April 2008
To all the new Librarians out there…
Posted by Jennifer on 30 April, 2008 in Librarians, Uncategorized
To all the recently graduated Librarians out there, congratulations from SOLINET! SOLINET has a new librarian among us in the office too. Charlie Sicignano, a voice many of you may have heard on the SOLINET Member Services Help Desk, will be graduating with a Masters of Library Science from Florida State University this month.
We know [...]
Upcoming classes from Educational Services
Posted by Jennifer on 28 April, 2008 in Educational Services, Technology, Upcoming Classes, Upcoming Classes, Upcoming Classes, Upcoming Classes, Upcoming Classes
Dreamweaver (Live online)
5/28/2008 10:00am-12:00pm EST
Redesigning Work in Libraries (Face-to-Face, Pitt Community College, Greenville, NC)
5/29/2008 9:00am-4:00pm EST
Web 2.0: Social Software Applications for Libraries (Live online)
5/29/2008- 5/30/2008 10:00am-12:00pm EST; 2 day 2 hour class each day.
Congrats! Appalachian State
Posted by Alicia on 28 April, 2008 in Uncategorized
Appalachian State University’s Archives and Records received a $38,100 grant from the North Carolina State Library to digitize 3,120 of their historical photographs. For more on the story, read…
Upcoming Classes from Educational Services
Posted by Max on 21 April, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
Just for Copy Cats (Face-to-Face, Middle Tennessee State University)
5/19 - 5/20/2008, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (two consecutive days)
Book Blitz III (Face-to-Face, Library of Virginia)
5/19 - 5/20/2008, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (two consecutive days)
Advanced Serials Cataloging (Face-to-Face, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa)
5/19 - 5/20/2008, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (two consecutive days)
Hidden Treasures: Rare [...]
Congrats to NEH Grant Recipients in SE
Posted by Alicia on 14 April, 2008 in Preservation
FLORIDA
University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville - $6,000
Project Title: An English Translation of Diogenes Laertius’s Lives of the Philosophers
University of North Florida, Jacksonville - $6,000
Project Title: Delusive and Dangerous? Hume’s Naturalistic Psychology of Religious Belief
GEORGIA
University of Georgia, Athens - $349,600
Project Title: Digitization of Atlas Audio Recordings
Emory University, Atlanta - $349,641
Project Title: The African Origins Portal: [...]
Look Out for These Upcoming Classes
Posted by Max on 14 April, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
Metadata for Digitization and Preservation (Live Online)
5/13/2008, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics (Live Online)
5/14 - 5/16/2008, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (three consecutive days)
Podcasting for Libraries (Live Online)
5/14/2008, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Promoting Library Services Using Blogs and RSS (Live Online)
5/14 - 5/15/2008, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (two consecutive [...]
Upcoming Classes!
Posted by Max on 8 April, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
Arrangement and Description of Manuscript Collections (Face-to-Face, University of Southern Mississippi)
5/5 - 5/6/2008, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
XHTML: The Future of Web Design (Self-Paced)
5/5/2008 (access for three weeks)
Under Construction! Preservation Concerns during Construction and Renovation (Self-Paced)
5/5/2008 (access for three weeks)
Risk Management: Knowing Your Responsibilities (Self-Paced)
5/5/2008 (access for three weeks)
WorldCat Collection Analysis: Practical Scenarios [...]
Spring Schedule is Green All Over
Posted by Max on 1 April, 2008 in Educational Services
Have you received the Educational Services Spring Class Schedule by US Mail? I hope not! We have gone green with our schedule. You can still receive it though - as a PDF, from the Educational Services Home Page, or you can also subscribe to one of our email lists (which includes “workshop-l,”) where you [...]