Educational Services
Upcoming classes from SOLINET
Posted by Jennifer on 6 October, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
Self-paced courses. Take the following courses on your own chosen time at your own pace!
Interpreting the MARC record (Self-paced)
Begins 11/03/2008
General cataloging principles and practices (Self-paced)
Begins 11/03/2008
Dreamweaver (Self-paced)
Begins 11/03/2008
Fire safety for cultural institutions (Self-paced)
Begins 11/03/2008
Risk management: knowing your responsibilities (Self-paced)
Begins 11/03/2008
Using the OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing Direct Request service (Self-paced)
Begins 11/03/2008
Designing with styles! (CSS) (Self-paced)
Begins 11/03/2008
Distance [...]
Upcoming classes from SOLINET
Posted by Alicia on 29 September, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
Map cataloging
10/27/2008
Prince William Central Library, Virginia
9:00am-4:00pm EST
Security Alert! How to protect people, property and collections (Live online)
10/27/2008-10/28/2008 2:00pm-4:00pm EST two consecutive days
Cataloging 101 with MARC & AACR2
10/28/2008-10/29/2008 9:00am-4:00pm EST two consecutive days
SOLINET, Atlanta Georgia
Preservation and salvage of audiovisual materials (Live online)
10/28/2008 10:00am-12:00pm EST
OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing basics (Live online)
10/28/2008-10/30/2008 10:00am-12:00pm EST three consecutive days
Latino Cultural [...]
Upcoming classes from SOLINET
Posted by Jennifer on 22 September, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
E-resource Wrangling: An Introduction to ERMS (Live online)
10/21/2008 10:00am-12:00pm EST
Using batch processing, labels, book straps & stickers in OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing (Live online)
10/21/2008, 10:00am-12:00pm EST
Designing learning spaces for your library (Live online)
10/21/2008 2:00pm-4:00pm EST
Basic MARC tagging for books (Live online)
10/21/2008-10/22/2008 2:00pm-4:00pm EST, two consecutive days
Cataloging for non-catalogers (Live online)
10/22/2008, 10:00am-12:00pm EST
Developing and negotiating license [...]
Upcoming SOLINET classes
Posted by Jennifer on 15 September, 2008 in Cataloging, Educational Services, Electronic Databases, Preservation, Upcoming Classes
Designing with Styles (Self-paced)
Designing with Cascading Style Sheets
Class begins 10/13/2008
Practical Approaches to Information Literacy (Live online)
10/14/2008-10/16/2008 10:00am-12:00pm EST three consecutive days
OCLC Connexion Client Copy Cataloging Skills (Live online)
10/14/2008-10/15/2008 2:00pm-4:00pm EST two consecutive days
20 Questions: U.S. Government Information (Live online)
10/14/2008 2:00pm-4:00pm EST
Intermediate Book Repair
10/15/2008-10/16/2008
Hosted at SOLINET, Atlanta Georgia
9:00am-4:00pm EST two consecutive days
20 Questions: History Resources (Live [...]
Upcoming classes from SOLINET
Posted by Jennifer on 1 September, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
Managing Copyright Issues (Self-Paced)
To be completed on your own pace during 09/29/2008 - 11/21/2008
20 Questions: Ready Reference (Live Online)
09/30/2008 10:00am-12:00pm EST
Open Source: Free as in Free (Live Online)
09/30/2008 2:00pm-4:00pm EST
Metadata Standards and Applications
10/01/2008 - 10/02/2008, Face to face class hosted by The Library of Virginia 9:00am-4:00pm both days.
Digital Imaging of Library and Archival Materials
10/02/2008, Face [...]
Wednesday’s word
Posted by Jennifer on 27 August, 2008 in Educational Services, Preservation, Upcoming Classes, wednesday's word
From SOLINET’s Jessica Lemming, wednesday’s word is:
Enclosures. Boxes boxes everywhere. We store everything in a box, including ourselves! There are whole stores dedicated solely to containers. And what do these boxes, containers, enclosures do? They protect us and our stuff from weather, temperature, dirt, they consolidate things, and generally keep stuff out that may cause [...]
SOLINET’s Educational Classes Fall schedule is available
Posted by Jennifer on 22 August, 2008 in Educational Services
We are excited to be introducing 2 new Training Tracks and 14 new Classes this fall! The schedule is now available on our website or pdf please take a moment to review our class offerings.
New Training Tracks
Open Source: Evergreen Software Track
Disaster Prevention and Response Track
New Classes Live Online
Evergreen Guided Tour and [...]
Upcoming classes from SOLINET
Posted by Jennifer on 18 August, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
Fundamentals of Library of Congress Classification
09/16/2008 - 09/17/2008, 8:30am-5:00pm EST two consecutive days
Hosted at SOLINET, Atlanta Ga.
Protective Enclosures for Collections
09/16/2008 - 09/17/2008, 9:00am-5:00pm EST two consecutive days
Hosted at SOLINET,Atlanta Ga.
Introduction to Institutional Repositories (Live Online)
09/16/2008, 10:00am-12:00pm EST
Metadata for Digitization and Preservation (Live Online)
09/17/2008, 10:00am-12:00pm EST
OCLC Connexion Browser Copy Cataloging Skills (Live Online)
09/17/2008 - [...]
Upcoming SOLINET classes
Posted by Jennifer on 11 August, 2008 in Educational Services, Upcoming Classes
Fire Safety for Cultural Institutions (Self-Paced)
Begins 09/08/2008 and is available all month.
Introduction to DDC and WebDewey (Self-Paced)
Begins 09/08/2008 and is available all month.
Audiovisual Preservation on a Shoestring Budget (Self Paced)
Begins 09/08/2008 and is available all month.
Risk Management: Knowing Your Responsibilities (Self-Paced)
Begins 09/08/2008 and is available all month.
Using the OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing Direct Request Service [...]
In a disaster…who’s got your back????
Posted by Jennifer on 11 August, 2008 in Educational Services, Preservation
From SOLINET’s Kara McClurken
I teach a lot of disaster preparedness classes…. And one of the things I teach is that local or regional emergency networks are a great way to share resources (people and supplies) in the event of an emergency. People often call me asking for model mutual aid agreement forms, but there [...]