Conversation --What are the steps? --What are the rules? --Let's practice! Instructor: Edmond Otis. Edmond Otis, Senior Consultant with Baron Center, Inc. and President of Edmond Otis & Associates, combines experience as a licensed psychotherapist (MFT 31194), author, trainer, and accomplished university educator, with 37 years of intense traditional karate practice. (He is internationally recognized as a world-class competitor, instructor, and coach.) Edmond blends these distinctive skills and insights into training programs that apply classic martial art principles and cutting edge research to life's most difficult personal and professional challenges-creating practical strategies and effective interventions for difficult workplace situations. Who Should Attend: This training is appropriate for everyone in the California library community that interacts (face-to-face, by phone, by email) with co-workers and members of the public. Prerequisites: None Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service, Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080125/68361025/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Jan 28 09:04:04 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Jan 28 09:03:32 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople has added sessions of "Simply Irresistible: Storytimes for Newborns to Two Years" Message-ID: <002801c861cf$c9812df0$5c8389d0$@org> We have added two sessions of this workshop. Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Simply Irresistible: Storytimes for Newborns to Two Years New Dates and locations: Thursday, April 10, Belle Cooledge Library (Sacramento) Thursday, April 24, Los Angeles Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/355 Fee: There is a $75.00 fee for this workshop. You will find programming for babies and their parents "Simply Irresistible!" Babies are your "captive audience," and parents are often at their most hopeful and receptive. Your library can establish itself as a literacy leader in the community by teaching parents how to share baby songs, lullabies, nursery rhymes, fingerplays, age-appropriate picture books, board books, and gentle stretching. You can forge strong relationships with parents as you demonstrate how to explore language with their child in a lively and entertaining way. Together you can build life-long readers, starting at birth. Workshop Description: In this all-day workshop, children's library staff will learn how to prepare and deliver a literacy-based storytime for infants and their parents/caregivers. Guided by a dynamic PowerPoint presentation, students will design an appropriate space; develop an age-appropriate, literacy-rich program; learn "parent patter" and how to use it during the program; and "tweak" their current storytime program to focus on early literacy skills with younger children. In a supportive and entertaining environment students will share and perform all storytime components to develop familiarity, confidence, and ease in working with this "keep you on your toes" age group of two and under. Students will be armed with song sheets, fingerplays, booklists, equipment suggestions, recommended websites, and gentle stretching techniques that will help stimulate language and baby brain development. You've never had so much fun at a library skills workshop! Pre-workshop Assignment: --Survey current storytime clientele for actual ages served during programs. Example: in your preschool storytime (three to five-year-olds) 50% of attendees are two and under. Based on these numbers bring an idea of who your underserved age group is. --Bring one book appropriate for the age group (birth to two-year-olds) to share with group. If you need help try one of the following websites: www.multcolib.org/kids/booklists/babies.html www.montgomerycountymd.gov --Bring a favorite fingerplay for each of these age groups: (birth-12 months) and (12-24 months) to share with the group. If you need help try one of the following websites: www.thebestkidswebsite.com www.kiddles.com Optional: Bring sample flyers of infant programs already being offered at your site to show and share with the group. Preliminary Course Outline Introduction --Baby brain development --Developmental milestones --PLA 6 Literacy Skills --Librarian's role --Breakdown of age groups --Parent participation Nuts and Bolts: Nuts --Registration --Physical setting --Length of program --Sample storytime --Book selection Nuts and Bolts: Bolts --Fingerplays --Stretching --Puppets and props --Songs with music and props Taking It Home --Parent patter --Dialogic reading --Marketing --Partnerships --Don't be afraid to be yourself Instructor: Colleen Willis. Colleen has happily spent the last eight years working as a children's librarian for the Anaheim Public Library. She got her start in storytelling because she happened to make the most fabulous pig snort that could be heard all the way from the back of the room. After the undying praise she received for her excellent puppetry she was hooked. Five years later she was approached by her supervisor who asked if she would be interested in doing a storytime for babies. Colleen had just had her second baby and was excited to try something new. Her initial start was slow, but as word got around the programs became a success. She then turned her experience into a California Library Association training session and has been busy ever since training fellow professionals in the art of baby storytimes. Who Should Attend: This course in intended for children's library staff who is involved in the development and implementation of storytimes for preschoolers and younger. Prerequisites: Experience with storytimes for preschoolers and younger desirable. Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/workshop/location. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service, Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success." George Matthew Adams From mmorganti at calhist.org Mon Jan 28 12:14:47 2008 From: mmorganti at calhist.org (Mary Morganti) Date: Mon Jan 28 12:15:09 2008 Subject: [Baynet] RE: your message went to the wrong Mary Message-ID: Hi, Deb So nice to hear from you, but it's a different Mary -- Mary Crawford. I don't mind getting baynet emails! Hope you had a good trip? Joe's been working like crazy on the treasurer's report and hand-off: I am definitely not going to miss all those files and stress in our house (that's just between us!) Best, Mary -----Original Message----- From: baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu [mailto:baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu] On Behalf Of Deb Hunt Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 12:06 PM To: The BayNet listserv posts announcements of interest to the San FranciscoBay Area library community. Subject: Re: [Baynet] Infopeople's online course "Essential Tools and Tips forSuccess in Searching Today's Web" Hi, Mary. I've been away at the SLA Leadership summit and just checked. You are already unsubscribed. Deb On Jan 22, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Mary Crawford wrote: Please remove me from your mailing list. 2nd request ________________________ Deborah Hunt Senior Information Specialist Exploratorium 3601 Lyon Street San Francisco, CA 94123 Voice: 415-353-0485 Fax: 415-561-0370 mailto:dhunt@exploratorium.edu "There is no such thing as a self-made (wo)man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success." George Matthew Adams _______________________________________________ Baynet mailing list Baynet@isaac.exploratorium.edu http://www.exo.net/mailman/listinfo/baynet From Craig.Cruz at Krames.com Mon Jan 28 14:07:48 2008 From: Craig.Cruz at Krames.com (Cruz, Craig) Date: Mon Jan 28 14:08:39 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Feb. 6 Joint BayNet/SLA-SF Presentation: Mary Madden from Pew Internet & American Life Project -- Now with PayPal option Message-ID: <51321A53C517E149844F3E1766178AE80162F95E@sb-exchange-01.medimedia.com> There's still time to register for the joint BayNet/SLA event next week! And SLA has enabled a PayPal payment option for those who want to pay by credit card. You don't need to create or have an existing PayPal account to use this option! But sure to pay the member price of $25 if you are a BayNet member. You can register online here: http://units.sla.org/chapter/csfo/calendar/regform.htm The event details: As libraries consider expanding their presence online and connecting with patrons on their own terms, they often need data to make tough decisions about how to spend limited budgets and human resources on developing new library services. Research conducted by The Pew Internet & American Life Project examines the growing role of technology in our lives, our changing expectations about how to find and use information, and the impact younger generations will have on libraries and other institutions in the future. Mary Madden's talk will also touch on Web 2.0, privacy, and the changing demographics of library users. Mary Madden is a Senior Research Specialist with the Pew Internet & American Life Project in Washington, D.C. She has worked with Pew since the spring of 2002, and has authored a wide range of reports covering changing trends in technology and media use. Her recent reports have examined the burgeoning field of online identity management, the adoption of online video, and the arc of teen content creation fueled by social media. She has been interviewed by, The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, among others, regarding her research. She holds an M.A. in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University and a B.A. in English from The University of Florida. Menu: Generous hors d'oeuvres, wine, and an assortment of sparkling water will be served. Agenda: 6:00-6:45 p.m. Appetizer buffet, wine, an assortment 6:45-7:30 p.m. Business meeting, announcements 7:30-8:30 p.m. Program, with Q&A following Directions/Parking: The Solarium is located in the central atrium of the KPMG Building, 55 Second Street, San Francisco. It is a short walk from the Montgomery Street BART station, and downtown parking is also available. REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday, February 1, 2008 Cost: * Members: $25.00 * Non-members/Guests: $35.00 * Student/Retired/Unemployed: $15.00 * Program only (begins at 6:45): $5.00 You can register via PayPal at an SLA-SF Bay Region Web page at: http://units.sla.org/chapter/csfo/calendar/regform.htm You don't need to be a member of SLA or registered with PayPal to use this option. You can also register by sending a check and the form below to: Julie Takata, Librarian San Francisco Airport Museums P.O. 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URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080128/fabeb8b3/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Tue Jan 29 10:13:50 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Tue Jan 29 10:13:18 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Upcoming Infopeople workshops Message-ID: <00e801c862a2$b322b780$19682680$@org> Please take a look at some of the Infopeople workshops coming up in the next few weeks: Dealing with Difficult People: Making Libraries Safe & Sane http://infopeople.org/workshop/345 February 11, San Bernardino Public Library - Central Effective Time Management for Library Staff http://infopeople.org/workshop/364 February 5, online learning course Moving Into Management http://infopeople.org/workshop/351 February 11, Sacramento Public Library - Galleria Planning, Doing, & Sustaining a Successful Bilingual Storytime Program http://infopeople.org/workshop/344 February 1, Belle Cooledge Library (Sacramento) Techniques for Helping the Public Serve Themselves http://infopeople.org/workshop/363 February 1, Saratoga Library February 21, California State Library Please visit the URL's listed for a description of the workshops and to register. If you have any questions, please email me or give me a call. Thank you. Linda Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ From assist at infopeople.org Wed Jan 30 15:16:17 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Jan 30 15:16:00 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's online course "Popular Licensed Databases" Message-ID: <010b01c86396$1ee5ccc0$5cb16640$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Popular Licensed Databases: Getting the Most from Your Library's Subscriptions (online learning course) Dates: March 11, 2008 - April 7, 2008 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/366 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. Licensed databases don't come cheap! To help our users get the most out of this investment, all library staff who perform reference tasks need to have a reasonable mastery of the latest resources and interfaces. --Are you a competent database searcher but would like to become more expert? --Is reference service new to you or something you do infrequently, so you don't feel you have a handle on your library's electronic resources? --Are you sometimes overwhelmed by the sheer number of available databases and wish you had more experience with some of the choices "down the list?" In this course you will learn the essential features of many of the most widely used library databases, and will also get better acquainted with the "hidden gems" among your library's less frequently used resources. Workshop Description: This four-week online learning course will provide opportunities to explore and practice using a variety of databases, including: article aggregator packages (such as EBSCOhost MasterFile, or Gale OneFile); reference databases such as Literature Resource Center; and subject specific databases for business and other fields. Through individual and group exercise and discussions, you will learn practical skills to help you make better use of the electronic resources your library already has, as well as techniques for getting up to speed quickly on databases that are new to you. The instructor will provide templates, cheat sheets, and a webliography, as well as lots of practical tips that can be used immediately. Because every library has selected different electronic resources, based upon local needs and budgets, this course will focus on the principles of database searching, techniques for going beyond the basics, and tips for becoming proficient with new or unfamiliar databases. While the course cannot be tailored to any one library's specific tools, you will get lots of practice using your own library's resources, as well as a chance to see some products outside of your library's current subscriptions. During the course, you will be doing exercises and taking quizzes. Your regular participation in the online discussion forums will be an important source of reinforcement for what you have explored in the online learning process. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: Module One: Getting Started With Database Searching --Types of library subscription databases --What is in the black box? Learning about database content --Using your learning style to master new tools Module Two: Beyond the Basics --Advanced and field searching --Getting results: emailing and saving results, .pdf format results --Database help systems --Getting the additional training from vendors that your library is paying for Module Three: Discovering Your Library's Hidden Treasures --Learning a "new to you" database --Using subject-specific resources Module Four: The Changing Nature of Library Databases --Visual searching, clustering, and other database enhancements --E-book collections as library databases --Federated searching as database discovery tools Instructor: Glenn Johnson-Grau. Glenn is Head of Collection Development at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where until recently he was Reference Librarian for Networked Resources. In addition to licensing and maintaining LMU's more than 150 subscription databases, he has extensive experience instructing both librarians and end-users in how to get the most out of electronic resources. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2 to 2? hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone from the library community who uses library subscription databases to help the public find information, particularly those librarians or paraprofessional staff who are less than frequent users of their library's subscription databases. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: --Have an Internet connection and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. --Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). --Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: Windows: --Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Netscape 7.1 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above Macintosh: --Mozilla 1.4 and above (which is the same engine as Netscape 7.1), Safari 2.0 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above --OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://www.infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. From Craig.Cruz at Krames.com Thu Jan 31 14:59:41 2008 From: Craig.Cruz at Krames.com (Cruz, Craig) Date: Thu Jan 31 15:06:30 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Join us on Feb 6th--sign up by Friday!! Message-ID: <51321A53C517E149844F3E1766178AE80162FCC6@sb-exchange-01.medimedia.com> Skipped content of type multipart/related-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If you have any questions, please email me or give me a call. Thank you. Linda Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ From Western at oclc.org Thu Feb 7 12:30:34 2008 From: Western at oclc.org (Western) Date: Thu Feb 7 12:30:50 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Register now for the 2008 OCLC Western Members Meetings in California Message-ID: <8A690E6B8DCCF743BB68844C6FEFF31601E953A0@OAEXCH3SERVER.oa.oclc.org> Register now for the 2008 OCLC Western Members Meeting in California The OCLC Western 2008 Members Meetings in California are outlined below. Register now! The meetings are free and open to all, however space is limited, so please register early. * March 18, 2008 , Cal. St. University San Bernardino - San Bernardino, CA Register at: * March 19, 2008 , Azusa Pacific University - Azusa, CA Register at: * March 20, 2008 , Alameda County Library - Fremont, Fremont, CA Register at: To view the agenda, visit our Web site at The World's Libraries. Connected. Connected - such a broad word with multiple meanings in the library community: libraries connecting people to knowledge, libraries connecting with patrons, and libraries connecting with other libraries. How - in a locally, regionally, and globally networked world - do these evolving connections affect libraries and our perceptions in the eyes of our users? We'll look at examples from best selling books, such as Everything is Miscellaneous, MicroTrends, and The Economics of Attention, as well as OCLC's new report Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World for inspiration as we explore how libraries connect to information, to their patrons, and to each other using traditional library services and emerging technologies. Sign up now to attend your regional 2008 OCLC Western Members Meeting on these engaging topics. After registering, you will immediately receive a confirmation message and further information via e-mail as details are confirmed. We look forward to seeing you! -The staff of OCLC Western -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080207/5cfb0cec/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Feb 7 14:51:22 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Feb 7 14:50:09 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webinar "An In-depth Look at MedlinePlus" Message-ID: <010101c869db$f616c1e0$e24445a0$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: An In-depth Look at MedlinePlus - Session #3 of the Health e-Shows Series Date and time: March 4, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for Infopeople webinars. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the January 18 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/240/index.html Library users routinely ask tough health questions at the reference desk, and often the first place that librarians start is MedlinePlus. Nearly all library staff members are familiar with this important health information resource, but there is much more to MedlinePlus.gov than meets the eye. Please join us as we explore the nooks and crannies of the site and share tips for tweaking your search to pull out the nuggets of information for your library users! This webinar is geared to library reference staff, but will also be useful to anyone who wants to use MedlinePlus to its full potential. The webinar will begin with a top-level view of MedlinePlus and how it differs from popular search engines and commercial health websites. What follows is an in-depth breakdown of the site, including some great ready-reference resources and other useful features. Participants will see search techniques that unlock the power of MedlinePlus, and will learn about new content areas that will provide answers to those difficult health reference questions. There is sure to be something new and useful for everyone! With this event, Infopeople is happy to introduce a new presentation format that will complement our webcast offerings. This new format is called a webinar. We will be using Wimba (formerly Horizon Wimba) to deliver these events. You will not see the presenter as in a webcast, but you will be able to hear them and as with our webcasts you will be able to submit text chat questions during the presentation. Using this new format, our presenters will not only be able to show PowerPoint slides, they will also be able to show web pages. We think this new format will offer a better learning experience for participants. All webinars will also be archived and made available as podcasts. We also hope to be able to bring you a wider variety of presenters, as travel is no longer an issue: webinar presenters "present" from the comfort of their home or workplace computer! As this is a new format please run the wizard again to make sure your computer is ready for the webinar. Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: An In-depth Look at MedlinePlus Date: March 4, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Kelli Ham Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ From dhersh at oaklandlibrary.org Fri Feb 8 12:28:44 2008 From: dhersh at oaklandlibrary.org (Hersh, Daniel) Date: Fri Feb 8 12:29:19 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Bay Area readers advisory workshops with Duncan Smith (4/30 and 5/1) Message-ID: Registration has now opened for: "We Recommend" (or "Help! I Need a Good Book!") A readers advisory workshop with Duncan Smith $20 registration fee Sponsored by the Adult Services Committee of the Silicon Valley Library System (April 30) and the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay Area (May 1) Not sure what to say when a patron asks you for "something good to read"? This workshop will point you in the right direction. Duncan Smith is a nationally recognized trainer in readers advisory services and the author of many articles on readers advisory work. He will use videotapes of readers talking about books they have enjoyed and simulations of readers' advisory transactions to demonstrate a reader-centered approach to fiction and non-fiction. Duncan is the creator and product manager of EBSCO Publishing's electronic reader's advisory resource, NoveList. There will be three sessions of this workshop, in two locations. For more information and to register, please use the following links: Wednesday, April 30, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm, Santa Clara City Library, 2635 Homestead, Santa Clara http://evanced.califa.org/pls/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=124 Wednesday, April 30, 2 pm - 5 pm, Santa Clara City Library, 2635 Homestead, Santa Clara http://evanced.califa.org/pls/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=125 Thursday, May 1, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm, Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge, Berkeley http://evanced.califa.org/pls/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=139 Daniel Hersh Oakland Public Library for the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay Area From assist at infopeople.org Tue Feb 12 16:00:52 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Tue Feb 12 15:59:54 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's online course "Library Grant Writing Online" Message-ID: <00fa01c86dd3$82c27c10$88477430$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Library Grant Writing Online Dates: March 18, 2008 - May 12, 2008 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://www.infopeople.org/workshop/370 Fee: $100 for those in the California library community and $175 for those out-of-state. Successful grant writing is neither one of the magical arts nor an "insider" job. Grant writing is a set of skills that can be learned, and then improved upon with practice. In these difficult economic times, winning grant awards may be the only way your library can introduce new services and programs. At the same time, competition for grand funding is fiercer than ever. This Infopeople online learning course is designed to help you gain a competitive edge in the grant application process-and has a track record of getting results for those who complete the course. This intensive eight-week course will guide you through the process of writing an actual grant proposal. Students should have in mind a specific project or idea that can be developed into a proposal document. * Week 1: Overview of Grant Writing, Grant Formats, the Grant Proposal Model, and California LSTA Specifics * Introduction to funding sources * General guidelines * Grant formats * Grant Proposal Model (from the Grantsmanship Center) * California LSTA specifics * Week 2: Building a Solid Foundation * Identifying the need * Documenting the need * Client group involvement * Importance of partnerships * Week 3: Building on the Foundation * Relationship of project to library mission and goals * Project goals and objectives * Writing measurable objectives * How much change is realistic? * What happens if you don't meet your objectives? * Week 4: Describing Your Program * Accomplishing your goals and objectives: your plan of action * Developing your project timeline * Personnel requirements * Resources * Week 5: Will Your Program Make a Difference? * Evaluation models * Using third-party evaluators * Outcome measures * Week 6: Getting to the Bottom Line * Budget basics * How to estimate costs * In-kind and matching fund requirements * Indirect costs * Negotiating with the funder * Week 7: Putting It All Together * Writing the project summary * Formatting the final packet * Writing the cover letter * Post-submission strategies * Week 8: Finding a Funder * Funding sources beyond LSTA - government, foundations, corporations * Researching funding sources * Finding a match * Staying current Instructor: Holly Hinman. Grantwriting became a major part of Holly's professional life after she was appointed Director of the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System (MCLS) in March 1978. MCLS sent Holly to training at the Grantsmanship Center in Los Angeles and then put her to work writing grants. Over the next eleven years, Holly wrote dozens of grants, both for the system and for individual member libraries. Holly left MCLS to become the Library Services Manager in Beverly Hills in 1989, and subsequently served as the Library Director in Burbank from 1991 through 1993. She is now the Director of the Infopeople Project and is responsible for overall Project planning, management, and evaluation. Infopeople has evolved from a project that deployed Internet equipment and connectivity to a project that is the primary training and continuing education program of the California State Library. Holly teaches online and on-ground courses in grantwriting. Notes from the Instructor: A. You can take this course at several levels of intensity and effort. The original idea for the course was that each student, over the course of the 8 weeks, would write an actual, fully developed grant proposal. As I taught this course in previous years, however, I found that not all students can expend this level of effort, nor is it necessary for everyone. Accordingly, I have identified three levels of effort and you can select whichever level works for you: 1. Some students have told me that they get what they need from the course by simply reading the course material and participating in the online discussions and chat sessions. If you don't have a current project and just want to learn about the grant writing process for the future, this may suit you. 2. The second level of effort involves doing the assignments that prepare you to write a grant application for your project, but not actually writing the application. I have created new exercises for this session of the course specifically to accommodate this level of effort. 3. The most intense level of effort involves actually writing sections of a grant application to correspond with the course material in each week. Thus, in the second week you would write a statement of need, in the third you would develop the goals and objectives for your project, in the fourth you would write a narrative description of your program, etc. You will send the sections to me as you write them, and I will provide you with written feedback. If you already have a clear idea of what you want to do and have identified a possible funding source, you may want to work at this level as it is a good way to structure your work and to get one-on-one coaching. Since the timing of this course overlaps with the California LSTA application process, this level is especially appropriate for those working on LSTA applications. B. Since, as mentioned above, the timing of this course overlaps with the LSTA application process for 2008/09, I will be working on the Infopeople application as I am teaching the course. To give students a first-hand look at what is involved in writing a very complex LSTA grant application, I will blog about the grant development process as I work on the Infopeople grant. Online Learning Details: This eight-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation which will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. The workshop consists of eight learning modules. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. The materials will remain available to work on for two additional weeks following the official end date, but you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first eight weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone interested in learning about what is involved in writing grant proposals for libraries. This course is taught over the web. You must: * Have an Internet connection and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. * Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). * Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: * Windows: * Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Netscape 7.1 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * Macintosh: * Mozilla 1.4 and above (which is the same engine as Netscape 7.1), Safari 2.0 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. If space is available you may register for this online class up to seven days after the official start date. Please contact Linda Rodenspiel at assist@infopeople.org if you are trying to register after the official start date. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://www.infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080212/ec00f282/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Feb 14 09:29:08 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Feb 14 09:28:04 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople has added sessions of "Techniques for Helping the Public Serve Themselves" Message-ID: <007a01c86f2f$1b6418f0$522c4ad0$@org> We have added three sessions of this workshop. Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Techniques for Helping the Public Serve Themselves Dates and locations: Tuesday, March 11, Buena Park Library District Thursday, March 13, Rancho Cucamonga Public Library Thursday, April 17, Alameda County Library There will be another session scheduled in Fresno. When the date has been confirmed, an announcement will be made. To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/363 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. It's a self-service world. ATMs, airline check-in machines, and self-serve gas stations are all part of everyday life. And survey data show that many customers like the sense of control that self-service brings. That means that the time is right for libraries to explore new ways to provide effective assistance to the independent user. In this class we'll look at a variety of ways to help the public serve themselves using different media, including written materials, audio, and video. Did you know that . Written help materials can be greatly improved by following simple format and content guidelines? . Changes in recording techniques and equipment for both sound and video have made it possible to get good quality audio for under $100, and good quality video for under $200? . Even inexpensive recording devices are compact and easy to use, no longer requiring additional cords or special memory cards? . Anyone can put audio and video files on the web for free, even without one's own web server? Creating effective self-service user guides is an excellent investment in quality customer service. Making it possible for your users to complete routine tasks successfully without direct staff intervention can help you find the time you need for more complex customer contacts and other library work. Workshop Description: In this all-day, hands-on workshop, attendees will brainstorm, learn about, and see examples of good instructional materials in written, audio, and video form. Through individual and group exercises, attendees will create materials designed to allow the public to serve themselves, developing written material, creating an audio file, and exploring video. The instructor will provide recording devices for you to use hands-on in small groups. By the end of the day you will have created an example of instructional material that you can use at the library immediately. The class will also produce a short video. Pre-workshop assignment: Please bring an example-in print and in digital form (on a flash drive) if possible-of a piece of written instructional material you'd like to work on. If you have a digital audio recording device and/or a video camera, and cords to connect them to a computer, feel free to bring those as well. Preliminary Course Outline * Getting the Public to Use Your Printed Instructional Material * Creating user-friendly handouts * Theming your instructional material * Instructional Writing Techniques * Correct use of bullets and numbering, titles, and spacing * Using screen shots * Adding boxes and arrows to Word files * Ways to Use Audio to Allow the Public to Self-Serve * Brainstorm ways to use audio * Hear examples * Produce a short audio tour of your library that can be translated into other languages * Ways to Use Video to Allow the Public to Self-Serve * Brainstorm ways to use video * Look at good library examples of how to use video * Produce a one- to two-minute script for a video that would help users self-serve * Produce a short class video Instructor: Cheryl Gould. Cheryl has been a training consultant for Infopeople since 1996. She has delivered workshops on a wide range of topics including: Increasing computer competency, search skills, Training the Trainer, Word, Powerpoint, Libris Design, Mastering Tough Public Service Situations and Cutting Edge Customer Service Techniques. In her role as Training Consultant, she has worked with over 100 different instructors to create workshops on more than 150 different topics of interest to California libraries. Her current role as Training Consultant for Infopeople keeps her involved in all of the Infopeople workshops and allows her to not only spread the gospel of strong training techniques, but to keep current on what's going on in libraries around the state. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in improving customer service by helping the public succeed when they are working independently. Staff responsible for solving problems when the library's current help resources are insufficient will find that applying the techniques learned in this course will help them manage their workload more effectively. And staff serving customers who prefer non-print formats will also benefit from this course. Please note: The more experience you have with Word, the more you will get out of the section on producing excellent written instructional material. Prerequisites: This course requires that students be comfortable with basic computer skills, including using a mouse, navigating the web, and basic keyboarding. No experience using audio or video recording devices is expected. Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service,Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080214/477f93cb/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Feb 14 11:37:58 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Feb 14 11:36:57 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's new workshop on Screencasts Message-ID: <011801c86f41$1b90c910$52b25b30$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Tutorials 2.0: Teaching the Public and Training Staff with Online Screencasts Dates and locations: Wednesday, March 19, California State Library Friday, March 21, Buena Park Library District Tuesday, May 13, Alameda County Library Thursday, May 15, San Diego County Library Headquarters To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/359 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. . Do you find yourself repeating the same steps over and over again with your users (placing holds, renewing items, checking records)? . Do you need to teach your staff a new skill (ILS/ALS change, new policy, Office '07)? . How many times have you explained in person or on the phone how to search your catalog and online databases? While explaining/showing people personally is important you can also create an instructional screencast that they can access any time that they're on a computer (especially at their point of need)! Screencasting software allows you to record your on-screen actions with an audio recording of your voice explaining what to do - just post/link the recording to the web, and your customers/staff can learn a process, procedure, policy ... anytime, anywhere! Workshop Description: This full-day workshop will provide you with an opportunity to create simple online screencasts. Working with the instructor you will record, produce, and publish practical screencasts and take away the knowledge to do many more on your own. The instructor will provide a straightforward "How To" manual that will include step-by-step procedures, methods to get the most from your screencasts, and a list of resources for further learning about the procedural aspects of screencasting and the pedagogical benefits of screencasts. (Optional) Pre-workshop assignment: Interested in seeing some examples of what you'll be able to do? Just check out: http://www.stevegarwood.com/infopeople Preliminary Course Outline * Introductions & What is Screencasting * Introductions * Library applications of screencasting * What you need to get started * The Basics of Screencast Recording * Camtasia software tour * Set up before you record * Create your first recording (w/me and solo) * Producing your recording * File types and production settings overview * Production of recording in various file formats * Publishing Your Screencast To The World/Wrap Up * How to make screencasts available via the WWW * Using an online hosting service for screencasts * Summary/Questions * Wrap up "Quiz" for fabulous prizes Instructor: Steve Garwood. Steve Garwood comes to us today from the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies (SCILS) at Rutgers University where he is an Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the Graduate Library and Information Science program and the Undergraduate Information Technology and Informatics program. Steve teaches Research and Reference Skills, basic Information Technology, and Web and Multimedia Design to both on-campus and online students. Steve began screencasting in late 2005 as a way of bringing computer based instruction and tutorials to students in his online and on-campus classes. Since then he has created hundreds of screencasts for his classes/students, and is currently working with libraries and library groups to foster appreciation and use of screencasts to handle topics ranging from bibliographic instruction to virtual tours and beyond. Who Should Attend: Although this class looks fairly technical it really isn't. If you meet the prerequisites below I'm sure you'll be fine. Who should attend? Well, anyone from the California library community who would like to be able to help their users with common online library tasks no matter what the hour of the day or day of the week. This class will be of special interest to webmasters, bibliographic instruction and computer training staff, and those working in distance education and/or outreach to the school/home school community. Prerequisites: To be successful in this course, you should be comfortable with basic computer skills, including using a mouse, navigating the web, and basic keyboarding. You should also be able to manage multiple windows, resize and move windows on the computer's desktop, and upload a file (if you've sent an attachment, you've upload a file) Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service,Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Or, view our Web site at < > http://www.oclc.org/western/ >. > > > > Cataloging and metadata > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > CatExpress Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W119.htm > > Tuesday, April 15, 2008 ( Registration Deadline: 4/10/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Maintenance Basics Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W824.htm > > Thursday & Friday, February 21-22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: > 2/19/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Monday & Tuesday, March 24 & 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: > 3/20/2008) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm > > Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/7/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm > > Wednesday, February 27, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 2/26/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/22/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Collection management > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm > > Wednesday, April 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/8/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Digital Image Quality Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm > > Wednesday, March 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/25/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Funding Digital Projects Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/11/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/7/08) > 10:00 am - 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Title: Library Branch Management Dates and locations: Monday, March 31, Arden-Dimick Library - Sacramento Thursday, April 17, Buena Park Library District Tuesday, April 29, San Francisco Public Library Tuesday, May 13, Los Angeles Public Library Friday, May 30, Alameda County Library Friday, June 6, San Diego County Library Headquarters Monday, June 23, Fresno Woodward Park Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/340 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. . Are you new to management and suddenly in charge of a branch library? . Do you want to move into supervision, but are not sure what skills you need? . Are you a current branch library manager in a sticky situation? >From plugged toilets and graffiti to collection development and design of new services, this workshop covers the facilities, collections, services, and supervision issues facing the manager of a public library branch. If you are new to management, or wish to promote, managing a library branch is a common starting place and this workshop will get you started with hands-on exercises and real scenarios facing library branches today. Workshop Description: This all-day workshop will provide planning and scenario building experience based on real-life scenarios from public library branches. Through group exercises, discussion, and role playing, participants will experience some of the dilemmas facing branch library managers today. The instructor will provide worksheets, phone lists, and other templates that can be filled in for individual libraries and used immediately for situations facing managers. Preliminary Course Outline * Managing Library Collections and Facilities * The role of a branch library in a larger system * Facility management basics * Organizing and weeding a small collection * Services and Programs in Your Branch * Assessing your neighborhood * Developing policy, procedure, and practice * Finding the money * The Essential Asset - Your Staff * Hiring, job descriptions, union and civil service rules * Leadership and motivation * Developing your work unit * Incidents and Emergencies * Facility issues * Working with a behavior policy * Leadership in a crisis Instructor: Hillary Theyer. Hillary is the Principal Librarian for Public Services with the Torrance Public Library, overseeing branch libraries, youth services, outreach, and public programming. She has a Masters in Library Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Masters in Public Administration from California State University, Long Beach. She has worked in and managed eight different branch libraries for Sacramento Public Library, Palos Verdes Library District, and Torrance Public Library. Who Should Attend: This workshop is for anyone from the California library community with an interest in developing or improving management skills, applied specifically to public library branches, and may be of interest to support staff frequently left as "person in charge" of a library branch. Prerequisites: To be successful in this course, it is recommended that participants be familiar with the basic functions of a public library. Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080222/bcff6f27/attachment.html From mbeuoy at ggu.edu Fri Feb 22 16:03:14 2008 From: mbeuoy at ggu.edu (Melissa Beuoy) Date: Fri Feb 22 16:04:03 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Library Branch Management" workshop (Out of town) Message-ID: From dsommer at chcf.org Sat Feb 23 14:01:06 2008 From: dsommer at chcf.org (Debbie Sommer) Date: Sat Feb 23 14:01:29 2008 Subject: [Baynet] please remove me from email list In-Reply-To: <009101c875ae$231f1ce0$695d56a0$@org> References: <009101c875ae$231f1ce0$695d56a0$@org> Message-ID: <73DE0F2B4041F241A351AF04DFE23395025E2A90@hqex01.chcf.org> From: baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu [mailto:baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Rodenspiel Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 3:54 PM To: baynet@exploratorium.edu Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Library Branch Management" workshop Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Library Branch Management Dates and locations: Monday, March 31, Arden-Dimick Library - Sacramento Thursday, April 17, Buena Park Library District Tuesday, April 29, San Francisco Public Library Tuesday, May 13, Los Angeles Public Library Friday, May 30, Alameda County Library Friday, June 6, San Diego County Library Headquarters Monday, June 23, Fresno Woodward Park Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/340 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. * Are you new to management and suddenly in charge of a branch library? * Do you want to move into supervision, but are not sure what skills you need? * Are you a current branch library manager in a sticky situation? >From plugged toilets and graffiti to collection development and design of new services, this workshop covers the facilities, collections, services, and supervision issues facing the manager of a public library branch. If you are new to management, or wish to promote, managing a library branch is a common starting place and this workshop will get you started with hands-on exercises and real scenarios facing library branches today. Workshop Description: This all-day workshop will provide planning and scenario building experience based on real-life scenarios from public library branches. Through group exercises, discussion, and role playing, participants will experience some of the dilemmas facing branch library managers today. The instructor will provide worksheets, phone lists, and other templates that can be filled in for individual libraries and used immediately for situations facing managers. Preliminary Course Outline * Managing Library Collections and Facilities * The role of a branch library in a larger system * Facility management basics * Organizing and weeding a small collection * Services and Programs in Your Branch * Assessing your neighborhood * Developing policy, procedure, and practice * Finding the money * The Essential Asset - Your Staff * Hiring, job descriptions, union and civil service rules * Leadership and motivation * Developing your work unit * Incidents and Emergencies * Facility issues * Working with a behavior policy * Leadership in a crisis Instructor: Hillary Theyer. Hillary is the Principal Librarian for Public Services with the Torrance Public Library, overseeing branch libraries, youth services, outreach, and public programming. She has a Masters in Library Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Masters in Public Administration from California State University, Long Beach. She has worked in and managed eight different branch libraries for Sacramento Public Library, Palos Verdes Library District, and Torrance Public Library. Who Should Attend: This workshop is for anyone from the California library community with an interest in developing or improving management skills, applied specifically to public library branches, and may be of interest to support staff frequently left as "person in charge" of a library branch. Prerequisites: To be successful in this course, it is recommended that participants be familiar with the basic functions of a public library. Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080223/11e51436/attachment.html From Western at oclc.org Wed Feb 27 08:01:08 2008 From: Western at oclc.org (Western) Date: Wed Feb 27 08:03:24 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Have you registered yet for the 2008 OCLC Western Members Meetings in California? Message-ID: <8A690E6B8DCCF743BB68844C6FEFF31601FD58D7@OAEXCH3SERVER.oa.oclc.org> Have you registered yet for the 2008 OCLC Western Members Meetings in California? If not, register now! The meetings are free and open to all, however space is limited, so please register early. The meetings will start at 9:00 a.m. local time and conclude around 3:00 p.m. A brief description of this informative one-day event is below, a full agenda is on our Web site at: . March 18, 2008, Cal. St. University San Bernardino - San Bernardino, CA March 19, 2008, Azusa Pacific University - Azusa, CA March 20, 2008, Alameda County Library - Fremont, Fremont, CA The World's Libraries. Connected. Connected - such a broad word with multiple meanings in the library community: libraries connecting people to knowledge, libraries connecting with patrons, and libraries connecting with other libraries. How - in a locally, regionally, and globally networked world - do these evolving connections affect libraries and our perceptions in the eyes of our users? We'll look at examples from best selling books, such as Everything is Miscellaneous, MicroTrends, and The Economics of Attention, as well as OCLC's new report Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World for inspiration as we explore how libraries connect to information, to their patrons, and to each other using traditional library services and emerging technologies. After registering, you will immediately receive a confirmation message and further information via e-mail as details are confirmed. We look forward to seeing you soon! - The staff of OCLC Western -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080227/c0227517/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Feb 27 14:41:37 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Feb 27 14:40:20 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Reminder of Infopeople's next webinar Message-ID: <014701c87991$ea19d740$be4d85c0$@org> A reminder of the next Infopeople webinar. Please let your friends and colleagues know about this event! Title: An In-depth Look at MedlinePlus Session #3 of the Health e-Shows Series Date and time: March 4, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the March 4 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/240/index.html Library users routinely ask tough health questions at the reference desk, and often the first place that librarians start is MedlinePlus. Nearly all library staff members are familiar with this important health information resource, but there is much more to MedlinePlus.gov than meets the eye. Please join us as we explore the nooks and crannies of the site and share tips for tweaking your search to pull out the nuggets of information for your library users! This webinar is geared to library reference staff, but will also be useful to anyone who wants to use MedlinePlus to its full potential. The webinar will begin with a top-level view of MedlinePlus and how it differs from popular search engines and commercial health websites. What follows is an in-depth breakdown of the site, including some great ready-reference resources and other useful features. Participants will see search techniques that unlock the power of MedlinePlus, and will learn about new content areas that will provide answers to those difficult health reference questions. There is sure to be something new and useful for everyone! With this event, Infopeople is happy to introduce a new presentation format that will complement our webcast offerings. This new format is called a webinar. We will be using Wimba (formerly Horizon Wimba) to deliver these events. You will not see the presenter as in a webcast, but you will be able to hear them and as with our webcasts you will be able to submit text chat questions during the presentation. Using this new format, our presenters will not only be able to show PowerPoint slides, they will also be able to show web pages. We think this new format will offer a better learning experience for participants. All webinars will also be archived and made available as podcasts. We also hope to be able to bring you a wider variety of presenters, as travel is no longer an issue: webinar presenters "present" from the comfort of their home or workplace computer! As this is a new format please run the wizard again to make sure your computer is ready for the webinar. Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: An In-depth Look at MedlinePlus Date: March 4, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Kelli Ham Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080227/4b7eced6/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Fri Feb 29 14:52:24 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Fri Feb 29 14:51:32 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's new online course "Graphic Novels and Your Library" Message-ID: <020901c87b25$c0e52bf0$42af83d0$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Graphic Novels and Your Library: Why and How Dates: April 8, 2008 ? May 5, 2008 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/369 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. Graphic novels are here to stay. In the past decade, they have become increasingly popular in both public and school library collections. Nevertheless, many library workers are not sure whether graphic novels are appropriate for their own libraries, and are unfamiliar with the practical aspects of offering this format. In this course we?ll explore all the fundamental questions: ? What IS a graphic novel, and how is it different from a comic book? ? Who reads graphic novels? ? What?s available in graphic novels? ? How can my library develop and promote healthy graphic novel collections? ? Where can we turn if the collection is challenged, either by our community or by our own staff? We?ll also examine and debunk some myths about graphic novels, including assertions about the age ranges interested in the format and the literacy levels of graphic novel fans. Don?t miss this opportunity to learn more about building, maintaining, and promoting a collection of graphic novels that will be sure to engage your library?s users. Workshop Description: This course will introduce you to the practical aspects of incorporating graphic novels into your library?s offerings. You will learn about the range of the graphic novel?s audience, appropriate venues for selection, effective means for processing and circulating these items, and changing cataloging standards. This course will also give you the tools you need to respond to potential challenges related to graphic novels. This four-week online learning course will provide you with original course readings and supplemental materials drawn from a range of professional sources. Through individual and group exercises, you will become acquainted with many aspects of both graphic novels and their readers, as well as with bibliographic methods related to library maintenance of graphic novel collections. You will complete a work plan for your library?s graphic novel collection, whether this collection already exists or you are just beginning to consider adding this format. The instructor will provide sample plans, bibliographies, and a webliography, as well as practical, useful tips that can be applied immediately. During the course, you will be reading graphic novels, doing exercises, and taking quizzes. You will also participate in online discussion forums as part of the online learning process. Preliminary Course Outline: * Module One: Graphic Novels and Libraries: What, Who, and Why * What?s the place of the graphic novel format in today?s library? * Library myths about graphic novels * Getting to know the format as a reader * Module Two: Graphic Novel Collection Development * Building appropriate graphic novel collections * Understanding graphic novel criticism * Using core lists to enhance your collection * Module Three: Technical Concerns * Cataloging and classification issues * Processing and maintenance issues * Locating the collection to meet users? needs and expectations * Module Four: Collection Promotion * Programming * Meeting challenges * Policy considerations Instructor: Francisca Goldsmith. Francisca Goldsmith is the Director of Branch Services at Halifax Public Libraries. Formerly she was the Collection Management Librarian and head of Teen Services at Berkeley Public Library, and was a reference librarian in both academic and public libraries. Francisca has been reviewing graphic novels and interviewing graphic novel creators and publishers for many years, as well as building and maintaining library collections of graphic novels and organizing graphic novel programs for the general public, for students, and for library staff. Pre-workshop assignment: During this course, you will be expected to read graphic novels. If you do not have access to a graphic novel collection locally, you may need to interlibrary loan some titles before the course begins. Please select at least two of the following titles to read during the first week of this online course and prepare to have them available to yourself for use by that time. The titles on this list are a few years old and widely available at school, public, and some academic libraries throughout California. Miller, Frank. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. DC Comics, 1996. Sacco, Joe. Safe Area Gorazde. Fantagraphics Books, 2000. Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis (volume 1: The Story of Childhood). Pantheon, 2003. Talbot, Bryan. The Tale of One Bad Rat. Dark Horse Comics, 1994. Yang, Gene Luen. American Born Chinese. First Second, 2006. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2 to 2? hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week?s assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: This course is appropriate for anyone from the library community with an interest in understanding and providing relevant graphic novel collections to adults, teens, and/or children, as well as for those in public and school libraries who must respond to technical and political aspects of graphic novel collection, maintenance, and promotion. Technical services staff who must now handle materials in this format will also benefit from this course. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: * Have an Internet connection and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. * Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for ?Word Viewer.? For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). * Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. * To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: * Windows: * Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Netscape 7.1 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * Macintosh: * Mozilla 1.4 and above (which is the same engine as Netscape 7.1), Safari 2.0 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://www.infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Protecting Library & Archive Collections: Disaster Preparedness, Response & Recovery Part 1: Planning & Response - 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Fremont: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - Alameda County Library Eureka: Thursday, April 17, 2008 - Humboldt County Library Fresno: Monday, June 16, 2008 - Fresno County Library Part 2: Recovery & Training - 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Fremont: Friday, June 20, 2008 - Alameda County Library Arcata: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - Humboldt State University Library Fresno: Monday, October 6, 2008 - Fresno County Library An additional workshop will be held in San Diego in Fall 2008. Sponsored by Western States & Territories Preservation Assistance Service (WESTPAS) Workshop instructor: Julie Page, Co-Coordinator, California Preservation Program and User Services Coordinator for WESTPAS ************************************************************************ The "Protecting Library & Archive Collections" workshops are presented in a 2-part sequence to produce the following outcomes for disaster preparedness activities: * Complete a disaster plan by the end of Part 2 * Learn how to train staff to implement your plan effectively * Set pre- and post-disaster action priorities for your collections * Learn how to use practical decision-making skills during an emergency * Experience salvage procedures for books, documents, & non-print media The workshop days are scheduled several months apart. Participants will prepare short assignments prior to the first session; between sessions, they will undertake additional assignments resulting in a completed disaster plan at the end of Part 2. Upon completion, the institution will be invited to join an informal network of WESTPAS trained personnel to provide mutual aid in the event of emergencies involving collections in the region. Who should attend: Administrators and staff responsible for emergency preparedness, response and decision-making, in all types of libraries and archives. By registering for the workshop, the institution commits to supporting the attendee(s) to achieve the workshop's disaster preparedness goals. When possible, please send two attendees from a library or archive so they can work together on the disaster preparedness activities. Cost: No charge to the institution. Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Co-sponsored by the California State Library & California State Archives. 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Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success." George Matthew Adams From Western at oclc.org Wed Mar 5 07:20:58 2008 From: Western at oclc.org (Western) Date: Wed Mar 5 07:21:15 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Announcing one-day, in-person digital and preservation classes scheduled March through June 2008 at several West Coast locations. All classes offered by OCLC Western. Message-ID: <85055FA347C14043835BD64615F1238F1AEE4B@OAEXCH2SERVER.oa.oclc.org> > The following classes are now open for registration to individuals or staff from libraries, museums, archives or cultural heritage organizations and are priced at $75 per person for OCLC Western members and $125 per person for non-members. To learn more about these in-person, more intensive training classes offered at several West Coast locations, go to: www.oclc.org/western/training/subject/preservation.htm > > > Managing Archival Collections: An Introduction > Thursday, March 20, 2008 > 9:00 a.m. > -> 4:00 p.m. > Washington State University Vancouver (Vancouver, WA) > > This workshop will provide an overview of standard archival practices, guidance on the development and management of archival analog and digital collections, the accessioning and processing of collections, providing reference services and outreach via EAD finding aids and digital projects. Conducted by Trevor James Bond, Special Collections Librarian in the Department of Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections at the Washington State University (WSU) Libraries and an Instructor for the World Civilizations Program in the Department of General Education at WSU. > > > Streaming Audio and SMIL for Oral Histories > Friday, March 21, 2008 > 9:00 a.m. > -> 4:00 p.m. > Washington State University Vancouver (Vancouver, WA) > > Find out how to make sound files such as oral histories available over the Internet. This workshop will cover the entire process including the planning, recording, processing, editing, cataloging, and streaming of digital oral histories, plus synchronizing streaming audio with transcripts. Conducted by Trevor James Bond, Special Collections Librarian in the Department of Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections at the Washington State University (WSU) Libraries and an Instructor for the World Civilizations Program in the Department of General Education at WSU. His article, "Streaming Audio from African-American Oral History Collections," was selected as the outstanding paper, 2005, for the journal OCLC Systems & Services International Digital Library Perspectives. > > > Usability Testing as an Evaluation Tool > Monday, April 21, 2008 > 9:00 a.m. > -> 3:00 p.m. > OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) > > Discover an easy, practical technique for improving Web site usability. Learn the principles of user-centered design, how they can be applied effectively to build usable Web sites and intranets, and how to utilize usability testing as an evaluation tool. Conducted by Elaina Norlin, New Initiatives and Outreach Manager at OCLC Eastern. Elaina has authored several books, including Usability Testing for Library Web Sites: A Hands-On Guide (2001, ALA Editions). > > > Federal Grant Writing > Tuesday, April 22, 2008 > 9:00 a.m. > -> 3:00 p.m. > OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) > > Learn how to develop a fundable, competitive grant template based upon the requirements of the top federal granting agencies for libraries: the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Conducted by Elaina Norlin, New Initiatives and Outreach Manager, OCLC Eastern. Elaina has served as senior program officer at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). > > > CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users > Monday, April 28, 2008 > 8:30 a.m. > -> 4:00 p.m. > OCLC Western Service Center (Lacey, WA) > > Friday, May 9, 2008 > 8:30 a.m. > -> 4:00 p.m. > OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA)> > > Hands-on training designed to improve understanding of how to operate and make the best use of CONTENTdm software. Exercises include both beginning and advanced features such as: creating collections, using the compound document wizard, metadata and controlled vocabulary implementation, and maintaining collections with batch replacement of objects and subset-editing of metadata. Conducted by Linda Stewart, Senior Training and Support Coordinator, OCLC Western. > > > Making Newspapers Available Via the Web > Thursday, May 15, 2008 > 9:00 a.m. > -> 4:00 p.m. > OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) > > Learn appropriate methodology and software applications for digitizing newspaper collections. Discuss issues involved with preserving and digitizing newspaper collections, particularly the back-end processing steps necessary to create searchable indexes for the World Wide Web. Conducted by Gayle Palmer, Digital and Preservation Program Manager, OCLC Western. Gayle coordinates digital and preservation services, training, and grant facilitation programs for museums, libraries and cultural organizations. She has provided consultation services for several newspaper digitization projects. > > > Preserving Born Digital Collections > Friday, May 16, 2008 > 9:00 a.m. > -> 4:00 p.m. > OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) > > This workshop focuses on the issues of selecting an appropriate preservation strategy for born digital material, maintaining materials in a digital archive or institutional repository, and the role of policies and metadata in preservation options. Conducted by Gayle Palmer, Digital and Preservation Program Manager, OCLC Western. Gayle coordinates digital and preservation services, training, and grant facilitation programs for museums, libraries and cultural organizations. She has provided consulting services for several digitization programs. > > > > > From RSS feeds to member updates, staying informed is easier than ever with OCLC Western electronic communications . > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A brief description of this informative one-day event is below, a full agenda is on our Web site at >. The World's Libraries. Connected. Connected - such a broad word with multiple meanings in the library community: libraries connecting people to knowledge, libraries connecting with patrons, and libraries connecting with other libraries. How - in a locally, regionally, and globally networked world - do these evolving connections affect libraries and our perceptions in the eyes of our users? We'll look at examples from best selling books, such as Everything is Miscellaneous, MicroTrends, and The Economics of Attention, as well as OCLC's new report Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World for inspiration as we explore how libraries connect to information, to their patrons, and to each other using traditional library services and emerging technologies. After registering, you will immediately receive a confirmation message and further information via e-mail as details are confirmed. We look forward to seeing you soon! -The staff of OCLC Western -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080307/ba5580ab/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Fri Mar 7 13:55:09 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Fri Mar 7 13:53:47 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webcast on Copyright Issues In Digitizing Photographs Message-ID: <008f01c8809d$e9b98710$bd2c9530$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webcast. Title: From Red Light to Green Light: Copyright Issues in Digitizing Photographs in Library Collections Date and time: March 27, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webcast will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webcast. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the March 27 webcast, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/252/index.html Libraries are making innovative use of their local treasures. The Library of Congress is sharing a sampling of its rich collection on Flickr , as well continuing to make its own American Memory site a must visit. If your library has been digitizing some of its treasures to put online, stop into this webcast for a concrete, understandable approach to understanding the copyright issues critical to your project. Spend an hour of prevention watching this webcast, and minimize the chances of lengthy legal battles in the future. This webcast is recommended for all libraries participating in the Local History Digital Resources Program (LHDRP). Speaker: Mary Minow. Mary Minow is an attorney, consultant, and a former librarian and library trustee. She has taught library law at the San Jose State School of Library Science. She was President on the board of CALTAC in 2002, the California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners, and now serves as its Policy Analyst. Mary is the first recipient of the California Library Association's Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award, given in 2004. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webcast. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webcast: From Red Light to Green Light: Copyright Issues in Digitizing Photographs in Library Collections Date: March 27, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Mary Minow Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As such, we are pleased to offer an array of classes spanning several topical areas. Outlined below are classes we have planned for the next few months. We add new classes frequently, so to stay as up-to-date as possible, sign up for our Training RSS feed < https://www.oclc.org/western/email/default.htm > which provides daily updates on courses that have just been scheduled. If you are interested in a more collective view of training opportunities, opt for our Training Update < https://www.oclc.org/western/email/default.htm > and we will send you regular information. Or, view our Web site at < http://www.oclc.org/western/ >. Cataloging and metadata ---------------------------------------------------------------- AACR and MARC for Video Recordings http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W104.htm Tuesday-Wednesday, June 3-4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/5/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm San Jose State University-Clark Library, San Jose, CA Basic Serials Cataloging http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W120.htm Tuesday-Wednesday, May 13-14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/29/08) 9:00 am-4:30 pm OCLC Western (Ontario, CA) Book Blitz II http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W102.htm May 5-6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/7/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm Grossmont College (El Cajon, CA) CatExpress Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W119.htm Tuesday, April 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/10/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 1 - WorldCat, MARC, and Client Basics http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W127.htm Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 2 - Basic Bibliographic Searching http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W133.htm Tuesday, March 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/19/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 3 - Basic Editing and Record Processing http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W129.htm Wednesday, March 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/19/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, April 24, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm, Pacific time WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 4 - Save Files and File Management http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W130.htm May 8, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/1/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 6 - Editing Master Records http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W132.htm Wednesday, April 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/4/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 7 - Advanced Bibliographic Searching http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W125.htm Friday, April 11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/7/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 8 - Original Cataloging http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W134.htm May 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/8/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm Friday, May 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/6/08) 8:30 am-4:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Local Holdings Maintenance Basics Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W824.htm Monday-Tuesday, March 24-25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/20/2008) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/19/08) 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/22/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Preserving Born Digital Collections http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W312.htm Friday, May 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) Preserving Digital Materials Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W385.htm Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/21/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Collection management ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm Friday, May 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/6/08) 8:30 am-4:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm Wednesday, April 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/8/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Digital Image Quality Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm Wednesday, March 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/25/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, May 28, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/27/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Funding Digital Projects Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/18/08) 10:00 am -12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/9/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Managing Copyright Issues Online Course http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W812.htm Monday, April 14, 2008-Friday, June 6, 2008 Virtual class online Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/22/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Preserving Born Digital Collections http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W312.htm Friday, May 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) Preserving Digital Materials Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W385.htm Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/21/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting The Challenge of Ephemera Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W388.htm Friday, April 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/24/08) 9:00 am-11:00 am WebEx Online Meeting U.S. Copyright Law Online Course http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W811.htm Monday, April 14, 2008-Friday, June 6, 2008 Virtual class Digitization and preservation ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm Friday, May 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/6/08) 8:30 am-4:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm Wednesday, April 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/8/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Digital Image Quality Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm Wednesday, March 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/25/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, May 28, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/27/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Federal Grant Writing http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W329.htm Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/17/08) 9:00 am-3:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Funding Digital Projects Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Making Newspapers Available Via the Web http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W315.htm Thursday, May 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/12/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) Managing Copyright Issues Online Course http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W812.htm Monday, April 14, 2008-Friday, June 6, 2008 Virtual class online Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/22/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Preserving Born Digital Collections http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W312.htm Friday, May 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) Preserving Digital Materials Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W385.htm Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/21/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting The Challenge of Ephemera Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W388.htm Friday, April 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/24/08) 9:00 am-11:00 am WebEx Online Meeting U.S. Copyright Law Online Course http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W811.htm Monday, April 14, 2008-Friday, June 6, 2008 Virtual class Usability Testing as an Evaluation Tool http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W331.htm Monday, April 21, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) 9:00 am-3:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Librarianship ---------------------------------------------------------------- Federal Grant Writing http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W329.htm Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/17/08) 9:00 am-3:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/18/08) 10:00 am -12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/9/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Library administration and management ---------------------------------------------------------------- Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm Wednesday, April 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/8/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Federal Grant Writing http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W329.htm Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/17/08) 9:00 am-3:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Funding Digital Projects Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Keep Up! Extending Library Services with Social Technologies http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W908.htm Friday, April 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/28/08) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, April 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/26/08) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/18/08) 10:00 am -12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/9/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Managing Copyright Issues Online Course http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W812.htm Monday, April 14, 2008-Friday, June 6, 2008 Virtual class online Preserving Born Digital Collections http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W312.htm Friday, May 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) U.S. Copyright Law Online Course http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W811.htm Monday, April 14, 2008-Friday, June 6, 2008 Virtual class Usability Testing as an Evaluation Tool http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W331.htm Monday, April 21, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) 9:00 am-3:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Reference and public service ---------------------------------------------------------------- Administering OCLC QuestionPoint http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W907.htm Thursday, March 27, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/24/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Monday, May 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/16/08) 1:00 -3:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Federal Grant Writing http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W329.htm Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/17/08) 9:00 am-3:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/19/08) 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting OCLC QuestionPoint: Delivering Virtual Reference http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W906.htm Wednesday-Thursday, April 23-24, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/17/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday-Friday, May 14-15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/8/08) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Resource sharing (ILL) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Custom Holdings in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W825.htm Wednesday, March 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/24/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Deflection on WorldCat Resource Sharing Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/w827.htm Wednesday, April 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/14/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/20/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Introduction to OCLC's Policies Directory (PD) http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W504.htm Tuesday, March 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/21/08) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Local Holdings Maintenance Basics Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W824.htm Monday-Tuesday, March 24-25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/20/2008) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Managing Copyright Issues Online Course http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W812.htm Monday, April 14, 2008-Friday, June 6, 2008 Virtual class online Patron-Initiated Resource Sharing in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W826.htm Wednesday, April 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/7/08 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Tuesday, May 27, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/23/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting U.S. Copyright Law Online Course http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W811.htm Monday, April 14, 2008-Friday, June 6, 2008 Virtual class WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W823.htm Thursday-Friday, April 10-11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/7/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W822.htm Tuesday, April 8, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/3/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keep Up! Blogs, Wikis and RSS http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W909.htm Wednesday, April 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline 4/2/08) 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, April 23 ,2008 (Registration Deadline 4/16/08) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Keep Up! Extending Library Services with Social Technologies http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W908.htm Friday, April 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/28/08) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, April 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 3/26/08) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/18/08) 10:00 am -12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/9/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080313/6cd1e4ab/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Mar 13 16:42:49 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Mar 13 16:41:32 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Communicating Up!" workshop Message-ID: <01c901c88563$f2cb10b0$d8613210$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Communicating Up! Dates and locations: Wednesday, April 16, Berkeley Public Library Monday, May 12, Buena Park Library District Tuesday, May 13, San Diego County Library Headquarters Monday, June 2, Contra Costa County Library - Pleasant Hill Tuesday, June 3, Saratoga Library There will be additional sessions scheduled in Los Angeles and Fresno. As soon as the dates are confirmed and announcement will be made. To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/372 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Have you ever wondered why some people are able to get their ideas taken seriously, even if they are not in positions of power? What does it take to become visible and gain your leaders' acceptance and respect? And how do you disagree with leaders without putting the brakes on your career? Whether you work in the largest library systems or in the smallest library, this workshop is for you want to: . Increase your personal power . Build your credibility with leaders in your library . Effectively communicate with your library's leaders, from your own supervisor to the Library Director . Raise and discuss difficult issues in a way that makes you part of the solution-not the problem At the conclusion of this workshop you will have the skills you need to tap into your personal power and use it effectively, and the confidence to communicate your ideas and opinions in a way that your library's leaders can hear them. Workshop Description: : In this all-day workshop you will explore useful techniques for building the credibility, trust, and relationships that will help your work get noticed. Through individual and group exercises you will identify your own sources of power and develop strategies for using it to support the library's goals. You will also complete a personal action plan to help you apply the practical, useful tips for stepping up and speaking up to help your library-and its leaders-move forward. Pre-workshop assignment: You'll want to prepare for this course by identifying the leader(s) on whom you want to focus. When you think about communicating 'up', how far 'up' are you thinking about? Do you want to improve communication with the Library Director, senior leaders, your own supervisor, or someone else? You will not be asked to provide names, but you will want to have someone, or some level of the organization, in mind. Preliminary Course Outline * The Leader-Follower Relationship * Types and sources of power * Follower styles and their impact on your effectiveness * Building Your Personal Credibility * Self-management and initiative * Respecting and changing the organization's culture * Building Trust and Relationships with Leaders * Using advocacy and inquiry * How and when to break the rules, especially when dealing with bureaucracy * Having (and Surviving) Difficult Conversations with Leaders * Speaking truth to power-how and when to challenge leaders without risking it all Instructor: Gail Griffith. Gail Griffith is the Deputy Director of the Carroll County (MD) Public Library, responsible for public services and staff development. She also provides consulting services in organization development to a variety of public library, local government, and nonprofit agencies in throughout the U.S. Most recently, has worked with Maryland's state library agency to develop and deliver Learning Libraries (leadership and teamwork) training throughout Maryland. She has also developed and led a Leadership Academy for all levels of library staff. Who Should Attend: : Anyone from the California library community who wants to increase their visibility and effectiveness in communicating with their organization's leaders. The content is applicable to staff from large libraries as well as small ones-from front-line staff through middle-managers. Prerequisites: None Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080313/8909dbdb/attachment.html From dhersh at oaklandlibrary.org Tue Mar 18 09:38:17 2008 From: dhersh at oaklandlibrary.org (Hersh, Daniel) Date: Tue Mar 18 09:46:28 2008 Subject: [Baynet] 11th Bay Area Conference for Library Support & Paraprofessional S taff: Registration now open! Message-ID: Registration is now open for: Who Are We Today? The 11th Bay Area Conference for Library Support & Paraprofessional Staff Sponsored by the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay Area Offered on two dates and locations: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Berkeley Public Library, Central Library Wednesday, April 23, 2008 San Jose Public Library, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Sign-in 8:30 - 9:00 am Conference 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Registration Fee $40.00 For more information and to register, go to http://www.plsinfo.org/workshops/sdcconference . Please share this information with support and paraprofessional staff at your library! Agenda: Keynote Address, with Q&A: "What's Certification Got to Do With Me?", Jenifer Grady, Director, American Library Association Allied Professional Association (ALA APA) " Panel One: Technically Speaking (Technology and the Role of Support Staff/Paraprofessionals) Panel Two: Collaboration, Not Combat (Communication and the Working Relationship between Librarians and Support Staff/Paraprofessionals) For more information about workshop registration, contact Peninsula Library System staff at (650) 349-5538 or krause@plsinfo.org . For more information about the workshop program, contact Paul Signorelli at paul@paulsignorelli.com . Daniel Hersh Oakland Public Library for the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay Area -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080318/e803a32d/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Tue Mar 18 14:30:13 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Tue Mar 18 14:28:50 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webcast "Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship" Message-ID: <011c01c8893f$414f2530$c3ed6f90$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webcast. Title: Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship Date and time: April 4, 2008, 10am - 12pm This webcast will last approximately two hours. There is no charge for this Infopeople webcast. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the April 4 webcast, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/217/index.html The world we serve has changed, and new evidence confirms that some of our basic assumptions about library service need to change, too. To stay relevant we must be in sync with the needs and wants of our communities, but how can we implement change when the inertia of "legacy librarianship" is a nearly irresistible force? In this extended version of their recent PLA presentation, library consultant Joan Frye Williams and OCLC Vice-President George Needham will take a humorous, no-holds-barred look at recent data that challenge traditional library thinking, and will offer some surprising suggestions for re-imagining the library. Participants will learn about: * The most recent OCLC-commissioned research findings, including data about social networking and about library advocacy. * Suggestions about which library services align well with emerging customer requirements, and which services might need to be discarded or changed. * Successful new service models, with practical implementation tips. This webcast is designed for librarians, public service and branch staff, library workers with customer service responsibilities, friends, trustees and commissioners, plus anyone with both a connection to the library community and a sense of humor. Speakers: Joan Frye Williams and George Needham. Joan Frye Williams. For more than 25 years Joan has been a successful librarian, consultant, vendor, planner, trainer, evaluator and user of library services, with a special emphasis on innovation, technology and emerging library trends. She is the president of her own library and information technology consulting firm. She received an MLS from the University of California at Berkeley (1975) and in addition to her consulting practice she has worked in both public and academic libraries, for library automation vendors, as well as at the California State Library. Her many clients include large and small public libraries, library consortia, state library agencies, professional library associations, library boards, library vendors and architects. George Needham. Before joining OCLC in 1999, George was State Librarian of Michigan. From 1993 to 1996, he was Executive Director of the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association. From 1990 to 1993, he was Director of Member Services of the Ohio Library Association. >From 1984 to 1989, he served as Library Director of Fairfield County District Library in Lancaster, Ohio. From 1977 to 1984, he held various posts at the Charleston County Library in Charleston, South Carolina. George received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in library science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webcast. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webcast: Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship Date: April 4, 2008 Time: 10am - 12pm Speakers: Joan Frye Williams and George Needham Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080318/2c0756b6/attachment.html From lsuzuki at sfpl.org Wed Mar 19 17:19:24 2008 From: lsuzuki at sfpl.org (Linda Suzuki) Date: Wed Mar 19 17:18:51 2008 Subject: [Baynet] BayNet members want to join the BayNet Board? Message-ID: <1976DEE807093F408F7017DA304408DC0AE96B@EXCHANGE2.SF-Library.org> We are looking for new faces on the BayNet Board! We need your ideas and energy! If you are interested in becoming a board member please contact Linda Suzuki (lsuzuki@sfpl.org) or Craig Cruz (craig.cruz@krames.com. Looking forward to hearing from you. From assist at infopeople.org Thu Mar 20 10:22:18 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Mar 20 10:21:57 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's Sacramento session of "Reference Interview Skills for Academic Library Staff" Message-ID: <004e01c88aae$f3522a50$d9f67ef0$@org> We have rescheduled a session of this workshop in Sacramento. Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Reference Interview Skills for Academic Library Staff Date and location: Wednesday, April 9, California State University - Sacramento To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/358 Fee: There is a $75.00 fee for this workshop. What do all of the following scenarios have in common? . A reference librarian quickly and correctly answers a student's question, only to find out that the student really wanted something else. . The librarian with the best searching skills does not get asked many questions because students are intimidated to approach with their questions. . An instruction librarian prepares a whole set of handouts for a class assignment, showing the students the best databases and reference books, only to find out later that the instructor wants the students to use Google Scholar. . A librarian answering a chat/instant messenger question spends a lot of time and finds the perfect web site, only to discover that the user has left the session. Each of these is an example of the failure of the reference interview. The heart of reference service is the interpersonal interaction between the librarian and the user. No matter what tools we use to communicate or what resources are available, a failure to understand the user's need will result in a failed search. Reference librarians require strong interpersonal skills in order to effectively help their users. This workshop will give reference librarians some specific skills that they can use to improve their interactions with their users. Instruction will cover approachability factors, questioning techniques, and follow-up actions in both in-person and remote reference service. Workshop Description: This all day workshop will provide basic and advanced training in the interpersonal skills required to conduct a successful reference interview. Through observation, role-playing, and video, the participants will see the complex psychological factors that come into play during the transaction. By seeing themselves as their users see them, they will learn how to become more approachable and how to use questioning techniques to find out what their users are really asking. Preliminary Course Outline * Introduction to and Importance of the Reference Interview * Styles of reference * Reference as other professions might do it * ALA Behavioral Guidelines * Approachability * Factors that encourage or discourage use * In-person and online issues * Communication * Nonverbal communication * Verbal communication * Open- and closed-ended questions * Role playing * Follow-up and Assessment * Importance of follow-up * Assessment techniques Instructor: Dave Tyckoson. Dave is Head of Public Services at the Henry Madden Library, California State University - Fresno. Prior to coming to California in 1997, he held positions at SUNY-Albany, Iowa State University, and Miami (Ohio) University. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics and a Master's degree in Library Science, both from the University of Illinois. He has been involved with reference service for 25 years and has written extensively about reference service and the reference interview. He developed and taught the online continuing education course on the Reference Interview that is offered by ALA/RUSA and he has been elected as the 2007-2008 President of RUSA. Who Should Attend: This training is designed for reference librarians at academic libraries. Anyone who works with the public either in-person or online can benefit from this workshop. Prerequisites: None Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service, Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information and to participate in the April 4 webcast, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/217/index.html Leg-a-cy - something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past. "Legacy librarianship" is a term coined by presenter Joan Frye Williams to describe the fundamental truths that have been passed down through the generations of librarians - in library school, on the job, and in our professional literature. For example, we've always been told that one-on-one assistance to patrons is our most valuable activity, and should be our top priority. Have you ever wondered if these "truths" would hold up under serious scrutiny? Most librarians simply take what they've always been told about patrons and their needs for granted, but the world we serve has changed, and new evidence confirms that some of our basic assumptions about library service need to change, too. To stay relevant we must be in sync with the needs and wants of our communities, but how can we implement change when the inertia of "legacy librarianship" is a nearly irresistible force? In this extended version of their PLA presentation, library consultant Joan Frye Williams and OCLC Vice-President George Needham will take a humorous, no-holds-barred look at recent data that challenge traditional library thinking, and will offer some surprising suggestions for re-imagining the library. Participants will learn about: * The most recent OCLC-commissioned research findings, including data about social networking and about library advocacy. * Suggestions about which library services align well with emerging customer requirements, and which services might need to be discarded or changed. * Successful new service models, with practical implementation tips. This webcast is designed for librarians, public service and branch staff, library workers with customer service responsibilities, friends, trustees and commissioners, plus anyone with both a connection to the library community and a sense of humor. Speakers: Joan Frye Williams and George Needham. Joan Frye Williams. For more than 25 years Joan has been a successful librarian, consultant, vendor, planner, trainer, evaluator and user of library services, with a special emphasis on innovation, technology and emerging library trends. She is the president of her own library and information technology consulting firm. She received an MLS from the University of California at Berkeley (1975) and in addition to her consulting practice she has worked in both public and academic libraries, for library automation vendors, as well as at the California State Library. Her many clients include large and small public libraries, library consortia, state library agencies, professional library associations, library boards, library vendors and architects. George Needham. Before joining OCLC in 1999, George was State Librarian of Michigan. From 1993 to 1996, he was Executive Director of the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association. From 1990 to 1993, he was Director of Member Services of the Ohio Library Association. >From 1984 to 1989, he served as Library Director of Fairfield County District Library in Lancaster, Ohio. From 1977 to 1984, he held various posts at the Charleston County Library in Charleston, South Carolina. George received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in library science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webcast. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webcast: Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship Date: April 4, 2008 Time: 10am - 12pm Speakers: Joan Frye Williams and George Needham Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Library of Congress is sharing a sampling of its rich collection on Flickr , as well continuing to make its own American Memory site a must visit. If your library has been digitizing some of its treasures to put online, stop into this webcast for a concrete, understandable approach to understanding the copyright issues critical to your project. Spend an hour of prevention watching this webcast, and minimize the chances of lengthy legal battles in the future. This webcast is recommended for all libraries participating in the Local History Digital Resources Program (LHDRP). Speaker: Mary Minow. Mary Minow is an attorney, consultant, and a former librarian and library trustee. She has taught library law at the San Jose State School of Library Science. She was President on the board of CALTAC in 2002, the California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners, and now serves as its Policy Analyst. Mary is the first recipient of the California Library Association's Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award, given in 2004. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webcast. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webcast: From Red Light to Green Light: Copyright Issues in Digitizing Photographs in Library Collections Date: March 27, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Mary Minow -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Susan Hildreth, State Librarian, discusses this and much more in her Infopeople webinar. Susan touches on hot topics in the California library world, emerging library trends and services available to you from the California State Library. She is also available for live questions and answers during each webinar. Check in to get to know our new State Librarian and keep in tune with the scene in Sacramento. Presenter: Susan Hildreth. Recognizing her distinguished 30-year career as a leader in public libraries, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Susan Hildreth State Librarian of California in July 2004. She oversees the California State Library's support of California libraries and cultural institutions as they work for the continued intellectual, technological, and cultural growth of California's diverse populations. Previously, Susan was the City Librarian of San Francisco and Deputy City Librarian. Active in professional associations throughout her career, Hildreth is the immediate past president of the Public Library Association (PLA). She has been a member of the PLA Board of Directors and an at-large member of the elected governing Council of the American Library Association. She also is a long-time member of the California Library Association for which she served as president and treasurer. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: State Library Webinar Date: April 8, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Presenter: Susan Hildreth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080327/f28ec072/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Fri Mar 28 11:18:25 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Fri Mar 28 11:17:30 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Reminder of Infopeople's webcast on April 4 Message-ID: <009601c89100$1e3fe2f0$5abfa8d0$@org> A reminder of the next Infopeople webcast. Please let your friends and colleagues know about this event! Title: Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship Date and time: April 4, 2008, 10am - 12pm This webcast will last approximately two hours. There is no charge for this Infopeople webcast. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the April 4 webcast, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/217/index.html Leg-a-cy - something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past. "Legacy librarianship" is a term coined by presenter Joan Frye Williams to describe the fundamental truths that have been passed down through the generations of librarians - in library school, on the job, and in our professional literature. For example, we've always been told that one-on-one assistance to patrons is our most valuable activity, and should be our top priority. Have you ever wondered if these "truths" would hold up under serious scrutiny? Most librarians simply take what they've always been told about patrons and their needs for granted, but the world we serve has changed, and new evidence confirms that some of our basic assumptions about library service need to change, too. To stay relevant we must be in sync with the needs and wants of our communities, but how can we implement change when the inertia of "legacy librarianship" is a nearly irresistible force? In this extended version of their PLA presentation, library consultant Joan Frye Williams and OCLC Vice-President George Needham will take a humorous, no-holds-barred look at recent data that challenge traditional library thinking, and will offer some surprising suggestions for re-imagining the library. Participants will learn about: * The most recent OCLC-commissioned research findings, including data about social networking and about library advocacy. * Suggestions about which library services align well with emerging customer requirements, and which services might need to be discarded or changed. * Successful new service models, with practical implementation tips. This webcast is designed for librarians, public service and branch staff, library workers with customer service responsibilities, friends, trustees and commissioners, plus anyone with both a connection to the library community and a sense of humor. Speakers: Joan Frye Williams and George Needham. Joan Frye Williams. For more than 25 years Joan has been a successful librarian, consultant, vendor, planner, trainer, evaluator and user of library services, with a special emphasis on innovation, technology and emerging library trends. She is the president of her own library and information technology consulting firm. She received an MLS from the University of California at Berkeley (1975) and in addition to her consulting practice she has worked in both public and academic libraries, for library automation vendors, as well as at the California State Library. Her many clients include large and small public libraries, library consortia, state library agencies, professional library associations, library boards, library vendors and architects. George Needham. Before joining OCLC in 1999, George was State Librarian of Michigan. From 1993 to 1996, he was Executive Director of the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association. From 1990 to 1993, he was Director of Member Services of the Ohio Library Association. >From 1984 to 1989, he served as Library Director of Fairfield County District Library in Lancaster, Ohio. From 1977 to 1984, he held various posts at the Charleston County Library in Charleston, South Carolina. George received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in library science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webcast. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. 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If you have any questions, please email me or give me a call. Thank you. Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080328/277d8c06/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Mar 31 12:43:43 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Mar 31 12:42:26 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's new online course "Teen Volunteer Programs" Message-ID: <00eb01c89367$87ae97e0$970bc7a0$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Teen Volunteer Programs (online learning course) Dates: May 6, 2008 ? June 2, 2008 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/378 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. This course is designed for public and school librarians that want to start or improve a teen volunteer program. ? Are you interested in a teen volunteer program but have no idea how to start one? ? Do you have a teen volunteer program but think it needs improving? ? Are you unsure of the value of a teen volunteer program for your library? If you have ever asked these questions, then this workshop is for you! This course will assist you in designing a dynamic program that meets the needs of your library and the needs of your teens. Topics will include why a teen volunteer program is important, how to recruit, train, retain, and reward your teen volunteers, and will examine some model teen volunteer programs. Workshop Description: This four-week online learning course will provide participants with a philosophy, practical advice and guidelines for developing and implementing a volunteer program suitable for various sizes of libraries. Through individual and group exercises you will explore issues of recruiting, training, motivating and rewarding in ways that are especially appropriate to the teen age group. The instructor will provide sample programs, handouts, and a webliography, as well as practical, useful tips that can be applied immediately. During the course, you will be doing exercises and exploring examples of exemplary model programs. You will also participate in online discussion forums as part of the online learning process. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: * Module One: Teen Volunteers - Pain or Gain? * What's in it for the library? * What's in it for the teens? * Weighing the costs * Module 2: Recruiting, Training, and Retaining * Methods of recruitment * Guidelines & orientation * Motivators * Module 3: Jobs for Volunteers and Model Programs * Exemplary models from outside the library * Long-term and short-term volunteers * Task Forces * On the fly - spontaneous opportunities * Module 4: Appreciation and Rewards * Ways to show appreciation * Rewards that appeal to teens Instructor: Kelley Worman. Kelley is the Young Adult Services Coordinator for Fresno County Public Library where she oversees programs and services for teens in grades 7-12, in 34 library branches. She is responsible for collection development, staff training and support, community outreach, policy development, and teen space design. As a youth librarian for over a decade, Kelley has provided workshops for teachers, school and public library staff, parents, and community groups, on topics that include dynamic booktalking, youth literature, homework sites connected to the California content standards, importance of and how to read to children, teen library spaces, information literacy, and programming ideas. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2 to 2? hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: This course is suitable for anyone from the library community with an interest in service to young adults and is considering providing a volunteer program for this age group. This course is suitable for librarians, paraprofessionals and volunteer coordinators. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: * Have an Internet connection and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. * Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). * Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. * To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: * Windows: * Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Netscape 7.1 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * Macintosh: * Mozilla 1.4 and above (which is the same engine as Netscape 7.1), Safari 2.0 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Susan Hildreth, State Librarian, discusses this and much more in her Infopeople webinar. Susan touches on hot topics in the California library world, emerging library trends and services available to you from the California State Library. She is also available for live questions and answers during each webinar. Check in to get to know our new State Librarian and keep in tune with the scene in Sacramento. Presenter: Susan Hildreth. Recognizing her distinguished 30-year career as a leader in public libraries, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Susan Hildreth State Librarian of California in July 2004. She oversees the California State Library's support of California libraries and cultural institutions as they work for the continued intellectual, technological, and cultural growth of California's diverse populations. Previously, Susan was the City Librarian of San Francisco and Deputy City Librarian. Active in professional associations throughout her career, Hildreth is the immediate past president of the Public Library Association (PLA). She has been a member of the PLA Board of Directors and an at-large member of the elected governing Council of the American Library Association. She also is a long-time member of the California Library Association for which she served as president and treasurer. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: State Library Webinar Date: April 8, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Presenter: Susan Hildreth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080402/4f4e3a86/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Apr 2 13:43:05 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Apr 2 13:41:16 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Updated description for next State Library webinar Message-ID: <011301c89502$274f22b0$75ed6810$@org> This is a reminder of next week's Infopeople webinar. Please let your staff and colleagues know about this event! Title: State Library Webinar Date and time: April 8 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the April 8 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/249/index.html Note: This is the first time that the State Library has done a webinar (voice and PowerPoint, no video). If you have not attended an Infopeople webinar, as opposed to a webcast, you need to run the set-up wizard before you will be able to access the presentation, so be sure to allow time to do that. What is happening at the California State Library? What new services or grant opportunities may be forthcoming from Library Development Services? In this webinar, Susan Hildreth, State Librarian, will provide an update on the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant program and give highlights of current State Library activities. She will be joined by Deputy State Librarian Stacey Aldrich, who will get you thinking about the future of reference! Both presenters will be available for live questions and answers. Presenters: Susan Hildreth. Recognizing her distinguished 30-year career as a leader in public libraries, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Susan Hildreth State Librarian of California in July 2004. She oversees the California State Library's support of California libraries and cultural institutions as they work for the continued intellectual, technological, and cultural growth of California's diverse populations. Previously, Susan was the City Librarian of San Francisco and Deputy City Librarian. Active in professional associations throughout her career, Hildreth is the immediate past president of the Public Library Association (PLA). She has been a member of the PLA Board of Directors and an at-large member of the elected governing Council of the American Library Association. She also is a long-time member of the California Library Association for which she served as president and treasurer. Stacey Aldrich was recently appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Deputy State Librarian of the California State Library. Before that she was the Assistant Director of the Omaha Public Library System. Before Omaha, she was the Deputy State Librarian at the Maryland State Department of Education, where her primary responsibility was to oversee the implementation of statewide projects. While in MD, Stacey played an active role in developing programs, conferences, and discussions to help public libraries generate ideas, conversations, and innovative programming around future thinking. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: State Library Webinar Date: April 8, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Presenter: Susan Hildreth. Stacey Aldrich -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Details below! > _____________________________________________ > > Who Are We Today? > The 11th Bay Area Conference for Library Support & Paraprofessional Staff > > Sponsored by the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay > Area > > Offered on two dates and locations: > Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Berkeley Public Library, Central > Library > Wednesday, April 23, 2008 San Jose Public Library, Dr. Martin Luther > King, Jr. Library > > Sign-in 8:30 - 9:00 am > Conference 9:00 am - 1:00 pm > > Registration Fee $40.00 > > For more information and to register, go to > http://www.plsinfo.org/workshops/sdcconference > . > Please share this information with support and paraprofessional staff at > your library! > > Agenda: > Keynote Address, with Q&A: "What's Certification Got to Do With Me?", > Jenifer Grady, Director, American Library Association Allied Professional > Association (ALA APA) " > Panel One: Technically Speaking (Technology and the Role of Support > Staff/Paraprofessionals) > Panel Two: Collaboration, Not Combat (Communication and the Working > Relationship between Librarians and Support Staff/Paraprofessionals) > For more information about workshop registration, contact Peninsula > Library System staff at (650) 349-5538 or krause@plsinfo.org > . > For more information about the workshop program, contact Paul Signorelli > at paul@paulsignorelli.com . > Daniel Hersh Oakland Public Library for the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay Area -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Title: Show It Off: Techniques for Increasing Circulation through Merchandising Your Collection and Services Dates and Locations: Thursday, May 8, Contra Costa County Library - Pleasant Hill Monday, June 2, Sacramento Public Library - Galleria Wednesday, June 4, Buena Park Library District Thursday, June 5, San Diego County Library Headquarters Monday, July 7, Monterey Park Library (Los Angeles area) Wednesday, July 9, Fresno Woodward Park Library Friday, July 11, Mountain View Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/376 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. In today's fast-paced world, users look for the same pizzazz, convenience, and comfort in their libraries that they find in their local Borders In this workshop you will: . Learn how to boost your library's circulation . Explore a variety of display techniques to show off your collection to users . Learn how to make your library more comfortable and convenient for users . Learn how to get your staff to buy into this transformation . Explore ways to make all of this happen with your current budget Merchandising doesn't have to be a dirty word. Techniques of visual retailing, using retail fixtures or adapting existing library shelving, can add WOW to your library and increase circulation and user satisfaction. Workshop Description: In this all day, hands-on workshop, attendees will learn how to use displays to increase circulation. Group exercises will give participants experience at using techniques in transforming libraries, including redesigning a library to improve collection display, comfort, and convenience. Attendees will participate in a walk-though at the host library to identify good practices and opportunities for displays. Throughout the day, attendees will develop an individual action plan for their library to immediately add displays using a variety of low cost and other techniques, plus methods of managing change with customers and staff, and ways to track the impact of merchandising on circulation and customer satisfaction. The instructor will provide a variety of practical, useful tips that can be applied immediately, as well as a webliography that can be used and shared after the workshop. Pre-workshop assignment: In this workshop you will be asked to identify specific collections of your own to highlight. Please bring the latest circulation report for your library/branch, showing circulation totals by call number range, genre, material type, and/or shelving location. You are also encouraged to bring photographs of any collection displays at your library (or .jpgs may be sent at least a week before the workshop to planning_library_futures@yahoo.com). Preliminary Course Outline * Merchandise Your Collection: Why and How-to Basics * Factors that impact library circulation * Benefits of using merchandising techniques to increase circulation and customer satisfaction * Differences between standard library shelving and merchandised displays * Identifying/creating collection "zones" * Using merchandising techniques with retail style fixtures for permanent collection display * Get in the Library Merchandising Zone: Creating Unique Environments * Creating unique zones and environments for different collections and customer needs * Creating a sense of welcome, comfort and excitement * How to use temporary merchandising strategies to temporarily spotlight small portions of the collection * Getting Staff Buy-In for Merchandising * Making the transition to a merchandising the library from the staff point of view * Methods for involving staff, including walk throughs, implementation teams, morning briefings * Make it Happen! Keep It Going! * Value of using talking points with staff and customers * Managing change with staff and customers * Developing merchandising standards and creating sustainable displays * Methods to evaluate the impact of merchandising on circulation and customer satisfaction Instructor: Kathy Schalk-Greene. Kathy is the Assistant Director of Mount Laurel Library. Kathy was named New Jersey Library Association's "Librarian of the Year" for 2005, in part for leading her library team through the Trading Spaces: Reinventing the Library Environment Project. During the past five years Kathy helped Mount Laurel transform itself into a national merchandising model for libraries, trained staff, and helped everyone maintain a sense of humor throughout the process. As a result library circulation doubled and community reaction has been ecstatic! Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in increasing circulation, comfort and convenience in their library. This course is appropriate for library managers, librarians and support staff, as well as trustees and commissioners. Prerequisites: None Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080403/c956b67b/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Fri Apr 4 10:13:42 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Fri Apr 4 10:12:24 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's new online course "Advanced Web Search Tools & Tips for 2008" Message-ID: <008901c89677$3c1b35f0$b451a1d0$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Advanced Web Search Tools & Tips for 2008 (online learning course) Dates: May 27, 2008 ? June 23, 2008 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/377 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. Do you use the web for reference or research of any kind? Do you know what's new and hot in web search engines? Do you know that all the search engines offer useful, largely secret advanced search commands? Do you know how and when to search for answers within blogs, wikis, video, and photo sites? Do you have a search strategy that encompasses all the formats and types of websites that exist today? In this course you will learn these things and more: ? What's new in search engines and when to use the latest innovations ? How and when to use web search engines' best advanced search techniques, including obscure limiter commands and other tools search engines rarely tell about ? The value in research and reference of subject-specialized search engines, databases, and web pages, and how to find them ? How to create and find your own searchable custom search engines to full-text search within almost any set of websites on almost any subject ? When to go beyond directories like lii.org and Infomine to explore the "invisible web" of databases and websites that can be useful in research and reference ? The likely future of web searching and tools for keeping up with the changes This course will make you a more efficient and effective searcher able to use the latest as well as the most useful advanced search techniques. Workshop Description: This four-week online learning course will provide, through individual written exercises and the instructor's feedback, explanations and practice developing the skills listed above. The instructor will provide cheat sheets and a webliography, as well as practical, useful tips that can be applied immediately. You will have a chance to try to find answers to questions submitted by other students in the class. During the course, you will be doing exercises and taking quizzes. You will also participate in online discussion forums as part of the online learning process. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: * Module One: What's New, Changing, and Useful in Search Engines * The best search engines at this time for advanced and basic searching * Obscure commands and limiters * Module Two: Subject-specialized databases, search engines, and websites * Searches and directories to find specialized search engines, websites, and useful searchable databases * When to use and how to find the growing "invisible web" * Module Three: The new participatory web and reference * Creating your own search engines and finding Custom Search Engines * Mining the "new web" for useful information ? when to consider turning to wikis, blogs, video, or photo sites. * The place at the reference desk for social networking and sharing sites like MySpace and LibraryThing and 43Things or 43Places * Module Four: Being Prepared for Any Question * Advanced search strategy * Keeping up and the future of web searching Instructor: Joe Barker. Until June 2007, Joe worked full time as a reference and instruction librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Doe library and the Moffitt undergraduate library. He also maintained an online web searching tutorial which remains one of the most heavily used resources for finding and evaluating information on the web. He has been teaching web searching for Infopeople, especially in connection with answering reference questions, since 2000 on topics such as PowerSearch, State of the Art Web Searching, Extreme Googling, Making the Most of the Post-Google Web, and Web 2.0: Searching Innovations. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2 to 2? hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone from the library community who uses the Internet to find information, either for research or reference. This is not an introductory course. Students who enroll should be familiar with basic web searching, either through some ground or online web searching class or through considerable web searching experience. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: * Have an Internet connection. * Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). * Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. * To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: * Windows: * Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Netscape 7.1 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * Macintosh: * Mozilla 1.4 and above (which is the same engine as Netscape 7.1), Safari 2.0 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you have any questions, please email me or give me a call. Thank you. Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080409/4ab5c416/attachment.html From Western at oclc.org Mon Apr 14 12:15:31 2008 From: Western at oclc.org (Western) Date: Mon Apr 14 12:31:13 2008 Subject: [Baynet] April - June |California Online and In-Person Training from OCLC Western Message-ID: <85055FA347C14043835BD64615F1238F1AEE52@OAEXCH2SERVER.oa.oclc.org> > OCLC Western is pleased to introduce our new series of Local Holdings > workshops. This series consists of four online workshops that walk > particpants through reasons to add Local Holdings Records (LHRs) to > WorldCat, principles and standards for creating high-quality LHRs, and > step-by-step techniques using real-world scenarios to create LHRs. The > online format is interactive, convenient and affordable. From > exploring the current standards for electronic holdings records > (Z39.71 and MARC Holdings) to creating records in OCLC's WorldCat and > selecting the best bibliographic records, our Local Holdings courses > are a progressive, holistic approach to mastering the creation, > interaction and maintenance of your library's local holdings. > OCLC Western also offers this series through customized, in-person > training. For more information regarding custom training options, > locations and pricing, please contact OCLC Western > at 1-800-854-5753. > Local Holdings Introduction > > (http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W828.htm) > Tuesday, May 13, 2008 > 9:00 am-10:00 am PST > WebEx Online Meeting > Tuesday, June 3, 2008 > 9:00 am-10:00 am PST > WebEx Online Meeting > Local Holdings Foundations Online: Principles and Standards for Local > Holdings Records > > (http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W829.htm) > Thursday, May 15, 2008 > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm PST > WebEx Online Meeting > Thursday, June 12, 2008 > 10:00 am-12:00 pm PST > WebEx Online Meeting > Local Holdings Maintenance I: Basic Serials Local Holdings > > (http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W830.htm) > Wednesday, May 21, 2008 > 10:00 am-12:00 pm PST > WebEx Online Meeting > Tuesday, June 17, 2008 > 10:00 am-12:00 pm PST > WebEx Online Meeting > Local Holdings Maintenance II: Beyond the Basics > > (http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W831.htm) > Friday, May 23, 2008 > 10:00 am-12:00 pm PST > WebEx Online Meeting > Thursday, June 19, 2008 > 10:00 am-12:00 pm PST > WebEx Online Meeting > > Outlined below are classes we have planned for the next few months. We > add new classes frequently, so to stay as up-to-date as possible, sign > up for our Training RSS feed < http://www.oclc.org/western/rss/ > > which provides daily updates on courses that have just been scheduled. > If you are interested in a more collective view of training > opportunities, opt for our Training Update < > https://www.oclc.org/western/email/default.htm > and we will send you > regular information. Or, view our Web site at > < http://www.oclc.org/western/ >. > > > > Cataloging and metadata ---------------------------------------------------------------- AACR and MARC for Sound Recordings http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W103.htm Thursday and Friday, June 5-6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/5/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm San Jose State University-Dr Martin Luther King Library, San Jose, CA AACR and MARC for Video Recordings http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W104.htm Tuesday-Wednesday, June 3-4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/5/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm San Jose State University-Martin Luther King Jr Library, San Jose, CA Basic Serials Cataloging http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W120.htm Tuesday-Wednesday, May 13-14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/29/08) 9:00 am-4:30 pm OCLC Western (Ontario, CA) CatExpress Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W119.htm June 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/13/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting Connexion Client Module 1 - WorldCat, MARC, and Client Basics http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W127.htm Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 2 - Basic Bibliographic Searching http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W133.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 3 - Basic Editing and Record Processing http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W129.htm Thursday, April 24, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm, Pacific time WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 4 - Save Files and File Management http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W130.htm May 8, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/1/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 5 - Automation and Customization http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W131.htm Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/1/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 7 - Advanced Bibliographic Searching http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W125.htm Tuesday, June 17,2998 (Registration Deadline: 6/12/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 8 - Original Cataloging http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W134.htm May 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/8/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeeting CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm Friday, May 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/6/08) 8:30 am-4:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm The Claremont Colleges (Claremont, CA) Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/19/08) 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/22/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/24/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Preserving Born Digital Collections http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W312.htm Friday, May 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) Preserving Digital Materials Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W385.htm Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/21/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Collection management ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm Friday, May 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/6/08) 8:30 am-4:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm The Claremont Colleges (Claremont, CA) Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm Wednesday, June 11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/10/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Digital Image Quality Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm Wednesday, May 28, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/27/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Funding Digital Projects Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/18/08) 10:00 am -12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/9/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 18, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/13/08) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/22/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/24/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Preservation 101: Basics for Paper and Media Collections http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W387.htm Monday, June 30-Friday, August 22, 2008 Virtual class Preserving Born Digital Collections http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W312.htm Friday, May 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) Preserving Digital Materials Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W385.htm Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/21/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting The Challenge of Ephemera Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W388.htm Friday, April 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/24/08) 9:00 am-11:00 am WebEx Online Meeting Digitization and preservation ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm Friday, May 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/6/08) 8:30 am-4:00 pm OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm The Claremont Colleges (Claremont, CA) Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm Wednesday, June 11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/10/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Digital Image Quality Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm Wednesday, May 28, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/27/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Funding Digital Projects Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Making Newspapers Available Via the Web http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W315.htm Thursday, May 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/12/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/22/08) 2:00 pm-4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/24/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Preservation 101: Basics for Paper and Media Collections http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W387.htm Monday, June 30-Friday, August 22, 2008 Virtual class Preserving Born Digital Collections http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W312.htm Friday, May 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) Preserving Digital Materials Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W385.htm Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/21/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting The Challenge of Ephemera Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W388.htm Friday, April 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/24/08) 9:00 am-11:00 am WebEx Online Meeting Librarianship ---------------------------------------------------------------- eContent Licensing and Negotiations http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W912.htm Wednesday, May 21, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/14/08) 9:00 am - 4:00 pm OCLC- Ontario, CA Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/18/08) 10:00 am -12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/9/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 18, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/13/08) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Library administration and management ---------------------------------------------------------------- Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm Wednesday, June 11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/10/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting eContent Licensing and Negotiations http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W912.htm Wednesday, May 21, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/14/08) 9:00 am - 4:00 pm OCLC- Ontario, CA Funding Digital Projects Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting If They Don't Know About it, They Won't Come! Marketing Virtual Reference http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W915.htm Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/5/08) 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Keep Up! Online Gaming for Community and Learning http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W913.htm Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/26/08) 11:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 11,2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/3/08) 1:00 pm- 2:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Keep Up! WorldCat.org http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W914.htm Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/5/08) 11:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) 10:00 am- 11:00 am WebEx Online Meeting Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/18/08) 10:00 am -12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/9/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 18, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/13/08) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Preserving Born Digital Collections http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W312.htm Friday, May 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/13/08) 9:00 am-4:00 pm OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) Reference and public service ---------------------------------------------------------------- Administering OCLC QuestionPoint http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W907.htm Monday, May 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/16/08) 1:00 -3:00 pm Online WebEx Meeting If They Don't Know About it, They Won't Come! Marketing Virtual Reference http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W915.htm Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/5/08) 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Keep Up! Online Gaming for Community and Learning http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W913.htm Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/26/08) 11:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 11,2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/3/08) 1:00 pm- 2:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Keep Up! WorldCat.org http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W914.htm Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/5/08) 11:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) 10:00 am- 11:00 am WebEx Online Meeting Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/16/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/19/08) 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting OCLC QuestionPoint: Delivering Virtual Reference http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W906.htm Wednesday-Thursday, April 23-24, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/17/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday-Friday, May 14-15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/8/08) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Resource sharing (ILL) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Custom Holdings in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W825.htm Tuesday, May 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/16/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Deflection on WorldCat Resource Sharing Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/w827.htm Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/20/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Local Holdings Foundations Online: Principles and Standards for Local Holdings Records http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W829.htm Thursday, May 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline:5/13/08) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, June 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/10/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Local Holdings Introduction http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W828.htm Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:00 am-10:00 am (Registration Deadline: 5/9/08) WebEx Online Meeting Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/2/08) 9:00 am-10:00 am WebEx Online Meeting Local Holdings Maintenance I: Basic Serials Local Holdings http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W830.htm Wednesday, May 21, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/19/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Tuesday, June 17, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/13/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Local Holdings Maintenance II: Beyond the Basics http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W831.htm Friday, May 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/21/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, June 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/17/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Patron-Initiated Resource Sharing in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W826.htm Tuesday, May 27, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/23/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W823.htm Thursday-Friday, May 8-9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/6/08) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W822.htm Tuesday, May 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/02/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------- eContent Licensing and Negotiations http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W912.htm Wednesday, May 21, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/14/08) 9:00 am - 4:00 pm OCLC- Ontario, CA If They Don't Know About it, They Won't Come! Marketing Virtual Reference http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W915.htm Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/5/08) 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Keep Up! Blogs, Wikis and RSS http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W909.htm Wednesday, April 23 ,2008 (Registration Deadline 4/16/08) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Keep Up! Online Gaming for Community and Learning http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W913.htm Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/26/08) 11:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 11,2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/3/08) 1:00 pm- 2:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Keep Up! WorldCat.org http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W914.htm Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/5/08) 11:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Thursday, June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) 10:00 am- 11:00 am WebEx Online Meeting Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Wednesday, April 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 4/18/08) 10:00 am -12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/9/08) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, June 18, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/13/08) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080414/4b69bc28/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Apr 17 10:11:30 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Apr 17 10:15:45 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webinar on "Virtual Visits" statistics Message-ID: <009a01c8a0ae$14f28190$3ed784b0$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: Effective "Virtual Visits" Statistics for the Annual Public Library Survey Date and time: April 24, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately one hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the April 24 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/255/index.html Libraries have always been good at measuring our physical visitors - we have gate counts, circulation statistics, program attendance, and more. But what about our online visitors? Are we counting them? And how? As more of our users move to our online services, measuring their impact becomes increasingly essential. Beginning this year, the Public Library Survey from the California State Library asks libraries to provide accurate "virtual visits" statistics, including the use of the library's website, catalog, and other web presences. Many libraries need a bit of a boost when it comes to measuring online visitors, and to simply understand what it is the survey is asking for. Sarah Houghton-Jan, experienced webmaster and Library 2.0 expert, will share with you the best way to easily gather accurate "virtual visits" statistics. Attendees will come away with a clear understanding of the survey request, knowledge of both free and commercial web analytic software options, customer privacy and data retention issues, and resources for more information. Capture your library's true full use with easy to implement tools! Speaker: Sarah Houghton-Jan. Sarah is the Digital Futures Manager for the San Jose Public Library. She also spends time contributing to LITA's Top Technology Trends Committee, teaching for Infopeople and other organizations, presenting and training for libraries internationally, writing for library and technology journals, and this past year she published her first book-length piece: Technology Competencies and Training for Libraries. You may know her better from her blog and alter ego: the Librarian In Black . Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Effective "Virtual Visits" Statistics for the Annual Public Library Survey Date: April 24, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Sarah Houghton-Jan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080417/258ce360/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Apr 21 15:08:55 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Apr 21 15:06:52 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webinar "Beyond MedlinePlus" Message-ID: <008301c8a3fc$4b53d350$e1fb79f0$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: Beyond MedlinePlus: Resources That Answer Those Other Tough Health Reference Questions - Session #4 of the Health e-Shows Series Date and time: May 14, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the May 14 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/241/index.html For health-related questions, knowing the best resource is a key component of providing exceptional reference services. MedlinePlus is a great place to start for many questions, but where do you turn for those other difficult questions? For example, library users might want to know about specifics about how a medication will affect breastfeeding and if there are better alternatives. They may ask to see new research studies on experimental treatments for cancer. Or a question might be about toxic substances in plastic bottles, or the likelihood of whether a particular disease will be passed on to children. At times, librarians will be asked to search for a full-text article from a medical journal that can be printed right at the library. This webinar will provide a look at free, high-quality resources that will answer these and many other difficult health-related questions. The session will be useful for public librarians and staff, hospital librarians, health educators, nurses and anyone who provides health information to members of the public. Learning about these resources will provide attendees with a robust "bag of tricks" to take your reference services to the next level. Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Beyond MedlinePlus: Resources That Answer Those Other Tough Health Reference Questions Date: May 14, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Kelli Ham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080421/834385c2/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Apr 23 13:53:59 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Apr 23 14:08:53 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Reminder of Infopeople's webinar tomorrow Message-ID: <002001c8a584$27f4cd40$77de67c0$@org> A reminder of the next Infopeople webinar. Please let your friends and colleagues know about this event! Title: Effective "Virtual Visits" Statistics for the Annual Public Library Survey Date and time: April 24, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately one hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the April 24 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/255/index.html Libraries have always been good at measuring our physical visitors - we have gate counts, circulation statistics, program attendance, and more. But what about our online visitors? Are we counting them? And how? As more of our users move to our online services, measuring their impact becomes increasingly essential. Beginning this year, the Public Library Survey from the California State Library asks libraries to provide accurate "virtual visits" statistics, including the use of the library's website, catalog, and other web presences. Many libraries need a bit of a boost when it comes to measuring online visitors, and to simply understand what it is the survey is asking for. Sarah Houghton-Jan, experienced webmaster and Library 2.0 expert, will share with you the best way to easily gather accurate "virtual visits" statistics. Attendees will come away with a clear understanding of the survey request, knowledge of both free and commercial web analytic software options, customer privacy and data retention issues, and resources for more information. Capture your library's true full use with easy to implement tools! Speaker: Sarah Houghton-Jan. Sarah is the Digital Futures Manager for the San Jose Public Library. She also spends time contributing to LITA's Top Technology Trends Committee, teaching for Infopeople and other organizations, presenting and training for libraries internationally, writing for library and technology journals, and this past year she published her first book-length piece: Technology Competencies and Training for Libraries. You may know her better from her blog and alter ego: the Librarian In Black . Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Effective "Virtual Visits" Statistics for the Annual Public Library Survey Date: April 24, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Sarah Houghton-Jan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080423/350edcda/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Apr 28 14:08:17 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Apr 28 14:05:54 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Communicating Up!" workshop Message-ID: <008601c8a973$fb183520$f1489f60$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Communicating Up! Dates and locations: Monday, May 12, Buena Park Library District Tuesday, May 13, San Diego County Library Headquarters Monday, June 2, Contra Costa County Library - Pleasant Hill Tuesday, June 3, Saratoga Library Wednesday, June 18, Los Angeles Public Library Friday, June 20, Fresno Woodward Park Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/372 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Have you ever wondered why some people are able to get their ideas taken seriously, even if they are not in positions of power? What does it take to become visible and gain your leaders' acceptance and respect? And how do you disagree with leaders without putting the brakes on your career? Whether you work in the largest library systems or in the smallest library, this workshop is for you want to: . Increase your personal power . Build your credibility with leaders in your library . Effectively communicate with your library's leaders, from your own supervisor to the Library Director . Raise and discuss difficult issues in a way that makes you part of the solution-not the problem At the conclusion of this workshop you will have the skills you need to tap into your personal power and use it effectively, and the confidence to communicate your ideas and opinions in a way that your library's leaders can hear them. Workshop Description: : In this all-day workshop you will explore useful techniques for building the credibility, trust, and relationships that will help your work get noticed. Through individual and group exercises you will identify your own sources of power and develop strategies for using it to support the library's goals. You will also complete a personal action plan to help you apply the practical, useful tips for stepping up and speaking up to help your library-and its leaders-move forward. Pre-workshop assignment: You'll want to prepare for this course by identifying the leader(s) on whom you want to focus. When you think about communicating 'up', how far 'up' are you thinking about? Do you want to improve communication with the Library Director, senior leaders, your own supervisor, or someone else? You will not be asked to provide names, but you will want to have someone, or some level of the organization, in mind. Preliminary Course Outline * The Leader-Follower Relationship * Types and sources of power * Follower styles and their impact on your effectiveness * Building Your Personal Credibility * Self-management and initiative * Respecting and changing the organization's culture * Building Trust and Relationships with Leaders * Using advocacy and inquiry * How and when to break the rules, especially when dealing with bureaucracy * Having (and Surviving) Difficult Conversations with Leaders * Speaking truth to power-how and when to challenge leaders without risking it all Instructor: Gail Griffith. Gail Griffith is the Deputy Director of the Carroll County (MD) Public Library, responsible for public services and staff development. She also provides consulting services in organization development to a variety of public library, local government, and nonprofit agencies in throughout the U.S. Most recently, has worked with Maryland's state library agency to develop and deliver Learning Libraries (leadership and teamwork) training throughout Maryland. She has also developed and led a Leadership Academy for all levels of library staff. Who Should Attend: : Anyone from the California library community who wants to increase their visibility and effectiveness in communicating with their organization's leaders. The content is applicable to staff from large libraries as well as small ones-from front-line staff through middle-managers. Prerequisites: None Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Post-Date: 2008-04-29 Deadline: Open until filled BASIC FUNCTION AND SCOPE OF JOB In addition to coordinating research instruction, the Research Instruction Librarian's responsibilities include reference services, collection development, outreach, and participation in other projects as assigned by the Library Director. The candidate for Research Instruction Librarian will be aware of current information literacy concepts and practices and will be comfortable teaching these principles to a variety of undergraduate and graduate students. Additionally, this candidate will be interested in forming relationships with departmental faculty, assisting with faculty assignment development, and maintaining awareness of new and innovative instruction and instructional assessment techniques. This employee will function as a member of the University Library team. Schedule includes one or more evenings per week until 9:00 p.m., and one or more weekend days per month. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS As coordinator of the library instruction team and as a reference librarian, this librarian works collegially with his/her colleagues in the following areas: COORDINATION OF LIBRARY RESEARCH INSTRUCTION ? Coordinates all library instruction. Working with a team of reference librarians, coordinates faculty outreach efforts, guides library instruction methodology and research and explores effective, innovative ways of providing research instruction to students and faculty, wherever they are located ? Coordinates and maintains quantitative and qualitative assessment of library instructional services. Assesses the effectiveness of library instruction services and identifies ways to make library instruction services more effective and efficient, given the needs of adult learners located throughout the world, variations in learning styles, and technological opportunities ? Liaises with faculty in assigned departments to promote library outreach, instruction, and collection development ? Works with Public Services Librarian to create and facilitate library workshops and training sessions REFERENCE SERVICES ? Provides reference services as needed, including desk coverage, email, IM and phone reference, and appointments with local and distance students, faculty, staff, alumni and corporate members of the library. Uses reference interaction as an opportunity to help students develop key information literacy skills ? Develops reference and research guides in print and electronic media ? Orients patrons and prospective students to the range of print and online resources available, and participates in new student orientations as necessary ? When on duty as a reference librarian during evenings and weekends, assists library assistants and work-study students in handling questions of policies, complaints, difficult patrons, and security issues COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT ? Works with the Collection Development Librarian and other librarians and departmental faculty to evaluate, select, and deselect materials in all relevant media ? Maintains effective communication with faculty in assigned subject areas PLANNING, ASSESSMENT, AND EVALUATION ? Participates in Information Services Department and University Library planning, assessment, and evaluation. Also participates in preparation of policies ? Participates in assessment of needs for computer and other library equipment STAFF DEVELOPMENT ? Collaborates with other staff in peer-training and other staff development needs ? Participates in relevant listservs for new resources, ideas, solutions and recommendations QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The following qualifications are required: ? MLS or equivalent degree from an ALA accredited program ? One year of experience teaching students, faculty, and other patrons to use library electronic resources ? Familiarity with information competency/literacy concepts and programs ? One year of experience providing reference service in an academic library to a diverse clientele of adult undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students ? One year of experience providing liaison with faculty, identifying collection development needs, locating and evaluating resources to meet those needs, in light of organizational objectives resources, and other requirements ? Excellent written and oral communication skills ? Excellent interpersonal and team collaboration skills ? Ability to work effectively within a culturally-diverse environment Preferred Qualifications: ? Knowledge of business reference and experience providing reference support to business students and others in professional-practice education Golden Gate University, founded in 1901, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ******************************************* Melissa Beuoy, MLIS Research Instruction Librarian Golden Gate University Library 536 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105 (415) 442-7245 (office) (415) 512-9395 (fax) ******************************************** -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From cchester at jfku.edu Tue Apr 29 18:06:52 2008 From: cchester at jfku.edu (Claudia Chester) Date: Tue Apr 29 18:07:14 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Position Announcement - Campbell Campus Librarian Message-ID: <004801c8aa5e$79eb4a50$4f501eac@phdc.jfku.edu> POSITION AVAILABLE Branch Librarian, John F. Kennedy University, Campbell campus. Permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday through Thursday, 11:00 AM - 7:30 PM, Friday 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Annual salary: $47,990 - $52,980. This grade 7 exempt position includes vacation, sick leave and a flexible benefit package that includes medical, dental, long term disability, 401(k) retirement eligibility, dependent care, voluntary life and/or long term care insurance and tuition waiver benefits. The requirements for this position include an MLS or MLIS degree and a minimum of one year of professional academic library experience, including reference and instruction experience; familiarity with all aspects of library operations and understanding of information technology and library automated systems. Library management and supervisory experience are highly desirable. An academic background or familiarity with psychology and/or counseling as well as familiarity with the Innovative Interfaces/Millennium library automation system would be helpful. The Campbell Campus Library supports the curricular, research, and classroom technology needs of 2 counseling MA programs and a Bachelor's completion program in psychology. The duties of the Branch Librarian include: managing the day to day operations of the library, providing reference assistance and information literacy instruction, and supervising one part time library assistant. The Librarian and Assistant share responsibility for direct provision of services such as circulation, reserves, serials management, intra-library loan, and audiovisual equipment booking and delivery. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong public service orientation, diplomacy, flexibility, excellent communications skills and be able to work well with a diverse, adult constituency with a sense of professionalism and good humor. Beginning employment date is July 1, 2008, and is contingent upon budgetary approval. Review of applications will remain open until the position is filled. To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and the names of three references by email to HRRecruiter@jfku.edu; with CAMPLIB in the subject line, or by fax to 925.969.3451; or mail to: HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT John F. Kennedy University 100 Ellinwood Way Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 www.jfku.edu John F. Kennedy University is an equal opportunity employer. The university does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability. In a continuing effort to enrich its academic environment and provide equal educational and employment opportunities, the university actively encourages applications from all groups that are underrepresented in higher education. Reasonable accommodations to enable participation in the selection process may be requested my qualified individuals with a disability by writing to the above address, or by calling 925.969-3450 5.08 Claudia Chester Interim University Librarian John F. Kennedy University Robert M. Fisher Library 100 Ellinwood Way Pleasant Hill, CA 94523-4817 library.jfku.edu Phone: 925-969-3108 Fax: 925-969-3101 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080429/a7f9e18f/attachment-0001.html From Western at oclc.org Wed Apr 30 12:59:29 2008 From: Western at oclc.org (Western) Date: Wed Apr 30 12:59:43 2008 Subject: [Baynet] New knock-out Connexion online training modules from OCLC Western Message-ID: <85055FA347C14043835BD64615F1238F1AEE5C@OAEXCH2SERVER.oa.oclc.org> > Do you need to achieve a black belt in Connexion Client, but have > limited time to devote in the dojo? OCLC Western has just the plan to > help you punch up your cataloging productivity. With our brand new, > progressive, online training modules, mastering the essential skills > you need is no sweat. We deliver live, instructor-led training > directly to you-in 10 condensed, two-hour segments. Whether you > advance through all 10 modules, or supplement them with in-person or > customized training, these online modules are an efficient, affordable > choice. > These new modules for Connexion Client are now open for registration! > NOTE: All of OCLC Western's Connexion Client Modules are held from > 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time and use Cisco WebEx. > > Connexion Client Module 1 - WorldCat, MARC and Client Basics > 78EB2FF102428B90D15F7AF646EBCBCC7604490&> > Wednesday, June 4, 2008 > Connexion Client Module 2 - Basic Bibliographic Searching > 78EB2FF102428B90D15F7AF646EBCBCC7604490&> > Thursday, June 5, 2008 > Connexion Client Module 3 - Basic Editing and Record Processing > 78EB2FF102428B90D15F7AF646EBCBCC7604490&> > Friday, June 6, 2008 > Connexion Client Module 4 - Save Files and File Management > 78EB2FF102428B90D15F7AF646EBCBCC7604490&> > Thursday, May 8, 2008 > Connexion Client Module 5 - Automation and Customization > 78EB2FF102428B90D15F7AF646EBCBCC7604490&> > Tuesday, June 3, 2008 > Connexion Client Module 6 - Editing Master Records > 78EB2FF102428B90D15F7AF646EBCBCC7604490&> > Wednesday, May 21, 2008 > Connexion Client Module 7 - Advanced Bibliographic Searching > 78EB2FF102428B90D15F7AF646EBCBCC7604490&> > Tuesday, June 17, 2008 > Connexion Client Module 8 - Original Cataloging > 78EB2FF102428B90D15F7AF646EBCBCC7604490&> > Thursday, May 15, 2008 (Also offered on June 18, 2008) > Connexion Client Module 9 - Authority Control > 78EB2FF102428B90D15F7AF646EBCBCC7604490&> > Tuesday, July 15, 2008 > Connexion Client Module 10 - Batch Processing > 78EB2FF102428B90D15F7AF646EBCBCC7604490&> > Tuesday, July 8, 2008 > > > From RSS feeds to member updates, staying informed is easier than ever > with OCLC Western electronic communications > 78EB2FF102428B90D15F7AF646EBCBCC7604490&> . > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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MedlinePlus is a great place to start for many questions, but where do you turn for those other difficult questions? For example, library users might want to know about specifics about how a medication will affect breastfeeding and if there are better alternatives. They may ask to see new research studies on experimental treatments for cancer. Or a question might be about toxic substances in plastic bottles, or the likelihood of whether a particular disease will be passed on to children. At times, librarians will be asked to search for a full-text article from a medical journal that can be printed right at the library. This webinar will provide a look at free, high-quality resources that will answer these and many other difficult health-related questions. The session will be useful for public librarians and staff, hospital librarians, health educators, nurses and anyone who provides health information to members of the public. Learning about these resources will provide attendees with a robust "bag of tricks" to take your reference services to the next level. Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. 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URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080508/6705b53b/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Tue May 13 15:12:58 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Tue May 13 15:16:03 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's new online course "Top Online Reference Sources 2008" Message-ID: <013701c8b546$80df86d0$829e9470$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Free, Fast, and Factual: Top Online Reference Sources 2008 (online learning course) Dates: June 17, 2008 ? July 14, 2008 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/380 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. Reference is changing: we answer questions in person, via phone, instant messaging, email, web-based chat, and text messaging. With disappearing budgets and increased workload it can be difficult to find the time to keep up with all the new web sources that can supplement the library's print reference collection. This course will update you on free web resources you can use to find the answers to many of the reference questions you're asked. You'll learn where to find information quickly on topics such as: ? Photos of the 2008 Olympic Torch relay that aren't copyrighted ? Free public records available online for your area ? If it's legal to be stopped in California for not wearing a seatbelt ? All the bands who have ever recorded a version of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" ? Finding consumer reviews for various PDAs ? Learning steps for staying healthy with diabetes Reference is not dead! Save precious time, money, and frustration by tuning up your online reference skills with this class. Workshop Description: This four-week online class will teach you the tools you need to quickly mine the web for answers to ready reference questions. Additionally, through exercises and group discussions, you will update your knowledge of the best, free, online web sites for finding factual answers to questions you used to have to refer elsewhere. You will also explore gateways and portals designed to lead you to the best information on specific topics and will learn new uses for old ready reference standbys. Instructor Sarah Houghton-Jan will provide cheat sheets, guided discussions, and a webliography as well as practical tips for improving your search strategies to reduce the time spent searching for that elusive answer. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: * Module One: Library Gateways, Ready Reference, Business, and Directories Webites * Module Two: Health, Home & Garden, Jobs & Careers, and Consumer Resources Websites * Module Three: Government & History, News, Statistics, and Law Websites * Module Four: Music, Multimedia, Books & Reading Websites, Google Tools, and Reference Site Finding Strategies Instructor: Sarah Houghton-Jan. Sarah is the Digital Futures Manager for the San Jose Public Library. She also spends time contributing to LITA?s Top Technology Trends Committee, teaching for Infopeople and other organizations, presenting and training for libraries internationally, writing for library and technology journals, and this past year she published her first book-length piece: Technology Competencies and Training for Libraries. You may know her better from her blog and alter ego: the Librarian In Black . Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 3 to 3? hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in using free resources on the Internet to answer questions reliably. This workshop is appropriate for reference and other public service staff. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: * Have an Internet connection and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. * Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en . Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html). * Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. * To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: * Windows: * Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Netscape 7.1 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * Macintosh: * Mozilla 1.4 and above (which is the same engine as Netscape 7.1), Safari 2.0 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We > add new classes frequently, so to stay as up-to-date as possible, sign > up for our Training RSS feed < http://www.oclc.org/western/rss/ > > which provides daily updates on courses that have just been scheduled. > If you are interested in a more collective view of training > opportunities, opt for our Training Update < > https://www.oclc.org/western/email/default.htm > and we will send you > regular information. Or, view our Web site at > < http://www.oclc.org/western/ >. > > > > > > Cataloging and metadata > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > AACR and MARC for Sound Recordings > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W103.htm > > Thursday and Friday, June 5-6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/23/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > San Jose State University-Dr Martin Luther King Library, San Jose, CA > > > AACR and MARC for Video Recordings > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W104.htm > > Tuesday-Wednesday, June 3-4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/23/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > San Jose State University-Martin Luther King Jr Library, San Jose, CA > > > CatExpress Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W119.htm > > June 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/13/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > Online WebEx Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 1 - WorldCat, MARC, and Client Basics > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W127.htm > > June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > July 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/8/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > July 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/8/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 2 - Basic Bibliographic Searching > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W133.htm > > June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/29/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/29/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/9/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/9/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 3 - Basic Editing and Record Processing > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W129.htm > > June 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > June 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > July 17, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/10/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > July 17, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/10/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 4 - Save Files and File Management > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W130.htm > > June 11, 2008 ( Registration Deadline: 6/4/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 5 - Automation and Customization > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W131.htm > > Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/26/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > June 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/26/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > July 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/15/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > July 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/15/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 6 - Editing Master Records > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W132.htm > > Wednesday, May 21, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/16/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > June 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/5/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > July 24, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 7 - Advanced Bibliographic Searching > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W125.htm > > Tuesday, June 17,2998 (Registration Deadline: 6/12/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > July 29, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/22/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 8 - Original Cataloging > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W134.htm > > June 18, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/11/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > July 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/3/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 9 - Authority Control > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W135.htm > > July 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/8/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 10 - Batch Processing > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W136.htm > > July 8, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/1/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm > > Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > The Claremont Colleges (Claremont, CA) > > > Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm > > Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/19/08) > 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm > > Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/24/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Preserving Digital Materials Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W385.htm > > Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/21/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Collection management > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm > > Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > The Claremont Colleges (Claremont, CA) > > > Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm > > Wednesday, June 11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/10/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Digital Image Quality Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm > > Wednesday, May 28, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/27/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, July 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/27/08) > 10:00 am-2:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Funding Digital Projects Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/11/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, June 18, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/13/08) > 10:00 am - 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm > > Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/24/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Preservation 101: Basics for Paper and Media Collections > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W387.htm > > Monday, June 30-Friday, August 22, 2008 > Virtual class > > > Preserving Digital Materials Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W385.htm > > Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/21/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Digitization and preservation > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm > > Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > The Claremont Colleges (Claremont, CA) > > > Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm > > Wednesday, June 11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/10/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Digital Image Quality Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm > > Wednesday, May 28, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/27/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, July 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/27/08) > 10:00 am-2:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Funding Digital Projects Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/11/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm > > Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/24/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Preservation 101: Basics for Paper and Media Collections > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W387.htm > > Monday, June 30-Friday, August 22, 2008 > Virtual class > > > Preserving Digital Materials Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W385.htm > > Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/21/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > User to User Training > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W306.htm > > Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) > 9:00 am-3:00 pm > The Claremont Colleges (Claremont, CA) > > > > > Librarianship > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, June 18, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/13/08) > 10:00 am - 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Library administration and management > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm > > Wednesday, June 11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/10/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Funding Digital Projects Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/11/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > If They Don't Know About it, They Won't Come! Marketing Virtual > Reference > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W915.htm > > Thursday, June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) > 10:00 am- 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Keep Up! Online Gaming for Community and Learning > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W913.htm > > Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/26/08) > 11:00 am- 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, June 11,2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/3/08) > 1:00 pm- 2:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Keep Up! WorldCat.org > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W914.htm > > Thursday, June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) > 10:00 am- 11:00 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/8/08) > 2:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, June 18, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/13/08) > 10:00 am - 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Reference and public service > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Administering OCLC QuestionPoint > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W907.htm > > Monday, May 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/16/08) > 1:00 -3:00 pm > Online WebEx Meeting > > > If They Don't Know About it, They Won't Come! Marketing Virtual > Reference > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W915.htm > > Thursday, June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) > 10:00 am- 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Keep Up! Online Gaming for Community and Learning > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W913.htm > > Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/26/08) > 11:00 am- 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, June 11,2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/3/08) > 1:00 pm- 2:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Keep Up! WorldCat.org > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W914.htm > > Thursday, June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) > 10:00 am- 11:00 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/8/08) > 2:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm > > Thursday, May 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/19/08) > 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Resource sharing (ILL) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Custom Holdings in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W825.htm > > Tuesday, May 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/16/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Tuesday, July 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/11/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Deflection on WorldCat Resource Sharing Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/w827.htm > > Thursday, July 17, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/15/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Introduction to OCLC's Policies Directory (PD) > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W504.htm > > Tuesday, June 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/6/08) > 1000 am-11:00 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Foundations Online: Principles and Standards for Local > Holdings Records > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W829.htm > > Thursday, June 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/10/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Introduction > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W828.htm > > Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/2/08) > 9:00 am-10:00 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Maintenance I: Basic Serials Local Holdings > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W830.htm > > Wednesday, May 21, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/19/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Tuesday, June 17, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/13/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Maintenance II: Beyond the Basics > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W831.htm > > Wednesday, May 21, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/19/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, June 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Patron-Initiated Resource Sharing in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W826.htm > > Tuesday, July 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/18/08 > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W823.htm > > Thursday-Friday, June 19-20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/17/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday-Friday, July 24-25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/22/2008) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W822.htm > > Wednesday, June 11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/9/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/14/2008) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Technology > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > If They Don't Know About it, They Won't Come! Marketing Virtual > Reference > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W915.htm > > Thursday, June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) > 10:00 am- 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Keep Up! Online Gaming for Community and Learning > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W913.htm > > Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/26/08) > 11:00 am- 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, June 11,2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/3/08) > 1:00 pm- 2:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Keep Up! WorldCat.org > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W914.htm > > Thursday, June 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/28/08) > 10:00 am- 11:00 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/8/08) > 2:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, June 18, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/13/08) > 10:00 am - 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > User to User Training > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W306.htm > > Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 5/30/08) > 9:00 am-3:00 pm > The Claremont Colleges (Claremont, CA) > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This year's meeting is taking place > June 5-6 at the Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California. > > Highlights will include: > * Rights management: Allyson Mower from the University of Utah will > discuss the system they built to manage copyright for digital > collections and Alain Veylit from the Claremont Colleges will talk > about the process of implementing the system. > > * Map collections: Alex Dolski from the University of Nevada, Las > Vegas will discuss a graphical/spatial search application for > CONTENTdm map collections. > > * Data wrangling: Lisa Crane from Claremont Colleges will share her > experiences importing legacy metadata along with Eric Luhrs from > Lafayette College who will talk about MetaDB, a metadata creation tool > for distributed environments > * Collection visibility: Allegra Gonzalez from the Claremont Colleges > will discuss making collections available to website registries and > harvesters like Worldcat and OAI. > * Product updates: Geri Ingram from OCLC will share information on the > current features and planned enhancements for CONTENTdm. > * Developers' Discussion Forum: Led by Terry Reese of Oregon State > University, participants will be provided an opportunity to discuss > the CONTENTdm API and other topics. > > Meeting Dates: > Thursday, June 5th 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. > Friday, June 6th 9:00 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. > > Pre-Meeting Training Opportunity: > This year there will be training available as a pre-meeting activity > on Wednesday, June 4th. For those new to CONTENTdm, or for those who > wish to preview the software, the CONTENTdm Basic User Instruction > workshop include hands-on exercises and covers: creating collections, > using the compound document wizard, metadata and controlled vocabulary > implementation, and maintaining collections with batch replacement of > objects. This training will be led by OCLC Western staff. > A second concurrent workshop, led by CONTENTdm users will cover > importing metadata from legacy systems and working with tab-delimited > text files. > For more information about the CONTENTdm Users Group meeting, the > Pre-Meeting Training Opportunity, and to register, please visit our > Web site > 78EB2FF9E7119D44338038C5322110E03D1DAAD&> . > > > From RSS feeds to member updates, staying informed is easier than ever > with OCLC Western electronic communications > . > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The > forum will feature national experts from the archival, museum and > library communities who will discuss current projects to create and > automate evaluation and assessment tasks for digital collections. > Three of these distinguished presenters include: > > * Kate Haley Goldman (Keynote speaker), Senior Research Associate at > the Institute for Learning Innovation, Annapolis MD > * Elizabeth Yakel, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School > of Information > * Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Professor, School of Information and Library > Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > The program will also explore how evaluation and assessment methods > inform decision making for digital collections. Presentations will > highlight national projects of significance relating to evaluation and > assessment of digital collection users, 21st century learners and > model practices for digital program assessment. > The forum is designed to offer a smaller and more intimate meeting > setting where participants can share knowledge and create networks > with other organizations that are working to develop assessment and > evaluation practices. It is an ideal educational opportunity for > librarians, archivists and museum staff who are charged with creating > digital access to collections. > So please make your plans now to join your colleagues at this > prestigious national event. For more information about the 2008 OCLC > Western Digital Forum and to register, please visit our Web page > . We are > looking forward to your active participation in this dynamic event. > The OCLC Western Digital Forum is co-sponsored by the Orbis Cascade > Alliance and OCLC Digital Collection Services. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080519/a26d3c07/attachment.html From Craig.Cruz at Krames.com Fri May 23 19:25:23 2008 From: Craig.Cruz at Krames.com (Cruz, Craig) Date: Fri May 23 19:25:43 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Reminder: BayNet Annual Meeting on June 4 Message-ID: <51321A53C517E149844F3E1766178AE824B600@sb-exchange-01.medimedia.com> Speaker: Dena Sneider from the Bay Area Career Center Date: Wednesday, June 4 Time: 9:30-11:30 am Location: Children?s Variety Preview Room, 582 Market Street, in the Hobart Building. (Because of the size of the Preview Room, we ask that members RSVP if they?re planning on attending the meeting. Please email President-Elect Craig Cruz, Jr. : craig.cruz@krames.com) This year's speaker, Dena Sneider, has years of experience helping professionals measure their career satisfaction, move up in their fields, or move on to more satisfying dreams. You will learn skills in career self-assessment and strategies in looking for work during an economic slowdown. Her clients have included librarians, as well as professionals in non-profits, international work, the film industry, education- all levels including higher education, and law. You can read Dena Sneider?s comprehensive profile at: http://www.bayareacareercenter.com/profiles/sneider.htm To learn more about the Bay Area Career Center, visit http://www.bayareacareercenter.com/ Craig Cruz Jr. Library Manager Krames Health Science Library Krames ph. 1-650-244-4532 fax 1-650-244-4543 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080523/c75f47a7/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed May 28 13:28:44 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed May 28 13:25:40 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's redo of "Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship" webinar Message-ID: <010301c8c101$6d6e91b0$484bb510$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship Date and time: June 6, 2008, 9:30am - 11:30am This webinar will last approximately two hours. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the June 6 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/277/index.html Intrepid presenters Joan Frye Williams and George Needham have agreed to make one more attempt to deliver an extended version of their recent PLA program: "Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship." You may remember that their April 4 live webcast of this material was scuttled by technical difficulties. Bandwidth was compromised by the crash of one of the regional Internet 2 nodes - something even Infopeople couldn't remedy! George and Joan gamely stayed on in the studio on April 4 and recorded a truncated version of their webcast for posting on the Infopeople archive. However, we've decided that it would be worth bringing them back for a live presentation of the full content, with an opportunity for listener questions and answers. To be on the safe side, they'll be doing this as a webinar, a format less subject to the vagaries of Internet traffic. Don't miss this opportunity to interact with two of our liveliest library commentators. Join George and Joan on Friday, June 6. Speakers: Joan Frye Williams and George Needham. Joan Frye Williams. For more than 25 years Joan has been a successful librarian, consultant, vendor, planner, trainer, evaluator and user of library services, with a special emphasis on innovation, technology and emerging library trends. She is the president of her own library and information technology consulting firm. She received an MLS from the University of California at Berkeley (1975) and in addition to her consulting practice she has worked in both public and academic libraries, for library automation vendors, as well as at the California State Library. Her many clients include large and small public libraries, library consortia, state library agencies, professional library associations, library boards, library vendors and architects. George Needham. Before joining OCLC in 1999, George was State Librarian of Michigan. From 1993 to 1996, he was Executive Director of the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association. >From 1990 to 1993, he was Director of Member Services of the Ohio Library Association. >From 1984 to 1989, he served as Library Director of Fairfield County District Library in Lancaster, Ohio. From 1977 to 1984, he held various posts at the Charleston County Library in Charleston, South Carolina. George received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in library science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship Date: June 6, 2008 Time: 9:30am - 11:30 am Speakers: Joan Frye Williams and George Needham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080528/6525eeac/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu May 29 11:46:11 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu May 29 11:43:19 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webinar on Quality Health Information Message-ID: <008e01c8c1bc$4406d510$cc147f30$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: I Do Not Give Medical Advice: I Dispense Quality Health Information - Session #5 of the Health e-Shows Series Date and time: June 19, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the June 19 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/242/index.html In the day-to-day work of the reference librarian, the health reference interview presents one of the most challenging scenarios. The reasons are many, and each interaction is unique. The user might be distressed or emotional, or may want advice. Low health literacy can be a problem, regardless of the user's education or socio-economic status. The question might refer to a serious diagnosis or life-threatening condition, in which case the reference interaction becomes even more serious and significant. What determines a successful outcome, both for the library user and the librarian? Is the experience better, worse, or simply different for public librarians as compared with hospital or medical librarians? This interactive webinar will present the differences between regular reference and health reference, with a focus on consumer health reference services in both medical and public library settings. Librarians will learn from the expertise and experience of their colleagues about dispensing quality health information! Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: I Do Not Give Medical Advice; I Dispense Quality Health Information Date: June 19, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Kelli Ham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080529/f2455bb4/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu May 29 12:05:13 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu May 29 12:02:17 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Upcoming Infopeople workshops Message-ID: <00c301c8c1be$ecc21af0$c64650d0$@org> Please take a look at some of the Infopeople workshops coming up in June: Communicating Up! http://infopeople.org/workshop/372 June 18, Los Angeles Public Library June 20, Fresno - Woodward Park Library Free, Fast, and Factual: Top Online Reference Sources 2008 http://infopeople.org/workshop/380 June 17, online learning course Techniques for Helping the Public Serve Themselves http://infopeople.org/workshop/363 June 26, Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library Please visit the URL's listed for a description of the workshops and to register. If you have any questions, please email me or give me a call. Thank you. Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080529/5c851f84/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Jun 2 14:07:32 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Jun 2 14:04:32 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webinar on Quality Health Information Message-ID: <014401c8c4f4$aca7edd0$05f7c970$@org> We are re-announcing this webinar because of the new features allowing for participation by attendees. Please see NOTE below. Title: I Do Not Give Medical Advice: I Dispense Quality Health Information - Session #5 of the Health e-Shows Series Date and time: June 19, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the June 19 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/242/index.html In the day-to-day work of the reference librarian, the health reference interview presents one of the most challenging scenarios. The reasons are many, and each interaction is unique. The user might be distressed or emotional, or may want advice. Low health literacy can be a problem, regardless of the user's education or socio-economic status. The question might refer to a serious diagnosis or life-threatening condition, in which case the reference interaction becomes even more serious and significant. What determines a successful outcome, both for the library user and the librarian? Is the experience better, worse, or simply different for public librarians as compared with hospital or medical librarians? This interactive webinar will present the differences between regular reference and health reference, with a focus on consumer health reference services in both medical and public library settings. Librarians will learn from the expertise and experience of their colleagues about dispensing quality health information! NOTE: Your input is requested! The format of this session takes advantage of the features of the webinar software Horizon Wimba, allowing for participation by attendees. Participants will have opportunities to contribute their ideas, discuss issues and challenges they face, and provide strategies and best practices for example scenarios. In preparation for the session, we are asking for your input in a pre-survey to identify specific challenges and concerns about providing health information, which will help to guide the discussion. Public and medical librarians or others who provide consumer health information to members of the public are invited to participate. http://tinyurl.com/6eglhq The survey will be available until 5pm PST Friday, June 13. Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: I Do Not Give Medical Advice; I Dispense Quality Health Information Date: June 19, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Kelli Ham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080602/2f1ba14e/attachment.html From Craig.Cruz at Krames.com Tue Jun 3 09:53:11 2008 From: Craig.Cruz at Krames.com (Cruz, Craig) Date: Tue Jun 3 09:53:17 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Reminder: BayNet annual meeting tomorrow with presentation on career improvement strategies Message-ID: <51321A53C517E149844F3E1766178AE801A40B00@sb-exchange-01.medimedia.com> I'd like to remind everyone that BayNet's annual membership meeting is tomorrow at 9:30 in San Francisco. The meeting is free and open to all BayNet members. You can join at the meeting if you'd like to attend but are not yet in BayNet. And remember, all library staff of institutional members enjoy membership benefits. Meeting details: Speaker: Dena Sneider from the Bay Area Career Center Date: Wednesday, June 4 (that's tomorrow!) Time: 9:30-11:30 am Location: Children's Variety Preview Room, 582 Market Street, in the Hobart Building (just steps away from Montgomery BART station). (Because of the size of the Preview Room, we ask that you RSVP if you're planning to attend the meeting. Please email President-Elect Craig Cruz, Jr. : craig.cruz@krames.com) This year's speaker, Dena Sneider, has years of experience helping professionals measure their career satisfaction, move up in their fields, or move on to more satisfying dreams. You will learn skills in career self-assessment and strategies in looking for work during an economic slowdown. Her clients have included librarians, as well as professionals in non-profits, international work, the film industry, education (all levels including higher education), and law. You can read Dena Sneider's comprehensive profile at: http://www.bayareacareercenter.com/profiles/sneider.htm To learn more about the Bay Area Career Center, visit http://www.bayareacareercenter.com/ Craig Cruz Jr. Library Manager Krames Health Sciences Library Krames Health & Safety ph. 1-650-244-4532 fax. 1-650-244-4345 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080603/051552b2/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Jun 4 14:32:12 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Jun 4 14:32:21 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's new "Experienceology" workshop Message-ID: <012401c8c68a$73f9b3f0$5bed1bd0$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Experienceology: 8 Steps to Better Library Experiences Dates and locations: Monday, July 14, Sacramento Public Library - Galleria Tuesday, August 12, Los Angeles Public Library Tuesday, August 26, Fresno - Woodward Park Library Wednesday, September 10, San Diego County Library Headquarters Monday, September 29, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Wednesday, October 15, Buena Park Library District Tuesday, October 21, San Francisco Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/375 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. . Would you like to improve your library's user experience? . Wondering how the Experience Economy applies to you? . Wish you could wave a magic wand and upgrade your facilities? Attend the Experienceology workshop to learn a straightforward process that re-frames your library from the user's point of view. Experienceology takes a library visit and breaks it into 8 sequential steps, allowing you to analyze all aspects of your experience and prioritize changes. While you may not be able to wave that magic wand, many changes are common sense and inexpensive and can be implemented as soon as you return to work. This fast-paced workshop provides hundreds of examples from a variety of businesses around the world. You'll be able to improve your user's satisfaction, increase their desire to return, and receive better word-of-mouth advertising in your community-all while improving your own work environment and job satisfaction. Workshop Description: This lively full-day hands-on workshop will provide you with an 8-step process you can use to analyze your own library's user experience. Throughout the day you'll work on an individual progressive exercise, applying each of the 8 steps to your own library. In the afternoon you'll work in small groups to analyze the host library's experience and then debrief it together. The instructor will provide worksheets, handouts, and a reading list/webliography. Examples from a variety of experience-based businesses as well as great libraries will be featured throughout the day. Pre-workshop assignment: Please send me one photograph that you think describes a great visitor, user, or customer experience. It can be a photograph of something you have enjoyed as a visitor or a customer. It does not have to be from a library; it could be from a museum, garden, restaurant, retail space, theme park, zoo, etc. Please include a brief email with your photograph. I look forward to working with you all! sweaver@experienceology.com Preliminary Course Outline * Introduction to Experience-Based Businesses * Defining visitor experience * Increase in competition * 8 Steps to Great Experiences * Step 1: Invitation * Step 2: Welcome * Step 3: Orientation * Step 4: Comfort * Step 5: Communication * Step 6: Sensation * Step 7: Common Sense * Step 8: Finale * Practical Exercise * Analyze the host library * Debrief * Conclusion Instructor: Stephanie Weaver. Stephanie developed her problem-solving approach during twenty years of working in the healthcare and museum fields. Her real-world experience comes from years at institutions considered best-in-class: Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago Children's Museum, Chicago Botanic Garden, and the San Diego Zoo. Long known for her ability to distill and synthesize key information, she is also a highly rated workshop presenter and meeting facilitator. She has created memorable experiences on a tour bus in China, out of a backpack near a garden lagoon, with a Snow Fairy on an Enchanted Winter Wednesday, while making a section of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and as part of the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition team. Her book about crafting memorable visitor experiences is called Creating Great Visitor Experiences: A Guide for Museums, Parks, Zoos, Gardens, and Libraries. Her 8 Steps to Great Visitor Experiences forms the foundation for her coaching and consulting practice. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in improving your user experience and increasing library usage. This course is suitable for librarians, webmasters, support staff, library business managers, procurement officers, public information officers, systems staff, facilities managers, custodians, volunteers, library trustees, and commissioners. It is especially helpful for inspiring decision-makers for the need to spend money on user experience elements, and for teams who are creating new library experiences or planning renovations. Prerequisites: None Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080604/0e5c86be/attachment-0001.html From smiller at milibrary.org Wed Jun 4 14:39:42 2008 From: smiller at milibrary.org (Sharon Miller) Date: Wed Jun 4 14:37:51 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's new "Experienceology" workshop In-Reply-To: <012401c8c68a$73f9b3f0$5bed1bd0$@org> Message-ID: Inez, I would like to take this workshop in Oct at SFPL. I will deal with actual reservation in July. Sharon Sharon Miller Head of Public Services Mechanics' Institute Library 57 Post St. San Francisco, CA 94104 415-393-0113 www.milibrary.org email: smiller@milibrary.org -----Original Message----- From: baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu [mailto:baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu]On Behalf Of Linda Rodenspiel Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:32 PM To: baynet@exploratorium.edu Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's new "Experienceology" workshop Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Experienceology: 8 Steps to Better Library Experiences Dates and locations: Monday, July 14, Sacramento Public Library - Galleria Tuesday, August 12, Los Angeles Public Library Tuesday, August 26, Fresno - Woodward Park Library Wednesday, September 10, San Diego County Library Headquarters Monday, September 29, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Wednesday, October 15, Buena Park Library District Tuesday, October 21, San Francisco Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/375 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. . Would you like to improve your library's user experience? . Wondering how the Experience Economy applies to you? . Wish you could wave a magic wand and upgrade your facilities? Attend the Experienceology workshop to learn a straightforward process that re-frames your library from the user's point of view. Experienceology takes a library visit and breaks it into 8 sequential steps, allowing you to analyze all aspects of your experience and prioritize changes. While you may not be able to wave that magic wand, many changes are common sense and inexpensive and can be implemented as soon as you return to work. This fast-paced workshop provides hundreds of examples from a variety of businesses around the world. You'll be able to improve your user's satisfaction, increase their desire to return, and receive better word-of-mouth advertising in your community-all while improving your own work environment and job satisfaction. Workshop Description: This lively full-day hands-on workshop will provide you with an 8-step process you can use to analyze your own library's user experience. Throughout the day you'll work on an individual progressive exercise, applying each of the 8 steps to your own library. In the afternoon you'll work in small groups to analyze the host library's experience and then debrief it together. The instructor will provide worksheets, handouts, and a reading list/webliography. Examples from a variety of experience-based businesses as well as great libraries will be featured throughout the day. Pre-workshop assignment: Please send me one photograph that you think describes a great visitor, user, or customer experience. It can be a photograph of something you have enjoyed as a visitor or a customer. It does not have to be from a library; it could be from a museum, garden, restaurant, retail space, theme park, zoo, etc. Please include a brief email with your photograph. I look forward to working with you all! sweaver@experienceology.com Preliminary Course Outline a.. Introduction to Experience-Based Businesses a.. Defining visitor experience b.. Increase in competition b.. 8 Steps to Great Experiences a.. Step 1: Invitation b.. Step 2: Welcome c.. Step 3: Orientation d.. Step 4: Comfort e.. Step 5: Communication f.. Step 6: Sensation g.. Step 7: Common Sense h.. Step 8: Finale c.. Practical Exercise a.. Analyze the host library b.. Debrief c.. Conclusion Instructor: Stephanie Weaver. Stephanie developed her problem-solving approach during twenty years of working in the healthcare and museum fields. Her real-world experience comes from years at institutions considered best-in-class: Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago Children's Museum, Chicago Botanic Garden, and the San Diego Zoo. Long known for her ability to distill and synthesize key information, she is also a highly rated workshop presenter and meeting facilitator. She has created memorable experiences on a tour bus in China, out of a backpack near a garden lagoon, with a Snow Fairy on an Enchanted Winter Wednesday, while making a section of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and as part of the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition team. Her book about crafting memorable visitor experiences is called Creating Great Visitor Experiences: A Guide for Museums, Parks, Zoos, Gardens, and Libraries. Her 8 Steps to Great Visitor Experiences forms the foundation for her coaching and consulting practice. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in improving your user experience and increasing library usage. This course is suitable for librarians, webmasters, support staff, library business managers, procurement officers, public information officers, systems staff, facilities managers, custodians, volunteers, library trustees, and commissioners. It is especially helpful for inspiring decision-makers for the need to spend money on user experience elements, and for teams who are creating new library experiences or planning renovations. Prerequisites: None Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Or, view our Web site at < > http://www.oclc.org/western/ >. > > > > > Cataloging and metadata > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Book Blitz II > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W102.htm > > August 18-19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/4/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > Santa Ana College (Santa Ana, CA) > > > Connexion Client Module 1 - WorldCat, MARC, and Client Basics > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W127.htm > > July 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/8/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > July 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/8/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 10 - Batch Processing > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W136.htm > > July 8, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/1/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 2 - Basic Bibliographic Searching > 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Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm > > Wednesday, August 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/11/08)) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Digital Image Quality Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm > > Wednesday, July 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/30/08) > 10:00 am-2:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Funding Digital Projects Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/15/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/8/08) > 1:00 pm -3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, August 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/5/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm > > Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/24/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/15/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Preservation 101: Basics for Paper and Media Collections > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W387.htm > > Monday, June 30-Friday, August 22, 2008 > Virtual class > > > > > Digitization and preservation > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm > > Wednesday, July 30, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/25/08) > 8:30 am-4:00 pm > University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) > > > Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm > > Wednesday, August 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/11/08)) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Digital Image Quality Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm > > Wednesday, July 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/30/08) > 10:00 am-2:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Funding Digital Projects Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/15/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm > > Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 6/24/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/15/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Preservation 101: Basics for Paper and Media Collections > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W387.htm > > Monday, June 30-Friday, August 22, 2008 > Virtual class > > > > > Librarianship > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/8/08) > 1:00 pm -3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, August 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/5/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Library administration and management > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm > > Wednesday, August 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/11/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Funding Digital Projects Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/15/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Keep Up! 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So if you previously attempted to register for one of our classes but were unable to secure a seat, please try again; we> '> re confident that we are now able to accommodate all our members who have expressed an interest in this popular online series. > We would also like to encourage our Alaskan and Hawaiian members to especially note our new afternoon classes, which were created to account for the differences in our respective time zones. > For complete descriptions of all our Connexion Client Modules and to register, please visit our Web site . 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The reasons are many, and each interaction is unique. The user might be distressed or emotional, or may want advice. Low health literacy can be a problem, regardless of the user's education or socio-economic status. The question might refer to a serious diagnosis or life-threatening condition, in which case the reference interaction becomes even more serious and significant. What determines a successful outcome, both for the library user and the librarian? Is the experience better, worse, or simply different for public librarians as compared with hospital or medical librarians? This interactive webinar will present the differences between regular reference and health reference, with a focus on consumer health reference services in both medical and public library settings. Librarians will learn from the expertise and experience of their colleagues about dispensing quality health information! NOTE: Your input is requested! The format of this session takes advantage of the features of the webinar software Horizon Wimba, allowing for participation by attendees. Participants will have opportunities to contribute their ideas, discuss issues and challenges they face, and provide strategies and best practices for example scenarios. In preparation for the session, we are asking for your input in a pre-survey to identify specific challenges and concerns about providing health information, which will help to guide the discussion. Public and medical librarians or others who provide consumer health information to members of the public are invited to participate. http://tinyurl.com/6eglhq The survey will be available until 5pm PST Friday, June 13. Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. 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Users > simply Connect, Click, and Listen...it's that easy! > * Be entered for a chance to win an MP3 player fully loaded with > the hottest Netlibrary eAudiobook titles! > To register for this event, go to www.oclc.org/info/ala/ > 78EB2FFF967AC078EDB1B21CAC05210E543AB75&> > > > eContent Solutions for Public Libraries...plus exclusive sneak preview > of the new NetLibrary Media Center > 78EB2FFF967AC078EDB1B21CAC05210E543AB75&> > Sunday, June 29, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. > Anaheim Convention Center, Room 209B > Speaker: Michelle Harper, Global Product Manager for eBooks and > eAudiobooks, OCLC NetLibrary > Attendees to this session will: > * Gain valuable insight into OCLC eContent solutions (eBooks, > eAudiobooks, eJournals and Databases) and how these can enrich the > experience for librarians and users of public libraries. > * See an exclusive sneak preview of the NetLibrary Media > Center...a new, feature-rich eAudiobook manager and player. Users > simply Connect, Click, and Listen...it's that easy! > * Be entered for a chance to win an MP3 player fully loaded with > the hottest Netlibrary eAudiobook titles! > To register for this event, go to www.oclc.org/info/ala/ > 78EB2FFF967AC078EDB1B21CAC05210E543AB75&> > > > Library Best Practices for eBook and eAudiobook Circulation > 78EB2FFF967AC078EDB1B21CAC05210E543AB75&> > Monday, June 30, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. > Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel, Oceanside Room > Moderator: Michelle Harper, Global Product Manager for eBooks and > eAudiobooks, OCLC NetLibrary > Attendees to this best practice session will: > * Hear from a panel of librarians as they share insights, tips and > techniques for achieving high circulation of their eBook and > eAudiobook collections from NetLibrary. > * Have the opportunity to share their experiences and pose > questions to the panel. > Speakers: > * Andrew Breidenbaugh, Chief Librarian > Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library, Florida > * Chad Mairn, Information Services Library > St. Petersburg College Library, Florida > * Greg Raschke, Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly > Communication > North Carolina State University Libraries > * Lia Hemphill, Director of Collection Development > Alvin Sherman Library, Nova Southeastern University, Florida > To register for this event, go to www.oclc.org/info/ala/ > 78EB2FFF967AC078EDB1B21CAC05210E543AB75&> > > http://visit.oclc.org/t?r=896&c=1349598&l=30874&ctl=1CB7F2B:61CED683C7 > 8EB2FFF967AC078EDB1B21CAC05210E543AB75&&&&&http://visit.oclc.org/t?r=8 > 96&c=1349598&l=30874&ctl=1CB7F2B:61CED683C78EB2FFF967AC078EDB1B21CAC05 > 210E543AB75& > Learn more about the new NetLibrary Media Center --- > Users simply Connect, Click, and Listen...it's that easy! > OCLC plans to release a new download manager and player later this > year - the NetLibrary Media Center.... a feature rich, end-user > application that will simplify the process of downloading eAudiobook > titles to portable devices and give users a place where they can > manage their eAudiobook use. > Visit the OCLC Booth #1448 to learn more about the planned NetLibrary > Media Center during the following times: > Saturday, June 28 > 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. > 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. > Sunday, June 29 > 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. > 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. > 3:00 p.m. -3:30 p.m. > Monday, June 30 > 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080617/e05c80cd/attachment.html From Craig.Cruz at Krames.com Fri Jun 20 09:29:01 2008 From: Craig.Cruz at Krames.com (Cruz, Craig) Date: Fri Jun 20 09:29:15 2008 Subject: [Baynet] SLA-SF Bay Region Dinner Program Featuring Don Bain Message-ID: <51321A53C517E149844F3E1766178AE801AC5ABD@sb-exchange-01.medimedia.com> Dear BayNet Members, I'm sending along this announcement from our friends at SLA-San Francisco Bay Region. Don Ban will discuss a digital archive of landscape photographs he's created, which has more than 5000 VR panoramas. I'll be there, so any BayNetters who attend won't be alone. I hope to see some of you there! Mail-in deadline today! (Online registration deadline is June 23.) Don't miss this great opportunity to meet a local artist who, through his cross-section of computing, geography, and a keen photographic eye, has created an invaluable record of Western North America (and a few other beautiful locations!). Please register online by June 23 or mail your check by June 20, 2008. Contact: SLA Reservations, Julie Takata, Librarian, San Francisco Airport Museums (650) 821-9909, email: julie.t@sfoarts.org ------------------------------ ** SLA-SF Bay Region Dinner Program Featuring Don Bain ** What: Don Bain's Landscape Panoramas and Digital Archive When: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. Where: The Jazzschool, 2087 Addison Street, Berkeley About our Speaker >From http://virtualguidebooks.blogspot.com : "Don Bain has created a collection of more than 5000 VR panoramas that will allow you to travel (virtually) throughout western North America. These amazing photographs show you exactly what it's like to be in a particular spot -- you can look in any direction, all the way around." Don will speak on the history of representing landscapes beginning with the 360-degree panoramas that once were installed in rooms (only a few survive today), moving on to traditional wide panoramic photographs, and then the new possibilities offered by the digital era, including cylindrical "up and down" panoramas. Join us to learn more about Don's photography and creating and using this digital archive of landscapes. About the Venue The Jazzschool is located in Berkeley's blossoming Downtown Arts and Theater District. The downtown Berkeley BART station (at Center Street, follow station signs to exit at Addison Street West) is less than half a block from the Jazzschool's entrance, and AC Transit bus stops are also nearby. There is metered street parking and passenger loading zones, as well as a public parking garage one block away. Food and Drink A box supper, including a vegetarian option, is included in the price of registration. You will be able to make your choice upon arrival. Beer, wine and other drinks will be available for purchase on-site at the JazzCaff?. Agenda 5:30 - 6:00 p.m. - Registration 6:00 - 6:45 p.m. - Dinner 6:45 - 8:00 p.m. - Program, with Q&A following Getting There For a map and directions to the Jazzschool, visit http://www.jazzschool.com/html/about_map.html . For information about Downtown Berkeley BART, go to http://www.bart.gov/stations/stationguide/stationoverview_brk.asp. ** ONLINE REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Please register online by June 23, 2008 ** ** MAIL REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Please mail your check by June 20, 2008. ** Cost: -- Member: $25.00 -- Guest / Non-member: $35.00 -- Student / Retired / Unemployed: $15.00 -- Program only (6:45 p.m.): $5.00 Register online: http://units.sla.org/chapter/csfo/calendar/regform.html. (Note: You do not need a PayPal account to register through this PayPal-administered site.) ------ Register by mail by sending this portion with your check by June 20, 2008, to: ------- Julie Takata, Librarian San Francisco Airport Museums P.O. Box 8097 San Francisco International Airport San Francisco, CA 94128 Telephone: (650) 821-9909 E-mail: julie.t@sfoarts.org Name:_________________________________________Telephone:_______________ E-mail:______________________________SLA Member:______ Non-member:_____ Employer/Affiliation:_____________________________________________________ Telephone:_____________ Email:___________________________________________ Check enclosed for $____________ Please make checks payable to: SF Bay Region Chapter, SLA Craig Cruz Jr. Library Manager Krames Health Sciences Library Krames Health & Safety ph. 1-650-244-4532 fax. 1-650-244-4345 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080620/3be7c6ff/attachment.html From Craig.Cruz at Krames.com Mon Jun 23 10:04:35 2008 From: Craig.Cruz at Krames.com (Cruz, Craig) Date: Mon Jun 23 10:04:43 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Still time to register for Digital Photography Archive presentation Message-ID: <51321A53C517E149844F3E1766178AE801AC5C01@sb-exchange-01.medimedia.com> Dear BayNet Members, There is still time to register for this Wednesday's presentation by Don Bain, director of the UC Berkeley Geography Department Computing Facility. He also blogs for Virtual Guidebooks and is an accomplished photographer. He'll speak about the history of representing landscapes, the future possibilities created with digital VR technologies, and creating and using digital landscape archives. The link for online registration is found below. -------- Don't miss this great opportunity to meet a local artist who, through the intersection of computing, geography, and a keen photographic eye, has created an invaluable visual record of Western North America (and a few other beautiful locations!). Please register online by June 23, 2008. Contact: SLA Reservations, Julie Takata, Librarian, San Francisco Airport Museums (650) 821-9909, email: julie.t@sfoarts.org ------------------------------ ** SLA-SF Bay Region Dinner Program Featuring Don Bain ** What: Don Bain's Landscape Panoramas and Digital Archive When: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. Where: The Jazzschool, 2087 Addison Street, Berkeley About our Speaker >From http://virtualguidebooks.blogspot.com : "Don Bain has created a collection of more than 5000 VR panoramas that will allow you to travel (virtually) throughout western North America. These amazing photographs show you exactly what it's like to be in a particular spot -- you can look in any direction, all the way around." Don will speak on the history of representing landscapes beginning with the 360-degree panoramas that once were installed in rooms (only a few survive today), moving on to traditional wide panoramic photographs, and then the new possibilities offered by the digital era, including cylindrical "up and down" panoramas. Join us to learn more about Don's photography and creating and using this digital archive of landscapes. About the Venue The Jazzschool is located in Berkeley's blossoming Downtown Arts and Theater District. The downtown Berkeley BART station (at Center Street, follow station signs to exit at Addison Street West) is less than half a block from the Jazzschool's entrance, and AC Transit bus stops are also nearby. There is metered street parking and passenger loading zones, as well as a public parking garage one block away. Food and Drink A box supper, including a vegetarian option, is included in the price of registration. You will be able to make your choice upon arrival. Beer, wine and other drinks will be available for purchase on-site at the JazzCaff?. Agenda 5:30 - 6:00 p.m. - Registration 6:00 - 6:45 p.m. - Dinner 6:45 - 8:00 p.m. - Program, with Q&A following Getting There For a map and directions to the Jazzschool, visit http://www.jazzschool.com/html/about_map.html . For information about Downtown Berkeley BART, go to http://www.bart.gov/stations/stationguide/stationoverview_brk.asp. ** ONLINE REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Please register online by June 23, 2008 ** Cost: -- Member: $25.00 -- Guest / Non-member: $35.00 -- Student / Retired / Unemployed: $15.00 -- Program only (6:45 p.m.): $5.00 Register online: http://units.sla.org/chapter/csfo/calendar/regform.html. (Note: You do not need a PayPal account to register through this PayPal-administered site.) Craig Cruz Jr. Library Manager Krames Health Science Library Krames Health & Safety ph. 1-650-244-4532 fax 1-650-244-4345 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080623/b1163f60/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Tue Jun 24 10:19:24 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Tue Jun 24 10:19:19 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's new online course "Summer Programming for Library Staff" Message-ID: <002e01c8d61e$73ef88a0$5bce99e0$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Summer Programming for Library Staff (online learning course) Dates: September 9, 2008 - October 6, 2008 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/381 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. Summer programs are not just for kids anymore! Although they can be a lot of work, summer reading programs and other summer programming will motivate children, adults, and teens to use your library to enjoy book discussion groups, entertainment and cultural programs, and to read, read, read! Summer programming is a proven method to prevent children from losing reading skills over vacation, as well as increasing library circulation and attendance. This course will: . cover the nuts and bolts of reading games, literature discussions, and other programs, . examine the use of both "live" and virtual environments to enhance the importance of your library as the "third place" in the lives of your community members. With the current downturn in the economy, residents are seeking out free programs more than ever, and the library is a natural community resource for this. Workshop Description: This four-week online learning course will enable participants to run summer reading incentive programs, plan book discussion groups, host entertainment programs, and expand current summer programming to attract readers of all ages, including adults, and to reach "online" library customers. Through individual exercises you will gain the tools to start planning next summer's programming. You will complete an outline for the summer of 2009. The instructor will provide sample plans, templates, cheat sheets and a webliography, as well as practical, useful tips that can be applied immediately. During the course, you will be doing written exercises and participating in a discussion board so fellow students can share programming ideas from their home libraries. We can share both successes and things that did not work to identify trends in summer programs and to discover new, innovative ideas that have a proven track record. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: * Module One: Summer Reading Programs * Overview of summer reading programs for various age groups, and California's participation in the Collaborative Summer Library Program * Summer programs as a way to increase circulation and library attendance * Module Two: Entertainment and Cultural Programs for all ages * An overview of paid and free speakers, author/illustrator appearances, Do It Yourself programs, and other programs that will attract a wide array of your residents * Movie programs - are you "legal?" * How to find, book, and host a variety of guest speakers/performers * Module Three: Book Motivations: Storytime Ideas, Book Discussion Groups, Booktalks, and other ways to display, market, and promote books * Book Discussion groups and field trips for various ages, including adults * Display/Marketing of books including Booktalks * Storytime resources * Module Four: Innovations in Summer Reading * Virtual summer reading and programming including online registration and participation * Community partners and funding sources * Online programming including author visits using Web 2.0 tools Instructor: Penny Peck. Penny has been a children's librarian for 20 years; before that, she was Snow White and Mother Goose at Children's Fairyland in Oakland, ran a nightclub, worked as the wardrobe mistress for the Berkeley Ballet, and was an agent for a standup comedian. Her experience includes performing thousands of storytimes, leading hundreds of book club discussions for students in grades 4-12, conducting hundreds of school tours and assemblies, reviewing children's books and media, and conducting the Performers' Showcase for auditioning library entertainment. She is editor of "BayNews," the newsletter for the Association of Children's Librarians of Northern California, www.bayviews.org. She is the Senior Librarian Youth Services for the San Leandro Public Library, an adjunct professor at San Jose State's Masters of Library Science program, and author of the book Crash Course in Children's Services (Libraries Unlimited, 2006). Pre-workshop assignment: Gather examples of your local library's summer reading program materials (reading logs, calendar of activities, etc.) for any ages that are included. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 3 to 4 hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone from the library community with an interest in summer programming, from reading programs to special events, will find this workshop useful. You will be able to take away resources and contacts that will enable you to plan a variety of programs that will attract preschoolers, school age children, teens, adults, Baby Boomers, and retired residents to your library. Whether you work at a small rural library, a city library, a branch library, or a large system, you will find this a useful workshop. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: * Have an Internet connection and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. * Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). * Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. * To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: * Windows: * Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Netscape 7.1 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * Macintosh: * Mozilla 1.4 and above (which is the same engine as Netscape 7.1), Safari 2.0 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/workshop. If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <85055FA347C14043835BD64615F1238F1AEE9F@OAEXCH2SERVER.oa.oclc.org> > It's not too late to register for several OCLC events at ALA! > Visit our registration form online: > http://www.oclc.org/us/en/info/ala/ > > > Visit our eContent partners at ALA > If you're planning to attend the ALA Annual Conference, please make > sure to stop by our OCLC booth (#1448) to learn about the many > exciting developments transpiring with the world's largest library > cooperative. > And if you're interested in acquiring new eContent databases or just > knowing more about what's available for your library, please visit our > eContent partners who will also be exhibiting there. > OCLC Western > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> offers a substantial > discount on most products from our vendor partners and we can help you > to make informed choices about your eContent collection. > > Below are the companies and their booth numbers that will be > exhibiting at ALA: > > Alexander Street Press > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> (Booth #805) > Space may still be available for their roundtable meetings to preview > and comment on new and soon-to-be-released collections of streaming > audio and video, as well as their Sunday breakfast where the guest > speaker will be the man who started Watergate. Sign up via the > Alexander Street Press Web site > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> . > > Cambridge University Press > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> (Booth #718) > Stop by to pick up some information on their newest product - > Cambridge Histories Online. This resource provides access to the full > text of hundreds of the prestigious Cambridge Histories, along with > added personalization and bibliographic tools. > > CQ Press > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> (Booth #418) > The company will have on-going demo sessions of their databases that > cover American politics, federal and state government, American > institutions, campaigns and elections, current events, and world > affairs. > > Greenwood Publishing Group > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> (Booth #1438) > Stop by for a demo of the much anticipated Pop Culture Universe, an > authoritative yet irresistible virtual library of pop culture. All > participants will have a chance to win a free iPod! For a full demo > schedule click here > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> . > > Morningstar.com > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> (Booth #1968) > Check out their databases with recently upgraded information and > capabilities, and remember their drawing Friday afternoon for a set of > books! > > Naxos > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> (Booth #579) > Join Naxos for demos of Naxos Music Library, Naxos Spoken Word > Library, Naxos Music Library Jazz, and Naxos Sheetmusic. > > OpinionArchives > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> (Booth #208) > Come learn about their bundled pricing for access to their political > science and social science collections. > > Oxford University Press > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> (Booth #728) > Stop by to check out the upcoming Electronic Enlightenment resource, > offering access to the web of correspondence between the greatest > thinkers and writers of the 18th century and their families and > friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. > > Paratext > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> (Booth #912) > Join Paratext, the providers of Reference Universe, Public Documents > Masterfile, and 19th Century Masterfile, for its user group meeting at > its booth on Sunday, June 29 at 2:00 p.m. > > Serials Solutions > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> (Booth #1652) > There may still be space available for their annual ALA Annual > breakfast on Saturday, June 28. They'll be highlighting the > incorporation of eBooks into Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks, and how > they are integrated in their 360 access services. Register via the > Serials Solutions site > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> . > > Taylor & Francis > 7BDD8513905E3D0070F268627DAAE84C125C534&> (Booth #1742) > Come learn about their online products, such as their Routledge > Electronic Databases which offers six online reference tools including > Europa World Plus, World Who's Who, and the International Institute > for Strategic Studies' Armed Conflict database. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Both are designed to enhance your basic skill set and prepare you to participate in increasingly responsible levels of cataloging. > MARC 21 in Your Library > MARC 21 in Your Library is an introduction to all things MARC. It defines what the coding standard is and clarifies how it ties in with our cataloging rules to work in your library> '> s catalog. Upon completion of the course, you should be able to read a MARC record, speak the MARC language, and understand how errors in MARC coding affect an OPAC. > > This one-day, in-person class is not intended just for beginning catalogers; it also has appeal to a broader audience of library professionals. Acquisitions people, managers, even library directors, could also benefit from this class. Aside from understanding the basis of the records that form the backbone of library information systems, it will also provide them with the ability to communicate more effectively with the folks in and around their institution who already > "> speak MARC.> "> > > For a complete description and to register for upcoming sessions of this course, please click on the links below: > > August 13, 2008 > (Registration deadline is July 15, 2008) > 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: OCLC Western - Ontario, CA > > August 25, 2008 > (Registration deadline is July 25, 2008) > 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: OCLC Western - Lacey, WA > > Just for Copy Cats > Just for Copycats is a two-day, in-person, basic introduction to copy cataloging, which primarily covers four subject areas: finding cataloging records you can copy; some of the challenges of doing so; some of the neglected database issues involved; and a brief look at important editing. Upon completion of this course, you should be able to find and copy book records that accurately reflect your items. > For a beginning cataloger, this workshop is the second step in your journey to excellence (your first step should be MARC 21 in Your Library). A more experienced copy cataloger might also benefit from the course, finding nuggets of new information previously undiscovered. > > For a complete description and to register for upcoming sessions of this course, please click on the links below: > > August 14-15, 2008 > (Registration deadline is July 15, 2008) > 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: OCLC Western - Ontario, CA > > August 26-27, 2008 > (Registration deadline is July 25, 2008) > 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: OCLC Western - Lacey, WA > > > > > From RSS feeds to member updates, staying informed is easier than ever with OCLC Western electronic communications . > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080627/37b3f0b1/attachment-0001.html From Western at oclc.org Mon Jun 30 11:25:55 2008 From: Western at oclc.org (Western) Date: Mon Jun 30 11:26:02 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Register for the 2008 OCLC Western Digital Forum Message-ID: <85055FA347C14043835BD64615F1238F1AEEB1@OAEXCH2SERVER.oa.oclc.org> > July 13 is the deadline to receive discounted pricing to the 2008 OCLC > Western Digital Forum, so please make sure to register soon for this > prestigious educational event. All the relevant details concerning > this year's Forum are in the announcement below: > OCLC, Orbis Cascade Alliance and OCLC Digital Collection Services are > proud co-sponsors of the fourth annual OCLC Western Digital Forum > C3A85875DB0563AE8&> , which is being presented on August 14-15, 2008 > in Tacoma, Washington at the Hotel Murano. This year's forum will > focus on Making Digitization Count: Assessment and Evaluation > Practices. > The forum will feature national experts from the archival, museum and > library communities who will discuss current projects to create and > automate evaluation and assessment tasks for digital collections. > Three of these distinguished presenters include: > * Kate Haley Goldman (Keynote speaker), Senior Research Associate > at the Institute for Learning Innovation, Annapolis MD > * Elizabeth Yakel, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan > School of Information > * Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Professor, School of Information and Library > Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > The program will also explore how evaluation and assessment methods > inform decision making for digital collections. Presentations will > highlight national projects of significance relating to evaluation and > assessment of digital collection users, 21st Century learners and > model practices for digital program assessment. > The forum is designed to offer a smaller and more intimate meeting > setting where participants can share knowledge and create networks > with other organizations that are working to develop assessment and > evaluation practices. It is an ideal educational opportunity for > librarians, archivists and museum staff who are charged with creating > digital access to collections. > So please make your plans now to join your colleagues at this > prestigious national event. For more information about the 2008 OCLC > Western Digital Forum and to register, please visit our Web page > C3A85875DB0563AE8&> . We are looking forward to your active > participation in this dynamic event. > > Register today! > C3A85875DB0563AE8&> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080630/f8857e98/attachment.html From dhunt at exploratorium.edu Thu Jul 3 15:18:59 2008 From: dhunt at exploratorium.edu (Deb Hunt) Date: Thu Jul 3 15:23:44 2008 Subject: [Baynet] EBSCO free online db for teachers Message-ID: <486D5053.8050103@exploratorium.edu> Teacher Reference Center (TRC) This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now offered *free* via the EBSCO/host/platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians. -- Deborah Hunt Senior Information Specialist Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu mailto: dhunt@exploratorium.edu 415-353-0485 (fax) 415-561-0370 Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead From msholinb at library.berkeley.edu Thu Jul 3 16:09:31 2008 From: msholinb at library.berkeley.edu (Michael Sholinbeck) Date: Thu Jul 3 16:09:19 2008 Subject: [Baynet] EBSCO free online db for teachers In-Reply-To: <486D5053.8050103@exploratorium.edu> References: <486D5053.8050103@exploratorium.edu> Message-ID: <486D5C2B.7020201@library.berkeley.edu> Hi Deb! Thanks for this...EBSCO has a few free things of note, esp. their GreenFile (i think it's called...) PS- sorry to have missed u at SLA! -michael Deb Hunt wrote: > Teacher Reference Center (TRC) > > This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and > administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now offered > *free* via the EBSCO/host/platform. This database provides coverage on > key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current > Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, > Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for > K-12 Teachers & Librarians. > -- Michael Sholinbeck Assistant Head and Outreach & Instruction Librarian Sheldon Margen Public Health Library 1 University Hall #7360 University of California Berkeley CA 94720 USA 1-510-642-2511; 1-510-642-7623 (fax) msholinb@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/ From msholinb at library.berkeley.edu Thu Jul 3 16:10:06 2008 From: msholinb at library.berkeley.edu (Michael Sholinbeck) Date: Thu Jul 3 16:09:51 2008 Subject: [Baynet] sorry about posting to list!! Message-ID: <486D5C4E.3030304@library.berkeley.edu> -- Michael Sholinbeck Assistant Head and Outreach & Instruction Librarian Sheldon Margen Public Health Library 1 University Hall #7360 University of California Berkeley CA 94720 USA 1-510-642-2511; 1-510-642-7623 (fax) msholinb@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/ From assist at infopeople.org Tue Jul 8 13:31:59 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Tue Jul 8 13:31:55 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Cascading Style Sheets" workshop Message-ID: <00e001c8e139$b0df5170$129df450$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): Pixel-Level Control with HTML Ease Dates and locations: Thursday, August 14, San Mateo Public Library Thursday, September 4, San Diego County Library Headquarters Tuesday, September 23, Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library Thursday, October 9, California State Library Wednesday, October 22, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/357 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. While other Web pages have taken on a new look, your site looks outdated and doesn't manage its space effectively. You want to give it a little dazzle while keeping it user-friendly. With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), you can have pixel-level control without learning complicated programming. CSS can help you to create a template for all your pages to follow. You can easily try on different styles and colors, then change them back in a moment. Your content can stay the same, but look much better with an improved layout. Learning CSS requires the same tools you use to write HTML: a text editor and a browser. This workshop will teach the basics of CSS, some intermediate tricks and tips, and the best Web sites to further your knowledge. Workshop Description: This is an all-day, hands-on training session. Through individual and group exercises, you will become familiar with CSS and how it can enhance ordinary Web pages in conjunction with HTML. The instructor will provide cheat sheets, a webliography, as well as practical tips that can be applied immediately. Preliminary Course Outline * CSS vs. HTML alone * Definitions and appearance * Galleries * Beginning CSS * Planning * Boxes * Colors and fonts * Texts and Links * Alignment * Decoration * Grouping Elements * Span and div * Padding and margins * Borders Instructor: Lisa R. Bartle. Lisa Bartle is a reference librarian at Cal. State University, San Bernardino. Lisa owns the Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature and ABC-Lit: An Index to Children's Literature Scholarship. Her online databases use Perl, Vbscript, and PHP. During 2008, Lisa was the president of IT Section of the California Library Association. During 2006, she taught three classes on PHP for Infopeople. Her most recent class for Infopeople covers Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in learning Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to enhance both ease of use as well as overall design of library Web pages. It is especially good for the "default techie" - that librarian or staff member who takes care of the technology, but wasn't originally trained for that job. Prerequisites: This course requires that students be comfortable with basic computer skills, including using a mouse, navigating the web, and basic keyboarding. For help with these basic skills, we recommend the New Computer Users section of the Infopeople Resources Guides, at infopeople.org/resources. Familiarity with HTML is required. Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080708/c589d3d3/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Jul 9 08:35:14 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Jul 9 08:34:41 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webinar "Resurrecting Reference" Message-ID: <000c01c8e1d9$6245e600$26d1b200$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: Resurrecting Reference Date and time: July 31, 2008, 9:30am - 11:30am This webinar will last approximately two hours. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the July 31 webinar, go to http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/290/index.html There's no denying that changes in technology, information availability, and the deference paid (or not!) to experts have changed the face of reference forever. That's a good thing! In their upcoming webinar, Infopeople's podcasting pundits Joan Frye Williams and George Needham will share their provocative views of the role of the reference librarian in today's world, along with examples of the good, the bad, and the ugly in the library community's ongoing effort to reestablish reference as a high-value service. Don't miss George and Joan's lively commentary on reference trends and innovations, and their suggestions for rethinking, reorganizing, and redeploying reference assets for improved results. Speakers: Joan Frye Williams and George Needham. Joan Frye Williams. For more than 25 years Joan has been a successful librarian, consultant, vendor, planner, trainer, evaluator and user of library services, with a special emphasis on innovation, technology and emerging library trends. She is the president of her own library and information technology consulting firm. She received an MLS from the University of California at Berkeley (1975) and in addition to her consulting practice she has worked in both public and academic libraries, for library automation vendors, as well as at the California State Library. Her many clients include large and small public libraries, library consortia, state library agencies, professional library associations, library boards, library vendors and architects. George Needham. Before joining OCLC in 1999, George was State Librarian of Michigan. From 1993 to 1996, he was Executive Director of the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association. >From 1990 to 1993, he was Director of Member Services of the Ohio Library Association. >From 1984 to 1989, he served as Library Director of Fairfield County District Library in Lancaster, Ohio. From 1977 to 1984, he held various posts at the Charleston County Library in Charleston, South Carolina. George received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in library science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Resurrecting Reference Date: July 31, 2008 Time: 9:30am - 11:30 am Speakers: Joan Frye Williams and George Needham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080709/fbc888c8/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Jul 9 14:14:04 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Jul 9 14:13:21 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Eureka! Leadership Program Message-ID: <00cb01c8e208$b82afd60$2880f820$@org> With this announcement for the free workshop on "Exploring Library Leadership," Infopeople is pleased to mark the beginning of another round of the Eureka! Leadership Program. Briefly, the Program consists of four phases, i.e.: Phase 1 - a one-day workshop, "Exploring Library Leadership," offered in August and September 2008 Phase 2 - a series of nine day-long skills building workshops, offered over nine months from November 2008 through July 2009 Phase 3 - a six-day intensive leadership Institute, scheduled for October 2009 Phase 4 - individual project work by those who attend the Institute, with a concluding project showcase event planned for October 2010 Details about the program will be posted on the Infopeople website in August, and a brochure will be mailed to all California libraries at that time. Please note: . "Exploring Library Leadership" is open registration and is free. . The Phase 2 workshops are also open registration and can be taken either separately or as a series. Each workshop is $75; if you register for the entire series there is a discount - nine workshop for the price of eight, or $600 for the series. . Neither Phase 1 or 2 is a prerequisite for application to the Institute. . The Institute can accommodate 32 people, who will be selected by a competitive application process. Title: Exploring Library Leadership 2008 Dates and locations: Thursday, August 21, Belle Cooledge Library (Sacramento) Friday, August 22, San Francisco Public Library Thursday, September 4, Mountain View Public Library Friday, September 5, Fresno - Woodward Park Library Thursday, September 11, San Diego County Library Headquarters Friday, September 12, Buena Park Library District Monday, September 15, Los Angeles Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/383 Fee: Free If libraries of all types are to have a strong and exciting future, it's up to us. Library leaders will come from within our ranks-whether we are ready or not! Opportunities to lead abound, both within libraries and in the communities we serve. And the leadership role is not limited to managers or supervisors-there is a need for leaders at all levels in a library organization. . Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a leader? . Do you believe leaders are born, or that leadership skills can be taught? . Would you like to learn how to make the most of your own leadership qualities? If you want to help transform libraries to meet the challenges of the future, maybe it's time for you to discover the leader within! Workshop Description: This all-day workshop will have you engaged in individual and group activities to help you experience and identify your leadership qualities. You will get a brief overview of leadership theories and identify the most important qualities leaders possess. We'll spend time discussing the differences between leaders and managers. You will leave with a 10-minute-a-day plan for personal development, so that you can put what you learn to use right away. Pre-workshop assignment: Prior to the workshop, participants will be expected to read "Thoughts of California Library Leaders," an eight-page long PDF document that will be emailed to you two weeks before your workshop session. Preliminary Course Outline * What is Leadership? * Leadership styles * Leadership versus management * Effective Leadership Practices in a Chaotic World * Articulating your vision * Assessing your leadership strengths * Leadership and Emotional Intelligence * Risk-taking and trust * Developing Your Leadership Potential * How to make the most of developmental assignments * Personal development plan Instructors: Cheryl Gould and Gail Griffith. Cheryl Gould. Cheryl has been a training consultant for Infopeople since 1996. She has delivered workshops on a wide range of topics. Recent additions to her toolbox include helping organize library staff days and acting as MC and playground director throughout the day to facilitate people getting to know each other, have a bit of fun and stay energized. Cheryl has worked with over 100 different instructors to create workshops on more than 150 different topics of interest to California libraries. Her current role as Training Consultant for Infopeople keeps her involved in all of the Infopeople workshops and allows her to not only spread the gospel of strong training techniques, but to keep current on what's going on in libraries around the state. Gail Griffith. Gail Griffith is the Deputy Director of the Carroll County (MD) Public Library, responsible for public services and staff development. She also provides consulting services in organization development to a variety of public library, local government, and nonprofit agencies throughout the U.S. Most recently, she has worked with Maryland's state library agency to develop and deliver Learning Libraries (leadership and teamwork) training throughout Maryland. She has also developed and led a Leadership Academy for all levels of library staff. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community who is interested in becoming a library leader. This course is especially suited to those who are just beginning to explore the leadership opportunities open to them, no matter what kind of job they hold in a library organization. Prerequisites: None Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080709/08e9c665/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Jul 16 09:54:19 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Jul 16 09:53:31 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's online course "Essential Tools & Tips for Successful Web Searching" Message-ID: <005e01c8e764$974b27d0$c5e17770$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Essential Tools & Tips for Successful Web Searching (online learning course) Dates: August 26, 2008 ? September 22, 2008 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/385 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. "Google it" is the way a lot of people find information. Often, we (and our users) "ask Google" and are amazed how often it works. But sometimes we get too much. Or, even when we know the answer is on the web, we cannot construct a search that pulls out just what we need. We get millions of search results and wonder "What next?" We lack a search strategy for navigating the billions of web pages and other stuff that's out there. ? What goes on in search engines? How do they "think" about searching? ? What are today's best search engines after Google? Why are they the best? ? What are the most useful search commands? Will they work beyond Google? ? How can I create searches that effectively zero in on just what I need? ? When is it time to turn from web search engines to subject directories (like lii.org)? ? How can I find good, specific directories on subjects my users or I need to explore? ? Is there a best search strategy for searching for a variety of information? ? How do I deal with the need to evaluate all the stuff on the web quickly? In this course, you will explore answers to all these questions and more. It offers a comprehensive introduction to the best search engines and general subject directories, to many ways to use them to find information quickly and efficiently, and an overall search strategy applicable to most web searching. It is designed for those who want to refresh their web search skills or are fairly new to web searching. It consolidates the instructor's 12 years of experience teaching web search. Workshop Description: This four-week online learning course will help you at the reference desk or in any situation where you think, "I bet that's on the web; let's take a look." It is designed to enhance your speed and confidence deciding where to search, why, and how. Through online readings and individual exercises, you will be able to apply and practice the essential tips and tools of web searching. The instructor will provide, cheat sheets that can be used after the course. During the course, you will be doing exercises and taking quizzes to help you verify your grasp of the tips and tools explained in the weekly readings. You will also participate in online discussion forums and have a chance to submit a real question from your own experience to be searched and answered by another student in the class. We will discuss your successes and frustrations with this "ready for anything" exercise in terms of the search strategies offered in this course. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: * Module One: The Best Web Search Engines Today * How search engines work * Strengths and weaknesses of the best search engines * Essential search principles shared by almost all search engines * Module Two: Using Limiter Commands to Focus Your Search Results * Essential limiter commands and how they work * Building effective searches using and combining limiter commands * Module Three: When to Turn to Subject Directories * The best general subject directories today * The essentials of evaluating what you find on the web * Using Google to find specialized subject directories and link-rich pages * Module Four: Being "Ready for Anything" * Developing search strategies for different kinds of questions * Analyzing questions, learning as you go, and remaining flexible Instructor: Joe Barker. Until June 2007, Joe worked full time as a reference and instruction librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Doe library and the Moffitt undergraduate library. He also maintained an online web searching tutorial which remains one of the most heavily used resources for finding and evaluating information on the web. He has been teaching web searching for Infopeople, especially in connection with answering reference questions, since 2000 on topics such as PowerSearch, State of the Art Web Searching, Extreme Googling, Making the Most of the Post-Google Web, and Web 2.0: Searching Innovations. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2? to 3 hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone from the library community with an interest in improving his or her skills and efficiency at finding information on the Web. This course covers the essentials of using search engines and subject directories, and shows how to integrate them into search strategies to find what you need. It also succinctly covers evaluating web information. It will be followed by an Advanced Searching online course. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: * Have an Internet connection and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. * Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). * Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. * To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: * Windows: * Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Netscape 7.1 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * Macintosh: * Mozilla 1.4 and above (which is the same engine as Netscape 7.1), Safari 2.0 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Or, view our Web site . > > Cataloging and Metadata > * Book Blitz II > August 18-19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/28/08) > 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. > Santa Ana College (Santa Ana, CA) > * CatExpress Online > July 30, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 7/23/08) > 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. > WebEx Online Meeting > * Connexion Client Module 1 - WorldCat, MARC, and Client Basics > August 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/19/08) > 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. > WebEx Online Meeting > * Connexion Client Module 2 - Basic Bibliographic Searching > August 27, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/20/08) > 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. > WebEx Online Meeting > * Connexion Client Module 3 - Basic Editing and Record Processing > August 28, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/21/08) > 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. > WebEx Online Meeting > * Connexion Client Module 4 - Save Files and File Management > August 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/6/08) > 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. > WebEx Online Meeting > * Connexion Client Module 5 - Automation and Customization > September 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/3/08) > 10:00 a.m. - 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In their upcoming webinar, Infopeople's podcasting pundits Joan Frye Williams and George Needham will share their provocative views of the role of the reference librarian in today's world, along with examples of the good, the bad, and the ugly in the library community's ongoing effort to reestablish reference as a high-value service. Don't miss George and Joan's lively commentary on reference trends and innovations, and their suggestions for rethinking, reorganizing, and redeploying reference assets for improved results. Speakers: Joan Frye Williams and George Needham. Joan Frye Williams. For more than 25 years Joan has been a successful librarian, consultant, vendor, planner, trainer, evaluator and user of library services, with a special emphasis on innovation, technology and emerging library trends. She is the president of her own library and information technology consulting firm. She received an MLS from the University of California at Berkeley (1975) and in addition to her consulting practice she has worked in both public and academic libraries, for library automation vendors, as well as at the California State Library. Her many clients include large and small public libraries, library consortia, state library agencies, professional library associations, library boards, library vendors and architects. George Needham. Before joining OCLC in 1999, George was State Librarian of Michigan. From 1993 to 1996, he was Executive Director of the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association. >From 1990 to 1993, he was Director of Member Services of the Ohio Library Association. >From 1984 to 1989, he served as Library Director of Fairfield County District Library in Lancaster, Ohio. From 1977 to 1984, he held various posts at the Charleston County Library in Charleston, South Carolina. George received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in library science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Resurrecting Reference Date: July 31, 2008 Time: 9:30am - 11:30 am Speakers: Joan Frye Williams and George Needham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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What national trends is the State Library watching? State Librarian Susan Hildreth and other members of the State Library staff discuss this and much more in webinars sponsored by Infopeople. The webinars, which will be offered at least three times a year, deal with hot topics in the California library world, emerging library trends, and services available to you from the California State Library. The State Librarian and other State Library staff are also available for live questions and answers during each webinar. Check in to hear from our State Library staff and keep in tune with the scene in Sacramento. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: State Library Webinar Date: August 19, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080725/39b2200d/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Jul 28 16:35:48 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Jul 28 16:34:58 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webinar "Understanding Health Literacy" Message-ID: <014c01c8f10a$aaa7cdb0$fff76910$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: Understanding Health Literacy: Why It Is So Important and What Librarians Can Do to Help - Session #6 of the Health e-Shows Series Date and time: August 14, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the August 14 webinar, go to http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/244/index.html According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, more than a third of adult Americans have trouble understanding basic medical information. Health literacy is the notion that a person is able to obtain, understand, and act on information provided about a health topic or medication. Low or limited health literacy can result in a patient's misunderstanding of a diagnosis or treatment options, medication errors, or poor health outcomes in general. Providing quality health information is not enough. The ability to read - and understand - is necessary in order to make decisions and take action. This webinar will examine the related issues of literacy and health literacy and how it relates to health outcomes for millions of Americans. Several eye-opening examples will demonstrate how low literacy impacts the healthcare of actual patients. Attendees will learn strategies for finding appropriate, understandable health information, the meaning of "easy-to-read" designations, and resources for helping users communicate better with their healthcare providers. The session will conclude with ideas for programming and partnerships to benefit your community. The webinar content will be useful for public and hospital librarians and staff and anyone who provides health information to members of the public. Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Understanding Health Literacy: Why It Is So Important and What Librarians Can Do to Help Date: August 14, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Kelli Ham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: Registration has now opened for: The Future of Libraries (4.0): Effective Marketing & Outreach in an Onsite-Online World Christie Koontz, Keynote Speaker San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, Koret Auditorium Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm $40 Registration Fee Sponsored by the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay Area "The Future of Libraries 4.0," the fourth in an annual series of conferences on innovations taking place in libraries today, turns this year to the survival-level issue of marketing and outreach. The focus is on projects and programs which are being implemented creatively and economically. Presentations will feature examples of everything from simple to comprehensive marketing and outreach efforts. This year's keynote speaker and moderator is Christie Koontz (see http://www.geolib.org/staff.cfm and http://www.geolib.org/publications.cfm). She is a faculty member at Florida State and San Jose State Universities and a columnist for Information Today's Marketing Library Services newsletter. Her background, publications and interests are at the junction between marketing and librarianship. She led an American Library Association Conference panel discussion in Anaheim this summer on why libraries close, and the report she has helped prepare on the topic is being posted online by OCLC. A copy of the current agenda is below. More panelists are expected to be added between now and the conference date. For more information and to register, go to http://www.plsinfo.org/workshops/future08.htm . Daniel Hersh dhersh@oaklandlibrary.org for the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay Area ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:45 - 9:25 am REGISTRATION 9:30 am WELCOME: 9:35 am KEYNOTE SPEECH: Christie Koontz 10:50 am MORNING SESSION: Marketing: Hooking Them Wherever They Are Moderator: Christie Koontz Sarah Houghton-Jan, San Jose Public Library Caroline Gick, Contra Costa County Library 12:00 - 1:30 pm LUNCH BREAK 1:30 pm AFTERNOON SESSION I: Branding: Creating the Face of the Library Moderator: Christie Koontz Barbara McMahon, San Francisco Public Library Caroline Gick, Contra Costa County Library 3:00 pm AFTERNOON SESSION II: Innovations in Reaching Children, Teens, and Older Adults Moderator: Christie Koontz Becky Nielson, Contra Costa County Library Richard Bray, Alameda County Library Matt Gullett, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County 4:30 pm WRAP-UP: Christie Koontz 5:00 pm ADJOURN Registrations are due by September 17, 2008. Registration may close earlier due to space limitations. Refunds will be available for cancellations received before September 17, 2008. For more information about workshop registration, contact Peninsula Library System staff at 650.349.5538 or krause@plsinfo.org. For more information about the workshop program, contact Janet Hildebrand at 925.927.3202 or jhildebr@ccclib.org. From assist at infopeople.org Thu Aug 7 09:18:39 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Aug 7 09:23:08 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's new workshop on Podcasting and Videocasting Message-ID: <008801c8f8a9$4123dd10$c36b9730$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Practical Podcasting and Videocasting Dates and locations: Thursday, September 25, Alameda County Library Friday, October 24, California State Library Thursday, November 6, Buena Park Library District Friday, November 7, San Diego County Library Headquarters Wednesday, December 3, Mountain View Public Library Friday, December 5, Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/371 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Podcasting is one of today's fastest growing social computing applications. Both amateur broadcasters and major media corporations have embraced audio and video podcasts as a means of distributing information and entertainment. . What can this emerging technology do for libraries? . Is it really possible to create podcasts that are relevant to library users and will attract an audience? Come explore podcasting and learn how libraries are using podcasts and videocasts for outreach and instruction. The instructor will provide a variety of case studies as well as tips on what types of content work best for different types of libraries. Gain hands-on experience in making podcasts and videocasts by producing content live during the workshop! Workshop Description: This is an all-day, hands-on training session. Through individual and group exercises, you will become familiar with audio and video podcasting and how they can be used for library instruction, promotion, and outreach. Detailed information on what to consider when planning for and implementing podcasting at your library will be provided along with an up-close and personal look at a variety of creation tools. Participants will gain practical skills in the creation of podcasts that can be applied immediately. Preliminary Course Outline * Introduction To Podcasting And Videocasting * Definitions and background * Discovering podcasts and videocasts * Podcasts and videocasts for librarians * Podcasting And Videocasting In Libraries * How are libraries using podcasts? * Planning your podcasting project * Tips on quality content * Creating Podcasts And Videocasts * Hardware and software needs * Technical details of recording and editing * Group audio and video recording * Individual audio editing exercise * Video editing demonstration * Uploading podcasts to the web * Wrap Up * Q&A * Where to learn more Instructor: David Free. David is widely acknowledged as a podcasting innovator, having produced one of the first library podcasts at the Decatur Campus Library of Georgia Perimeter College. In addition to continuing to podcast in his new position as Editor-in-Chief of College & Research Libraries News / Marketing and Communication Specialist at the Association of College and Research Libraries, David speaks on podcasting and other Web 2.0 issues at library conferences both domestically and abroad. He has also worked as a podcasting consultant for libraries and library organizations. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in audio or video podcasting. The workshop is appropriate for all levels and types of library staff. Prerequisites: This course requires that students be comfortable with basic computer skills, including using a mouse, navigating the web, and basic keyboarding. For help with these basic skills, we recommend the New Computer Users section of the Infopeople Resources Guides, at infopeople.org/resources If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080807/170d6ee0/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Aug 7 14:57:38 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Aug 7 14:56:01 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Reminder of Infopeople's webinar: Understanding Health Literacy Message-ID: <009601c8f8d8$9bd4ad50$d37e07f0$@org> A reminder of the next Infopeople webinar. Please let your friends and colleagues know about this event! Title: Understanding Health Literacy: Why It Is So Important and What Librarians Can Do to Help - Session #6 of the Health e-Shows Series Date and time: August 14, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the August 14 webinar, go to http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/244/index.html According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, more than a third of adult Americans have trouble understanding basic medical information. Health literacy is the notion that a person is able to obtain, understand, and act on information provided about a health topic or medication. Low or limited health literacy can result in a patient's misunderstanding of a diagnosis or treatment options, medication errors, or poor health outcomes in general. Providing quality health information is not enough. The ability to read - and understand - is necessary in order to make decisions and take action. This webinar will examine the related issues of literacy and health literacy and how it relates to health outcomes for millions of Americans. Several eye-opening examples will demonstrate how low literacy impacts the healthcare of actual patients. Attendees will learn strategies for finding appropriate, understandable health information, the meaning of "easy-to-read" designations, and resources for helping users communicate better with their healthcare providers. The session will conclude with ideas for programming and partnerships to benefit your community. The webinar content will be useful for public and hospital librarians and staff and anyone who provides health information to members of the public. Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. 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For more information and to participate in the August 19 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/251/index.html What is happening at the California State Library? What new services or grant opportunities may be forthcoming from Library Development Services? How do current state-level political and economic events affect libraries? What national trends is the State Library watching? State Librarian Susan Hildreth and other members of the State Library staff discuss this and much more in webinars sponsored by Infopeople. The webinars, which will be offered at least three times a year, deal with hot topics in the California library world, emerging library trends, and services available to you from the California State Library. The State Librarian and other State Library staff are also available for live questions and answers during each webinar. Check in to hear from our State Library staff and keep in tune with the scene in Sacramento. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: State Library Webinar Date: August 19, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080812/959213db/attachment.html From cchester at jfku.edu Wed Aug 13 14:04:52 2008 From: cchester at jfku.edu (Claudia Chester) Date: Wed Aug 13 14:05:02 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Reposted: Technical Services Librarian Posistion, Pleasant Hill, CA Message-ID: <004401c8fd88$3ac50870$d7461eac@phdc.jfku.edu> POSITION AVAILABLE Technical Services Librarian, Robert M. Fisher Library, John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, CA. Permanent, full time, 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday, 10:00 AM - 6:30 PM. Annual salary: $43,680 - $48,000. This grade 6 exempt position includes vacation and sick leave and a flexible benefit package that includes medical, dental, long term disability, 401(k) retirement eligibility, dependent care, voluntary life and/or long term care insurance and tuition waiver benefits. John F. Kennedy University was founded in 1964 as one of the first institutions of higher education dedicated solely to adult students. John F. Kennedy University is an independent university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Its five schools offer degree and certificate programs in the fields of psychology, law, education and liberal arts, management, and holistic studies. The university currently enrolls approximately 1,700 adults in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. This position will share responsibility for original and copy cataloging of all formats of library material. Other primary duties include oversight and some implementation of interlibrary loan for the central library and its two branches, and assisting in the maintenance and oversight of the acquisitions, cataloging and database maintenance modules of the library automated system. Additional shared duties include providing reference service and bibliographic instruction, selecting social science library materials, faculty outreach and participation in library management and university governance. The requirements for this position include an ALA accredited MLS or MLIS degree and experience or training in cataloging and classification of library materials, reference and instruction. Familiarity with MARC 21 bibliographic format, AACR2R, and Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings is essential. Knowledge of library software applications, including Innovative Millennium, Cataloger's Desktop and Classification Plus is highly desirable, as are interlibrary loan and academic library experience. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to balance meticulous attention to detail with an appreciation of the big picture, work well both independently and in a team environment, and serve a diverse adult constituency with a sense of professionalism and good humor. Beginning employment date is September 1, 2008. Review of applications will begin August 22 and will remain open until the position is filled. To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and the names of three references by email to HRRecruiter@jfku.edu with TECHLIB in the subject line or by fax to 925.969.3451 or mail to: HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT John F. Kennedy University 100 Ellinwood Way Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 www.jfku.edu John F. Kennedy University is an equal opportunity employer. The university does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability. In a continuing effort to enrich its academic environment and provide equal educational and employment opportunities, the university actively encourages applications from all groups that are underrepresented in higher education. Reasonable accommodations to enable participation in the selection process may be requested my qualified individuals with a disability by writing to the above address, or by calling 925.969-3450 8.08 Claudia Chester Interim University Librarian John F. Kennedy University Robert M. Fisher Library 100 Ellinwood Way Pleasant Hill, CA 94523-4817 library.jfku.edu Phone: 925-969-3108 Fax: 925-969-3101 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Or, view our Web site at > < http://www.oclc.org/western/ >. > > > > > > Cataloging and metadata > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > CatExpress Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W119.htm > > September 25, 2008 (Regisration Deadline: 9/18/08) > 1;00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 1 - WorldCat, MARC, and Client Basics > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W127.htm > > August 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/19/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > October 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/30/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 10 - Batch Processing > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W136.htm > > September 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/28/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 2 - Basic Bibliographic Searching > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W133.htm > > August 27, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/20/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > October 8, 2008 (Regisration Deadline: 10/1/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 3 - Basic Editing and Record Processing > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W129.htm > > August 28, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/21/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > October 9, 2008 (Regisration Deadline: 10/2/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 4 - Save Files and File Management > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W130.htm > > October 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/15/08) > 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 5 - Automation and Customization > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W131.htm > > September 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/3/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 6 - Editing Master Records > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W132.htm > > Setember 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/16/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Novembr 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/28/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 7 - Advanced Bibliographic Searching > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W125.htm > > September 17, 2008 (Registration Deadline:9/10/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 8 - Original Cataloging > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W134.htm > > October 1, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/24/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 9 - Authority Control > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W135.htm > > November 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm > > Friday, September 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/9/08) > 8:30 am-4:00 pm > OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) > > > Just for Copy Cats > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W111.htm > > October 28-29, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/30/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > San Mateo, CA > > > Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm > > Thursday, August 28, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/20/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > October 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/08/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > MARC 21 in Your Library > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W115.htm > > October 27, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/29/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > San Mateo, CA > > > Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm > > Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/15/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Collection management > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm > > Friday, September 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/9/08) > 8:30 am-4:00 pm > OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) > > > Digital Licensing Online Course > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W809.htm > > Tuesday, September 2, 2008-Friday, October 31, 2008 (Registration > Deadline: 8/29/08) > Self-paced, online > > > Dynamic Metadata and Data Curation Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W816.htm > > Tuesday, September 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/29/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline 9/2/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/07/2008) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations: Intellectual Property Issues for Digital > Libraries Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W815.htm > > Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/19/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Managing Archival Collections: An Introduction > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W328.htm > > Thursday, September 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/22/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) > > > Managing Libraries in the Digital Age Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W814.htm > > Tuesday, October 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/3/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm > > Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/15/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Streaming Audio and SMIL for Oral Histories > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W326.htm > > Friday, September 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/23/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) > > > The Challenge of Ephemera Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W388.htm > > Friday, September 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/10/08) > 9:00 am-11:00 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > Friday, October 17, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/15/08) > 9:00 am-11:00 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Digitization and preservation > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W304.htm > > Friday, September 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/9/08) > 8:30 am-4:00 pm > OCLC Western Service Center (Ontario, CA) > > > Creating Digital Newspapers for the Web Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W818.htm > > Tuesday, September 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/12/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Digital Licensing Online Course > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W809.htm > > Tuesday, September 2, 2008-Friday, October 31, 2008 (Registration > Deadline: 8/29/08) > Self-paced, online > > > Dynamic Metadata and Data Curation Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W816.htm > > Tuesday, September 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/29/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations: Intellectual Property Issues for Digital > Libraries Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W815.htm > > Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/19/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Managing Archival Collections: An Introduction > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W328.htm > > Thursday, September 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/22/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) > > > Managing Libraries in the Digital Age Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W814.htm > > Tuesday, October 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/3/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Metadata for Digital Collections Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm > > Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/15/08) > 2:00 pm-4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Preserving Digital Collections: First Steps for Action Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W819.htm > > Tuesday, August 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/15/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Streaming Audio and SMIL for Oral Histories > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W326.htm > > Friday, September 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/23/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) > > > The Challenge of Ephemera Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W388.htm > > Friday, September 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/10/08) > 9:00 am-11:00 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > Friday, October 17, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/15/08) > 9:00 am-11:00 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Librarianship > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > eContent Licensing and Negotiations > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W912.htm > > Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/16/08) > 9:00 am - 4:00 pm > OCLC- Ontario, CA > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline 9/2/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/07/2008) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Library administration and management > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Digital Licensing Online Course > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W809.htm > > Tuesday, September 2, 2008-Friday, October 31, 2008 (Registration > Deadline: 8/29/08) > Self-paced, online > > > eContent Licensing and Negotiations > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W912.htm > > Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/16/08) > 9:00 am - 4:00 pm > OCLC- Ontario, CA > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline 9/2/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/07/2008) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Managing Libraries in the Digital Age Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W814.htm > > Tuesday, October 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/3/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Reference and public service > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Administering OCLC QuestionPoint > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W907.htm > > Tuesday, September 30, 2008 (Registration Deadline 9/22/08) > 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, October 30, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/22/08) > 12:00 pm -2:00 pm > Online WebEx Meeting > > > Keep Up! Blogs, Wikis and RSS > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W909.htm > > Tuesday, October 14 ,2008 (Registration Deadline 10/6/08) > 10:00 am- 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm > > Thursday, August 28, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/20/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > October 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/08/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > OCLC QuestionPoint: Delivering Virtual Reference > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W906.htm > > Monday-Tuesday, October 20-21, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/13/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > QuestionPoint Reports for Evaluation and Improvement > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W918.htm > > Monday, October 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline:10/3/08) > 1:00 pm- 2:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Using NetLibrary eAudiobooks > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W919.htm > > Thursday, September 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/17/08) > 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, October 30, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/22/08) > 10:00 am- 11:30 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Resource sharing (ILL) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Custom Holdings in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W825.htm > > Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/8/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Deflection on WorldCat Resource Sharing Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/w827.htm > > Tuesday, September 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/12/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Introduction to OCLC's Policies Directory (PD) > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W504.htm > > Thursday, September 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/2/08) > 10:00 am-11:00 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Foundations > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W507.htm > > Monday, September 29, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/22/08) > 1:00 pm-4:00 pm > San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, 6th Floor Computer Room, > San Francisco, CA > > > Local Holdings Maintenance > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W506.htm > > Tuesday, September 30, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/23/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, 6th Floor Computer Room, > San Francisco, CA > > > Local Holdings Maintenance I: Basic Serials Local Holdings > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W830.htm > > Tuesday, Aug 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/22/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Maintenance II: Beyond the Basics > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W831.htm > > Thursday, Aug 28, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/26/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Patron-Initiated Resource Sharing in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W826.htm > > Thursday, September 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/23/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W823.htm > > Thursday-Friday, September 11-12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: > 9/9/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W822.htm > > Tuesday, September 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/5/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Technology > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Creating Digital Newspapers for the Web Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W818.htm > > Tuesday, September 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/12/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Dynamic Metadata and Data Curation Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W816.htm > > Tuesday, September 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 8/29/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > eContent Licensing and Negotiations > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W912.htm > > Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/16/08) > 9:00 am - 4:00 pm > OCLC- Ontario, CA > > > Keep Up! 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URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080812/d0c0e752/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Fri Aug 22 13:52:41 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Fri Aug 22 16:32:26 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's online course "Library Grant Writing Online" Message-ID: <00df01c90499$055d5580$10180080$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Library Grant Writing Online Dates: September 30, 2008 - November 24, 2008 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/387 Fee: $100 for those in the California library community and $175 for those out-of-state. **Demonstrated results! Five students who wrote and submitted grants during the spring session received grant awards!** . Do you need outside funding to implement a new program or service? . Do you think you have a great idea for a grant project but don't know where to start? . Would you like to know about "library-friendly" funding sources other than the California State Library/LSTA? . Would you like the opportunity to practice writing a grant proposal in a safe environment with one-on-one coaching? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then this course is for you! Successful grant writing is neither one of the magical arts nor an "insider" job. Grant writing is a set of skills that can be learned, and then improved upon with practice. In these difficult economic times, winning grant awards may be the only way your library can introduce new services and programs. At the same time, competition for grant funding is fiercer than ever. This Infopeople online learning course is designed to help you gain a competitive edge in the grant application process - and has a track record of getting results for those who complete the course. This intensive 8-week course will guide you through the process of writing an actual grant proposal--students should have in mind a specific project or idea that can be developed into a proposal document. This session has been updated and revised to cover online grant applications. Preliminary Course Outline: * Week 1: Overview of Project Planning and Grant Writing * The world of grantsmanship today * Library-friendly funding sources * General guidelines * Grant formats, traditional and online * Getting started * Week 2: Building a Solid Foundation * Identifying the need * Documenting the need * Involving your client group * Establishing community partnerships * Week 3: Building on the Foundation * Relationship of project to library mission and goals * Project goals and objectives * Writing measurable objectives * How much change is realistic? * What happens if you don't meet your objectives? * Week 4: Describing Your Program * The key to success: a clear plan of action * Developing your project timeline * Personnel requirements * Resources * Week 5: Will Your Program Make a Difference? * Keeping records * Evaluation models and terminology * Creating an evaluation plan * Outcome measures * Week 6: Getting to the Bottom Line * Budget basics * How to estimate costs * In-kind and matching fund requirements * Indirect costs * Negotiating with the funder * Week 7: Putting It All Together * Writing the project summary * Writing the cover letter * Submission, traditional and online * Week 8: After Submission - What Do You Do? * If you're funded - beyond celebration * Handling rejection * The basics of managing a funded projects * Implementing the plan of action * Managing the budget * Reporting * Preparing for the next phase Instructor: Holly Hinman. Grantwriting became a major part of Holly's professional life after she was appointed Director of the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System (MCLS) in March 1978. MCLS sent Holly to training at the Grantsmanship Center in Los Angeles and then put her to work writing grants. Over the next eleven years, Holly wrote dozens of grants, both for the system and for individual member libraries. Holly left MCLS to become the Library Services Manager in Beverly Hills in 1989, and subsequently served as the Library Director in Burbank from 1991 through 1993. She is now the Director of the Infopeople Project and is responsible for overall Project planning, management, and evaluation. Infopeople has evolved from a project that deployed Internet equipment and connectivity to a project that is the primary training and continuing education program of the California State Library. Holly teaches online and on-ground courses in grantwriting. Notes from the Instructor: You can take this course at several levels of intensity and effort. The original idea for the course was that each student, over the course of the 8 weeks, would write an actual, fully developed grant proposal. As I taught this course in previous years, however, I found that not all students can expend this level of effort, nor is it necessary for everyone. Accordingly, I have identified three levels of effort and you can select whichever level works for you: Level 1: Some students have told me that they get what they need from the course by simply reading the course material and participating in the online discussions and chat sessions. If you don't have a current project and just want to learn about the grant writing process for the future, this may suit you. Level 2: The second level of effort involves doing the assignments that prepare you to write a grant application for your project, but not actually writing the application. I have created new exercises for this session of the course specifically to accommodate this level of effort. Level 3: The most intense level of effort involves actually writing sections of a grant application to correspond with the course material in each week. Thus, in the second week you will write a statement of need, in the third you will develop the goals and objectives for your project, in the fourth you will write a narrative description of your program, etc. You will send the sections to me as you write them, and I will provide you with written feedback. If you already have a clear idea of what you want to do and have identified a possible funding source, you may want to work at this level as it is a good way to structure your work and to get one-on-one coaching. You will be asked to complete a pre-course online survey, at which time you will be asked to indicate the level at which you plan to take the course. Online Learning Details: This eight-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation which will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Library Grant Writing Online will start on September 30, 2008 and end on November 24, 2008. The workshop consists of eight learning modules. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. The materials will remain available to work on for two additional weeks following the official end date, but you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first eight weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone interested in learning about what is involved in writing grant proposals for libraries. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: * Have an Internet connection and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. * Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). * Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. * To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: * Windows: * Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Netscape 7.1 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * Macintosh: * Mozilla 1.4 and above (which is the same engine as Netscape 7.1), Safari 2.0 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above * OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. If space is available you may register for this online class up to seven days after the official start date. Please contact Linda Rodenspiel at assist@infopeople.org if you are trying to register after the official start date. If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://www.infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080822/40a30740/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Aug 25 15:13:00 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Aug 25 19:54:26 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople is co-sponsoring "Digital Preservation: Planning and Activities" Message-ID: <012101c906ff$bcc3de70$364b9b50$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! This workshop is co-sponsored by the California Preservation Program, Infopeople, and OCLC Western. Title: Digital Preservation: Planning and Activities Dates and locations: Thursday, October 2, 2008 - Solano County Library, Fairfield Civic Center Library Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - Buena Park Library District Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - San Francisco Public Library Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - Los Angeles Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/386 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Are you wondering if digital collections can be preserved into the future or if you have a role to play in managing digital collections over the long-term? Have you ever dealt with the loss of electronic files or collection information because your hard-drive failed or your network folders were not backed up on schedule? Digital preservation will depend upon good planning, documentation and funding as much or more than the perfect technical software or hardware. Find out what you can do now to begin the process of digital preservation planning for your organization. This is an introductory course to acquaint you to the issues involved in long-term digital preservation. . Are you responsible for preserving digital resources? . Do you need help with digital collection planning and funding? This workshop will provide initial planning, funding and preservation actions that you can use today to begin a process to assure that digital materials are available and accessible for your users into the future. Workshop Description: This all-day hands-on workshop will provide discussion and exercises focused on assessing access needs and understanding the hazards and risks of not acting. Through individual and group exercises you will review preservation software requirements and options for storing digital files. This course will introduce you to planning activities that you can begin now and use going forward to address the issues of long-term, assured access to digital collections. Using exercises, we will consider the risks and solutions to operational problems and review a preservation plan. The instructor will provide sample plans, checklists and a webliography, as well as practical, useful tips that can be applied immediately. Preliminary Course Outline * Understanding the Access Problem, Assessing User Needs * Overview of long term access * Common criteria for collecting materials for access * Understanding preservation problems that limit access * Understanding Preservation Actions for Digital Formats * Determine risk to files and potential solutions * Risk/loss scenarios * Recommended mitigation actions * Understand the Core Requirements of Preservation Tools * Preservation planning and concepts of active access vs. digital archiving * Active access and digital archiving workflow * National concepts relating to in-house archiving or outsourcing archiving * Creating Digital Preservation Planning, Funding and Implementation Goals. * Digital lifecycle and three areas of action for preservation, organization, resources and technology * Planning case model * Long-term funding strategies Instructor: Gayle Palmer. Gayle is Digital & Preservation Program Manager for the OCLC Western Service Center. Ms. Palmer brings more than twelve years experience in digital program planning, digital preservation and digital government projects to OCLC. A librarian for more than 30 years, Ms. Palmer has extensive background in special collections and preservation actions. At the Western Service Center, she coordinates digital and preservation services, consulting, training and grant facilitation programs for museums, libraries and cultural organizations. Specialties are project management, digital collection development, digital preservation, funding, metadata, and web development for digital & government information. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community who is responsible for developing and managing digital collection resources. This course is appropriate for public, academic, special library staff with planning or implementation responsibilities for digital collections, including library business managers, technical support staff, web development, systems staff, and program managers. May also be of interest to trustees and commissioners. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080825/da6e0340/attachment-0001.html From Western at oclc.org Tue Aug 26 07:48:34 2008 From: Western at oclc.org (Western) Date: Tue Aug 26 07:48:47 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Don't miss these outstanding Local Holdings workshops hosted by San Francisco Public Library and presented by OCLC Western! Message-ID: <85055FA347C14043835BD64615F1238F1AEECE@OAEXCH2SERVER.oa.oclc.org> > Don't miss these outstanding Local Holdings workshops hosted by San > Francisco Public Library and presented by OCLC Western! > > Local Holdings Foundation provides a high-level introduction to the > current standards for electronic holdings records (Z39.71 and MARC > Holdings). It offers an in-depth review of the general principles and > concepts of the standards, demonstrating how they work in partnership > with each other to create a standardized holdings record that can be > used by a wide variety of library systems, union lists, and OCLC's > WorldCat database. > For more information about this workshop and to register, please click > on the link below: > Monday, September 29, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/22/08) > 78EB2FF82E640113DDBD934F544A2D6437664E7&> > 1:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, 6th Floor > Computer Room, San Francisco, CA > > Local Holdings Maintenance takes a scenario-based approach and walks > trainees through the necessary navigation and editing techniques > needed to add, edit, or delete Local Holdings Records (LHRs) for basic > and complex serials as well as non-serials. The workshop also explores > how to create high-quality Local Holdings Records (LHRs) by making use > of such techniques as constant data and publication patterns. There > are frequent discussions interspersed throughout the workshop, and > trainee participation is encouraged. > For more information about this workshop and to register, please click > on the link below: > Tuesday, September 30, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/23/08) > 78EB2FF82E640113DDBD934F544A2D6437664E7&> > 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, 6th Floor > Computer Room, San Francisco, CA > > > From RSS feeds to member updates, staying informed is easier than ever > with OCLC Western electronic communications > 78EB2FF82E640113DDBD934F544A2D6437664E7&> . > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information and to participate in the September 10 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/279/index.html * Do you work with students who have school projects dealing with California Indians? * Do you wish that you knew more about California Indian history? * Does your library need more resources on California Indian history? If your answer to any of these questions is "yes," then you'll want to tune in to this webinar. The California Indians Historical Resources project was initiated through the California Native American community's response to Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians, a 2002 California State Library (CSL) report. Following the report's publication, CSL representatives visited with tribal and public government offices, libraries, education centers, cultural centers, parks, and museums in over 27 counties to gather information on California's Native American information resources. It became evident that access to historically accurate materials surrounding California Indian history are not readily available, and access to primary resource documents surrounding early California History remain difficult to access. The California Indians Historical Resources Project produced three self-contained databases: * Early California Newspapers 1846-1866; * Federal Documents Related to California Indians 1847-1868 & 1920; * State of California Indian legislative History Documents 1849-1863 & 1937. Each of the databases is contained on a single CD. The 3-disc set will be sent to all California public libraries through their Cooperative Library System's delivery system. The set will be mailed to all California tribal libraries. Individual libraries will determine the best way to make the databases available to their users. Additional copies, for use in branches or other locations, will be available for sale through the California State Library Foundation, 1225 8th St., #345, Sacramento, CA 95814, (916) 447-6331, or at http://www.cslfdn.org. This workshop will provide participants with: * A brief introduction to California Indian history; * An overview of Primary Resource Documents that deal with historic events surrounding the treatment of California Indians; * A map and timeline demonstrating treaty land cessions, treaty negotiations and legislation. Join us for an investigation of the treatment of Indians in California, and Federal and State of California government relations with California Indians through primary resource documents. Speaker: Susan Hanks. Susan has over 25 years of library experience, with 21 years of public library experience including work in rural, neighborhood and main branches, administration, acquisitions, cataloging, and archives. Susan is currently a Library Programs Consultant with the State Library, working with California tribal libraries, Preservation, and Rural Libraries. As the current President of the American Indian Library Association, she works to promote library services and resources nationwide. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Learning About California Indian History: An Introduction to the California Indian Historical Resources Project Date: September 10, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Susan Hanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To help you master these essential cataloging elements, we are offering two new courses: MARC 21 in Your Library and Just for Copy Cats. Both are designed to enhance your basic skill set and prepare you to participate in increasingly responsible levels of cataloging. MARC 21 in Your Library MARC 21 in Your Library is an introduction to all things MARC. It defines what the coding standard is and clarifies how it ties in with our cataloging rules to work in your library's catalog. Upon completion of the course, you should be able to read a MARC record, speak the MARC language, and understand how errors in MARC coding affect an OPAC. This one-day, in-person class is not only intended for beginning catalogers; it also has appeal to a broader audience of library professionals. Acquisitions people, managers, even library directors, could also benefit from this class. Aside from understanding the basis of the records that form the backbone of library information systems, it will also provide them with the ability to communicate more effectively with the folks in and around their institution who already "speak MARC." For a complete description and to register for upcoming sessions of this course, please click on the links below: October 22, 2008 (Registration deadline: 9/24/08) 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time Location: Portland (Oak Grove), OR October 27, 2008 (Registration deadline: 9/29/08) 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time Location: San Mateo, CA Just for Copy Cats Just for Copy Cats is a two-day, in-person, basic introduction to copy cataloging, which primarily covers four subject areas: finding cataloging records you can copy; some of the challenges of doing so; some of the neglected database issues involved; and a brief look at important editing. Upon completion of this course, you should be able to find and copy book records that accurately reflect your items. For a beginning cataloger, this workshop is the second step in your journey to excellence (your first step should be MARC21 in Your Library). A more experienced copy cataloger might also benefit from the course, finding nuggets of new information previously undiscovered. For a complete description and to register for upcoming sessions of this course, please click on the links below: October 23-24, 2008 (Registration deadline: 9/25/08) 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time Location: Portland (Oak Grove), OR October 28-29, 2008 (Registration deadline: 9/30/08) 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time Location: San Mateo, CA >From RSS feeds to member updates, staying informed is easier than ever with OCLC Western electronic communications . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080827/6e81bb94/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Aug 27 09:31:58 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Aug 27 12:30:46 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webinar on Universal Design Message-ID: <002d01c90862$6d963eb0$48c2bc10$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: Universal Design: Finding Assistive Features Hidden in Mainstream Technologies Date and time: September 16, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the September 16 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/288/index.html Assistive technology is often presented as having a clearly defined user population-either you're disabled and you need it, or you're not and you don't. There are a surprising number of products designed for people with disabilities that have become commonplace and mainstream products that offer accessibility as just another option. Universal design is the term for creating products that can be used by the largest possible number of individuals, based not only on disability but also on factors such as literacy and culture. While universal design does not eliminate the need for assistive technologies, librarians can maximize their accommodation budgets and services by selecting products with universal features over those that ignore this design strategy. At the end of this webinar, participants will: * Know basic concepts of universal design * Know universal design features that are part of specific products * Know how to evaluate products for universal design * Know limitations of universal design Speaker: Jane Vincent. Jane is a Computer Access Specialist at the Center for Accessible Technology in Berkeley, where she provides evaluations, demos, and information on adaptive computer technology to individuals of all ages, although her particular interest is people of retirement age. She is also a board member of the Corporation on Disability and Telecommunications, an initiative that seeks both to enhance job opportunities for disabled artists and to promote positive and varied images of people with disabilities in all media. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Universal Design: Finding Assistive Features Hidden in Mainstream Technologies Date: September 16, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Jane Vincent Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080827/5ec24df4/attachment.html From dhersh at oaklandlibrary.org Tue Sep 2 11:32:51 2008 From: dhersh at oaklandlibrary.org (Hersh, Daniel) Date: Tue Sep 2 11:33:09 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Mini-conference in SF on 9/24 on library marketing & outreach--sp ace still available! Message-ID: There's still time to register for: The Future of Libraries (4.0): Effective Marketing & Outreach in an Onsite-Online World Christie Koontz, Keynote Speaker San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, Koret Auditorium Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:30 am - 5:00 pm $40 Registration Fee Sponsored by the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay Area The Future of Libraries 4.0, the fourth in an annual series of conferences on innovations taking place in libraries today, turns this year to the survival-level issue of marketing and outreach. The focus is on projects and programs which are being implemented creatively and economically. Presentations will feature examples of everything from simple to comprehensive marketing and outreach efforts. This year's keynote speaker and moderator is Christie Koontz (see http://www.geolib.org/staff.cfm and http://www.geolib.org/publications.cfm). She is a faculty member at Florida State and San Jose State Universities and a columnist for Information Today's Marketing Library Services newsletter. Her background, publications and interests are at the junction between marketing and librarianship. She led an American Library Association Conference panel discussion in Anaheim this summer on why libraries close, and the report she has helped prepare on the topic is being posted online by OCLC. The updated agenda is below. For more information and to register, go to http://www.plsinfo.org/workshops/future08.htm . Daniel Hersh dhersh@oaklandlibrary.org for the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay Area ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:45 - 9:25 am REGISTRATION 9:30 am WELCOME: Jill Bourne, Deputy City Librarian, San Francisco Public Library 9:35 am KEYNOTE SPEECH: Christie Koontz 10:50 am MORNING SESSION: Marketing: Hooking Them Wherever They Are Moderator: Christie Koontz Sarah Houghton-Jan, San Jose Public Library Caroline Gick, Contra Costa County Library Terry Jackson, Peninsula Library System 12:00 - 1:30 pm LUNCH BREAK 1:30 pm AFTERNOON SESSION I: Branding: Creating the Face of the Library Moderator: Christie Koontz Barbara McMahan, San Francisco Public Library Caroline Gick, Contra Costa County Library Ann Miller, Solano County Library 3:00 pm AFTERNOON SESSION II: Innovations in Reaching Children, Teens, and Older Adults Moderator: Christie Koontz Becky Nielson, Contra Costa County Library Richard Bray, Alameda County Library Matt Gullett, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (former) 4:30 pm WRAP-UP: Christie Koontz 5:00 pm ADJOURN Registrations are due by September 17, 2008. Registration may close earlier due to space limitations. Refunds will be available for cancellations received before September 17, 2008. For more information about registration, contact Peninsula Library System staff at 650.349.5538 or krause@plsinfo.org. For more information about the program, contact Janet Hildebrand at 925.927.3202 or jhildebr@ccclib.org or Paul Signorelli at 415.681.5224 or paulsignorelli@gmail.com. From assist at infopeople.org Wed Sep 3 08:13:54 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Sep 3 08:11:53 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Reminder of Infopeople's webinar "Learning About California Indian History" Message-ID: <003601c90dd7$ae3972a0$0aac57e0$@org> A reminder of the next Infopeople webinar. Please let your friends and colleagues know about this event! Title: Learning About California Indian History: An Introduction to the California Indian Historical Resources Project Date and time: September 10, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the September 10 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/279/index.html * Do you work with students who have school projects dealing with California Indians? * Do you wish that you knew more about California Indian history? * Does your library need more resources on California Indian history? If your answer to any of these questions is "yes," then you'll want to tune in to this webinar. The California Indians Historical Resources project was initiated through the California Native American community's response to Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians, a 2002 California State Library (CSL) report. Following the report's publication, CSL representatives visited with tribal and public government offices, libraries, education centers, cultural centers, parks, and museums in over 27 counties to gather information on California's Native American information resources. It became evident that access to historically accurate materials surrounding California Indian history are not readily available, and access to primary resource documents surrounding early California History remain difficult to access. The California Indians Historical Resources Project produced three self-contained databases: * Early California Newspapers 1846-1866; * Federal Documents Related to California Indians 1847-1868 & 1920; * State of California Indian legislative History Documents 1849-1863 & 1937. Each of the databases is contained on a single CD. The 3-disc set will be sent to all California public libraries through their Cooperative Library System's delivery system. The set will be mailed to all California tribal libraries. Individual libraries will determine the best way to make the databases available to their users. Additional copies, for use in branches or other locations, will be available for sale through the California State Library Foundation, 1225 8th St., #345, Sacramento, CA 95814, (916) 447-6331, or at http://www.cslfdn.org. This workshop will provide participants with: * A brief introduction to California Indian history; * An overview of Primary Resource Documents that deal with historic events surrounding the treatment of California Indians; * A map and timeline demonstrating treaty land cessions, treaty negotiations and legislation. Join us for an investigation of the treatment of Indians in California, and Federal and State of California government relations with California Indians through primary resource documents. Speaker: Susan Hanks. Susan has over 25 years of library experience, with 21 years of public library experience including work in rural, neighborhood and main branches, administration, acquisitions, cataloging, and archives. Susan is currently a Library Programs Consultant with the State Library, working with California tribal libraries, Preservation, and Rural Libraries. As the current President of the American Indian Library Association, she works to promote library services and resources nationwide. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. 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If you have any questions, please email me or give me a call. Thank you. Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080903/c6c8630e/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Sep 4 16:19:53 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Sep 4 16:18:47 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's new Storytime for Two to Five-Year-Olds workshop Message-ID: <014b01c90ee4$bca28670$35e79350$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Jump & Jive: Storytimes for Two to Five-Year-Olds Dates and locations: Thursday, October 16, San Francisco Public Library Monday, November 3, Buena Park Library District Wednesday, December 3, San Diego County Library Headquarters Monday, December 15, South Natomas Library (Sacramento) Tuesday, January 13, Los Angeles Public Library Thursday, January 29, Contra Costa County Library - Pleasant Hill Friday, February 6, Woodcrest Library (Riverside) To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/388 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. There will also be a session held as a full day Institute at CLA on Friday, November 14. Registration for that session must be done through CLA at http://www.cla-net.org/included/docs/AdvanceRegistration.pdf Jump in and have fun with reading! Toddlers and preschoolers are ready to actively participate in singing, call and response and music and movement. Your library can establish itself as a literacy leader in the community by involving parents & kids in lively and entertaining storytimes. . Learn techniques for sharing songs, nursery rhymes, puppet play, fingerplays and age-appropriate picture books. . Forge strong relationships with parents & children in your community. . Help parents learn how to explore language with their children. . Build life long readers. Workshop Description: In this all day workshop, children's library staff will learn how to prepare and deliver a literacy-based storytime for two to five year olds and their parents/caregivers. Guided by a dynamic PowerPoint presentation, students will learn to develop an age-appropriate, literacy-rich program, learn "parent patter," explore preschool readiness foundations and how to use it during the program. Students will learn how to incorporate small and large muscle activities, listening skills and concept understanding to prepare this age group for when they are physically ready to read. In a supportive and entertaining environment, students will share and perform all storytime components to develop familiarity, confidence and ease in working with this jump and jiving group of 2 to 5 year olds. Students will be armed with puppet shows, song sheets, fingerplays, booklists, equipment suggestions, and recommended websites that will help stimulate the exploration of language and literature. You've never had so much fun at a library skills workshop! Pre-workshop assignments: (Optional) 1. Bring one book appropriate for two-five year olds to share with group. If you need help try one of the following websites: http://www.bayviews.org/storytime.html or http://www.readingrockets.org/books/booksbytheme 2. Bring a favorite fingerplay for two- five year olds to share with group. If you need help try one of the following websites: http://www.thebestkidswebsite.com or http://www.kiddles.com 3. Bring one completed model of your favorite craft to share with the group. If you need help try one of the following websites: www.craftkitsforkids.com or www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/. Please post directions and source of craft on the Infopeople Workshops wiki at http://infopeopleworkshops.pbwiki.com. For a quick introduction to editing the wiki, watch this screencast: http://ifpmedia.org/jings/2008-08-19_1353.swf Preliminary Course Outline * Introduction * Storytime Components * Parent Patter * Music and Movement * Basic Developmental Milestones * Puppet Play * Instructor demonstration of puppet show * Music and Movement * Video Demonstration of Puppet Show * Music and Movement * Early Literacy and Development * Early Literacy Skills * Instructor demonstration of Puppet Show * California Preschool Learning Foundations * Music and Movement * Video Demonstration of Puppet Show * Fingerplays and Nursery Rhymes * Book Selection * Joys of Oral Storytelling * Oral Storytelling * Instructor demonstration of Puppet Show * Instructor supplied scripts * Flannel Stories * Video Demonstration of Puppet Show * Music and Movement * Fun with Props * Instructor demonstration of Puppet Show * Props * Prop Songs * Crafts * Video Demonstration of Puppet Show * Poetry * Technology and Children * Handouts * Music and Movement Instructor: Colleen Willis. Colleen has happily spent the last eight years working as a children's librarian for the Anaheim Public Library. She got her start in storytelling because she happened to make the most fabulous pig snort that could be heard all the way from the back of the room. After the undying praise she received for her excellent puppetry she was hooked. Five years later she was approached by her supervisor who asked if she would be interested in doing a storytime for babies. Colleen had just had her second baby and was excited to try something new. Her initial start was slow, but as word got around the programs became a success. She then turned her experience into a California Library Association training session and has been busy ever since training fellow professionals in the art of baby storytimes. She has now taught 8 Simply Irresistible workshops. Who Should Attend: This course in intended for children's library staff who are involved in the development and implementation of storytimes for preschoolers and younger. Prerequisites: Experience with storytimes for preschoolers and younger desirable. If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080904/b5b1554d/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Fri Sep 5 16:02:14 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Fri Sep 5 15:59:51 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webinar on Maintaining Public Computers Message-ID: <00ef01c90fab$6fdcdee0$4f969ca0$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: Maintaining Public Computers: Learn from the Experiences of Others Date and time: September 30, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the September 30 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/298/index.html At the MaintainIT Project (www.maintainitproject.org), we interview hundreds of librarians about how they maintain, support, and sustain their public computers. We then publish all of their experiences, successes, and challenges in FREE guides called Cookbooks, so librarians can learn from the experiences of others who've done it before them. Here's the best part: everything the MaintainIT Project does is FREE (thanks to a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant), and everything is on the website! Watch this webinar to learn how you can use MaintainIT resources to make a difference in your library. * Are you tired of spending time figuring out how to maintain or support your public computers? * Do you wish you could ask other libraries how they manage their public computers? For example, how do they manage printing? Reservations? Do they have borrowing policies? * Are you interested in sharing how your library gets things done? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you're in luck: the MaintainIT Project is here to help! Join Stephanie Gerding and Brenda Hough from the MaintainIT Project (www.maintainitproject.org) for an informative conversation about public access computing resources that are available to you for free. Speakers: Stephanie Gerding and Brenda Hough Stephanie Gerding. Stephanie is an independent library consultant and MaintainIT Project contributor and focuses her writing and training on technology, train-the-trainer, and grants topics. She is the author of The Accidental Technology Trainer: A Guide for Libraries. Formerly a trainer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's U.S. Library Program, Stephanie has also managed statewide library training programs at New Mexico and Arizona State Libraries, worked as a SIRSI system administrator, and has been involved in technology training throughout her library career. Brenda Hough. Brenda is MaintainIT's Library Training Specialist. Her prior experience includes working as a Technology Consultant for the Northeast Kansas Library System, as a Trainer and Staff Development Coordinator in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's US Library Program, and as a Reference Library for the Lake Agassiz Regional Library in Detroit Lakes, MN. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Maintaining Public Computers: Learn from the Experiences of Others Date: September 30, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speakers: Stephanie Gerding and Brenda Hough -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080905/01130d55/attachment.html From Craig.Cruz at Krames.com Sun Sep 7 16:44:47 2008 From: Craig.Cruz at Krames.com (Cruz, Craig) Date: Sun Sep 7 16:44:53 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Internet Librarian 2008 conference discount for BayNet members Message-ID: <51321A53C517E149844F3E1766178AE824B639@sb-exchange-01.medimedia.com> BayNet members save $224 off the regular conference registration fee for Internet Librarian 2008! Internet Librarian brings Web search and tools experts from around the world for panel discussions of how Internet trends are impacting libraries. Plus, Web veterans dispense practical advice on how librarians can implement new technologies to improve their workflow and keep current with their user communities. For more information about the conference, please visit the Internet Librarian 2008 website: www.infotoday.com/IL2008 When: October 20-22, 2008 Where: Monterey, CA BayNet members can register for the Internet Librarian Conference 2008 for $275 (the regular fee is $449). Registration for the co-conference Internet@Schools West 2007 is $169 (from a regular price of $199). Registration for BOTH conferences is $275! Payment can be made by check (made payable to Information Today, Inc.) or by credit card. Print and complete the registration form (a PDF document you can download at http://www.baynetlibs.org/events/current/event_il102008.html) and return it, with payment by check or credit card information, to: Craig Cruz Jr. Library Manager Krames 1100 Grundy Lane, Floor 2 San Bruno, CA 94066 Registration forms and payments must be received by Friday, September 19. Craig Cruz Jr. Library Manager Krames Health Science Library Krames ph. 1-650-244-4532 fax 1-650-244-4543 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080907/9d4d4d0a/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Sep 8 11:58:31 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Sep 8 12:01:50 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webinar on 9/10 postponed Message-ID: <014801c911e4$e3117e80$a9347b80$@org> The Infopeople webinar that was scheduled on September 10 "Learning About California Indian History" has been postponed. It will be rescheduled for a date shortly after the libraries have received the "California Indian Historical Resources Project" database. Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080908/c9f1b4a9/attachment.html From Craig.Cruz at Krames.com Mon Sep 8 12:41:14 2008 From: Craig.Cruz at Krames.com (Cruz, Craig) Date: Mon Sep 8 12:41:25 2008 Subject: [Baynet] "Defending Libraries in a Time of Budget Uncertainties" -- a Special Libraries Association presentation Message-ID: <51321A53C517E149844F3E1766178AE801D34CF1@sb-exchange-01.medimedia.com> Dear BayNet members, The nation's economic situation has many of us concerned that our funding will dry up and/or decrease to a trickle. For that reason, I'm forwarding an announcement from SLA about an evening event being held next week. SLA's CEO will discuss lessons we can learn from recent examples of library cuts (including the EPA libraries scandal). Some of you may already be SLA members, but the event is open to non-members, too. ** JOINT EVENT: SAN FRANCISCO BAY REGION & SAN ANDREAS CHAPTERS ** What: "Defending Libraries in a Time of Budget Uncertainties" - A Special Evening with Janice Lachance, CEO of the Special Libraries Association When: Wednesday, September 17, 2008. Check-in and social hour begins at 5:45 p.m. Where: The Coyote Point Yacht Club, 1820 Coyote Point Drive, San Mateo Janice will discuss her experiences and lessons learned from defending the EPA libraries (and others) and suggest how we can apply those lessons to our own situations and libraries. This event presents a rare opportunity to meet and share your views with our organization's national director. The Honorable Janice R. Lachance became the 13th chief executive of the Special Libraries Association in 2003. Janice's career has included extensive experience working for members and committees of the U.S. Congress, where she served in various policy and management positions. Her many years of government service culminated with a cabinet position in the Clinton administration, where she served as Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from 1997-2001. Janice is a graduate of Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY, and earned her Juris Doctor degree at Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana. Please join us for an informative evening that will include networking and a buffet dinner at the Coyote Point Yacht Club in San Mateo, a casual setting that offers spectacular panoramic views of San Francisco Bay. Agenda 5:45-6:30: Check-in and networking 6:30-7:15: Buffet dinner 7:15-8:15: Presentation with Q&A following Directions from 101 Southbound: Note: Due to road construction detours, please do not follow the directions on the Club's website. >From 101 South, take the Broadway exit. Keep left at the fork (follow the sign to Airport Blvd / Old Bayshore Hwy / Overpass). Keep right at the next fork (follow the sign to Overpass). Turn right at Rollins Road. Turn right at Broadway. Turn right at Bayshore Hwy. Turn left at Airport Blvd. Go 2.2 miles and turn left at Coyote Point Drive. Go straight at the stop sign into the park. Directions from 101 Northbound: >From 101 North, take the Dore Avenue exit. Turn left immediately at North Bayshore Blvd (the frontage road). Turn right at Coyote Point Drive. Go straight at the stop sign into the park. Coyote Point Park Entry Gate: Tell the gate attendant that you are attending an event at the Yacht Club (park entry fee is waived for event attendees). Follow the road along (hugging the golf course on the right) until you come out to the marina area. The Club is a two-story building right in front. Park in the Club lot (parking is free). Our event is on the second floor. An elevator is available on the side away from the marina. ** REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Please register online or ensure your check arrives by September 12, 2008 ** Cost: * Member: $25.00 * Guest / Non-member: $35.00 * Student / Retired / Unemployed: $15.00 Register online by September 12, 2008: http://units.sla.org/chapter/csfo/calendar/regform.html. (Note: You do not need a PayPal account to register through this PayPal-administered site.) 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For more information and to participate in the September 16 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/288/index.html Assistive technology is often presented as having a clearly defined user population-either you're disabled and you need it, or you're not and you don't. There are a surprising number of products designed for people with disabilities that have become commonplace and mainstream products that offer accessibility as just another option. Universal design is the term for creating products that can be used by the largest possible number of individuals, based not only on disability but also on factors such as literacy and culture. While universal design does not eliminate the need for assistive technologies, librarians can maximize their accommodation budgets and services by selecting products with universal features over those that ignore this design strategy. At the end of this webinar, participants will: * Know basic concepts of universal design * Know universal design features that are part of specific products * Know how to evaluate products for universal design * Know limitations of universal design Speaker: Jane Vincent. Jane is a Computer Access Specialist at the Center for Accessible Technology in Berkeley, where she provides evaluations, demos, and information on adaptive computer technology to individuals of all ages, although her particular interest is people of retirement age. She is also a board member of the Corporation on Disability and Telecommunications, an initiative that seeks both to enhance job opportunities for disabled artists and to promote positive and varied images of people with disabilities in all media. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. 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Upon > completion of the course, you should be able to read a MARC record, > speak the MARC language, and understand how errors in MARC coding > affect an OPAC. > This one-day, in-person class is not only intended for beginning > catalogers; it also has appeal to a broader audience of library > professionals. Acquisitions people, managers, even library directors, > could also benefit from this class. Aside from understanding the basis > of the records that form the backbone of library information systems, > it will also provide them with the ability to communicate more > effectively with the folks in and around their institution who already > "speak MARC." > For a complete description and to register for upcoming sessions of > this course, please click on the links below: > October 27, 2008 > 7BDD85142468A3B4111B229B89F2C3D9CD4D1CB&> > (Registration deadline: 9/29/08) > 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: San Mateo, CA > > > Just for Copy Cats > Just for Copy Cats is a two-day, in-person, basic introduction to copy > cataloging, which primarily covers four subject areas: finding > cataloging records you can copy; some of the challenges of doing so; > some of the neglected database issues involved; and a brief look at > important editing. Upon completion of this course, you should be able > to find and copy book records that accurately reflect your items. > For a beginning cataloger, this workshop is the second step in your > journey to excellence (your first step should be MARC21 in Your > Library). A more experienced copy cataloger might also benefit from > the course, finding nuggets of new information previously > undiscovered. > > For a complete description and to register for upcoming sessions of > this course, please click on the links below: > October 28-29, 2008 > 7BDD85142468A3B4111B229B89F2C3D9CD4D1CB&> > (Registration deadline: 9/30/08) > 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: San Mateo, CA > > > From RSS feeds to member updates, staying informed is easier than ever > with OCLC Western electronic communications > 7BDD85142468A3B4111B229B89F2C3D9CD4D1CB&> . > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080912/fa8952c1/attachment.html From Western at oclc.org Thu Sep 11 08:15:50 2008 From: Western at oclc.org (Western) Date: Mon Sep 15 09:33:45 2008 Subject: [Baynet] September - November | California Online and In-person Education and Training from OCLC Western Message-ID: <85055FA347C14043835BD64615F1238F1AEED8@OAEXCH2SERVER.oa.oclc.org> > OCLC Western's goal is to provide you with the education and training > you need, when and where you need it. As such, we are pleased to offer > an array of classes spanning several topical areas. > > Outlined below are classes we have planned for the next few months. We > add new classes frequently, so to stay as up-to-date as possible, sign > up for our Training RSS feed < http://www.oclc.org/western/rss/ > > which provides daily updates on courses that have just been scheduled. > If you are interested in a more collective view of training > opportunities, opt for our Training Update < > https://www.oclc.org/western/email/default.htm > and we will send you > regular information. Or, view our Web site at > < http://www.oclc.org/western/ >. > > > > > Cataloging and metadata > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > CatExpress Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W119.htm > > September 25, 2008 (Regisration Deadline: 9/18/08) > 1;00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > November 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/13/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 1 - WorldCat, MARC, and Client Basics > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W127.htm > > October 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/30/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > December 1, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/24/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 2 - Basic Bibliographic Searching > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W133.htm > > October 8, 2008 (Regisration Deadline: 10/1/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > December 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/25/08) > 10:00 am-12:00pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 3 - Basic Editing and Record Processing > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W129.htm > > October 9, 2008 (Regisration Deadline: 10/2/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > December 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/26/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 4 - Save Files and File Management > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W130.htm > > October 22, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/15/08) > 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 5 - Automation and Customization > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W131.htm > > December 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/27/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 6 - Editing Master Records > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W132.htm > > Setember 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/16/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > November 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/28/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 7 - Advanced Bibliographic Searching > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W125.htm > > November 11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/4/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 8 - Original Cataloging > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W134.htm > > October 1, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/24/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 9 - Authority Control > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W135.htm > > November 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Just for Copy Cats > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W111.htm > > October 28-29, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/30/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > San Mateo, CA > > > Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm > > October 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/08/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, November 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > MARC 21 in Your Library > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W115.htm > > October 27, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/29/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > San Mateo, CA > > > > > Collection management > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Digital Image Quality Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm > > Wednesday, November 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/3/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Dynamic Metadata and Data Curation Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W816.htm > > Friday, November 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/5/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/07/2008) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, November 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations: Intellectual Property Issues for Digital > Libraries Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W815.htm > > Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/19/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Managing Archival Collections: An Introduction > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W328.htm > > Thursday, September 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/22/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) > > > Managing Libraries in the Digital Age Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W814.htm > > Tuesday, October 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/3/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Streaming Audio and SMIL for Oral Histories > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W326.htm > > Friday, September 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/23/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) > > > > > Digitization and preservation > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Creating Digital Newspapers for the Web Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W818.htm > > Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/21/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Digital Image Quality Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm > > Wednesday, November 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/3/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Digital Preservation: First Steps for Action Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W819.htm > > Tuesday, November 18, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/14/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Dynamic Metadata and Data Curation Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W816.htm > > Friday, November 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/5/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations: Intellectual Property Issues for Digital > Libraries Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W815.htm > > Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/19/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Managing Archival Collections: An Introduction > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W328.htm > > Thursday, September 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/22/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) > > > Managing Libraries in the Digital Age Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W814.htm > > Tuesday, October 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/3/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Promoting Digital Collections to Attract Users Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W817.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Streaming Audio and SMIL for Oral Histories > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W326.htm > > Friday, September 26, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/23/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > OCLC San Mateo (San Mateo, CA) > > > > > Librarianship > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > eContent Licensing and Negotiations > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W912.htm > > Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/16/08) > 9:00 am - 4:00 pm > OCLC- Ontario, CA > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/07/2008) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, November 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Library administration and management > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Billing Enhancement Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W921.htm > > Wednesday, September 17, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/16/08) > 3:00 pm-4:00 pm > Web Ex Online Meeting > > Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/22/08) > 3:00 pm-4:00 pm > Web Ex Online Meeting > > > eContent Licensing and Negotiations > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W912.htm > > Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/16/08) > 9:00 am - 4:00 pm > OCLC- Ontario, CA > > > Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/07/2008) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, November 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Managing Libraries in the Digital Age Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W814.htm > > Tuesday, October 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/3/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Reference and public service > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Administering OCLC QuestionPoint > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W907.htm > > Tuesday, September 30, 2008 (Registration Deadline 9/22/08) > 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, October 30, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/22/08) > 12:00 pm -2:00 pm > Online WebEx Meeting > > Thursday, November 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/12/08) > 11:00 am -1:00 pm > Online WebEx Meeting > > > Keep Up! Blogs, Wikis and RSS > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W909.htm > > Tuesday, October 14 ,2008 (Registration Deadline 10/6/08) > 10:00 am- 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, November 6, 2008 ( Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm > > October 16, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/08/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, November 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > OCLC QuestionPoint: Delivering Virtual Reference > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W906.htm > > Monday-Tuesday, October 20-21, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/13/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Wednesday-Thursday, November 12-13, 2008 (Registration Deadline: > 11/14/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > QuestionPoint Reports for Evaluation and Improvement > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W918.htm > > Monday, October 13, 2008 (Registration Deadline:10/3/08) > 1:00 pm- 2:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Using NetLibrary eAudiobooks > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W919.htm > > Thursday, September 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/17/08) > 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, October 30, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/22/08) > 10:00 am- 11:00 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > Monday,November 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/3/08) > 2:00 pm- 3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Resource sharing (ILL) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Local Holdings Foundations > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W507.htm > > Monday, September 29, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/22/08) > 1:00 pm-4:00 pm > San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, 6th Floor Computer Room, > San Francisco, CA > > > Local Holdings Foundations Online: Principles and Standards for Local > Holdings Records > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W829.htm > > Wednesday, October 8, 2008 (Registration Deadline:10/6/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Introduction > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W828.htm > > Tuesday, October 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/3/08) > 1:00 pm-2:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Maintenance > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W506.htm > > Tuesday, September 30, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/23/08) > 9:00 am-4:00 pm > San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, 6th Floor Computer Room, > San Francisco, CA > > > Patron-Initiated Resource Sharing in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W826.htm > > Thursday, September 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/23/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W823.htm > > Thursday-Friday, October 16-17, 2008 (Registration Deadline: > 10/14/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W822.htm > > Tuesday, October 14, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/10/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Technology > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Creating Digital Newspapers for the Web Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W818.htm > > Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/21/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Digital Preservation: First Steps for Action Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W819.htm > > Tuesday, November 18, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/14/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Dynamic Metadata and Data Curation Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W816.htm > > Friday, November 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/5/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > eContent Licensing and Negotiations > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W912.htm > > Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 9/16/08) > 9:00 am - 4:00 pm > OCLC- Ontario, CA > > > Keep Up! 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We'll discuss what makes them fall into each > category, and how you can avoid the latter. > We'll discuss where RSS fits into the picture with each of these > technologies, and how you can leverage RSS feeds to keep your patrons > and staff up to date, even if they don't use a feed reader (and we'll > talk about those as well). No technical expertise is necessary to > learn about these technologies, and very little is required to > implement them. > This online workshop is ideally suited for frontline staff who may be > implementing and working with these technologies on a regular basis, > and for managers who may be responsible for developing policies around > these tools. > > For more information about this Keep Up! workshop and to register, > please click on the links below: > Tuesday, October 14 ,2008 (Registration Deadline 10/6/08) > 78EB2FF23A9C45B548F7B1FF544A2D6437664E7&> > 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: WebEx Online Meeting > Thursday, November 6, 2008 ( Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 78EB2FF23A9C45B548F7B1FF544A2D6437664E7&> > 1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: WebEx Online Meeting > Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/2/08) > 78EB2FF23A9C45B548F7B1FF544A2D6437664E7&> > 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: WebEx Online Meeting > > From RSS feeds to member updates, staying informed is easier than ever > with OCLC Western electronic communications > 78EB2FF23A9C45B548F7B1FF544A2D6437664E7&> . > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This presentation will cover the likely needs of these users and discuss ways to accommodate them without either impinging on the rights of individuals with more extreme disabilities or breaking the budget. At the end of this presentation, Webinar participants will: . Understand the range of accommodation needs for users who may not be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). . Know what computer accommodation needs these users are likely to have. . Know what (mostly free or inexpensive) tools are available to meet these needs. . Know how to set library policies to accommodate these users. Webinar: October 7, 2008 Time: 12pm-1pm Speaker: Jane Vincent See: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/287/index.html for more information. Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080922/828b4435/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Sep 22 15:05:32 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Sep 22 15:07:51 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's online course "Advanced Web Search Tools & Tips" Message-ID: <002a01c91cff$554d7e70$ffe87b50$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Advanced Web Search Tools & Tips (online learning course) Dates: October 28, 2008 ? November 24, 2008 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/391 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. Do you use the web for reference or research of any kind? Do you know what's new and hot in web search engines? Do you know that all the search engines offer useful, largely secret advanced search commands? Do you know how and when to search for answers within blogs, wikis, video, and photo sites? Do you have a search strategy that encompasses all the formats and types of websites that exist today? ? What's new in search engines and when to use the latest innovations ? How and when to use web search engines' best advanced search techniques ? The value in research and reference of subject-specialized search engines, databases, and web pages, and how to find them ? How to create and find your own custom search engines to full-text search within almost any set of websites on almost any subject ? When to go beyond directories like lii.org and Infomine to explore the "invisible web" ? The likely future of web searching and tools for keeping up with the changes This course will make you a more efficient and effective searcher able to use the latest as well as the most useful advanced search techniques. Workshop Description: This four-week online learning course will provide, through individual written exercises and the instructor's feedback, explanations and practice developing the skills listed above. The instructor will provide cheat sheets and a webliography, as well as practical, useful tips that can be applied immediately. You will have a chance to try to find answers to questions submitted by other students in the class. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: * Module One: What's New, Changing, and Useful in Search Engines * The best search engines at this time for advanced and basic searching * Obscure commands and limiters * Module Two: Subject-Specialized Databases, Search Engines, and Websites * Searches and directories to find specialized search engines, websites, and useful searchable databases * When to use and how to find the growing "invisible web" * Module Three: The New Participatory Web and Reference * Creating your own search engines and finding custom search engines * Mining the new web for useful information ? when to consider turning to wikis, blogs, video, or photo sites. * The place at the reference desk for social networking and sharing sites like MySpace and LibraryThing and 43Things or 43Places * Module Four: Being Prepared for Any Question * Advanced search strategy * Keeping up and the future of web searching Instructor: Joe Barker. Until June 2007, Joe worked full time as a reference and instruction librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Doe library and the Moffitt undergraduate library. He also maintained an online web searching tutorial which remains one of the most heavily used resources for finding and evaluating information on the web. He has been teaching web searching for Infopeople, especially in connection with answering reference questions, since 2000 on topics such as PowerSearch, State of the Art Web Searching, Extreme Googling, Making the Most of the Post-Google Web, and Web 2.0: Searching Innovations. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2 to 2? hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone from the library community who uses the Internet to find information, either for research or reference. This is not an introductory course. Students who enroll should be familiar with basic web searching, either through some ground or online web searching class or through considerable web searching experience. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: * Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). * Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. * To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: * Windows: * Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista * Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above * Phishing Filter disabled (IE 7) * Macintosh: * OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) * Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above, Safari 2.0 and above * General * High speed Internet connection (dial up not recommended) * Java enabled * Pop-up blockers disabled If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information and to participate in the September 30 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/298/index.html At the MaintainIT Project (www.maintainitproject.org), we interview hundreds of librarians about how they maintain, support, and sustain their public computers. We then publish all of their experiences, successes, and challenges in FREE guides called Cookbooks, so librarians can learn from the experiences of others who've done it before them. Here's the best part: everything the MaintainIT Project does is FREE (thanks to a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant), and everything is on the website! Watch this webinar to learn how you can use MaintainIT resources to make a difference in your library. * Are you tired of spending time figuring out how to maintain or support your public computers? * Do you wish you could ask other libraries how they manage their public computers? For example, how do they manage printing? Reservations? Do they have borrowing policies? * Are you interested in sharing how your library gets things done? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you're in luck: the MaintainIT Project is here to help! Join Stephanie Gerding and Brenda Hough from the MaintainIT Project (www.maintainitproject.org) for an informative conversation about public access computing resources that are available to you for free. Speakers: Stephanie Gerding and Brenda Hough Stephanie Gerding. Stephanie is an independent library consultant and MaintainIT Project contributor and focuses her writing and training on technology, train-the-trainer, and grants topics. She is the author of The Accidental Technology Trainer: A Guide for Libraries. Formerly a trainer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's U.S. Library Program, Stephanie has also managed statewide library training programs at New Mexico and Arizona State Libraries, worked as a SIRSI system administrator, and has been involved in technology training throughout her library career. Brenda Hough. Brenda is MaintainIT's Library Training Specialist. Her prior experience includes working as a Technology Consultant for the Northeast Kansas Library System, as a Trainer and Staff Development Coordinator in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's US Library Program, and as a Reference Library for the Lake Agassiz Regional Library in Detroit Lakes, MN. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. 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If you have any questions, please email me or give me a call. Thank you. Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080923/f5f064f2/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Sep 24 09:25:37 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Sep 24 09:30:09 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Building Leadership Skills: Leading Teams" workshop Message-ID: <007801c91e62$2e035b50$8a0a11f0$@org> With the workshop announced below, Infopeople is beginning a new series of nine leadership skills-building workshops. These are part of the Eureka! Leadership Program, which is described in full at http://eurekaleadership.org/index.html. Each of the skills-building workshops is open registration and can be taken either separately or as part of the series. Each workshop is $75. If you register for the entire series, there is a discount - nine workshops for the price of eight, or $600 for the series. If you wish to register for just "Leading Teams" or for any other single workshop in the series, please use the link given in the announcement for the workshop and register as you would for any other Infopeople workshop. If you wish to register for the entire series, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, by email at assist@infopeople.org. Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Building Leadership Skills: Leading Teams Dates and locations: Thursday, November 6, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose Friday, November 7, Arden-Dimick Library, Sacramento Monday, November 10, San Francisco Public Library Wednesday, November 12, Woodward Park Library, Fresno Wednesday, November 19, Encinitas Branch Library Thursday, November 20, Buena Park Library District Friday, November 21, Los Angeles Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/394 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. . Are you finding the challenge of leading a team to be more challenging than you thought? . Are you troubled with unwanted team member behaviors and attitudes? . Are some team members acting more like "Lone Rangers" than you'd like them too? . Do you believe that your teams could be more productive and efficient? . Have they done better in the past? Is the quality of work not what it used to be? This workshop will answer many of the questions you have about successfully leading teams while dispelling myths and other bad information you have received from others. Like many other facets of leadership, leading your team members requires you to have a plan or model to follow and to know the appropriate steps to take. That's just one way this workshop can help you! Take this mini-assessment and determine if this workshop can help you to become a better leader of your teams: . Do you feel like you are struggling as a leader of a team? . Are you looking for a model of teams to lead your people with? . Do you need help with "communicating effectively" to your team members? . Would you like to be able to empower the team members to manage themselves effectively? If you answered "yes" to one or more of the questions, then this workshop will help you to lead more productive and efficient teams in your workplace...without feeling like a babysitter, care taker or dictator. Workshop Description: This fun and interactive workshop will include the use of both individual and group exercises; a Daily Interactions assessment, video based learning, group discussions and lecture. Attendees will learn and incorporate a model of team development that can be applied immediately in their workplace. Preliminary Course Outline * The Path to Excellence: Understanding How Teams Work * Understanding the difference between a work team and a group * Focusing on the 4 traits of successful teams * Understanding the characteristics of effective teams * Team myths: Overcoming what other people have told you is the truth about team behaviors and function * Leading Team and Team Member Roles and Behaviors * Using a behavioral profile to help team members understand themselves and each other better * Understanding the two primary roles that team members assume at work * Using the 6 step method for effectively communicating and sharing information with team members * Building the Foundation of Your Team * Using team values to help team members make effective decisions and to determine appropriate team member behaviors * Mission statements: 3 things you must do in creating your team's mission statement * Decision making: The best methods for making decisions as a team * Goal setting with your team: What you need to know to set SMART goals * Leading by Facilitating Your Team's Success! * Techniques to create a culture of collaboration in your teams * The 5 levels of teams: What to expect as your team matures and grows * Conflict and your team: Getting rid of the bad and making the most out of your situations of healthy conflict * Making the most out of your team meetings: A short list for leading meetings that you will begin using immediately Instructor: Andrew Sanderbeck. Andrew an expert trainer on leadership and team development, customer service and generating revenues for libraries and library systems. Andrew consults with libraries and other non-profit organizations to help them realize the true human potential of their management and employees. He is a certified business coach and the publisher of the Library~Connect Newsletter, a free monthly electronic publication read by thousands of library professionals around the world. He is the current chair for The Small and Rural Libraries Interest Group of the Florida Library Association. Who Should Attend: This workshop is "open registration", meaning anyone from the California library community with an interest in leadership and/or developing high performing teams can attend. This workshop is designed for and targets those who are early to mid-career (up to 10 years in the profession). It is a part of the Eureka! Leadership Program: Discover the Leader Within, a 4-phase program, which will take place over the next two years, includes a variety of approaches to leadership development, including self-assessment, skill-building, a multi-day intensive retreat, mentoring, and project implementation. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20080924/1d0a3300/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Sep 24 14:14:10 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Sep 24 14:16:43 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's online course "Law on the 'Net" Message-ID: <014301c91e8a$7d7a3190$786e94b0$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Law on the ?Net: A Workshop for Non-Law Librarians (online learning course) Dates: November 4, 2008 ? December 8, 2008 This class will take a Thanksgiving break from November 24, to November 30, 2008. During that period students are free to work on the class but the Instructor will not be available. To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/409 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. Few people get through their lives without encountering the law in one form or another. Libraries are often people?s fist stop as they attempt to navigate the murky waters of the legal system. If you have ever felt you lack expertise in answering users? legal reference questions, this course is for you! You?ll come away with practical tips on answering common reference requests such as: ? Finding good sources for legal information on fighting speeding tickets ? Where to go to find good resources on divorce law ? Helping users find reliable legal information regarding conflicts with landlords or neighbors This online course will help you gain confidence when confronted with legal reference questions. By understanding more about ?the law? you?ll know the right questions to ask during the reference interview, the best web sites to show your users, and the pitfalls of legal research on the ?net. You?ll also be able to develop web pages and guides for answering common legal reference questions. Best of all, you?ll have a strategy for facing even the most daunting legal questions. Workshop Description: This four-week online learning course will provide you with an understanding of what the law is and where to find it on the web. We?ll discuss user ? and librarian - perceptions about the law, why it?s not as scary ? or as easy ? as some people think, and how to effectively provide legal reference service. Weekly exercises will give you the opportunity to experience the helpfulness ? or lack thereof ? of legal web sites. You will also participate in online discussion forums where you and fellow students can share successes and challenges in handling legal questions. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: * Module One: Legal Reference Boot Camp * Debunking legal myths * Cases, statutes, regulations, ordinances: what they are, why they are important. * Initial questions for your user * Where to begin when you don?t know where to begin * Module Two: California and Federal Law * What is readily available and useable on the web * No, you cannot throw away those self-help books yet * Module Three: Forms! Forms! Forms! * Why what seems so easy isn?t * Module Four: ?Referral? Is Not a Four-Letter Word * Finding and evaluating attorneys * Law libraries want your business! * Strategizing for legal reference success Instructor: Laura Cadra. Laura has answered many legal reference questions in her 16 years as a law librarian. She has worked as a reference librarian at U.S.C. and U.C.L.A. Law School libraries as well as at the Los Angeles County Law Library, one of the largest public law libraries in the United States. Currently she is Head of Reference Services/Foreign & International Law Librarian at Loyola Law Library in Los Angeles, where she teaches classes in beginning and advanced legal research. Pre-workshop assignment: Please gather legal questions that you or your colleagues have encountered to use as illustrations throughout the course. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation, which will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 3 to 3? hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone from the library community who staffs a reference desk where legal questions may pop up. It is also appropriate for webmasters developing legal web pages and those responsible for collection development. No prior knowledge of legal materials is needed. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: * Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). * Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. * To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: * Windows: * Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista * Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above * Phishing Filter disabled (IE 7) * Macintosh: * OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) * Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above, Safari 2.0 and above * General * High speed Internet connection (dial up not recommended) * Java enabled * Pop-up blockers disabled If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Title: Building Leadership Skills: Developing and Leading Projects Dates and locations: Monday, December 1, San Francisco Public Library Tuesday, December 2, South Natomas Library Sacramento Thursday, December 4, Buena Park Library District Wednesday, December 10, Woodward Park Library Fresno Friday, December 12, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Tuesday, December 16, San Diego County Library Headquarters Wednesday, December 17, Los Angeles Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/395 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. How is your track record for leading library projects that finish on time, under budget, at an agreed-upon level of quality, and with everyone still speaking to one another? In this course you will learn how to: . assign the right people to the right project roles, . communicate sufficient information, . design and apply appropriate checkpoints and benchmarks, . set realistic expectations based on time, resources and levels of quality, . evaluate your library's ability to complete projects successfully, and . identify what might have to change to improve your project readiness. You will also learn how to avoid common leadership mistakes that can threaten the success of any project. At the end of this course, you will be prepared to improve the performance of your project team and lead them towards agreeing on goals, meeting deadlines, resolving conflicts, and fulfilling your library's mission, vision, and strategic plan. Workshop Description: This one-day workshop uses written evaluations, lecture, small and large group discussions, and case studies, with opportunities for you to think, write and discuss your library's projects and your role as a leader in running them. A reproducible handout with exercises, cheat sheets, and a bibliography will help you share the class information with members of your staff and, specifically, with your project teams. Pre-workshop assignment (optional): You are invited to bring documents from current projects, including printouts of planning calendars, memos, job descriptions, timetables, etc., to evaluate during class. Preliminary Course Outline * The Organization Map * Leadership, management, and task roles * Time as a tool for leading projects * Project leadership skills: risk, influence, vision and character * The Project Planning Model * Planning to plan * Transparent governance: Who makes decisions? What decisions do they make? How do they make them? * Creating timelines and checkpoints * Benchmarks for Success * Descriptive benchmarks: physical evidence and behavior * Measurable benchmarks: time, money and quality * Strategic benchmarks: mission and vision * Why Projects Fail * Project readiness scorecards * Twelve reasons project fail * Your next step Instructor: Pat Wagner. Pat is an educator, writer, consultant and trainer and is known for her practical and good-humored approaches to library issues. She has worked for libraries since 1978, focusing on leadership, management and personnel issues as well as strategic planning, project management and trend analysis. Pat presents at state and national conferences and is an LAMA/ALA regional institute trainer; she also contributes to library publications. Her archived free online programs for libraries can be viewed at http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/archive.php. Pat also is a subject matter expert and library relations associate for the University of North Texas LE@D (Lifelong Education at Desktop) program. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community who needs to develop and lead a library workplace project. This is one of the workshops in Phase 2 of the Eureka! Leadership Program, and is recommended for those who are interested in being considered for the Phase 3 Leadership Institute, but is also an open registration workshop that can be taken by itself. Prerequisites: An MLS or at least three years of supervisory experience. If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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When considering digitzation outsourcing, you'll > find a variety of services available and many options to consider. > Good advice from a trusted expert can help you manage your project. > During this live Web event you will: > * Learn which types of digitization projects are best-suited for > outsourcing > * Discuss materials considerations that impact final delivery > methods > * Identify key decisions that will impact your project success > > DATE: October 7, 2008 > TIME: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. EST, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PST > COST: FREE! > > Register today >> > C9B203BAFE0743DBF&> > > FEATURED SPEAKER > Gayle Palmer Manager, Digital and Preservation Programs for OCLC > Western > > About the speaker: > Gayle brings an extensive background in special collections and > preservation along with more than 12 years of experience in digital > program planning, digital preservation and digital government > projects. > > > From RSS feeds to member updates, staying informed is easier than ever > with OCLC Western electronic communications > 78EB2FF23A9C45B548F7B1FF544A2D6437664E7&> . > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However, there is a much larger population that can benefit from assistive technology as well, including people with repetitive strain injuries, children with learning differences, Boomers/seniors, and individuals with temporary disabilities. This presentation will cover the likely needs of these users and discuss ways to accommodate them without either impinging on the rights of individuals with more extreme disabilities or breaking the budget. At the end of this presentation, Webinar participants will: * Understand the range of accommodation needs for users who may not be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). * Know what computer accommodation needs these users are likely to have. * Know what (mostly free or inexpensive) tools are available to meet these needs. * Know how to set library policies to accommodate these users. Speaker: Jane Vincent. Jane is a Computer Access Specialist at the Center for Accessible Technology in Berkeley, where she provides evaluations, demos, and information on adaptive computer technology to individuals of all ages, although her particular interest is people of retirement age. She is also a board member of the Corporation on Disability and Telecommunications, an initiative that seeks both to enhance job opportunities for disabled artists and to promote positive and varied images of people with disabilities in all media. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. 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During that three-day period students are free to work on the class but the Instructor will not be available. To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/403 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. ? Does your library catalog look like a foreign language or some sort of secret code? ? Do you purposefully 'turn off' the MARC display on your library computers but secretly wonder if you are missing some valuable information? ? Do you pile up materials waiting to be cataloged in the hope that they will catalog themselves? If you answered yes to these questions, then this course is for you. No previous cataloging education is required; in fact it's better to start with none! This class is also useful if you took cataloging years ago and need a refresher! Workshop Description: This six-week online learning course will provide an introduction to the methodology and practice of MARC 21 cataloging in the computer age. OCLC cataloging rules and practices will not be covered, as many of these differ from MARC 21 protocols. You will develop a better understanding of why non-catalogers should know MARC and cataloging and how this can help them in their tasks. You will learn about problems and areas to double check when copy cataloging, and you will feel more empowered and comfortable with the inner workings and information contained in the computerized library catalog. Through individual and group exercises you will learn about each section of a catalog record and how it is created. You will complete a variety of fun exercises and problems to solve. The instructor will provide templates, cheat sheets for each section, and a webliography, as well as practical, useful tips that can be applied immediately. During the course, you will be doing exercises, working puzzles, and taking quizzes. There will be a comprehensive quiz in Week 6 for additional review and practice. You will also participate in online discussion forums as part of the online learning process. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: * Module One: Introduction to Cataloging * Cataloging defined * Why understand cataloging if it's not in your job description? * General cataloging methods and terminology * Module Two: Cataloging in the Computer Age * Transfer from a card catalog to computer MARC records * Components of a MARC record * Common fixed and variable tags * Module Three: MARC Formats * 8 MARC formats * MARC tags for each format * Module Four: Copy Cataloging * Copy cataloging defined * How to recognize problems when copy cataloging a MARC record * Copy cataloging resources * Module Five: Original Cataloging * Original cataloging defined * Resources for original cataloging * Cataloging for the automation system * Module Six: Library of Congress Subjects * Library of Congress Subject headings and the SLAM method of determining them * Main headings and types of subheadings * Library of Congress conventions * Review of major course topics Instructor: Susan Sutch. Susan has been teaching MARC cataloging since 1993 and has conducted hundreds of sessions on MARC cataloging in different venues including public libraries, school libraries, law, college, special libraries. Susan has helped organizations catalog everything from exercise equipment to rare manuscripts and has taught many previous online and on-ground Infopeople workshops. Online Learning Details: This six-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2 to 2? hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first six weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone from the library community with an interest in the mystery and wonder of the library catalog. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: * Have an Internet connection. * Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). * Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. * To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. * It would be convenient, though not required, to have the following materials for Week 6: * LCSH Free Floating Subdivisions - or - * Classification Web - or - * Cataloger's Desktop System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: * Windows: * Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista * Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above * Phishing Filter disabled (IE 7) * Macintosh: * OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) * Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above, Safari 2.0 and above * General * High speed Internet connection (dial up not recommended) * Java enabled * Pop-up blockers disabled If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. 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Through reading and discussing sample licenses we > will define general licensing terms, identify problem clauses, provide > you with the ability to spot good and bad licenses, and gain a better > understanding of eContent contracts. We will also discuss the > fundamentals of negotiation skills and techniques and identify the > appropriate situations in which to use them. > This workshop is perfect for any library staff member whose > responsibilities include database licensing and negotiations. > Topics covered include: > * Defining general licensing terms > * Identifying problem clauses > * How to spot good and bad licenses > * Gain a better understanding of eContent contracts > * Basic fundamentals of negotiation skills and techniques > For more information and to register, please click on the links below: > Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/07/2008) > 78EB2FF06ACCBB4B693CFD627DAAE84C125C534&> > 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: WebEx Online Meeting > Thursday, November 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 78EB2FF06ACCBB4B693CFD627DAAE84C125C534&> > 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: WebEx Online Meeting > > From RSS feeds to member updates, staying informed is easier than ever > with OCLC Western electronic communications > 78EB2FF06ACCBB4B693CFD627DAAE84C125C534&> . > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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How do they choose which will be the best fit? Speakers include: Robert Wolven AUL for Bibliographic Services and Collection Development Roy Tennant Senior Program Officer, OCLC Programs and Research Marshall Breeding Director for Innovative Technology and Research Vanderbilt University Library Jill Grog Electronic Resources Librarian/Associate Professor University of Alabama Libraries Kristin Antelman Associate Director of the Digital Library North Carolina State University Panelists: Don Barlow Director Westerville Public Library, Westerville, Ohio John Meador Director of University Libraries Binghamton University, State University of New York David Lee King Digital Branch & Services Manager Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Jennifer Bowen Director of Metadata Management and a principal investigator for the eXtensible Catalog Project University of Rochester River Campus Libraries Advance registration opens on October 1 through the ALA conference website. ADVANCE REGISTRATION: Division/RT member: $199.00; ALA member $249; Non-Member $299; Student/retired member $99 ONSITE REGISTRATION: Division/RT member: $249; ALA member $299; Non-Member $349; Student/retired member $99 SPECIAL DISCOUNTED RATE FOR BOTH SYMPOSIA (information about the other symposium appears below: Division/RT member $339; ALA member $419; Non-Member $499; Student/retired member $198 ALCTS thanks Innovative Interfaces, Inc. for their generous support of this event. Sally Lancaster Technical Services Manager Alameda County Library 510-745-1548 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Once we figure out what we want to send re Research for the Real World, Steven and/or Gilles can help you send message out on Baynet. Thanks. Janice >>> 10/13/2008 12:00 PM >>> Send Baynet mailing list submissions to baynet@isaac.exploratorium.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.exo.net/mailman/listinfo/baynet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to baynet-request@isaac.exploratorium.edu You can reach the person managing the list at baynet-owner@isaac.exploratorium.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Baynet digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Program and tour at Santa Clara University (infobay) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:06:25 -0700 From: infobay Subject: [Baynet] Program and tour at Santa Clara University To: baynet@isaac.exploratorium.edu Message-ID: <98934757-3761-4507-85B0-66E14BC47232@exo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Join BayNet for a free program and tour with Liz Salzer Santa Clara University Librarian "Planning and Building a Learning Commons, Technology Center and Library " Thursday, October 23, 4-6:30 p.m. In the Saint Clare Room Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center and Orradre Library Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053-0500 For driving/parking directions go to: http://www.scu.edu/map/parking/directions.cfm This is a free event, but as refreshments will be provided, Please RSVP to: mclean@hnu.edu by October15, 2008 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Baynet mailing list Baynet@isaac.exploratorium.edu http://www.exo.net/mailman/listinfo/baynet End of Baynet Digest, Vol 36, Issue 4 ************************************* From assist at infopeople.org Tue Oct 14 10:31:45 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Tue Oct 14 11:27:32 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Book Discussion Groups" online course Message-ID: <00cc01c92e22$be18ec80$3a4ac580$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Book Discussion Groups: A New Look (online learning course) Dates: December 2, 2008 ? January 12, 2009 This class will take a Christmas break from December 22, 2008 to January 5, 2009. During that period students are free to work on the class but the Instructor will not be available. To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/405 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. ? Are you thinking about starting a book discussion group? ? Looking for ways to improve the one(s) you already have? ? Searching for ideas on how to capitalize upon in-person and online book groups to improve community outreach? With so many reading choices, so many book review sources, and so many different kinds of people drawn to book groups, it is easy to become overwhelmed. Now, help is on the way! This course, taught by an experienced library book group leader and literary event coordinator, will provide you with a wide range of resources and techniques that you can turn to month after month. The overall goal is to save you time when planning and promoting the groups so that you can actually enjoy the books and the discussions either as a leader or as a participant. Workshop Description: This four-week online learning course will provide you with strategies, resources and techniques that you can apply immediately to your book group. Through individual and group exercises you will learn how to recruit members and publicize your group, develop a reading list, manage book group meetings and book group dynamics, and develop community partnerships. Since all class members will be asked to select a book and prepare an introduction and discussion questions?the shared results could provide you with programming ideas for at least a year! The instructor will provide sample book discussions, links to book review media, templates for flyers and other publicity materials, sample letters requesting community and author participation, and links to outstanding public library book group programs throughout the United States and Canada. During the course, you will be doing exercises and taking quizzes and sharing your ideas with others in online discussion forums. In past classes, many participants have continued to keep in touch after the class ended?this is an opportunity to establish a network of book group leaders. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: ? Module One: Meeting Logistics Recruiting members Choosing a leader(s) Choosing the place, time and format (online, in-person) Snacks The power of partnerships ? Module Two: Choosing the books Reader/community demographics Reading for all seasons Review media Book/film programs ? Module Three: Talking the talk Stimulating questions Supporting materials?handouts, websites, multimedia Group dynamics How to book an author ? Module Four: Taking it to the streets and the pod Publicity strategies Community-wide reading programs Web 2.0 Instructor: Lauren John. Lauren is a librarian and book group leader who has led book groups in public and private libraries, living rooms, senior centers, and synagogues. She has been leading the monthly Menlo Park Public Library book group for five years. Her work there, as well as an earlier book group course for Infopeople, inspired her to write the book Running Book Discussion Groups: A How to Do It Manual (Neal Schuman 2006). Lauren also developed and teaches the class, Book Group Therapy for the San Francisco One Book One City Festival. When she is not leading book groups, Lauren is the librarian at San Francisco's Town and Country Club?a private women's club founded in 1893. She is also the in-house librarian for Book Group Expo?a yearly festival for book group members. (Optional) Pre-workshop assignment: Please attend a book discussion group either before the class starts or within the first two weeks. The group can meet either in a public library, bookstore, community center or living room?and if you can?t get to an in-person group, try to participate in one online. It would be great if you could read the book in advance, but if you don?t have time to read the book in advance, or have not finished the book, ask if you can observe. (Most groups in public locations will allow you to do this?private groups may have different rules, but most will allow you to observe quietly!) Be prepared to share your observations about the group (title, author, where the group was held, time of day, number of participants, what worked, what didn?t) You might also want to get a copy of my book Running Book Discussion Groups: A How To Do It Manual (Neal-Schuman 2006), available at many public libraries in California. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2 to 2? hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: This course is appropriate for anyone in the library community with an interest in starting, running or maintaining a book group. In the past, reference and technical service librarians, library volunteers, elementary school teachers, professors, and community leaders have participated. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: ? Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html). ? Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. ? To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: ? Windows: Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above Phishing Filter disabled (IE 7) ? Macintosh: OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above, Safari 2.0 and above ? General High speed Internet connection (dial up not recommended) Java enabled (from Sun Microsystems not Microsoft) - test my computer - Java download latest version Pop-up blockers disabled If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081014/d01271d0/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Oct 16 11:15:13 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Oct 16 11:20:42 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Building Leadership Skills: Strategic Thinking" workshop Message-ID: <00b401c92fbb$22651710$672f4530$@org> This workshop continues the series of leadership skills-building workshops that are part of the Eureka! Leadership Program. This is an open registration workshop. You may register for this workshop without taking any other workshops in the series. If you are interested in learning more about the Eureka! Leadership Program, please go to http://eurekaleadership.org/index.html. Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Building Leadership Skills: Strategic Thinking Dates and locations: Monday, March 9, 2009, Arcade Library (Sacramento) Tuesday, March 10, 2009, Saratoga Library Thursday, March 12, 2009, Woodward Park Library (Fresno) Monday, March 23, 2009, San Diego County Library Headquarters Tuesday, March 24, 2009, Buena Park Library District Wednesday, March 25, 2009, Pio Pico Koreatown Library (Los Angeles) Friday, March 27, 2009, San Francisco Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/398 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Strategic thinking is about identifying and seizing opportunities to make a difference. Even the most efficient operations and the most dedicated staff aren't enough to ensure success - in addition to doing the job right, you have to do the right job! No matter what position you currently hold, it can pay to think strategically. Strategic thinking can help you develop successful programs and services, attract funding and political support, and get people on board with your ideas and proposals. In this course you will learn how to . tap into the goals and priorities of your boss, your colleagues, and your community . build relationships with key players beyond your immediate work environment, and . choose the ideas and programs that are most likely to move you and your library forward. Strategic thinking is especially important in uncertain fiscal times. When you understand how to align your ideas with the larger context in which you operate, you can leverage even limited resources to make yourself, your team, and your library indispensable. Workshop Description: In this all-day course you will learn specific, step-by-step techniques for selecting, developing and presenting effective library strategies. Through individual and group exercises you will practice translating information about local conditions into opportunities to increase the impact of your work group or your library. The instructors will provide real world examples, cheat sheets, and a list of recommended resources, as well as practical, useful tips that can be applied immediately. Note: This course emphasizes day-to-day strategic thinking, rather than the development of a comprehensive strategic plan document. The instructors will focus primarily on identifying, choosing, and articulating strategic opportunities, not on the creation of specific planning objectives. Strategic thinking is a useful skill in strategic planning, but the two are not synonymous. Preliminary Course Outline . Leadership and Strategic Thinking Why think strategically? Strategies vs. tactics vs. operations . The Library in Context The F.A.S.T. approach to strategy development Community segments and stakeholders Other providers who share your audience . "The Vision Thing" Focusing on the big picture Leveraging your library's assets Strategic positioning - five approaches that work . Moving Ahead Identifying strategic opportunities Communicating your strategy Avoiding/overcoming resistance Developing and maintaining strategic relationships Instructors: George Needham and Joan Frye Williams. George Needham. Before joining OCLC in 1999, George was State Librarian of Michigan. From 1993 to 1996, he was Executive Director of the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association. From 1990 to 1993, he was Director of Member Services of the Ohio Library Association. >From 1984 to 1989, he served as Library Director of Fairfield County District Library in Lancaster, Ohio. From 1977 to 1984, he held various posts at the Charleston County Library in Charleston, South Carolina. George received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in library science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Joan Frye Williams. For more than 25 years Joan has been a successful librarian, consultant, vendor, planner, trainer, evaluator and user of library services, with a special emphasis on innovation, technology and emerging library trends. She is the president of her own library and information technology consulting firm. She received an MLS from the University of California at Berkeley (1975) and in addition to her consulting practice she has worked in both public and academic libraries, for library automation vendors, as well as at the California State Library. Her many clients include large and small public libraries, library consortia, state library agencies, professional library associations, library boards, library vendors and architects. Who Should Attend: Leaders and aspiring leaders, library directors and managers, as well as anyone from the California library community with an interest in positioning themselves, their work group, or their library for greater success. This course is also appropriate for library fundraisers, grant writers, marketing staff, public information officers, trustees, and commissioners. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081016/e37d783c/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Oct 16 13:26:56 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Oct 16 13:26:41 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webinar "Health Information for Kids, Teens, and Seniors" Message-ID: <012401c92fcd$88e4ffc0$9aaeff40$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: Health Information for Kids and Teens and Seniors, Oh My! Date and time: October 28, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the October 28 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/243/index.html Whether it's reading a funny story about germs and hand washing to preschoolers or helping a senior citizen learn about an upcoming surgery, providing health information is a common and very important task for librarians. Much attention is given to topics such as best practices for the health reference interview, cultural sensitivity and health literacy. But what are best practices for serving users in different age groups? How do the needs of a teenager differ from a senior citizen? What are some ways to engage users through fun and interactive programs, regardless of age? This webinar will explore the health information needs and information seeking behaviors of kids, teens, boomers and seniors. You will discover some new resources and some tricks in getting to fantastic resources for different age groups using MedlinePlus. We will present resources for fun, interactive, quality health programming for all ages and also discuss strategies for partnering with a variety of organizations and schools in your community. Keep your users informed about their health, and have some fun along the way! Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Health Information for Kids and Teens and Seniors, Oh My! Date: October 28, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Kelli Ham Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081016/77c39802/attachment.html From jcarter at ggu.edu Thu Oct 16 15:03:44 2008 From: jcarter at ggu.edu (Janice Carter) Date: Thu Oct 16 15:04:43 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Research for the Real World In-Reply-To: <200810141828.m9EISC017926@isaac.exploratorium.edu> References: <200810141828.m9EISC017926@isaac.exploratorium.edu> Message-ID: <48F757D0020000790001043A@sfo-gwia.ggu.edu> Greetings, the University Library staff at Golden Gate University would like to invite you, your colleagues and patrons to attend any or all of the following sessions in the Research for the Real World Symposium. Please spread the word! If you would like flyers for these events, please contact Janice Carter, jcarter@ggu.edu Thanks! Janice Carter, Director, University Librayr, Golden Gate University Personal Branding: Research as a Tool. Tues., Oct. 21, 5:30 - 6:30 pm Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, Room 6211, with Therese Martin, MBA, Executive Director of ArtSpan Good research including social networking supports your daily work, but have you used it for self advancement? The real world moves quickly. Identifying and understanding potential clients or partners and properly supporting your positions increases your ability to present and negotiate. Research and independent study critically serve skill growth and make you a competitive candidate for positions you seek Strategies for Keeping Current in an Ever-Changing World of Information Sat., Oct. 25, 11:00 am to noon, Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, Meet at the Reference Desk in the University Library With information coming at us from all directions in so many formats, how can we keep currently informed on the topics we NEED to KNOW? Join us for this workshop where we will explore ways to identify key organizations, electronic conferences, and web sites. We will discuss how to develop: --Strategies for keeping current --Simple web portals to access key resources of information --Alert services for databases and blogs --Methods for organizing and retrieving the information we gain Know Facts About Your Figures: Understanding Statistics in a Headline Society. Mon., Oct. 27, 5:30 pm ? 6:30 pm , Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, Room 5310, with Gene Springs, Data Guru, GGU University Library. Researching Funding Opportunities for a New Environmental TV Series Thurs., Oct. 30, 5 pm ? 6 pm, Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, Room 4225, with Diane Hume, GGU alumna and instructor, Advanced Business Communication Skills. After working the last few years to get a pilot show about greening one?s home produced , Diane and her colleague submitted the pilot and the business plan to the three major distributors for public television. They have received a letter of intent to run a 13 episode series of the show nationally from NETA (National Educational Telecommunications Association). They now have to raise $1.2 million dollars to fund it. Diane and her colleague have identified a number of target companies and could use help identifying brand and marketing managers that can provide sponsorship and in the process make their products known to a very choice audience. If you would like to help, you can learn about producing and funding television shows for PBS. Diane and her colleague are also going to be developing a website and ancillary materials for schools and the general public so there may be other opportunities for involvement as well. Simply Clear Water for the World: Lisa Farmen's Quest, Mon., Nov. 3, 2008, 5:30 pm- 6:30 pm, Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, Room 5224 Golden Gate University alumna Lisa Farmen will talk about her passion ?making clean water available to even the poorest people throughout the world, at a cost they can afford. From assist at infopeople.org Mon Oct 20 11:30:43 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Oct 20 11:30:04 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Building Leadership Skills: Leading Change" workshop Message-ID: <01ac01c932e1$f6803ec0$e380bc40$@org> This workshop continues the series of leadership skills-building workshops that are part of the Eureka! Leadership Program. This is an open registration workshop. You may register for this workshop without taking any other workshops in the series. If you are interested in learning more about the Eureka! Leadership Program, please go to http://eurekaleadership.org/index.html. Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Building Leadership Skills: Leading Change Dates and locations: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Friday, February 6, 2009, Los Angeles Public Library Tuesday, February 17, 2009, Buena Park Library District Wednesday, February 18, 2009, San Diego County Library Headquarters Friday, February 20, 2009, Arden-Dimick Library (Sacramento) Monday, February 23, 2009, San Francisco Public Library Wednesday, February 25, 2009, Woodward Park Library Fresno To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/397 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. . Are you implementing a new ILS, adding MACs to your PCs, building a new branch, responding to changing demographics, changing leadership, implementing a new strategic plan, changing policies, beginning roving reference ... or ..? . Are you finding living with all this change and leading change scary, confusing, less fun and more challenging than you thought? . Is your staff anxious and uncomfortable? Are you? . Do you wish that constant change will stop (it won't) and that there has to be a better way? (Hint: There is.) This workshop will respond to your questions about change, and provide you with that "better way" to move the change project forward as well as help you and library staff not only survive, but thrive. Workshop Description: This one-day on-ground workshop will dispel many of the myths about change and provide with you a model to understand and prepare for both change (at the organization level) and transitions (at the personal level). Bring a change project to this workshop and be prepared to work through the steps that will help you take it from successful start-up through successful implementation. You will leave the workshop with a plan that you can take back to work and immediately begin to apply to your library's change project. Preliminary Course Outline . Change happens. Change myths and realities The conditions necessary for change to happen Factors supporting and hindering change - at your library Making a case for change . Change model and tools . Building commitment for change . Supporting the change with processes, structures, skills and systems . Transitions - the personal side of change . Dealing with resistance - yours and theirs . Making the change stick This workshop will prepare you to identify, articulate, inspire, and develop necessary changes-and make them "stick" so that your library can move forward. Instructor: Paula Singer. Paula M. Singer, PhD, is owner and President of The Singer Group, a management consulting firm she founded in 1983. Her individualized approach and commitment to excellence have resulted in a track record of success with an impressive client list. With expertise in compensation, organization development, strategic planning, and change management, Paula brings a balance of broad perspective and specific focus to each project. During her over 20 years of consulting, Paula has effectively directed a wide range of compensation, classification, and organization development studies for clients in the public, private and non-profit sectors. She works with clients in a highly interactive, collaborative way to deliver customized products tailored to each client's needs. Who Should Attend: This workshop is "open registration", meaning anyone from the California library community with an interest in leadership and/or leading change can attend. If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081020/a114ef43/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Tue Oct 21 15:27:28 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Tue Oct 21 15:26:31 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Reminder of Infopeople's webinar "Health Information for Kids, Teens, and Seniors" Message-ID: <00a901c933cc$36045b90$a20d12b0$@org> A reminder of the next Infopeople webinar. Please let your friends and colleagues know about this event! Title: Health Information for Kids and Teens and Seniors, Oh My! Date and time: October 28, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the October 28 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/243/index.html Whether it's reading a funny story about germs and hand washing to preschoolers or helping a senior citizen learn about an upcoming surgery, providing health information is a common and very important task for librarians. Much attention is given to topics such as best practices for the health reference interview, cultural sensitivity and health literacy. But what are best practices for serving users in different age groups? How do the needs of a teenager differ from a senior citizen? What are some ways to engage users through fun and interactive programs, regardless of age? This webinar will explore the health information needs and information seeking behaviors of kids, teens, boomers and seniors. You will discover some new resources and some tricks in getting to fantastic resources for different age groups using MedlinePlus. We will present resources for fun, interactive, quality health programming for all ages and also discuss strategies for partnering with a variety of organizations and schools in your community. Keep your users informed about their health, and have some fun along the way! Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Health Information for Kids and Teens and Seniors, Oh My! Date: October 28, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Kelli Ham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information and to participate in the November 19 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/289/index.html Planning for purchasing assistive technology (AT) is only the first step in making a library's computer systems accessible to patrons with disabilities. Librarians will need to work with information technology (IT) staff on an ongoing basis to make sure not only that the technology is installed and maintained, but that it also fits effectively into the library's overall plan for computer system implementation. This session will cover specific topics that should be part of any initial dialogue between IT personnel and librarians responsible for AT implementation, and that should lay the groundwork for ongoing discussions. At the end of this presentation, Webinar participants will: . Understand the three primary ways AT software may be made available to users, and the implications of each . Understand how CPU and system software choices may affect AT use . Understand potential conflicts among AT software programs and between AT and other application software on the library's PACs . Understand computing environment issues that may affect AT use Speaker: Jane Vincent. Jane has been involved in the assistive technology field as a consultant, presenter, author, researcher, product manager, and direct service provider. However, libraries have always been her first love, and she is thrilled to be focusing her consulting work in helping them implement assistive technology in ways that are both responsive to their communities and cost-effective. Besides providing assistance to libraries across California and beyond, she serves on the ALA committees Library Services to an Aging Population (RUSA) and Services to Patrons with Learning, Cognitive, Emotional, and Medical Disabilities (ASCLA). Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: IT Staff's Role in Successful Assistive Technology Implementation Date: November 19, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Jane Vincent -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Where:Saint Clare Room Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center and Orradre Library Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053-0500 For driving/parking directions go to: http://www.scu.edu/map/parking/directions.cfm The tour and program are free and refreshments will be served. See you there, Craig Cruz Jr. President, BayNet Library Manager, Krames Health Sciences Library Krames ph. 1-650-244-4532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081022/4a606aed/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Fri Oct 24 10:30:33 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Fri Oct 24 10:30:24 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Service to Homeschooling Families" workshop Message-ID: <003101c935fe$38448630$a8cd9290$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Service to Homeschooling Families Dates and locations: Thursday, December 4, 2008, San Francisco Public Library Monday, January 12, 2009, Solano County Library, Fairfield Wednesday, January 14, 2009, Buena Park Library District Thursday, January 15, 2009, San Diego County Library Headquarters Monday, March 9, 2009, Los Angeles Public Library Wednesday, March 11, 2009, Santa Maria Public Library Monday, April 6, 2009, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Wednesday, April 8, 2009, Fresno Woodward Park Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/admin/workshop/view/382 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there were well over one million children being homeschooled in the United States in 2003, a number that has continued to rise. Studies show that a majority of homeschoolers use libraries as their primary source of learning materials, and homeschoolers are among libraries' heaviest borrowers. Still, few libraries offer specialized services to this high-need population; many libraries don't know where to start. This workshop will introduce participants to: . The world of homeschooling, . Tools libraries need to make connections, . Services that will benefit homeschoolers, the library, and the community as a whole. Workshop Description: This all-day workshop will introduce participants to the world of homeschooling and what it means to be a homeschooler in California. Students will explore how they can eliminate barriers that prevent homeschoolers from using the library effectively, how they can develop low-cost/high-impact programming for homeschoolers, and how to create a homeschooling collection that will be used by homeschoolers and non-homeschoolers alike. Pre-workshop assignment: We will be setting up a blog two weeks before the workshop to begin to introduce participants to the different segments and philosophies active in the homeschooling community and to begin exploring questions and issues. Preliminary Course Outline . Who Are Homeschoolers? Homeschooling statistics Homeschoolers philosophies/trends Homeschooling laws/organizations in California . Creating Programs for Homeschoolers Removing barriers to homeschoolers using the library Developing basic, low-cost programs that have maximum impact Welcoming homeschoolers into non-homeschooling programs . Creating a Homeschooling Collection Identifying items that will have the widest use Evaluating resources Locating reviews Balancing the collection Housing the collection Instructor: Adrienne Furness. Adrienne is a Children's and Family Services Librarian at the Webster Public Library in Webster, NY. She has spent the last decade working with homeschoolers in various settings, providing basic library services as well as targeted programming and collections. She served as administrator of a 2005-2007 NYS Parent and Child Services Grant dedicated to better serving homeschoolers in the Monroe County Library System. Who Should Attend: This workshop is for public service staff and administrators who deal with homeschoolers on a daily basis, purchase materials, plan programs, and set library policies and procedures. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081024/8b8faa3d/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Fri Oct 24 10:56:23 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Fri Oct 24 10:56:33 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Upcoming Infopeople workshops Message-ID: <007601c93601$d4260b20$7c722160$@org> Please take a look at some of the Infopeople workshops coming up in November: Building Leadership Skills: Leading Teams http://infopeople.org/workshop/394 November 6, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library November 7, Arden-Dimick Library (Sacramento) November 12, Fresno Woodward Park Library November 19, Encinitas Branch Library (San Diego area) November 21, Los Angeles Public Library Jump & Jive: Storytimes for Two to Five-Year-Olds http://infopeople.org/workshop/388 November 3, Buena Park Library District Practical Podcasting and Videocasting http://infopeople.org/workshop/371 November 7, San Diego County Library Headquarters November 20, California State Library Please visit the URL's listed for a description of the workshops and to register. If you have any questions, please email me or give me a call. Thank you. Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081024/bb86d1fe/attachment-0001.html From Western at oclc.org Fri Oct 24 07:24:27 2008 From: Western at oclc.org (Western) Date: Mon Oct 27 07:50:34 2008 Subject: [Baynet] October - December | California Online and In-person Education and Training Message-ID: <85055FA347C14043835BD64615F1238F1AEF06@OAEXCH2SERVER.oa.oclc.org> > OCLC Western's goal is to provide you with the education and training > you need, when and where you need it. As such, we are pleased to offer > an array of classes spanning several topical areas. > > Outlined below are classes we have planned for the next few months. We > add new classes frequently, so to stay as up-to-date as possible, sign > up for our Training RSS feed < http://www.oclc.org/western/rss/ > > which provides daily updates on courses that have just been scheduled. > If you are interested in a more collective view of training > opportunities, opt for our Training Update < > https://www.oclc.org/western/email/default.htm > and we will send you > regular information. Or, view our Web site at > < http://www.oclc.org/western/ >. > > > > Cataloging and metadata > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > CatExpress Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W119.htm > > November 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/13/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 1 - WorldCat, MARC, and Client Basics > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W127.htm > > December 1, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/24/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 2 - Basic Bibliographic Searching > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W133.htm > > December 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/25/08) > 10:00 am-12:00pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 3 - Basic Editing and Record Processing > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W129.htm > > December 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/26/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 5 - Automation and Customization > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W131.htm > > December 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/27/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 6 - Editing Master Records > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W132.htm > > Novembr 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/28/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 7 - Advanced Bibliographic Searching > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W125.htm > > November 11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/4/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 8 - Original Cataloging > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W134.htm > > November 12, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/5/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 9 - Authority Control > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W135.htm > > November 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 10 - Batch Processing > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W136.htm > > December 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/2/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Managing Your OCLC FirstSearch Service > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W410.htm > > Thursday, November 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Collection management > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Canadian Copyright Law Online Course > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W904.htm > > Monday, November 3, 2008-Friday, December 5, 2008 > 5 Weeks > Self-paced > > > Digital Image Quality Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm > > Wednesday, November 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/3/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Dynamic Metadata and Data Curation Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W816.htm > > Friday, November 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/5/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Thursday, November 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Preservation 101: Basics for Paper and Media Collections > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W387.htm > > Monday, January 5, 2009-Friday, February 27, 2009 (Registration > Deadline: 12/30/08) > Virtual class > > > > > Digitization and preservation > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Canadian Copyright Law Online Course > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W904.htm > > Monday, November 3, 2008-Friday, December 5, 2008 > 5 Weeks > Self-paced > > > Creating Digital Newspapers for the Web Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W818.htm > > Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/21/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Digital Image Quality Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm > > Wednesday, November 5, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/3/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Digital Preservation: First Steps for Action Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W819.htm > > Tuesday, November 18, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/14/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Dynamic Metadata and Data Curation Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W816.htm > > Friday, November 7, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/5/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Preservation 101: Basics for Paper and Media Collections > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W387.htm > > Monday, January 5, 2009-Friday, February 27, 2009 (Registration > Deadline: 12/30/08) > Virtual class > > > Promoting Digital Collections to Attract Users Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W817.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Librarianship > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Thursday, November 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Library administration and management > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Canadian Copyright Law Online Course > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W904.htm > > Monday, November 3, 2008-Friday, December 5, 2008 > 5 Weeks > Self-paced > > > Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Thursday, November 6, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 10/29/08) > 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Their Place, Their Time, Their Way: Marketing QP Effectively > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W924.htm > > Thursday,November 06, 2008 (Registration Deadline; 11/04/08) > 9:00 am - 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URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081024/9b2a319b/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Oct 27 12:02:16 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Oct 27 12:04:01 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Building Leadership Skills: The Leader as Coach" workshop Message-ID: <00fb01c93866$87d6c9f0$97845dd0$@org> This workshop continues the series of leadership skills-building workshops that are part of the Eureka! Leadership Program. This is an open registration workshop. You may register for this workshop without taking any other workshops in the series. If you are interested in learning more about the Eureka! Leadership Program, please go to http://eurekaleadership.org/index.html. Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Building Leadership Skills: The Leader as Coach Dates and locations: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, San Francisco Public Library Wednesday, May 6, 2009, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Tuesday, May 12, 2009, Buena Park Library District Monday, May 18, 2009, Sacramento Public Library - Galleria Wednesday, May 20, 2009, Fresno Woodward Park Library Wednesday, May 27, 2009, San Diego County Library Headquarters Thursday, May 28, 2009, Los Angeles Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/400 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Effective leaders know how to get the very best from other people, at every level. If you want to help others to reach their full potential, developing your coaching skills will enable you to create an environment where focused, motivated, and self-directed employees want to work and grow. No one accomplishes significant changes on their own, so coaching is an essential part of leading your department, team, or agency in new directions. Coaching others is about goal-setting for their new or continued achievements, helping them take different and more positive steps, trusting intuition (on both sides), and helping them create different results. Coaching helps you help someone else create a realistic prescription for change, using tools, your experience, your guidance, career-path mentoring, and continuing support. When you coach someone, you help that person build skills, redirect unproductive behaviors, and become more self-reliant. Workshop Description: This all-day workshop focuses on practical coaching tools and techniques. It provides a comfortable learning environment for all participants to learn the skills they need for their specific work situations and for the people they will be coaching, now and in the future. Because coaching is most often a one-on-one process, there will be several opportunities to practice these skills with others, in a safe and effective way. The instructor uses a number of low-stress exercises, role plays, and meeting techniques to help you use coaching as a tool for employee success. As part of your training materials, you will receive several assessment tools; sample coaching scripts for specific issues or problems; a coaching book and article resource list; and an article on coaching "employee archetypes" by Dr. Steve Albrecht. Preliminary Course Outline .Why Coaching? What coaching is - and what it isn't Corrective vs. developmental coaching Leading and coaching individuals and groups .Laying the Foundations for Coaching: Aligning for Success Improving your listening skills Using pre-coaching interviews to gather information and build rapport Helping coachees create their "bug list" The "List of Seven Choices" Ethical issues .Coaching the Big Four: The Rising Star, the Problem Child, the Plow Horse, and the Smart Slacker Using PAMs (personal accountability meetings) Coaching case studies .Skill-Building Through Coaching Practice Creating a "spectrum of influence" Feedback loops, follow-ups, course corrections, and rapport building Instructor: Steve Albrecht. Dr. Steve Albrecht, PHR, CPP is a San Diego-based consultant and trainer. He is internationally known for his work on challenging HR issues. He has used his coaching tools and techniques to successfully help organizations with significant employee behavior issues. By blending his backgrounds in HR, negotiation, conflict resolution, and problem-solving, he can teach others to coach. Steve has taught Infopeople programs around the state for several years, and he is best known for his "handling difficult patrons" seminars. In 2005, he hosted five "Management Monday" webinar sessions for Infopeople as well. He is the author of 15 books for business and law enforcement, including Ticking Bombs, one of the first books on workplace violence prevention. Who Should Attend: This program is for anyone in a leadership or supervisory position or preparing to become a leader or supervisor in any type of library. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop. If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081027/bd268e2e/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Oct 29 09:03:22 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Oct 29 09:03:03 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Corrected link for Infopeople's "Service to Homeschooling Families" workshop Message-ID: <004101c939df$dee5eb70$9cb1c250$@org> The link to this workshop was listed incorrectly. If you are interested in registering for this workshop, please go to http://infopeople.org/workshop/382 Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Service to Homeschooling Families Dates and locations: Thursday, December 4, 2008, San Francisco Public Library Monday, January 12, 2009, Solano County Library, Fairfield Wednesday, January 14, 2009, Buena Park Library District Thursday, January 15, 2009, San Diego County Library Headquarters Monday, March 9, 2009, Los Angeles Public Library Wednesday, March 11, 2009, Santa Maria Public Library Monday, April 6, 2009, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Wednesday, April 8, 2009, Fresno Woodward Park Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/382 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there were well over one million children being homeschooled in the United States in 2003, a number that has continued to rise. Studies show that a majority of homeschoolers use libraries as their primary source of learning materials, and homeschoolers are among libraries' heaviest borrowers. Still, few libraries offer specialized services to this high-need population; many libraries don't know where to start. This workshop will introduce participants to: . The world of homeschooling, . Tools libraries need to make connections, . Services that will benefit homeschoolers, the library, and the community as a whole. Workshop Description: This all-day workshop will introduce participants to the world of homeschooling and what it means to be a homeschooler in California. Students will explore how they can eliminate barriers that prevent homeschoolers from using the library effectively, how they can develop low-cost/high-impact programming for homeschoolers, and how to create a homeschooling collection that will be used by homeschoolers and non-homeschoolers alike. Pre-workshop assignment: We will be setting up a blog two weeks before the workshop to begin to introduce participants to the different segments and philosophies active in the homeschooling community and to begin exploring questions and issues. Preliminary Course Outline . Who Are Homeschoolers? Homeschooling statistics Homeschoolers philosophies/trends Homeschooling laws/organizations in California . Creating Programs for Homeschoolers Removing barriers to homeschoolers using the library Developing basic, low-cost programs that have maximum impact Welcoming homeschoolers into non-homeschooling programs . Creating a Homeschooling Collection Identifying items that will have the widest use Evaluating resources Locating reviews Balancing the collection Housing the collection Instructor: Adrienne Furness. Adrienne is a Children's and Family Services Librarian at the Webster Public Library in Webster, NY. She has spent the last decade working with homeschoolers in various settings, providing basic library services as well as targeted programming and collections. She served as administrator of a 2005-2007 NYS Parent and Child Services Grant dedicated to better serving homeschoolers in the Monroe County Library System. Who Should Attend: This workshop is for public service staff and administrators who deal with homeschoolers on a daily basis, purchase materials, plan programs, and set library policies and procedures. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081029/9597362e/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Oct 30 13:39:46 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Oct 30 13:39:04 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Building Leadership Skills: Community Engagement" workshop Message-ID: <010201c93acf$a5b05d90$f11118b0$@org> This workshop continues the series of leadership skills-building workshops that are part of the Eureka! Leadership Program. This is an open registration workshop. You may register for this workshop without taking any other workshops in the series. If you are interested in learning more about the Eureka! Leadership Program, please go to http://eurekaleadership.org/index.html. Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Building Leadership Skills: Community Engagement Dates and locations: Monday, January 5, 2009, San Francisco Public Library Wednesday, January 7, 2009, Buena Park Library District Tuesday, January 20, 2009, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Thursday, January 22, 2009, Fresno Woodward Park Library Tuesday, January 27, 2009, El Cajon Library Wednesday, January 28, 2009, Los Angeles Public Library Friday, January 30, 2009, Arcade Library (Sacramento) To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/396 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. . Is your library indispensable to its community? Could it use more allies? . Do people know what your library has to offer them? . Are you interested in developing more effective partnerships to help your library and your community blossom? . Are you looking to help your library get 'outside its walls', but aren't sure how to put your good intentions to their best use? In this workshop you will learn how to partner effectively with other organizations, and to deploy your library's valuable assets - such as free community space, connections to the local economy, a sense of ownership by the community, and a level of community trust - in ways that help build strong support for the library and contribute to social capital. Workshop Description: This fun and interactive full-day workshop will include the use of individual and group activities to help participants make the most of their libraries' assets. Participants will develop a marketing tool they can use immediately to demonstrate their library's value to everyone they meet. They'll also learn to plan effective short- and long-term partnerships. Preliminary Course Outline .Aligning Library Services with Community Priorities and Values The community has needs and priorities-where does your library fit? What does 'engagement' look like? Whose job is it to engage? .Making Yourself and Your Library Visible What do people really think of the library? How do the words we use influence the attention we get? .Identifying and Connecting With Communities and Stakeholders Mapping your community connections-are you as 'connected' as you need to be? You're connected, now what? Develop and hone your library's message .Pragmatic Partnering When to partner-and when not to partner Is your partnership an 'event' or a merger-and what are the implications of each? Creating a partnership plan Instructor: Gail Griffith. Gail Griffith is the Deputy Director of the Carroll County (MD) Public Library, responsible for public services and staff development. She also provides consulting services in organization development to a variety of public library, local government, and nonprofit agencies throughout the U.S. Most recently, she has worked with Maryland's state library agency to develop and deliver Learning Libraries (leadership and teamwork) training throughout Maryland. She has also developed and led a Leadership Academy for all levels of library staff. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in leadership and/or community engagement. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop. 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Or, view our Web site at > < http://www.oclc.org/western/ >. > > > > > Cataloging and metadata > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > CatExpress Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W119.htm > > January 12, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/5/09) > 10:00am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 1 - WorldCat, MARC, and Client Basics > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W127.htm > > December 1, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/24/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 10 - Batch Processing > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W136.htm > > December 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/2/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 2 - Basic Bibliographic Searching > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W133.htm > > December 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/25/08) > 10:00 am-12:00pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 3 - Basic Editing and Record Processing > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W129.htm > > December 3, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/26/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 5 - Automation and Customization > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W131.htm > > December 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/27/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 6 - Editing Master Records > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W132.htm > > January 22, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/15/09) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 8 - Original Cataloging > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W134.htm > > January 27, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/20/09) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Connexion Client Module 9 - Authority Control > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W135.htm > > January 29,2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/22/09) > 10:00 am-10:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Collection management > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Tuesday, December 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/2/08) > 11:00 am- 1:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) > 2:00 pm -4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations: Intellectual Property Issues for Digital > Libraries Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W815.htm > > Wednesday, January 7, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/5/09) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Preservation 101: Basics for Paper and Media Collections > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W387.htm > > Monday, January 5, 2009-Friday, February 27, 2009 (Registration > Deadline: 12/30/08) > Virtual class > > > > > Digitization and preservation > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Creating Digital Newspapers for the Web Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W818.htm > > Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/21/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations: Intellectual Property Issues for Digital > Libraries Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W815.htm > > Wednesday, January 7, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/5/09) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Preservation 101: Basics for Paper and Media Collections > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W387.htm > > Monday, January 5, 2009-Friday, February 27, 2009 (Registration > Deadline: 12/30/08) > Virtual class > > > Promoting Digital Collections to Attract Users Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W817.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Librarianship > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Tuesday, December 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/2/08) > 11:00 am- 1:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) > 2:00 pm -4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Library administration and management > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Tuesday, December 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/2/08) > 11:00 am- 1:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) > 2:00 pm -4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Their Place, Their Time, Their Way: Marketing QP Effectively > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W924.htm > > Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/24/08) > 9:00 am- 10:30 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, December 11, 2008 ( Registration Deadline: 12/08/08) > 10:00 am- 11:30 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Reference and public service > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Keep Up! Blogs, Wikis and RSS > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W909.htm > > Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/2/08) > 10:00 am - 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > QuestionPoint Reports for Evaluation and Improvement > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W918.htm > > Thursday, December 11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/3/08) > 2:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Their Place, Their Time, Their Way: Marketing QP Effectively > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W924.htm > > Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/24/08) > 9:00 am- 10:30 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, December 11, 2008 ( Registration Deadline: 12/08/08) > 10:00 am- 11:30 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Using NetLibrary eAudiobooks > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W919.htm > > Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/2/08) > 11:00 am- 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Resource sharing (ILL) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Deflection on WorldCat Resource Sharing Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/w827.htm > > Monday, November 24, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/20/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Introduction to OCLC's Policies Directory (PD) > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W504.htm > > Tuesday, December 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/5/08) > 1:00-2:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Foundations Online: Principles and Standards for Local > Holdings Records > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W829.htm > > Thursday, December 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline:12/2/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Introduction > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W828.htm > > Tuesday, December 2, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/1/08) > 1:00 pm-2:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Maintenance I: Basic Serials Local Holdings > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W830.htm > > Wednesday, December 17, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/15/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Local Holdings Maintenance II: Beyond the Basics > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W831.htm > > Friday, December 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Patron-Initiated Resource Sharing in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W826.htm > > Thursday, November 20, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/18/08 > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W823.htm > > Tuesday-Wednesday, December 16-17, 2008 (Registration Deadline: > 12/12/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday-Friday, January 8-9, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/6/09) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W822.htm > > Thursday, December 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline 12/2/08) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Tuesday, January 6, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/2/09) > 1:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > > > Technology > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Creating Digital Newspapers for the Web Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W818.htm > > Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/21/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Keep Up! Blogs, Wikis and RSS > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W909.htm > > Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/2/08) > 10:00 am - 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm > > Tuesday, December 9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/2/08) > 11:00 am- 1:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) > 2:00 pm -4:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Licensing and Negotiations: Intellectual Property Issues for Digital > Libraries Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W815.htm > > Wednesday, January 7, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/5/09) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Promoting Digital Collections to Attract Users Webinar > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W817.htm > > Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/17/08) > 10:00 am-12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > QuestionPoint Reports for Evaluation and Improvement > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W918.htm > > Thursday, December 11, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/3/08) > 2:00 pm-3:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Their Place, Their Time, Their Way: Marketing QP Effectively > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W924.htm > > Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 11/24/08) > 9:00 am- 10:30 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > Thursday, December 11, 2008 ( Registration Deadline: 12/08/08) > 10:00 am- 11:30 am > WebEx Online Meeting > > > Using NetLibrary eAudiobooks > http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W919.htm > > Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/2/08) > 11:00 am- 12:00 pm > WebEx Online Meeting > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information and to participate in the November 19 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/289/index.html Planning for purchasing assistive technology (AT) is only the first step in making a library's computer systems accessible to patrons with disabilities. Librarians will need to work with information technology (IT) staff on an ongoing basis to make sure not only that the technology is installed and maintained, but that it also fits effectively into the library's overall plan for computer system implementation. This session will cover specific topics that should be part of any initial dialogue between IT personnel and librarians responsible for AT implementation, and that should lay the groundwork for ongoing discussions. At the end of this presentation, Webinar participants will: . Understand the three primary ways AT software may be made available to users, and the implications of each . Understand how CPU and system software choices may affect AT use . Understand potential conflicts among AT software programs and between AT and other application software on the library's PACs . Understand computing environment issues that may affect AT use Speaker: Jane Vincent. Jane has been involved in the assistive technology field as a consultant, presenter, author, researcher, product manager, and direct service provider. However, libraries have always been her first love, and she is thrilled to be focusing her consulting work in helping them implement assistive technology in ways that are both responsive to their communities and cost-effective. Besides providing assistance to libraries across California and beyond, she serves on the ALA committees Library Services to an Aging Population (RUSA) and Services to Patrons with Learning, Cognitive, Emotional, and Medical Disabilities (ASCLA). Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: IT Staff's Role in Successful Assistive Technology Implementation Date: November 19, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Jane Vincent -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081112/6ad45bbf/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Nov 20 12:00:24 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Nov 20 11:58:51 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's online course "Innovative Approaches to Collection Development in Tough Economic Times" Message-ID: <00a001c94b4a$a087b080$e1971180$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Innovative Approaches to Collection Development in Tough Economic Times (Online learning course) Dates: January 6, 2009 ? February 2, 2009 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/408 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. With disappearing budgets and increased workload it can be difficult to manage library materials in tight economic times. This course will help you analyze selection styles, understand new approaches to building collections, compare costs between print and electronic magazine subscriptions, and learn how discarding items makes fiscal sense. ? Have you ever wondered how to reduce collection development staff time and costs? ? Are you interested in maximizing your collection usage? ? Do you have a magazine collection that needs weeding and don?t know where to start? ? Are you unsure about transitioning from a print to electronic magazine format? ? Would you like to know how to discard items and turn a profit at the same time? If you are curious about the answers to these questions, then this workshop is for you! Workshop Description: This four-week online learning course will provide participants with practical advice and guidelines for developing a strong materials collection. Through individual and group exercises you will explore issues about collection development that will provide better service and save staff time while extending your budget dollars. The instructor will provide sample plans, templates, handouts and useful tips that can be applied immediately. During the course, you will be completing exercises and participating in online discussion forums as part of the online learning process. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: ? Module One: Selection Styles To Fit Your Library Budget Centralized selection Enhanced vendor services Standing order plans ? Module Two: Extend Your Budget With Shared Collections Floating and rotating collections ? Module Three: Reduce Your Print Periodicals In An Electronic Age How to build a core collection Why offer both formats When reduction is necessary ? Module Four: Discard For Dollars Why it?s important to weed collections When selling library discards makes fiscal sense How do non-profit centers offer a valuable alternative Instructor: Julie Italiano. As the Collection Development Manager at the Contra Costa County Library from 2003 to 2008, Julie Italiano was instrumental in developing the library?s Collection Development Plan and served as Chair for the Collection Development Committee. Under her direction, the Committee implemented standing order plans, floating collections and changed collection development from a de-centralized process to a centralized plan. Julie brings with her an 18-year background of public library experience and continues to stay on top of new, innovative approaches to collection management as an Instructor for Infopeople. Currently, Julie is an independent library consultant in the Washington DC area. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2 to 2? hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: This course is suitable for anyone from the library community with an interest in building strong collections. This workshop is appropriate for any staff in public or school libraries. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: ? Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en . Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html ). ? Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. ? To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: ? Windows: Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above Phishing Filter disabled (IE 7) ? Macintosh: OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above, Safari 2.0 and above ? General High speed Internet connection (dial up not recommended) Java enabled (from Sun Microsystems not Microsoft) - test my computer - Java download latest version Pop-up blockers disabled If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081120/02436cde/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Nov 20 14:12:06 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Nov 20 14:10:46 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's webinar on Easy-to-Read and Multilingual Health Information Message-ID: <011001c94b5d$06977240$13c656c0$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: Finding Easy-to-Read and Multilingual Health Information for your Patrons Date and time: December 1, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the December 1 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/245/index.html Do you serve people with low reading skills or limited English language proficiency? For these library users, health information may look like a jumble of complicated words, technical jargon and difficult instructions. Studies show that about a third of adult Americans have trouble understanding basic medical information. Quality health information is essential for making good healthcare decisions, but much of the readily available health information is written at a reading level that is too difficult for many to understand. For patrons who need information in other languages, the problem is even worse. This webinar will identify appropriate sources for quality multilingual health information and understandable health information that is written in plain English, plus search strategies for finding specific topics in these formats. Attendees will hear new ideas for targeting specific user groups and enhancing services through innovative community partnerships. The webinar content will be useful for public and hospital librarians, library staff and anyone who provides health information to members of the public with these special information needs. Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Finding Easy-to-Read and Multilingual Health Information for your Patrons Date: December 1, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Kelli Ham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081120/73593e63/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Fri Nov 21 11:05:27 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Fri Nov 21 11:03:46 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's "Building Leadership Skills: Convincing and Influencing Others" Message-ID: <005201c94c0c$1e268810$5a739830$@org> This workshop continues the series of leadership skills-building workshops that are part of the Eureka! Leadership Program. This is an open registration workshop. You may register for this workshop without taking any other workshops in the series. If you are interested in learning more about the Eureka! Leadership Program, please go to http://eurekaleadership.org/index.html Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Building Leadership Skills: Convincing and Influencing Others Dates and locations: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, San Francisco Public Library Thursday, July 16, 2009, Southgate Library (Sacramento) Wednesday, July 22, 2009, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Friday, July 24, 2009, Fresno Woodward Park Library Monday, July 27, 2009, San Diego County Library Headquarters Wednesday, July 29, 2009, Buena Park Library District Friday, July 31, 2009, Los Angeles Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/402 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Effective leaders know how to encourage others to willingly, even enthusiastically, support their ideas and initiatives. No matter what your job responsibilities may be, the ability to establish rapport quickly, communicate your ideas successfully, and convince others to have confidence in you will decrease your frustration and enable you to achieve your goals. . Have you ever gotten stuck trying to make progress with an unpopular project or an uncooperative team? . Do you know how to react when co-workers or managers resist positive changes? . In these tough budget times, will you have to justify a staff position, project, service initiative, or large expenditure to your supervisor, director, or board? . Do you know how to get other people to do what you need even though you're not their supervisor? . Do you sometimes become frustrated when you expect others to agree with you, but find that they are arguing against you instead? This workshop is designed to provide realistic strategies for handling any work encounter in which you want others to help you, agree with you, or support your decisions. It will strengthen your confidence by improving your ability to lead, to cultivate win-win solutions to problems, to negotiate effectively when necessary, and to implement change with less resistance from others. Workshop Description: This all-day, interactive workshop will provide a synthesis of current thought on how to influence people. Through individual and group exercises, discussions, and analysis of examples from motion pictures, you will come to understand the principles of ethical persuasion. You will discover what works and what doesn't work when you encounter workplace negativity or lack of enthusiasm. In addition, you will learn verbal and nonverbal communication strategies to help you to become a more motivational leader. The dynamic instructor will provide helpful handouts with examples to implement a variety of proven strategies, plus simple techniques that will save you time and frustration. You will come away with practical, useful tips that can be applied immediately and an up-to-date bibliography of books and web sites that includes the best thinking of today's persuasion experts. Pre-workshop assignment: Prior to attending the workshop, participants are asked to notice situations in which they need to influence the behaviors or attitudes of others and also times when they feel that they are "having their arms twisted" or are otherwise being influenced or persuaded to adopt a point of view or to take action by others. Please come prepared to discuss these situations. Preliminary Course Outline . Influence and Persuasion - The Basics 16 tried and true influence tactics. Ethics of influence and persuasion. Using appreciation to generate and spread positive influence. . Persuasion and Resistance to Change Types of resistance. How to deal with resistance. 9 laws of persuasion. How to think and act "win-win." Verbal communication - inspirational, powerful words that influence others. . Positive Techniques to Influence Others Influence through expressing gratitude. Generating voluntary compliance. Active listening techniques. Nonverbal communication and persuasion. . Presenting Key Points to Convince Powerful presentation techniques. 4 elements of a persuasive case. Strategic considerations for persuasion. Instructor: Marie L. Radford, Ph.D. Marie is an Associate Professor at the Rutgers University School of Communication, Information and Library Studies. Previously, she was Acting Dean and Associate Professor of Pratt Institute's School of Information and Library Science in New York City. Marie currently teaches graduate courses in Management of Libraries and Information Centers, Interpersonal Communication for Information Professionals, and Reference Sources and Services. Her Radford Research consulting practice specializes in training and service evaluation. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in developing leadership abilities and interpersonal communication skills in influencing, persuading, inspiring, or motivating others. This workshop is especially useful for those who need to secure the cooperation of people whom they do not directly supervise. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/workshop/location Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop . If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information and to participate in the December 10 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/303/index.html It's 9 a.m. and your deadline is today to put together your presentation or post your content to the library's blog or website. A picture of kids making paper boats would add just the right visual to your text. As an excellent online searcher, you can easily find what you need. But do you have the right to use it? Are you exposing your library to copyright liability? This webinar will help you analyze the legal rights attached to images you find online and offline. It will walk you through safer approaches to using the pictures you need to make your content sparkle! At the end of this presentation, participants will know how to: . locate public domain images that are free to use . locate creative commons licensed images and understand the conditions attached to using them . ask for permission to use other images Speaker: Mary Minow. Mary Minow is an attorney, consultant, and a former librarian and library trustee. She has taught library law at the San Jose State School of Library Science. She was President on the board of CALTAC in 2002, the California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners, and now serves as its Policy Analyst. Mary is the first recipient of the California Library Association's Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award, given in 2004. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Finding (Legally Safe) Graphics in Presentations and Websites Date: December 10, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Mary Minow -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081124/edd49ba0/attachment.html From Western at oclc.org Tue Nov 25 10:39:07 2008 From: Western at oclc.org (Western) Date: Tue Nov 25 10:39:18 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Consider these outstanding online webinars that OCLC Western is offering in December Message-ID: <85055FA347C14043835BD64615F1238F1AEF24@OAEXCH2SERVER.oa.oclc.org> > Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online > This two-hour online session will provide an overview of the basic > characteristics of license agreements for online databases frequently > used in libraries. Through reading and discussing sample licenses we > will define general licensing terms, identify problem clauses, provide > you with the ability to spot good and bad licenses, and gain a better > understanding of eContent contracts. We will also discuss the > fundamentals of negotiation skills and techniques and identify the > appropriate situations in which to use them. > Topics covered include: > * Defining general licensing terms > * Identifying problem clauses > * How to spot good and bad licenses > For a complete course description and to register, please click on the > link below: > Tuesday, December 9, 2008 (Registration deadline: 12/2/08) > 7BDD851D38CE7FDF76D1F110B8AF2ACC16D6A3C&> > 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: WebEx Online Meeting > Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration deadline: 1/9/09) > 7BDD851D38CE7FDF76D1F110B8AF2ACC16D6A3C&> > 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: WebEx Online Meeting > Keep Up! Blogs, Wikis and RSS > You've heard the buzz about blogs, wikis and RSS, but how can they be > effectively used in your library? Should they be? Do you have the > technology, tools, or even the time to implement these collaborative > communication tools in your organization? Learn what's involved with > blogging, wikis and RSS feeds from both the technology and human > resources side of the equation. Learn how to decide whether a blog or > a wiki would be a more effective solution. > What you will learn: > * A brief history and theory behind each of these technologies > * Which ones are appropriate for which types of tasks > * Pros and Cons of each technology > * What is needed to implement blogs, wikis and RSS > For a complete course description and to register, please click on the > link below: > Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (Registration deadline: 12/2/08) > 7BDD851D38CE7FDF76D1F110B8AF2ACC16D6A3C&> > 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: WebEx Online Meeting > Using NetLibrary eAudiobooks > This workshop is an overview and demonstration of NetLibrary > eAudiobooks. > What you will learn: > * How to get started with eAudiobooks > * Essential resources for helping your users access eAudiobooks with > ease > * How to search for, view, and check out eAudiobooks > * How to create an end user account > * How to download eAudiobooks to your computer > * How to transfer eAudiobooks to an mp3 player > * Ordering titles from NetLibrary using TitleSelect > * Integrating eAudiobook MARC records into your library's OPAC > * How to market eAudiobooks to your patrons > For a complete course description and to register, please click on the > link below: > Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (Registration deadline: 12/2/08) > 7BDD851D38CE7FDF76D1F110B8AF2ACC16D6A3C&> > 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: WebEx Online Meeting > QuestionPoint Reports for Evaluation and Improvement > Identifying service trends, making management decisions, and providing > quality control for your institution or group begins with the > statistical reports and archived transcripts in QuestionPoint. > Convenient reporting capabilities exist at the subscription group > level, the individual library level, as well as at the librarian > level. Participate in this session and learn how you can make > QuestionPoint help you further improve your virtual reference > services. > What you will learn: > * Understand the purpose and content of numerous reports > * Run and explain reports related to both Chat and Email > * Take data out of QuestionPoint and use it externally > For a complete course description and to register, please click on the > link below: > Thursday, December 11, 2008 (Registration deadline: 12/3/08) > 7BDD851D38CE7FDF76D1F110B8AF2ACC16D6A3C&> > 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time > Location: WebEx Online Meeting > From RSS feeds to member updates, staying informed is easier than ever > with OCLC Western electronic communications > 7BDD851D38CE7FDF76D1F110B8AF2ACC16D6A3C&> . > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For these library users, health information may look like a jumble of complicated words, technical jargon and difficult instructions. Studies show that about a third of adult Americans have trouble understanding basic medical information. Quality health information is essential for making good healthcare decisions, but much of the readily available health information is written at a reading level that is too difficult for many to understand. For patrons who need information in other languages, the problem is even worse. This webinar will identify appropriate sources for quality multilingual health information and understandable health information that is written in plain English, plus search strategies for finding specific topics in these formats. Attendees will hear new ideas for targeting specific user groups and enhancing services through innovative community partnerships. The webinar content will be useful for public and hospital librarians, library staff and anyone who provides health information to members of the public with these special information needs. Speaker: Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific Southwest Region. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. 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URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081126/eb3a37fa/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Nov 26 09:57:17 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Nov 26 09:55:58 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Upcoming Infopeople workshops Message-ID: <008301c94ff0$6bc57da0$435078e0$@org> Please take a look at some of the Infopeople workshops coming up in December: Building Leadership Skills: Developing and Leading Projects http://infopeople.org/workshop/395 December 12, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library December 16, San Diego County Library Headquarters December 17, Los Angeles Public Library Digital Preservation: Planning and Activities http://infopeople.org/workshop/386 December 9, Buena Park Library District Practical Podcasting and Videocasting http://infopeople.org/workshop/371 December 5, Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library Service to Homeschooling Families http://infopeople.org/workshop/382 December 4, San Francisco Public Library Please visit the URL's listed for a description of the workshops and to register. If you have any questions, please email me or give me a call. Thank you. Linda Rodenspiel, Infopeople Project Assistant assist@infopeople.org voice: 650-578-9685 fax: 650-349-5089 http://infopeople.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081126/5ecdb586/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Dec 1 12:30:06 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Dec 1 12:29:02 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's workshop "Public Library Budgeting" Message-ID: <00b201c953f3$999532a0$ccbf97e0$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Public Library Budgeting Dates and locations: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, Alameda County Library (Fremont) Wednesday, February 4, 2009, Buena Park Library District Friday, February 6, 2009, San Diego County Library Headquarters Tuesday, February 10, 2009, Fresno Woodward Park Library Wednesday, February 18, 2009, Los Angeles Public Library Monday, February 23, 2009, Sacramento Public Library - Galleria Wednesday, March 4, 2009, San Francisco Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/389 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Most librarians advance their careers by knowing a good deal about how to deliver library services, manage staff, and get along well with library boards, friends, and other groups. What they tend not to know is how to work on a public library budget. This course is intended to demystify library budgeting and to provide answers to financial questions such as . Where does the money for my library come from? . How should I budget "new" money for a grant project? . Would we save money if we contracted out custodial services? . What is CIP? . How can we possibly expand services if we're required to cut the budget by 2%? This practical workshop will provide an excellent introduction to hands-on budgeting for anyone who needs to know more about public library financial planning and decision-making. Workshop Description: This all day workshop will use discussion and interactive exercises to train students in the skills of evaluating budget elements, strategies for budget cutting, analyzing privatization and outsourcing proposals, and putting together a budget for a project, department, or library. Preliminary Course Outline . Creating a Public Library Budget: What's in it and how did it get there? Personnel Flexible and inflexible expenses Analyzing and asking questions . Revenues Sources . Cutting the Library Budget . Privatization and Outsourcing Advantages and disadvantages Evaluating proposals . Putting Together a Budget for a Project, Department, or Library Instructor: Anne Turner. Anne has been the Director of the Santa Cruz City-County Library System since late 1983. Prior library service included directorships in Lowell and Amherst, Massachusetts, and a stint as a Reference Librarian at a small college in Western Massachusetts. A past President of the California Library Association, she now edits that organization's magazine, CLARION. She has written extensively for the library press, and is the author of four books. Who Should Attend: Public library staff responsible for planning or managing projects, departments, or branches. Library trustees and commissioners responsible for reviewing or evaluating library budgets prepared by others. Anyone interested in acquiring a better understanding of what keeps their library financially afloat. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/workshop/location. Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop. If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081201/53527c7a/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Tue Dec 2 15:58:05 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Tue Dec 2 15:57:05 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's online course on Successful Fundraising for and in Your Library Message-ID: <019901c954d9$d2f68ee0$78e3aca0$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: This Is How You Do It: Successful Fundraising for and in Your Library (Online learning course) Dates: January 13, 2009 ? February 9, 2009 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/412 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. ? Are you in facing a loss of funding for your library? ? Have you always wanted to create "streams of revenue" for your library? ? Would you like to be able to jumpstart your fundraising group members (friends, foundation, association, alumni etc) with fresh and proven fundraising ideas? The problem: Budget cuts and other cuts from reliable sources of funding for libraries continue to hurt the growth and operation of libraries, and are creating a huge gap between the mission of the library and the services that are provided. In some libraries, collections are becoming smaller, hours are being reduced and positions when vacated are not being filled. To make matters more complicated, a recently released ALA study shows that more people in the United States have a library card (68%) than ever before. The solution: Now more than ever, libraries and library support groups are utilizing effective methods of raising funds and building relationships by connecting with donors in their communities. Learn about programs, methods, tools and techniques to begin fundraising immediately and to create a fundraising strategy that will create streams of revenue (both in-person and online) for your library for years to come. Workshop Description: Through focused learning and individual and group exercises this four-week online learning course will provide students with a comprehensive approach to raising funds for their libraries by means of a variety of fundraising revenue stream programs. The workshop will offer students three levels of participation, giving students the opportunity to customize the course to their individual and organizational needs. You choose the level of your participation! Level 1: You may get what you need from the course by simply reading the course material and participating in the online discussions and chat sessions. If you don't have a current project and just want to learn more about the fundraising process for the future, this may suit you. Level 2: The second level of effort involves doing the assignments that prepare you to begin to create fundraising sources, but not actually implementing them. This is like test-driving the new car without buying it and having to do all of the maintenance. Level 3: The most intense level of effort involves actually creating a fundraising strategy and/or implementing specific fundraising activities. Thus, in the second week you will identify the depth of your commitment, and in the third you will develop the goals and objectives for your fundraising efforts. In the fourth week you will identify either the specific fundraising tools that you and your library support group have activated and implemented or will submit your fundraising strategy that you have written in the course. In either case, I will provide you with written feedback. If you already have a clear idea of what you want to do and have identified a possible fundraising source, you may want to work at this level as it is a good way to structure your work and to get one-on-one coaching. The instructor will provide sample fundraising programs, valuable templates, fundraising resources and aids and a webliography, as well as practical, useful tips that can be applied immediately. During the course, you will be doing exercises and taking quizzes. You will also participate in online discussion forums as part of the online learning process. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: ? Module One: Overview of Fundraising Opportunities Fundraising examples that your library and supporting groups can begin to use in 2009 for fundraising success Creating a fundraising presence on your website More than just writing grants: Fundraising with businesses and associations ? Module Two: Building Your Fundraising Team Who you want (and don't want) on your fundraising team Where to find the "right people" for your fundraising team Volunteers? Tips for building your support team for your fundraising efforts ? Module Three: Building Relationships with Your Donors: The Purpose of Fundraising Understanding the process of cultivating donors for your library What to say to a potential donor yes, you have to ask for their gift! Why donors choose your library making the donor connection! ? Module Four: Writing Your Fundraising Strategy Here we go!! Determining the best strategy for your fundraising efforts Starting small? On-line and affiliate strategies that work! Going for the big gifts? Long-term strategies including charitable giving and community programs that bring in big dollars and donations Instructor: Andrew Sanderbeck. Andrew is an expert trainer on leadership and team development, customer service and generating revenues for libraries and library systems. He is the founder of The Sanderbeck People~Connect Institute, an organization that enjoys serving others that value professionalism, purpose and making a difference in their organizations and communities. He presents over 100 customized staff development workshops, seminars and keynotes for organizations and at conferences around the world each year and has been featured on television and training networks including PBS and NTU. Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2 to 2? hours per week on this course in order to be successful. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of the course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone from the library community with an interest in fundraising or library professionals who must respond to the increasing pressures and consequences of reduced funding for their libraries. This course is also appropriate for library board members and trustees, members of friends groups, foundations and other library support groups and members of library association divisions, sections and special interest groups. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: ? Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en . Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html ). ? Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. ? To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: ? Windows: Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above Phishing Filter disabled (IE 7) ? Macintosh: OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above, Safari 2.0 and above ? General High speed Internet connection (dial up not recommended) Java enabled (from Sun Microsystems not Microsoft) - test my computer (http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp ) - Java download latest version (http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp ) Pop-up blockers disabled To be successful in this course, you should also be comfortable working in a collaborative environment (on-line, on the phone and in person) where risk taking and failure will be experienced and spur potentially huge personal and professional growth. If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081202/e9da4ee1/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Wed Dec 3 09:35:27 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Wed Dec 3 09:33:54 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's State Library Webinar Message-ID: <003701c9556d$8853a870$98faf950$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: State Library Webinar Date and time: December 16, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the December 16 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/250/index.html What is happening at the California State Library? What new services or grant opportunities may be forthcoming from Library Development Services? How do current state-level political and economic events affect libraries? What national trends is the State Library watching? State Librarian Susan Hildreth and other members of the State Library staff discuss this and much more in webinars sponsored by Infopeople. The webinars, which will be offered at least three times a year, deal with hot topics in the California library world, emerging library trends, and services available to you from the California State Library. The State Librarian and other State Library staff are also available for live questions and answers during each webinar. Check in to hear from our State Library staff and keep in tune with the scene in Sacramento. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: State Library Webinar Date: December 16, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081203/44513c71/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Dec 8 15:48:54 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Dec 8 15:48:16 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Reminder of Infopeople's webinar "Finding (Legally Safe) Graphics in Presentations and Websites" Message-ID: <006f01c9598f$88418340$98c489c0$@org> A reminder of the next Infopeople webinar. Please let your friends and colleagues know about this event! Title: Finding (Legally Safe) Graphics in Presentations and Websites Date and time: December 10, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the December 10 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/303/index.html It's 9 a.m. and your deadline is today to put together your presentation or post your content to the library's blog or website. A picture of kids making paper boats would add just the right visual to your text. As an excellent online searcher, you can easily find what you need. But do you have the right to use it? Are you exposing your library to copyright liability? This webinar will help you analyze the legal rights attached to images you find online and offline. It will walk you through safer approaches to using the pictures you need to make your content sparkle! At the end of this presentation, participants will know how to: . locate public domain images that are free to use . locate creative commons licensed images and understand the conditions attached to using them . ask for permission to use other images Speaker: Mary Minow. Mary Minow is an attorney, consultant, and a former librarian and library trustee. She has taught library law at the San Jose State School of Library Science. She was President on the board of CALTAC in 2002, the California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners, and now serves as its Policy Analyst. Mary is the first recipient of the California Library Association's Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award, given in 2004. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Finding (Legally Safe) Graphics in Presentations and Websites Date: December 10, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Mary Minow -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081208/040b6120/attachment.html From Western at oclc.org Tue Dec 9 07:30:16 2008 From: Western at oclc.org (Western) Date: Tue Dec 9 10:30:55 2008 Subject: [Baynet] December - February | California Online and In-person Education and Training from OCLC Western Message-ID: <85055FA347C14043835BD64615F1238F1AEF2D@OAEXCH2SERVER.oa.oclc.org> OCLC Western's goal is to provide you with the education and training you need, when and where you need it. As such, we are pleased to offer an array of classes spanning several topical areas. Outlined below are classes we have planned for the next few months. We add new classes frequently, so to stay as up-to-date as possible, sign up for our Training RSS feed < http://www.oclc.org/western/rss/ > which provides daily updates on courses that have just been scheduled. If you are interested in a more collective view of training opportunities, opt for our Training Update < https://www.oclc.org/western/email/default.htm > and we will send you regular information. Or, view our Web site at < http://www.oclc.org/western/ >. Cataloging and metadata ---------------------------------------------------------------- CatExpress Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W119.htm January 12, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/5/09) 10:00am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 1 - WorldCat, MARC, and Client Basics http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W127.htm January 14, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/7/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting February 17, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/10/09) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 2 - Basic Bibliographic Searching http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W133.htm January 15, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/8/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting February 18, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/11/09) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 3 - Basic Editing and Record Processing http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W129.htm January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) 10:00am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting February 19, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/12/09) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 4 - Save Files and File Management http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W130.htm February 11, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/4/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 5 - Automation and Customization http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W131.htm February 4, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/28/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 6 - Editing Master Records http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W132.htm January 22, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/15/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 7 - Advanced Bibliographic Searching http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W125.htm February 19, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/12/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 8 - Original Cataloging http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W134.htm January 27, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/20/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Connexion Client Module 9 - Authority Control http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W135.htm January 29,2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/22/09) 10:00 am-10:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Just for Copy Cats http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W111.htm February 26-27, 2009 (Registration Deadine:1/28/09) 9:00 am-4:00 pm San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA MARC 21 in Your Library http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W115.htm February 25, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/28/09) 9:00 am-4:00 pm San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA Overview of Metadata for Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm Wednesday, January 28, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/26/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Collection management ---------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Image Quality Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm Wednesday, February 11, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/9/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Introduction to Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm Thursday, January 22, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/20/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm Thursday, February 19, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/17/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Kick Start Your Digital Program Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W384.htm Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/14/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) 2:00 pm -4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, February 25, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/18/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Licensing and Negotiations: Intellectual Property Issues for Digital Libraries Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W815.htm Wednesday, January 7, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/5/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Managing Libraries in the Digital Age Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W814.htm Wednesday, February 18, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/16/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Overview of Metadata for Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm Wednesday, January 28, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/26/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Preservation 101: Basics for Paper and Media Collections http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W387.htm Monday, January 5, 2009-Friday, February 27, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 12/30/08) Virtual class Digitization and preservation ---------------------------------------------------------------- Basic Copyright for Digital Materials Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W820.htm Wednesday, January 14, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/12/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Digital Image Quality Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W382.htm Wednesday, February 11, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/9/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Introduction to Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm Thursday, January 22, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/20/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm Thursday, February 19, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/17/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Kick Start Your Digital Program Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W384.htm Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/14/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Licensing and Negotiations: Intellectual Property Issues for Digital Libraries Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W815.htm Wednesday, January 7, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/5/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Managing Libraries in the Digital Age Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W814.htm Wednesday, February 18, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/16/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Overview of Metadata for Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W383.htm Wednesday, January 28, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/26/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Preservation 101: Basics for Paper and Media Collections http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W387.htm Monday, January 5, 2009-Friday, February 27, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 12/30/08) Virtual class Text Processing for Digital Resources Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W821.htm Wednesday, January 21, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/19/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Librarianship ---------------------------------------------------------------- Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) 2:00 pm -4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, February 25, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/18/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Library administration and management ---------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to Developing and Managing Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W381.htm Thursday, January 22, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/20/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W380.htm Thursday, February 19, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/17/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Kick Start Your Digital Program Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W384.htm Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/14/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) 2:00 pm -4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, February 25, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/18/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Managing Libraries in the Digital Age Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W814.htm Wednesday, February 18, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/16/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Reference and public service ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keep Up! Blogs, Wikis and RSS http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W909.htm Wednesday, January 14 ,2009 (Registration Deadline 1/6/09) 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, February 11, 2009 ( Registration Deadline: 2/03/09) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting OCLC QuestionPoint: Delivering Virtual Reference http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W906.htm Thursday-Friday, January 8-9, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 1/1/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting QuestionPoint Reports for Evaluation and Improvement http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W918.htm Thursday, February 26, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/19/09) 9:00 am- 10:00 am WebEx Online Meeting Using NetLibrary eAudiobooks http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W919.htm Tuesday, January 20, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/13/09) 11:00 am - 12:30 pm WebEx Online Meeting Tuesday, February 24, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/17/09) 10:00 am - 11:30 am WebEx Online Meeting WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W502.htm Wednesday, January 14, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm OCLC Ontario, CA Resource sharing (ILL) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Custom Holdings in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W825.htm Wednesday, January 7, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/5/09) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Deflection on WorldCat Resource Sharing Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/w827.htm Thursday, January 8, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/6/09 1:00 pm-3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Local Holdings Maintenance I: Basic Serials Local Holdings http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W830.htm Wednesday, December 17, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/15/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Local Holdings Maintenance II: Beyond the Basics http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W831.htm Friday, December 19, 2008 (Registration Deadline: 12/17/08) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Patron-Initiated Resource Sharing in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W826.htm Friday, January 9, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/7/09) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting WorldCat Resource Sharing - Beyond the Basics http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W505.htm Friday, January 16, 2009(Registration Deadline: 1/12/09) 9:00 am-3:30 pm OCLC, Ontario, CA WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W503.htm Thursday, January 15, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) 9:00 am-3:30pm OCLC Ontario, CA WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W823.htm Thursday-Friday, January 8-9, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/6/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W502.htm Wednesday, January 14, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm OCLC Ontario, CA WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W822.htm Tuesday, January 6, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/2/09) 1:00 pm-3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keep Up! Blogs, Wikis and RSS http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W909.htm Wednesday, January 14 ,2009 (Registration Deadline 1/6/09) 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, February 11, 2009 ( Registration Deadline: 2/03/09) 10:00 am- 12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Licensing and Negotiations for Librarians Online http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W905.htm Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) 2:00 pm -4:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Wednesday, February 25, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/18/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Licensing and Negotiations: Intellectual Property Issues for Digital Libraries Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W815.htm Wednesday, January 7, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/5/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting Managing Libraries in the Digital Age Webinar http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W814.htm Wednesday, February 18, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/16/09) 10:00 am-12:00 pm WebEx Online Meeting QuestionPoint Reports for Evaluation and Improvement http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W918.htm Thursday, February 26, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/19/09) 9:00 am- 10:00 am WebEx Online Meeting Using NetLibrary eAudiobooks http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W919.htm Tuesday, January 20, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/13/09) 11:00 am - 12:30 pm WebEx Online Meeting Tuesday, February 24, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 2/17/09) 10:00 am - 11:30 am WebEx Online Meeting -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081209/708cf0a6/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Thu Dec 11 14:25:03 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Thu Dec 11 14:23:13 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Reminder of the State Library Webinar from Infopeople Message-ID: <009001c95bdf$5062b2d0$f1281870$@org> A reminder of the next Infopeople webinar. Please let your friends and colleagues know about this event! Title: State Library Webinar Date and time: December 16, 2008, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the December 16 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/250/index.html What is happening at the California State Library? What new services or grant opportunities may be forthcoming from Library Development Services? How do current state-level political and economic events affect libraries? What national trends is the State Library watching? State Librarian Susan Hildreth and other members of the State Library staff discuss this and much more in webinars sponsored by Infopeople. The webinars, which will be offered at least three times a year, deal with hot topics in the California library world, emerging library trends, and services available to you from the California State Library. The State Librarian and other State Library staff are also available for live questions and answers during each webinar. Check in to hear from our State Library staff and keep in tune with the scene in Sacramento. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: State Library Webinar Date: December 16, 2008 Time: 12pm - 1pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081211/33043c22/attachment.html From Western at oclc.org Fri Dec 12 11:35:47 2008 From: Western at oclc.org (Western) Date: Fri Dec 12 11:36:03 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Searching, Basics and Beyond-Master these skills in WorldCat Resource Sharing with OCLC Western Message-ID: <85055FA347C14043835BD64615F1238F1AEF36@OAEXCH2SERVER.oa.oclc.org> OCLC Western is offering three invaluable workshops at its Ontario, California office in January that are designed to instruct participants in the basics and beyond of WorldCat Resource Sharing. These courses are intended for current and new users of WorldCat Resource Sharing who wish to learn how to use ILL more effectively. Please take a moment to review the course descriptions below and then register for those workshops that best suit your educational and professional interests. WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching This workshop gives trainees an introduction to searching the WorldCat bibliographic database in WorldCat Resource Sharing, which is used by patrons and ILL practitioners to locate a rich array of bibliographic resources. The session introduces trainees to the three search modes-basic, advanced, and expert-and covers the core search strategies in the advanced mode. Other topics included in the session are a general introduction to the WorldCat Resource Sharing environment, as well as how to refine searches and do follow-on searches. Wednesday, January 14, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time Location: OCLC Ontario, CA WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics This workshop focuses on the basic procedures needed to manage an ILL request on OCLC's WorldCat Resource Sharing service. It uses OCLC's new web-based interface to the ILL system-FirstSearch ILL for Staff. Attendees will learn the core concepts to create a borrowing request and to respond to a request as a lender. Topics include an overview of WorldCat Resource Sharing, the basic ILL cycle, Constant Data records, and simple management of ILL request. Thursday, January 15, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/9/09) 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time Location: OCLC Ontario, CA Prerequisites: Searching will not be covered. We strongly recommend attending the WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching workshop, before attending this workshop. WorldCat Resource Sharing-Beyond the Basics This workshop focuses on the features and functions that can significantly increase efficiency by decreasing staff time in both borrowing and lending in WorldCat Resource Sharing (WCRS). A partial list of these features includes custom holdings, patron-initiated requests, direct request, and deflection. While the overall focus is on WCRS, trainees will be exposed to and explore other ILL-related products and services that work in partnership with WCRS to better manage the library's ILL activity, products such as OCLC's statistical webpage, Policies Directory, and WorldCat Collection Analysis. Friday, January 16, 2009 (Registration Deadline: 1/12/09) 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time Location: OCLC, Ontario, CA Prerequisites: Searching and basic resource sharing will not be covered. We strongly recommend attending both the WorldCat Resource Sharing Searching and WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics workshops before attending this workshop. >From RSS feeds to member updates, staying informed is easier than ever with OCLC Western electronic communications . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081212/249a4f4e/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Tue Dec 16 11:18:39 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Tue Dec 16 11:16:35 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's online course "Get Your Game On, Online!" Message-ID: <00cc01c95fb3$1a2a3c10$4e7eb430$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Get Your Game On, Online! (Online learning course) Dates: February 3, 2009 - March 2, 2009 To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/392 Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and $150 for those out-of-state. Many stories in the media show videogames to be violent, addictive, and controversial. But just like books, videogames can also be literary, educational, socially relevant, identity forming, and challenging. Videogames, the medium of choice for the millennial generation, may be the next format for libraries to consider. . Are you concerned that people aren't reading anymore? . Are your library's computers being taken over by Runescape? . Do you need some help convincing the "powers that be" that gaming is a worthwhile investment? . Are you looking for ways to serve gamers, other than programs or collections? . Are you looking for how-to information on selecting and purchasing games, or how-to run a videogame tournament? In this online course you will discover the benefits of harnessing the videogame format to attract new library users of all ages, and learn how to deliver exemplary services to gamers in your community. Workshop Description: This four-week online learning course will provide a snapshot of videogames in U.S. popular culture and the current state of gaming in libraries, and provide models of ways to serve gamers of all ages with programs, collections and more. During the course, you will be doing exercises and taking quizzes, and playing games, as well as viewing slides and listening to audio, and reading articles online. You will also participate in online discussion forums as part of the online learning process. Preliminary Course Outline: Using your web browser and your Internet connection, you will log in to the Infopeople online learning site and complete the following learning modules: . Module One: Advocating for Gaming at the Library Icebreaker: what games do you play? Gaming in popular culture Gaming in libraries Talking point: making the case Games to play . Module Two: Videogame Programs & Tournaments Deciding what kind of gaming experience to provide Gaming programs with consoles, handhelds, and LAN parties Gaming tournaments Games to play . Module Three: Videogame Collection Development Evaluating & selecting videogames Purchasing & cataloging Displaying, circulating & troubleshooting Digital and print collections Games to play . Module Four: Other programs and services Creating an avatar Cheat codes & strategy guides Reader's advisory to gamers Videogame design Games to play Instructor: Beth Gallaway. Beth Gallaway, a Library Journal Mover & Shaker (2006), is an independent library trainer/consultant. She is an adjunct lecturer for Simmons College and teaches online classes for YALSA. She has been playing video games since she was five. Beth is the founder of the LibGaming listserv, an active YALSA volunteer, and the co-author of Get Your Game On: Video Games and Libraries. (Neal Schuman, 2007). She is a member of many social networking applications, and you can find her using the handle "informationgoddess29." Online Learning Details: This four-week course will be taught online using the web. When you register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password. Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum of 2 to 2 1/2 hours per week on this course in order to be successful. Every week you will have different game options; it is not expected that everyone will play every game, or spend more than 45 minutes on a game. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime during the first week of the course to begin the course work. Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support for two weeks after the official end date of the course, and the course material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of the course in synchronization with your peers during the first four weeks. Who Should Take This Course: Anyone with an interest in keeping current with library trends, serving underserved populations, and understanding the gaming phenomenon will be interested in this course. Gaming is fast becoming something everyone (children, teens, parents, seniors) does, so understanding the gamer mentality is useful for all library staff, from circulation desk staff to custodians to reference librarians to directors and trustees. Additionally, this course may help managers to better understand staff born after 1970, offering insight into the values and attitudes of digital natives and those who grew up gaming. Prerequisites: This course is taught over the web. You must: . Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en . Search for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html ). . Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and forward on a website that uses frames. . To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading and participating in the weekly discussion boards. System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least these specifications to participate in an online course: . Windows: Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above Phishing Filter disabled (IE 7) . Macintosh: OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product) Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above, Safari 2.0 and above . General High speed Internet connection (dial up not recommended) Java enabled (from Sun Microsystems not Microsoft) - test my computer (http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp ) - Java download latest version (http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp ) Pop-up blockers disabled If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements. If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople Training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/workshop If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Title: No and Low-Cost Library Programming Dates and locations: Tuesday, February 3, San Francisco Public Library Thursday, February 26, Buena Park Library District Thursday, March 12, Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill Thursday, March 26, San Diego County Library Headquarters Wednesday, April 8, Saratoga Library Friday, April 24, Fresno Woodward Park Library Thursday, May 14, Los Angeles Public Library Wednesday, May 27, Solano County Library, Fairfield Wednesday, June 3, Santa Barbara Public Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/384 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Public libraries have long provided educational programs as part of their outreach to the communities they serve. With budget constraints and cutbacks, it is becoming increasingly difficult to continue this endeavor. If you need or want to create no or low cost programs to enable your library to continue to fulfill this part of its mission ... this is the workshop for you. In this workshop you will: . Learn to identify the kinds of programs that are no cost or low cost . Learn to develop strategies for finding no or low cost program presenters . Learn to identify community partners . Learn to create different programming based on your unique library collections and community After attending this workshop, you will have the necessary tools to create a successful program without first having to become a success at amassing funds! Workshop Description: This all-day workshop will introduce participants to the many types of no-cost or low-cost programming and provide proven tools and strategies for designing and implementing programs for libraries of any size. Emphasis will be on learning to implement programs using your own library's collection as well as learning what local resources are available. Attendees will participate in a sample program as well as design a program for their library. The instructor will provide a variety of practical tips that can be applied immediately, as well as a bibliography of useful resources that can be used and shared after the class. Pre-workshop assignment: Please bring a profile of your community or library's service area: age and ethnic groups, major industries.any important facts. We will use these as tools when setting the groundwork for your own programs. In addition to the community profile, bring your ideas of what makes a successful or exciting program. Preliminary Course Outline . Laying the Foundation: Trends and Community Profiles Factors that influence programming ideas Benefits of knowing your community make-up How does the media/popular interest affect demand? Using previous program evaluations and attendance to guide your choices . Basics of Library Programming Developing the program: does your library have guidelines? Creating partnerships Formats: which room and equipment will work best? Outreach: publicity strategies . Creating Programs Designing single events Designing a series Applying for grants . Learn about Facilitating a Program Participate in a sample program Instructor: Lynn Whitehouse. Lynn Whitehouse is the supervisor of the History/Information and Interlibrary Loan Sections of the Central Library of the San Diego Public Library and has been involved with adult public programming for the last 11 years and has taught adult programming as an Infopeople trainer. Lynn was the 2006 recipient of the California Library Association's Award for Excellence as a Public Librarian. Her program "Stories of Faith" won the Marshall Cavendish Excellence in Library Programming Award in 2005 and was nominated for the The Federation of State Humanities Councils' Schwartz Award by the California Council for the Humanities. Lynn is a consultant for the California State Library's Digital Storytelling Grant, a program she created with a LSTA grant. Who Should Attend: Anyone who is responsible for or interested in providing no cost/low cost adult programming. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-3:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/workshop/location . Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop . If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081218/7dc70107/attachment.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Dec 22 16:34:55 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Dec 22 16:32:40 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's workshop "Fully Engaged Customer Service" Message-ID: <013d01c96496$4858f030$d90ad090$@org> Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Fully Engaged Customer Service Dates and locations: Monday, February 9, Alameda County Library, Fremont Thursday, February 19, San Francisco Public Library Tuesday, March 17, Buena Park Library District Wednesday, March 18, San Diego County Library Headquarters Wednesday, April 1, Fresno Woodward Park Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/416 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Smart libraries put their customers first. Infopeople has long been a leader in library customer service training, and this exciting new workshop offers an opportunity to move your own customer service techniques up to a new level. As the economic downturn increases library use AND decreases staff resources, it is vital that everyone work as productively as possible. Whether you spend most of your time on the front lines or primarily serve internal customers, your ability to handle your workload will be enhanced when you learn how to complete customer interactions successfully at the first point of contact, while cultivating a positive attitude and keeping stress levels to a minimum. Improving customer service outcomes requires moving beyond old habits to create a lasting change in behavior. This course employs an immersive, experiential learning environment, initially developed and tested in collaboration with San Jose Public Library. In this safe and friendly environment you will practice simple, powerful techniques for improving . Eye contact . Facial expression and body language . Tone of voice . Availability to customers, . Assessment of customer needs, and . Quality of information provided. Completing this course will help you handle more interactions with customers by empowering them to do more for themselves, while increasing their knowledge of your offerings and their satisfaction with the library experience. Workshop Description: In this all day workshop you will practice and experience how to enhance service through being fully engaged to create a win-win experience that saves time for both you and the customer. The skills can be used with both internal and external customers and many of the activities can be brought back immediately and used to train your staff. Pre-workshop assignment: Each attendee will be expected to spend from 15 minutes to half an hour visiting a library where they don't know the staff to experience a library from the customer's perspective. A short worksheet will be sent out 2 weeks prior to class to remind attendees of this pre-workshop assignment. The worksheet will include directions about what to observe and what questions to ask during your library visit. Preliminary Course Outline . Elements of a Fully Engaged Customer Service Interaction Three main parts of a customer interaction The library customer experience "Why don't they just ask their question" How to make yourself approachable . Parts Of Us That Communicate Posture, gesture, facial expression What goes on between two people Who's got the power . Make the Connection How to listen when you're distracted Questioning and rephrasing to be sure you have it right Empower customers to self-serve for future visits Teach them about related library programs or services . Close the interaction What does it take to make a customer feel satisfied Good solid closing phrases Instructor: Cheryl Gould. Cheryl has been a training consultant for Infopeople since 1996. She has delivered workshops on a wide range of topics. Recent additions to her toolbox include helping organize library staff days and acting as MC and playground director throughout the day to facilitate people getting to know each other, have a bit of fun and stay energized. Cheryl has worked with over 100 different instructors to create workshops on more than 150 different topics of interest to California libraries. Her current role as Training Consultant for Infopeople keeps her involved in all of the Infopeople workshops and allows her to not only spread the gospel of strong training techniques, but to keep current on what's going on in libraries around the state. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in providing good customer service whether to internal or external customers. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/workshop/location . Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop . If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081222/4a3d2c7f/attachment.html From smiller at milibrary.org Tue Dec 23 09:47:54 2008 From: smiller at milibrary.org (Sharon Miller) Date: Tue Dec 23 09:36:04 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's workshop "Fully Engaged Customer Service" In-Reply-To: <013d01c96496$4858f030$d90ad090$@org> Message-ID: Inez, Do we still have money for staff training? This would be a good workshop - and it will be held at SFPL. Sharon Sharon Miller Head of Public Services Mechanics' Institute Library 57 Post St. San Francisco, CA 94104 415-393-0113 www.milibrary.org email: smiller@milibrary.org -----Original Message----- From: baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu [mailto:baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu]On Behalf Of Linda Rodenspiel Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 4:35 PM To: baynet@exploratorium.edu Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's workshop "Fully Engaged Customer Service" Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Fully Engaged Customer Service Dates and locations: Monday, February 9, Alameda County Library, Fremont Thursday, February 19, San Francisco Public Library Tuesday, March 17, Buena Park Library District Wednesday, March 18, San Diego County Library Headquarters Wednesday, April 1, Fresno Woodward Park Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/416 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Smart libraries put their customers first. Infopeople has long been a leader in library customer service training, and this exciting new workshop offers an opportunity to move your own customer service techniques up to a new level. As the economic downturn increases library use AND decreases staff resources, it is vital that everyone work as productively as possible. Whether you spend most of your time on the front lines or primarily serve internal customers, your ability to handle your workload will be enhanced when you learn how to complete customer interactions successfully at the first point of contact, while cultivating a positive attitude and keeping stress levels to a minimum. Improving customer service outcomes requires moving beyond old habits to create a lasting change in behavior. This course employs an immersive, experiential learning environment, initially developed and tested in collaboration with San Jose Public Library. In this safe and friendly environment you will practice simple, powerful techniques for improving . Eye contact . Facial expression and body language . Tone of voice . Availability to customers, . Assessment of customer needs, and . Quality of information provided. Completing this course will help you handle more interactions with customers by empowering them to do more for themselves, while increasing their knowledge of your offerings and their satisfaction with the library experience. Workshop Description: In this all day workshop you will practice and experience how to enhance service through being fully engaged to create a win-win experience that saves time for both you and the customer. The skills can be used with both internal and external customers and many of the activities can be brought back immediately and used to train your staff. Pre-workshop assignment: Each attendee will be expected to spend from 15 minutes to half an hour visiting a library where they don't know the staff to experience a library from the customer's perspective. A short worksheet will be sent out 2 weeks prior to class to remind attendees of this pre-workshop assignment. The worksheet will include directions about what to observe and what questions to ask during your library visit. Preliminary Course Outline . Elements of a Fully Engaged Customer Service Interaction Three main parts of a customer interaction The library customer experience "Why don't they just ask their question" How to make yourself approachable . Parts Of Us That Communicate Posture, gesture, facial expression What goes on between two people Who's got the power . Make the Connection How to listen when you're distracted Questioning and rephrasing to be sure you have it right Empower customers to self-serve for future visits Teach them about related library programs or services . Close the interaction What does it take to make a customer feel satisfied Good solid closing phrases Instructor: Cheryl Gould. Cheryl has been a training consultant for Infopeople since 1996. She has delivered workshops on a wide range of topics. Recent additions to her toolbox include helping organize library staff days and acting as MC and playground director throughout the day to facilitate people getting to know each other, have a bit of fun and stay energized. Cheryl has worked with over 100 different instructors to create workshops on more than 150 different topics of interest to California libraries. Her current role as Training Consultant for Infopeople keeps her involved in all of the Infopeople workshops and allows her to not only spread the gospel of strong training techniques, but to keep current on what's going on in libraries around the state. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in providing good customer service whether to internal or external customers. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/workshop/location . Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop . If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081223/f20d048e/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Tue Dec 23 09:45:12 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Tue Dec 23 09:42:48 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's workshop "Fully Engaged Customer Service" In-Reply-To: References: <013d01c96496$4858f030$d90ad090$@org> Message-ID: <000901c96526$3535ca10$9fa15e30$@org> Hi Sharon, I think you sent this to me in error. Linda From: baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu [mailto:baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu] On Behalf Of Sharon Miller Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:48 AM To: The BayNet listserv posts announcements of interest to the SanFrancisco BayArea library community. Subject: RE: [Baynet] Infopeople's workshop "Fully Engaged Customer Service" Inez, Do we still have money for staff training? This would be a good workshop - and it will be held at SFPL. Sharon Sharon Miller Head of Public Services Mechanics' Institute Library 57 Post St. San Francisco, CA 94104 415-393-0113 www.milibrary.org email: smiller@milibrary.org -----Original Message----- From: baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu [mailto:baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu]On Behalf Of Linda Rodenspiel Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 4:35 PM To: baynet@exploratorium.edu Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's workshop "Fully Engaged Customer Service" Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Fully Engaged Customer Service Dates and locations: Monday, February 9, Alameda County Library, Fremont Thursday, February 19, San Francisco Public Library Tuesday, March 17, Buena Park Library District Wednesday, March 18, San Diego County Library Headquarters Wednesday, April 1, Fresno Woodward Park Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/416 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Smart libraries put their customers first. Infopeople has long been a leader in library customer service training, and this exciting new workshop offers an opportunity to move your own customer service techniques up to a new level. As the economic downturn increases library use AND decreases staff resources, it is vital that everyone work as productively as possible. Whether you spend most of your time on the front lines or primarily serve internal customers, your ability to handle your workload will be enhanced when you learn how to complete customer interactions successfully at the first point of contact, while cultivating a positive attitude and keeping stress levels to a minimum. Improving customer service outcomes requires moving beyond old habits to create a lasting change in behavior. This course employs an immersive, experiential learning environment, initially developed and tested in collaboration with San Jose Public Library. In this safe and friendly environment you will practice simple, powerful techniques for improving . Eye contact . Facial expression and body language . Tone of voice . Availability to customers, . Assessment of customer needs, and . Quality of information provided. Completing this course will help you handle more interactions with customers by empowering them to do more for themselves, while increasing their knowledge of your offerings and their satisfaction with the library experience. Workshop Description: In this all day workshop you will practice and experience how to enhance service through being fully engaged to create a win-win experience that saves time for both you and the customer. The skills can be used with both internal and external customers and many of the activities can be brought back immediately and used to train your staff. Pre-workshop assignment: Each attendee will be expected to spend from 15 minutes to half an hour visiting a library where they don't know the staff to experience a library from the customer's perspective. A short worksheet will be sent out 2 weeks prior to class to remind attendees of this pre-workshop assignment. The worksheet will include directions about what to observe and what questions to ask during your library visit. Preliminary Course Outline . Elements of a Fully Engaged Customer Service Interaction Three main parts of a customer interaction The library customer experience "Why don't they just ask their question" How to make yourself approachable . Parts Of Us That Communicate Posture, gesture, facial expression What goes on between two people Who's got the power . Make the Connection How to listen when you're distracted Questioning and rephrasing to be sure you have it right Empower customers to self-serve for future visits Teach them about related library programs or services . Close the interaction What does it take to make a customer feel satisfied Good solid closing phrases Instructor: Cheryl Gould. Cheryl has been a training consultant for Infopeople since 1996. She has delivered workshops on a wide range of topics. Recent additions to her toolbox include helping organize library staff days and acting as MC and playground director throughout the day to facilitate people getting to know each other, have a bit of fun and stay energized. Cheryl has worked with over 100 different instructors to create workshops on more than 150 different topics of interest to California libraries. Her current role as Training Consultant for Infopeople keeps her involved in all of the Infopeople workshops and allows her to not only spread the gospel of strong training techniques, but to keep current on what's going on in libraries around the state. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in providing good customer service whether to internal or external customers. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/workshop/location . Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop . If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081223/46d8e71d/attachment-0001.html From icohen at milibrary.org Tue Dec 23 11:08:36 2008 From: icohen at milibrary.org (inez cohen) Date: Tue Dec 23 10:56:47 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's workshop "Fully Engaged Customer Service" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <6f7a2277f3e89b4c85360b215dc28272@milibrary.org> Yes, we do have money for training. We can talk about this tomorrow. I thought we could bring it up to the group, but let's see who needs it and how their absences affect service and maybe we'll assign people to go. Inez Inez Shor Cohen, Director Mechanics' Institute Library 57 Post Street San Francisco, California 94104 Telephone: 415.393.0103 Fax: 415.421.4192 _____ From: baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu [mailto:baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu] On Behalf Of Sharon Miller Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:48 AM To: The BayNet listserv posts announcements of interest to the SanFrancisco BayArea library community. Subject: RE: [Baynet] Infopeople's workshop "Fully Engaged Customer Service" Inez, Do we still have money for staff training? This would be a good workshop - and it will be held at SFPL. Sharon Sharon Miller Head of Public Services Mechanics' Institute Library 57 Post St. San Francisco, CA 94104 415-393-0113 www.milibrary.org email: smiller@milibrary.org -----Original Message----- From: baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu [mailto:baynet-bounces@isaac.exploratorium.edu]On Behalf Of Linda Rodenspiel Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 4:35 PM To: baynet@exploratorium.edu Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's workshop "Fully Engaged Customer Service" Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks! Title: Fully Engaged Customer Service Dates and locations: Monday, February 9, Alameda County Library, Fremont Thursday, February 19, San Francisco Public Library Tuesday, March 17, Buena Park Library District Wednesday, March 18, San Diego County Library Headquarters Wednesday, April 1, Fresno Woodward Park Library To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at http://infopeople.org/workshop/416 Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop. Smart libraries put their customers first. Infopeople has long been a leader in library customer service training, and this exciting new workshop offers an opportunity to move your own customer service techniques up to a new level. As the economic downturn increases library use AND decreases staff resources, it is vital that everyone work as productively as possible. Whether you spend most of your time on the front lines or primarily serve internal customers, your ability to handle your workload will be enhanced when you learn how to complete customer interactions successfully at the first point of contact, while cultivating a positive attitude and keeping stress levels to a minimum. Improving customer service outcomes requires moving beyond old habits to create a lasting change in behavior. This course employs an immersive, experiential learning environment, initially developed and tested in collaboration with San Jose Public Library. In this safe and friendly environment you will practice simple, powerful techniques for improving * Eye contact * Facial expression and body language * Tone of voice * Availability to customers, * Assessment of customer needs, and * Quality of information provided. Completing this course will help you handle more interactions with customers by empowering them to do more for themselves, while increasing their knowledge of your offerings and their satisfaction with the library experience. Workshop Description: In this all day workshop you will practice and experience how to enhance service through being fully engaged to create a win-win experience that saves time for both you and the customer. The skills can be used with both internal and external customers and many of the activities can be brought back immediately and used to train your staff. Pre-workshop assignment: Each attendee will be expected to spend from 15 minutes to half an hour visiting a library where they don't know the staff to experience a library from the customer's perspective. A short worksheet will be sent out 2 weeks prior to class to remind attendees of this pre-workshop assignment. The worksheet will include directions about what to observe and what questions to ask during your library visit. Preliminary Course Outline * Elements of a Fully Engaged Customer Service Interaction Three main parts of a customer interaction The library customer experience "Why don't they just ask their question" How to make yourself approachable * Parts Of Us That Communicate Posture, gesture, facial expression What goes on between two people Who's got the power * Make the Connection How to listen when you're distracted Questioning and rephrasing to be sure you have it right Empower customers to self-serve for future visits Teach them about related library programs or services * Close the interaction What does it take to make a customer feel satisfied Good solid closing phrases Instructor: Cheryl Gould. Cheryl has been a training consultant for Infopeople since 1996. She has delivered workshops on a wide range of topics. Recent additions to her toolbox include helping organize library staff days and acting as MC and playground director throughout the day to facilitate people getting to know each other, have a bit of fun and stay energized. Cheryl has worked with over 100 different instructors to create workshops on more than 150 different topics of interest to California libraries. Her current role as Training Consultant for Infopeople keeps her involved in all of the Infopeople workshops and allows her to not only spread the gospel of strong training techniques, but to keep current on what's going on in libraries around the state. Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an interest in providing good customer service whether to internal or external customers. Prerequisites: None If you would like to subscribe via RSS and be notified whenever new Infopeople training events are available, you can use these links: **For new on-ground or online workshops: http://infopeople.org/workshop/rss **For new podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfopeoplePodcasts Other Logistics: *On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM. *Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople Web site at http://infopeople.org/workshop/location . Infopeople does not validate or pay for parking. *Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service. Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch. To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop . If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.exo.net/pipermail/baynet/attachments/20081223/e11bab91/attachment-0001.html From assist at infopeople.org Mon Dec 29 10:55:13 2008 From: assist at infopeople.org (Linda Rodenspiel) Date: Mon Dec 29 10:52:54 2008 Subject: [Baynet] Infopeople's Webinar "Gaming at the Library on a Shoestring Budget" Message-ID: <005801c969e6$fb6da030$f248e090$@org> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar. Title: Gaming at the Library on a Shoestring Budget Date and time: January 14, 2009, 12pm - 1pm This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this Infopeople webinar. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and to participate in the January 14 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/296/index.html When are video games not fun? When libraries stress over how to best implement them! In this webinar you'll learn how to entertain teens and adults with computers your library already owns, the many different kinds of games currently available, and just what makes a gaming party a success. Along the way we'll also discuss how to dispel misconceptions and convince reluctant librarians and members of the public that gaming is a valid form of library programming that is here to stay. At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to: . Better connect with parts of the community that enjoy gaming. . Turn the library's existing equipment into a cost-effective gaming set-up. . Recognize and address concerns about gaming from the community or within the library. Speaker: Fred Baerkicher. Fred Baerkircher is head of Adult Public Services at the Twinsburg Public Library in Ohio. Since earning his MLIS in 2005, he has worked with gaming in a variety of forms at libraries using numerous titles. He also teaches computer classes to audiences of widely varying experience. Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not view the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list. Webinar: Gaming at the Library on a Shoestring Budget Date: January 14, 2009 Time: 12pm - 1pm Speaker: Fred Baerkicher -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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