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Webinars
Learn how technology can transform your training sessions!
Sep 2nd
Using Technology in Library Training with Paul Signorelli
In these two ALA TechSource online workshops, Paul Signorelli provides hands-on, interactive instruction in using current web technology to enhance in-person training sessions or conduct remote training sessions for employees in multiple locations.
Session 1: Using Technology to Enhance In-Person Training
- Incorporating YouTube, Google Docs, and SlideShare into onsite learning
- Making PowerPoint effective and interesting
- Using technology as a tool while focusing on learners
Session 2: Using Technology for Remote Training Sessions
- Using Skype, Google Talk/Yahoo! Messenger, LinkedIn discussion groups, and other tools for learning
- Adapting your onsite skills to provide effective online learning
- Building online communities of learning
And much more!
Sign up today and engage in 90 minutes of discussion and interactive learning that you can’t get anywhere else!
About the Instructor
Paul Signorelli is a writer, trainer, and consultant who explores, uses, writes about, and helps others become familiar with Web 2.0 and smartphone technology to creatively facilitate positive change within organizations. He has participated in the ALA Learning Round Table, and written for ALA Learning blog, American Libraries magazine, and ALA Editions.
About ALA TechSource Workshops
ALA TechSource Workshops are focused, small-group online discussions that give you the opportunity to learn from experts who offer authoritative answers to your questions, as well as to interact with colleagues who have similar concerns. Workshops are recorded and, along with other materials, are made available to attendees for future reference.
Read more and register at ALA Tech Source.
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Jul 15th
This is for those of you in libraries that offer OverDrive digital media for checkout to your patrons. Here at MPOW, I am offering people the ability to come to the main System office to watch the Webinars together in a conference room on a large screen TV. This is helpful for those who don’t have a dedicated computer they can use to join the Webinars. It will also generate some useful discussion before and after the Webinars. These will also count towards continuing education credit hours for anyone who attends. I attended these last year and found them to be very good. This is just another way to make less work for a single trainer and to utilize e-learning.
OverDrive’s Training Month.
September 2010.
Free online courses for library staff, beginner to advanced
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OverDrive’s Training Month is an educational and fun program to increase staff knowledge and help maximize circulation of your OverDrive ‘Virtual Branch’.
Registration is now open. To guarantee the best selection of available dates and times, sign up now.
Sessions will be offered online throughout September with open enrollment for individuals and groups. Contests and prizes are included.
NEW for 2010: In response to participant feedback, audio for Training Month sessions will be provided via speakers/headphones on your computer. A phone connection is NOT required.
The curriculum includes courses covering each aspect of your OverDrive service:
- Collection Checklist
With OverDrive’s collection checklist, you’ll be quickly up to speed with online ordering. Best of all, you’ll learn how to attract users to your Virtual Branch website by creating an exciting and easy to maintain collection. - Browse, Check Out, and Download!
Join us as we demonstrate how to browse, check out, and download titles from a library’s Virtual Branch website. At the end of this course, staff should feel comfortable answering basic questions about your OverDrive service. - Patron Assistance
We’ll help take your understanding of your OverDrive service to the next level so you can share your knowledge through support and training. We’ll review frequently asked questions, support tips, and online help resources. - Community Outreach
In this session, we’ll share creative, easy, and cost-effective ideas for introducing new patrons to your OverDrive service. We’ll also feature prize winners from this year’s ‘Outreach Program’ contest. - Real-Time Reports
We’ll showcase reports which best track circulation, new patrons, site traffic, and popular titles. Your team can then evaluate how your Virtual Branch is doing, and chart a path to future success. - Mobile Update
In this session, you will be introduced to new mobile access options for users. Devices highlighted include iPhone®, BlackBerry®, Android™, and more. We’ll also preview upcoming mobile features.
More than 7,500 librarians participated in Training Month 2009 and four libraries were the lucky winners of OverDrive’s Training Month award packages. Don’t miss out in 2010!
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Jun 9th
Tomorrow, Thursday June 10th, ALA Learning writer Maurice Coleman, along with Nini Beegen, Maryland Online Learning Coordinator, Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Library and Development Services are presenting a web seminar tomorrow at 1 pm eastern time for WebJunction about Building An Online Community In Your State.
Click here to register for this free web seminar.
I hope to see you all tomorrow.
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Jan 13th
Here’s another great webinar from Infopeople:
Date and time: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 12 pm – 1:00 pm Pacific Standard Time
This webinar will last approximately one hour. There is no charge for this webinar. Pre-registration is not required.
For more information and to participate in the January 21 webinar, go here.
Times are tough. Your programming budget (if you still have one) has probably been slashed. Yet customers are relying on the library more than ever for free, quality programs that entertain, challenge and educate them. What’s a busy librarian to do?
TEDx events give libraries a great way to provide top-notch programming to their communities, for free! Using free content from A-list TED conference speakers and a proven program model, you can tailor an event to your community’s needs, whether you’re planning for 15 or 100 people.
By the end of this webinar, attendees will:
-Understand what a TEDx event is
-Be familiar with the application process and basic requirements for hosting a TEDx event
-Know where to go to get started planning a TEDx event
Join presenter Genesis Hansen as she introduces a fantastic programming resource for time- and cash-strapped libraries.
Speaker: Genesis Hansen. Genesis got her MLIS from San Jose State in 2003, and since 2004 has worked at the Newport Beach Public Library. She has been a Reference Librarian, Young Adult Librarian, Web Services Librarian and is currently the Reference and Web Services Coordinator. Genesis is interested in providing customers with the best experience at every point of contact with the library, including designing the website for better usability, improving wayfinding in brick and mortar locations, enhancing collections and developing creative and dynamic programs.
If you are unable to attend the live event, you can access the archived version the day following the webinar. Check the archive listing here.
Webinar: TEDx for Libraries: Dynamic programming for FREE!
Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010
Time: 12pm – 1:00pm Pacific Standard Time
Speaker: Genesis Hansen
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Nov 30th
From InfoPeople:
Title: Staff Day Success! Tips for Planning, Delivering, and Evaluating All-Staff Events
Date and time: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 12 pm – 1:00 pm Pacific Standard Time
This webinar will last approximately one hour. There is no charge for this webinar. Pre-registration is not required.
For more information and to participate in the December 3 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/306/index.html
Are you involved with planning and implementing an all-staff event at your library? Thinking about a staff day and wondering about the next steps? A staff day may be a regularly scheduled opportunity for team building and morale boosting or may be a day specifically scheduled because of a building program, planning process or other shift in strategic directions.
Whatever the goals for the day, it’s a day with high expectations that is often produced on a shoestring budget by those who are not professional event planners. Planning responsibilities may include finding speakers (often at low or no cost), arranging a venue, dealing with room setups and equipment, developing lunch plans, and ultimately creating a valuable learning experience for library staff.
Those attending the webinar will learn about:
A planning process that involves library leadership as well as employees in all parts of the library
- Ideas for creative free or low-cost programs
- The importance of “over-communication” and why branding is part of communication
- How to evaluate and document the event to leave a legacy for future staff day planners
Join presenter Mary Ross – who has planned and implemented numerous all-staff events, as well as library-related conferences, workshops and training-as she shares tips, tricks and strategies for success. You’ll be able to tackle the challenges in planning and delivering an all-staff event, resulting in a day that is valuable to and celebrates the value of all employees.
Speaker: Mary Bucher Ross. Mary Ross has over 25 years of experience working in public libraries and managed the staff training and development program at the Seattle Public Library for eight years. Under contract to the Washington State Library, she designed “Anytime, Anywhere Answers” and “The Virtual Reference Adventure,” online training programs for virtual reference providers. She has also designed courses for WebJunction and LibraryU. She is co-author of Virtual Reference Training: The Complete Guide to Providing Anytime, Anywhere Answers, published by ALA Editions in 2004. Currently continuing education coordinator for the Washington Library Association, she is also on the board of directors of the Continuing Library Education Network and Round Table (CLENERT) and was a delegate to ALA’s 2nd and 3rd Congresses on Professional Education.
If you are unable to attend the live event, you can access the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing at:
http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived
Webinar: Staff Day Success! Tips for Planning, Delivering, and Evaluating All-Staff Events
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009
Time: 12pm – 1:00 pm Pacific Standard Time
Speaker: Mary Bucher Ross
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