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Register today for MLA Webinar

Reminder about an MLA Webinar:

this is a reminder to register TODAY for the next MLA Webcast on 2.0 Technologies.
Please excuse cross-postings.

Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the Participatory Web
MLA's Educational Webcast
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
1:00 - 4:30 p.m.

So what exactly is web 2.0? Is it just a marketing buzzword or something with real application potential that I need to learn more about?

The goal of MLA’s spring webcast is to provide participants with the answer to this question and a basic understanding of web 2.0 terminology and concepts. Join your colleagues in a discussion on the effect of the technology on heath sciences library services, and identify the impact of web 2.0 services on health care today and in the future.

Objectives: 

·        understand web 2.0 terminology and concepts
·        recognize web 2.0 technologies and their possible effects in library and health care services
·        recognize feature differences among available tools
·        assess the efficacy of particular web 2.0 technologies for use in our own environments

 

Location:

Thomas Jefferson University, Herbut Auditorium, College Building - lower level, 1025 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19107    (directly across from the Scott Library)

Cost:  $20 MLA/SLA members; $25 Non-members; $15 Students/Retirees/Between Jobs 

 

You may pay by credit card or check.

Register today at the MLA-Phil website. Click on this link and select the Acteva button. http://www.mlaphil.org/wp/category/ce/

Got Questions? Contact:

Sharon Easterby-Gannett at seg@christianacare.org (302-733-1164)
Ellen Justice at ejustice@christianacare.org (302-733-1179)

 

Directions, Parking and Campus Map: <<http://www.jeffersonhospital.org/patient/article4085.html>>

Take advantage of this national continuing education event and earn 3.5 MLA CE contact hours!

 

This sounds pretty interesting.  Don't miss this opportunity if you're free.

 

The Big Juicy Twitter Guide

Caroline Middlebrook has created a guide to Twitter including information on how to use Twitter for business.  Twitter is hard to describe and best understood by using (with your friends/colleagues, of course), however, she does a great job of getting you to see Twitter as a legitimate business tool.

By the way, If you'd like to see what I'm twittering (and what my friends are saying), go here. It'll give you a peek into what we really do on Twitter!

And if you're using Jaiku, but want to follow your friends who are on Twitter, remember that Steven Kaye   wrote directions on how to do that.  (BTW Jaiku has been purchased by Google.)

Book: The LinkedIn Personal Trainer

Steven Tylock trains people on how to use LinkedIn and has written a book called The LinkedIn Personal Trainer.  88 pages in length, the book helps people use LinkedIn more effectively.

mmm...isn't it interesting that every new tool requires a manual?  Yes, we'll jump in and learn by doing, but we also need to hear tips and techniques from someone else...even with these tools that are meant to be learned and used socially.  Thankfully, Steve has provided a manual on LinkedIn.

And...yes...some of your fellow division member are on LinkedIn (like me)!  If you haven't jumped in, why not give it a try?!  And it you need a how-to, check out Steve's book and other resources like LinkedIntelligence.com.

Philadelphia SLA's Tech-Topics Series

I just received this email and thought those of you in the Philadelphia area might be interested:

SAVE THESE DATES!

SHAKE UP YOUR THINKING
WITH THE PHILADELPHIA SLA’S TECH-TOPICS SERIES

The TechTopics Series will be comprised of three evening workshops concentrating on new technologies and tools, and are designed for anyone who is interested in keeping their skill sets up-to-date.

These “hands-on” workshops will provide you with an overview of new technologies such as wikis, blogs and other online office applications, and show you how to apply these key learnings to your organization!

These evening sessions are specifically designed for the busy information professional.  For a nominal registration fee of $15.00 ($25.00 for non-members), you will receive interactive training in an open-learning setting designed to answer your questions on how to apply these best practices to your own work environment!  Food and refreshments are included!

All workshops will be held in the evening in Room 116 at the Korman Computing Center on the campus of Drexel University, in Philadelphia, PA.  If you are unable to attend in person, please bear in mind we plan to deliver these sessions via web-based simulcast as well!!!

Planned Sessions:

Registration will be from 5:00 - 5:30 pm for each session…

Tuesday, September 18^th, 2007  --- 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
The 2.0 Office: More Than Just Wikis & Blogs
Instructor:  Nicole Engard

Tuesday, October 9^th, 2007  --- 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
“Plug-in” to Firefox!
Instructor:  Chris Curry

AND, in November 2007…
Second Life
Instructor:  Tim Siftar

SAVE THESE DATES!

Information on registration and more details on the September session -- coming soon! 

New Kid on the Blog

I made good on the promise I made to Stacey Greenwell at SLA in Denver --- I would join the IT Division when I got back home, as a result of the great hospitality I received from the group at the conference.  I'm looking forward to contributing to the blogging section.  To be honest, I'm a little intimidated by the impressive posts and high-powered IT people.  I'll need my training wheels on for a little bit, but I hope to be up to speed and posting like a pro in no time.

For starters, I wanted to share this site about Library Related Conferences.  When I originally composed my thoughts for this post, this site was 2nd on the del.icio.us Hotlist.  Obviously, I'm not the only librarian who saw it.  There is a good amount of conferences of IT interest.  The schedule has events listed all the way to 2015, for those of you who like to plan ahead.

Writing for the Library Profession

Sirsi is having a webinar in July with a focus on publishing for library professionals.  I've been very pleased with previous SirsiDynix Institutes, so if you're interested in learning about publishing for your profession, make the time to attend.

Writing for the Library Profession
Date : Jul 10, 2007
Start Time : 11 a.m. Eastern
Length : 01:00:00

Do you want to inform and influence your colleagues?  Do you have a story to tell?  Have you done something innovative that delighted your users?  We don't have a paucity of ideas and innovation in libraryland, we do have a problem with diffusion.   We need to share our ideas and experiences more.   From blog postings, to periodical and newsletter articles to website content and even to books library staff are increasingly being asked to write.  With the dynamic and rapid change happening in our sector, we have an increasing obligation to share our knowledge and experiences.  It's an exciting time to be in libraries.

Registration is free - but you do have to register in order to attend.

Free webinar on podcasting

The SirsiDynix Institute is offering a free webinar on June 5th entitled "What's New in Podcasting?" The presenter is David Free of the Decatur Campus Library, Georgia Perimeter College. The webinar is taking place from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Eastern time.

You can register online. If you are going to miss this webinar because, like me, you will be in Denver at the Annual Conference, SirsiDynix usually puts the presentation online in its archives at a later date.

Workshops at the SLA Annual Conference

Looking for a list of the continuing education opportunities at the Annual Conference?  Want a list you can easily share with non-SLA colleagues (and perhaps interest them in attending a workshop)? 

All of the Click U Live! workshops that are being held at the Annual Conferences are listed on the Click U Live! web site.  A longer list of workshops can be generated using the Conference Planner online (and you can sign in as a guest).  Browse by "Event Type", then by "CE Session" to see the list of workshops.  The Conference Planner provides a brief overview of each workshop and information on the instructors.

How do you share educational materials

The Rochester Regional Library Council (RRLC) has mounted handouts from workshops given at the Council on their web site.  This is an interesting way of making the workshop content available to more people, even though all you are seeing are the handouts. 

Does your library consortium do something similar?  If yes, is it useful?  Or does your organization do something like this (or even a wiki) as a way of sharing what people are learning?

MLA Webcast

The Medical Libraries Association is holding a webcast on November 8, 2006, 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m., central time entitled Moving at the Speed of Byte: Emerging Technologies for Information Management.

The program features blogs, wikis, podcasting and Web 2.0. Early bird fee until October 13, 2006 is $75 for members, $150 for non-members.

Social tagging in corporations roundtable

The Montague Institute will hold a roundtable discussion on social tagging in corporation on October 6, 2006 from 1-4pm. Jim Smallwood and Laurie Damianos will discuss the Onomi project, a 6-month pilot project to find out whether social bookmarking would be useful in a corporate environment. To note, the given URL also contains information about a morning session about Sharepoint and Google.

You can attend the roundtable in person, at the MITRE Corporation in McLean Virginia or by teleconference. Fee is $400 for members of the Society of Knowledge Base Publishers and $650 for non-members.

OPAL Program on Teens using Social Software

While this may not pertain to many of us, I think it's helpful to get the word out on this program--especially to those who may have teens in the house using social tools.

From the OPAL website:

Wednesday, July 26, 2006 beginning at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 10:00 Central, 9:00 Mountain, 8:00 Pacific, and 3:00 p.m. GMT:
The Internet and Teens: Social Networking Safety
How many times have you heard a young person talk about "blogging" or "myspace" and wondered what language they were speaking? If you've ever been concerned about the amount of time that your child spends on the Internet, or wondered what they were doing, this program will help you to understand more about blogging, what role it plays in the lives of teens especially, and how you can help them to use this communication tool in a safe and positive environment.

SirsiDynix Institute free wiki webinar

SirsiDynix Institute will be offering on Thursday July 13, 2006 a free webinar entitled Wiki: The Ultimate Tool for Online Collaboration, presented by Meredith Farkas.

What is a wiki? And how are they being used in libraries? Are they right for your library and if so how do you implement? These questions and more will be answered in the upcoming SirsiDynix Institute, July 13, 9 a.m. Mountain Time. There is a lot of buzz around wikis and Meredith Farkas, distance learning librarian at Norwich University, will discuss what makes Wikis so revolutionary and controversial. She will explain why they are an excellent tool for certain projects and purposes, and why they may not be the best choice for every population.

The session will take place from 11 AM to 12 AM Eastern time. For more information and to register:

http://livemeeting.viewcentral.com/events/cust/single_event.aspx?cid=SirsiDynix&pid=2&cbClass=17

Podcast workshop

The Metropolitan New York Library Council Program is holding an online workshop titled Podcasts as Library Resources on Monday, February 27, 2006 (3:30PM to 5:00PM).

Description:
Podcasting is a rapidly growing form of communication and information delivery in both business and academia. The number of podcast listeners using iTunes alone grew from one million in July 2005 to six million in August 2005. This webinar will present a basic introduction to podcasts and show how they can be useful research and reference tools in libraries. Instruction will outline and share techniques for seeking out existing resource podcasts, including those distributed by RSS feeds.

Objectives:

• Learn to understand podcasting basics.
• Review the history of podcasting and assess how it is being used in libraries today.
• Identify applications for podcasting in various types of libraries.
• Set strategies to identify podcasts for reference services.

Presenter:
Kathryn Shaughnessy is an instructional services librarian at St. John's University in Queens. She has taught in a variety of institutions and libraries representing business, government, and academic organizations. She specializes in innovations in instructional technologies and in the promotion of information-literacy and information-ethics.

You can register online. Registration fee is $40 for members; $75 nonmembers.

Podcasting intro

Want to know more about podcasting? On December 7, Greg Schwartz of Open  Stacks gave an online seminar on the subject on OPAL. It will be available on the OPAL archives soon. Meanwhile, check out their other programing.