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Webinar: Shine a light on your digital collections

Jen — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:44:06 +0000

With such great turnout for last week’s Digitization & Preservation Symposium, I wanted to be sure folks know about the free upcoming OCLC webinar on September 22, Shine a light on your digital collections.

Michael Scott, Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Coordinator, will discuss how she uses everything from social media to WorldCat.org to increase the visibility of their online collections.

Also hear from Suzanne Butte, OCLC Digital Services Consultant, about how other libraries, museums and archives use a wide variety of ways to increase awareness and promote their digital collections.

Webinar: Creating A Virtual Orientation for New Staff

Jen — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:39:25 +0000

We’re heading into a second week of double-header online WebJunction events and hope to see you there! This week’s Digitization and Preservation Symposium was attended by more than 500 people (!) and included the usual buzz of resource and idea sharing throughout. Be sure to review the archive and the questions and links gleaned from chat.

If you missed the first two sessions in the Libraries and Economic Development Series, you can still register for Tuesday’s final session, Going to Your Customer – Outreach and Strategic Partnerships, to learn how to boost your community’s economic development.

And if you’re involved in training of any sort, the second webinar next week is not to be missed. We have Emerging Leader Group N to thank for recruiting the Baltimore County Public Library Virtual Orientation Project for this webinar.

On Wednesday September 1, 2:00 Eastern, in collaboration with ALA Learning Roundtable we’re pleased to host Creating A Virtual Orientation for New Staff. Orienting new staff quickly to your organization is very important. A virtual orientation could be the key to a timely, comprehensive, standardized introduction to your library system. Discover advantages to implementing a virtual orientation for your workplace. Presenters Jean Mantegna, Sandy Lombardo, and Melissa Hepler have also shared their expertise in a recently published case study. Come join us on Wednesday if you want to hear how they planned, tested and implemented this exciting training project!

Digitization & Preservation Online Symposium

Jen — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:18:46 +0000

We’re gearing up for Wednesday’s special 2-hour Digitization & Preservation Symposium, from 2:00-4:00 pm Eastern and we hope you can join us! The session will feature presentations on current trends and practical approaches to library digitization and preservation projects. One of the presenters unfortunately had to cancel due to a family emergency, but we’ll have plenty of time for the other presentations and extra time for your questions and comments.

Panelists include:

Sarah McHugh, Statewide Projects Librarian, Montana State Library, including Montana Memory Project.
Amy Rudersdorf, Director of the Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina and lecturer at San Jose State University, School of Library & Information Science.
Taylor Surface, Senior Product Manager, Digital Collection Services, OCLC.

Webinar: Prepare and Respond: Partnering with Local Emergency Management

Jen — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:10:36 +0000

Free hour-long webinar on August 3, 2:00 pm Eastern.

Libraries are looking for ways to be better prepared for disaster response and recovery. Join guest presenter Lauren Mandel, research coordinator at the Information Use Management & Policy Institute at Florida State University’s College of Communication and Information, as she introduces a new key service role, Get to Know Your Emergency Operations Center (EOC), to the existing Hurricane Preparedness & Response for Florida Public Libraries Project. The Florida-based project helps libraries throughout the U.S. serve their communities through partnerships with fellow responders (e.g., emergency management, local government and other agencies) and become a safe haven, recovery center, information hub and evacuee resource. Come learn how this project can inform your library’s disaster preparedness plan and how your library can play an important role in community preparedness and recovery by working with your EOC. With updates to service roles and resources since the project’s fall webinar and relevance to any sort of partnership development, you won’t want to miss this session!

WebJunction Calendar Updates

Jen — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:22:58 +0000

As library staff are finding their access to learning inhibited by rising prices and falling budgets, WebJunction is offering more free learning programs and resources than ever before. Join us for these upcoming events!

Tips and Tools for Technology Planning Tuesday, July 20, 2pm Eastern [Note: this event is being hosted by TechSoup, featuring WJ's Kendra Morgan!]
How to Make the Most of WebJunction Thursday, July 29, 2pm Eastern
Prepare and Respond: Partnering with Local Emergency Management Tuesday, August 3, 2pm Eastern
Helping Job Seekers: Using Electronic Tools and Federal Resources Wednesday, August 11, 2-3:30pm Eastern
Digitization & Preservation Symposium Wednesday, August 25, 2:00-4:00pm Eastern
Creating A Virtual Orientation for New Staff (sponsored by ALA Learning RT) Wednesday, September 1, 2pm Eastern
The Rural Library Trustee: Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships (sponsored by ARSL) Tuesday, September 14, 2pm Eastern

And we’ve announced our second Online Conference, Serving the 21st Century Patron, coming December 1 & 2, 2010. Topics will focus on the changing needs, approaches, challenges and opportunities related to customer service in your 21st Century library. Stay tuned for details coming this fall, but in the meantime, mark your calendars for this free 2-day event!

LearnRT Training Showcase Videos from ALA

Jen — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:34:04 +0000

Here’s to Maurice Coleman for providing a virtual update from ALA, especially precious to those of us watching from afar…who knows how he found time to upload the more than 20 videos he captured at the WebJunction-sponsored Learning RoundTable Training Showcase, but thank you Maurice!

Here are some highlights in the video showcase:

Emerging Leader Group M and Group N (including Angela, Natalie and Sonnet), both sponsored by LearnRT, talked about the Staff Day Success Wiki and Webinar Project.
Tom Taylor from WJ-Kansas talked about their successful Ethics for Libraries project.
And of course, WebJunction’s Betha Gutsche!

If you’re not a member of ALA’s Learning Roundtable, this set of videos will surely inspire you to get involved!

And we were pleased to hear that Betha’s session with Sandra Smith went well, all about Building with Competencies. Their slides and resource handout are now available on WebJunction.

Safe travels to all who will be traveling this week!

Webinar: Expanding Your World Through Web Conferencing

Jen — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:10:23 +0000

WebJunction’s Calendar is filling up with webinars! Join us in the coming months to explore everything from the Federal Workforce System to digitization & preservation, and from trustees to orienting new staff virtually.

Next Thursday’s webinar, Expanding Your World Through Web Conferencing, will showcase success stories of library staff who are using web conferencing tools to host virtual conferences, produce e-learning activities, collaborate with remote staff, and host virtual meetings. As budgets tighten and as technologies improve, more and more staff are gathering together both online and blended with face2face settings to learn from each other and to get work done. Come hear about the benefits of meeting virtually and learn how a variety of web conferencing tools are being integrated with other technologies and in other settings to overcome both cost and distance. Join panelists Karen Burns, Cindi Hickey and Jennifer Peterson on Thursday, July 1 at 1:00 pm Eastern, for a session filled with experience and expertise in online engagement!

And speaking of online conferencing, mark your calendars for WebJunction’s second online conference coming December 1 & 2 focused on Serving the 21st Century Patron. See you online!

ALA Learning RT Showcase

Jen — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:43:34 +0000

WebJunction is honored to be a sponsor of the 7th Annual Learning Round Table Showcase on Sunday, June 27, 1:30-3:30pm in the WCC-Ballroom. You won’t want to miss this event! It provides an efficient and informal way to connect with and learn from all the brightest and best trainers in Libraryland, showcasing innovative continuing education, staff development, and training initiatives in all types of libraries and library organizations.

For more Learning RT events at ALA, check out this handy one-pager with all the details. It’s not too late to attend Friday’s preconference, Beyond Face to Face:
New Methods for Staff Training; registration will be taken at the door, complete with member discounts. WebJunction’s own Competencies expert, Betha Gutsche will be presenting on Saturday and you won’t want to miss Monday evening’s ALA Battledecks session featuring WebJunction’s Michael Porter, defending his title. Battledecks is the best in powerpoint improv: Each participant is given 4 minutes to present (unrehearsed) a 12-slide presentation created by someone else. Based on the list of defenders, contenders, judges and all the rest, this event is guaranteed to entertain!

We’re providing additional details for other WebJunction related events at ALA here on BlogJunction. Safe travels to those heading to DC!

Infopeople and TechSoup for Library Webinars

Jen — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:28:12 +0000

While we’re working on booking more summer webinars, I wanted to be sure you know about these two free events being hosted this week by our friends at Infopeople and TechSoup for Libraries:

Creating Inviting Low Cost Teen Spaces
Hosted by Infopeople and presented by Linda Demmers
Wednesday, June 16, 9:00 Eastern

Flip-in’ Out @ the Library
Hosted by TechSoup for Libraries
Thursday, June 17, 2:00 Eastern

TechSoup’s product donation program includes easy-to-use Flip video cameras that allow you to share your library and community stories. Find out how public libraries are using this technology as a tool for making connections, recording library events, and sharing knowledge.

And check out these related resources on WebJunction:

Young Adults & Teens
Library Images: Engage, Inspire and Tell your Story webinar archive
Marketing, including Bilingual Storytime Marketing Video
StoryTubes

And stay tuned to WebJunction Events for more to come this summer!

Webinar: Florida Libraries Re-tooling Frontline Staff

Jen — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:53:22 +0000

Knowing how to find and use e-government resources is critical for patrons who need access to information related to unemployment, food stamps, Medicaid, tax forms, health and housing; and many are asking their public library to help them navigate this information. To meet these new and increased demands on frontline staff, libraries in Florida are collaborating with government agencies and social service organizations to provide the best service possible to patrons. Join us for this webinar on Thursday, June 3, at 1 pm Eastern with representatives of Florida libraries, who will share their strategies used to educate both the public and frontline staff on how to access this information and their experiences building partnerships with other agencies in their communities to respond to workforce development needs. Presenters include Nancy Fredericks, E-Government Librarian, Pasco County Public Library Cooperative; Karen Clinton Brown, Library Program Specialist, State Library and Archives of Florida; Sol M. Hirsch, Library Director and Otto C. Pleil, Reference Librarian from the Alachua County Library District.

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