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Infopeople Webinar
Basic Graphic Design for Library
Staff: Quick and Easy Solutions
Date & Time: Wednesday,
December 12, 2012
Start
Time: Pacific - 12 PM, Mountain - 1 PM,
Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM
Description:
· Have you been asked to create your library’s flyers and feel all at sea?
· Are the ones you have created being ignored?
· Are you still finding grammar and spelling errors and leaving important
things out?
· Are you really seeing what your customers see?
· Looking for quick and easy ways to improve your graphic design?
For the past 20 years personal computers
have allowed us to create publications of all kinds easily without requiring a
basic understanding of graphic design. While the results have sometimes been
less than successful, there are some quick and simple solutions to making them
more attractive and effective.
During this webinar, attendees will learn
how use shapes, manipulate images, and work with text and fonts to enhance
their basic desktop publishing efforts. We’ll also work together on redesigning
examples of library signs to make each more customer friendly.
At the end of this one-hour webinar,
participants will know:
· The 3 basic elements of graphic design and how they work together.
· The 7 pieces of information that should be on every library publication.
· How to make publications readable and error free.
· How to find and use type fonts effectively.
· How to find, move and manipulate images.
· The relationship between good graphic design and great customer service.
This webinar will be of interest to library
staff at all levels tasked with creating promotional materials, designing and
producing flyers, brochures, publicity items, and providing input on their
library’s website.
Registration:
Webinars are free of charge; you can pre-register by
clicking on the Join Webinar button now or go directly to the webinar by
clicking on Join Webinar on the day of the event on the Adobe Connect server. If
you pre-registered you can use your email address to speed up entry to the
webinar. If you did not preregister at the time of the webinar.
WebJunction Webinars
Outreach Programs in Rural
Communities: Simple Steps for Surprising Results
Date & Time: Thursday, December 6, 2012 2:00 pm
Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Description: The
PEARL (Promoting and Enhancing the Advancement of Rural
Libraries) Project has been successful in helping Texas rural librarians reach
out to groups and organizations in their communities and to raise visibility of
and appreciation for their libraries. Community outreach plans, designed to identify
and fill a need in the community, are at the heart of this unique model. The
process is supported by an actionable template which leads participants from
community assessment, through strategic planning, to implementation, and
concludes with evaluating outcomes. This webinar, co-sponsored with WebJunction
and the Association for Rural & Small Libraries, will explore the outstanding results achieved by
participants in the PEARL project and share how community outreach plans have
led to unexpected outcomes and some surprising results.
Presenters: Barbara
Blake, Outreach Coordinator for the PEARL
Project, University of North Texas; and Louise W. Greene, Association for
Rural and Small Libraries, Board Member, and PEARL Mentor.
What Would Walt Do?: Quality Customer
Service for Libraries
Date & Time: Wednesday, December 12, 2012. 1:00 pm
Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Description: Looking
for some magic to improve customer service in your library? The Disney Institute on Quality Service has set high standards for creating a
quality customer experience and their ideas can be applied at your library. Our
panel of Colorado librarians attended the Disney Institute Quality Service
preconference sponsored by ALA's LearnRT at the annual conference in Anaheim in
2012. Since then, they’ve been waving their magic wands to improve customer
service in Colorado libraries and they’d like to share their discoveries with
you. Learn how to define quality service, set a common purpose for all library
staff, and better understand your customers. You’ll walk away with ideas to
make your library’s customer service sparkle.
This WebJunction webinar is presented in collaboration with ALA's LearnRT. Did you attend the Disney Institute? Join this
conversation and share your ideas and successes.
Presenters: Crystal
Schimpf, Program Manager, Community Technology
Network; Elena Rosenfeld, Associate Director of Public Service, High
Plains Library District; and Suzanne McGowan, Branch Manager, Anythink
Wright Farms.
TechSoup Webinar
Tech-Savvy Staff: Better Service for
Library Users
Date & Time: Tuesday, December 4, 2012
02:00 PM EST
Description: Would you like to help staff gain the tech
skills they need in order to effectively assist patrons?
Join our webinar on Tuesday, December
4 at 11 a.m. Pacific time to find out how one library succeeded with this
challenging staff development goal.
Penny Talbert, Executive Director of
the Ephrata Public Library (PA), realized that the library staff needed to have
strong technology skills and created a program to help them achieve competency,
"Long gone is the card catalog and simple reference questions. We are now
living in a technological world. When people visit the library, their questions
often deal with computers and we have to be ready to serve them.
As resources and technologies change,
we have to be on the cutting edge - to help patrons with basic computer
questions as well as those that are working on more complex projects. This is
our job as a library. We must provide excellent service in order to receive
excellent support." See the Ephrata Public Library Library
competency training.
On December 4, join special guests
Penny Talbert and Stephanie Zimmerman to learn more about the Ephrata Public
Library's successful competency training. Penny and Stephanie are both
passionate believers in the importance of supporting learning in the context of
new technological developments. Get ready to be inspired!
This webinar is part of a series of
webinars exploring the Edge Initiative Benchmarks. This webinar is based on
Benchmark 11, which includes the attribute, "Libraries have sufficient
staff with technology expertise to help patrons achieve their goals."
Presenters:
Penny Talbert is the Executive Director at the Ephrata Public Library. She's developed the course
"Community Librarianship" for Rutgers University and was an Adjunct
Instructor at Reading Area Community College teaching Internet Research Strategies.
Her true passion is transliteracy and raising the bar for public libraries
everywhere! More information about Penny can be found at www.pennytalbert.com
Stephanie Zimmerman is the Training & Development
Coordinator for the Library System of Lancaster County. She loves helping people to become
the best version of themselves. Removing one’s fears through learning about the
amazing possibilities in life is her goal. She has a passion for emerging
technologies and blogs at http://lslctraining.blogspot.com
Brenda Hough, She has been a librarian for more
than 15 years. She has delivered training and education for the Northeast
Kansas Library System, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WebJunction, the
Public Library Association, Emporia State University, UIUC's Certified Public
Library Administrator program, and more. When she's not thinking about
libraries and learning, she's spending time with her husband and two year old
son at their home in Lawrence, Kansas.
Florida Library Association Continuing Education
CommitteeWebinar
Beyond SpringShare: Embedding
Additional Technology into Your LibGuides
Date & Time: December
7, 2012. 11:00am
Description: LibGuides have become a hot word in the LIS
field with more and more libraries exploring the versatility of this fairly
inexpensive product. At Daytona State College, we’re working on creating
aesthetically pleasing, informative, and interactive guides by using the tools
provided by SpringShare, as well as additional free/cheap web based
technologies. Examples of some of these tools include: BeeTagg, Gimp, Google
Apps, Jing, Poll Everywhere, Pinterest, Popplet, Prezi, SlideShare, Survey
Monkey, QR codes, and YouTube. Cheryl Kohen, Emerging Technology Librarian at
Daytona State College will briefly demo all of these tools and discuss how they
can be effectively utilized in LibGuides.
Presenter: Cheryl Kohen, she is currently the Emerging
Technology Librarian at Daytona State College, where she blends traditional
librarianship with information technology services. She graduated from both the
Simmons College undergraduate program as a double major in English and
Philosophy, as well as receiving her master's degree from the Simmons College
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She reviews career,
philosophy, and new technology resources for the publication "Choice
Review." Follow her on Twitter @cherylkohen and find her on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherylkohen.
This webinar will be presented online
via SEFLIN Connect. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week
before the event.
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