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Upcoming Educational Opportunities
Posted by Max on 18 March, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
Managing Copyright Issues (Self-Paced)
4/15/2008 - 6/6/2008 (16 lessons over 8 weeks)
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Practical Approaches to Information Literacy (Live Online)
4/15/2008 - 4/18/2008, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Web 2.0: Social Software Applications for Libraries (Live Online)
4/15/2008 - 4/16/2008, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Love and Forgiveness
Posted by Max on 18 March, 2008 in ALA, Awards
The ALA Public Programs Office is pleased to invite public library applications for Let’s Talk About It: Love and Forgiveness programming grants.
Participating Libraries will promote and present a five-part literary discussion series led by a local scholar and based on one of three themes. Successful applicants will receive training for the library project director at [...]
Get Ready for Teen Tech Week!
Posted by Max on 3 March, 2008 in ALA
What have you got planned to celebrate Teen Tech Week (March 3-7, 2008)? Here are 25 Self-Directed Tech Activities from YALSA. Share what your library is doing!
Learn more about Copyright!
Posted by Max on 27 February, 2008 in Library News
COPYRIGHT: Are you stuck on your next move? Join the Center for Intellectual Property, a trusted source of accessible professional development programming, and learn how to create a winning strategy for managing your creations and the use of third party copyrighted works. Sit down with noted scholars and practitioners exploring the relationship between the U.S. [...]
Upcoming Learning Opportunities
Posted by Max on 25 February, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
Click on the title of a class to find out more information and pricing.
E-Resource Wrangling: An Introduction to ERMS (Live Online)
3/25/2008, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Podcasting for Libraries (Live Online)
3/26/2008, 20:00 am - 12:00 pm
Introduction to Grants for Preservation (Live Online)
3/26/2008, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Web 2.0: Social Software Applications for Libraries (Face-to-Face, Tampa Bay [...]
Very Green Things
Posted by Max on 22 February, 2008 in Library News, Upcoming Classes
SOLINET is going green. We have already taken steps to be more environmentally friendly, like:
discontinuing our print schedule of classes
offering more classes online so no one has to travel and cause more pollution
cutting back drastically on the amount of paper we use for handouts
eliminating print class evaluation forms (electronic evaluation [...]
How Has the Library Improved Your Health?
Posted by Max on 22 February, 2008 in ALA
Where is a great place to go to find reliable and accurate information about your health? The answer is @ your library.
From now until May 11, Woman’s Day magazine, in conjunction with ALA’s Campaign for America’s Libraries, is collecting stories on how its readers have used the library to improve a family member’s or their [...]
Offerings for the Masses
Posted by Max on 20 February, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
Check out these upcoming classes!
Basic MARC Tagging for Books (Live Online)
3/18 - 3/19/2008, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Promoting Library Services Using Blogs and RSS (Live Online)
3/18 - 3/19/2008, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Mammoth Materials: How to Preserve Posters, Maps, and More (Live Online)
3/18/2008, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Management 101: Implementation Issues (Face-to-Face, SOLINET offices [...]
Upcoming Learning Opportunities
Posted by Max on 11 February, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
WorldCat Collection Analysis: Practical Scenarios (Self-Paced)3/10/2008, self-paced so access at your own pace
10 Interactive Information Literacy Teaching Strategies (Live Online)
3/10/2008, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Intermediate Book Repair (Face-to-Face, George Mason University)
3/11 - 3/12/2008, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm (two-day class)
Web 2.0: Social Software Applications for Libraries (Face-to-Face, Nashville Public Library)
3/11/2008, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Cataloging [...]
Siga Adelante!
Posted by Max on 10 February, 2008 in OCLC, WebJunction
Learn about Oklahoma’s successful Siga Adelante (Moving Forward) Program
developed by six Oklahoma public libraries in partnership with their state library and WebJunction.
The six libraries throughout Oklahoma have provided free workshops on family literacy, health, and citizenship to their local Spanish-speaking communities and made all the workshop resources available on WebJunction. Pat Williams, the project [...]