السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته،
السادة زوار المدونة الكرام، أقدم لكم اليوم مجموعة جديدة من الندوات المهنية المتخصصة في مجال المكتبات والمعلومات والتى يتم عقدها وبثها عبر شبكة الإنترنت مجاناً، وفيما يلي عرضاً مفصلاً لها.
قاعة اليسير للتعليم عن بُعد
"مبادرة الإطار الببليوجرافي في فهارس
المكتبات"
التاريخ
والوقت: السبت 7 فبراير 2015. 8
مساء بتوقيت القاهرة، 9 مساء بتوقيت مكة المكرمة، 10 مساء بتوقيت الإمارات.
المحاضر: أ/ مؤمن النشرتي، مدرس
مساعد بقسم المكتبات والمعلومات - جامعة القاهرة.
رابط
المحاضرة: http://www.anymeeting.com/ganbah1.
على أن يتم فتح القاعة قبل وقت المحاضرة المعلن بإذن الله تعالى بعشر دقائق.
"المكتبة الإلكترونية وتحديث العلمية التعليمية والتربوية"
التاريخ والوقت: السبت 14 فبراير 2015. 8 مساء بتوقيت القاهرة، 9 مساء بتوقيت مكة المكرمة، 10 مساء بتوقيت الإمارات.
المحاضر: د/ لطيفة على الكيمشي. أستاذ مساعد بجامعة طرابلس بليبيا
WebJunction
Webinars
“Key Elements of a Project Plan”
Date & Time: 5 February 2015. 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
North America [UTC -5]
Presenters:
- Robert Horton, Associate deputy
director, IMLS
- Sarah Fuller, Program specialist, IMLS
Description: Part
1 of Project Management 101:
Planning Your Project webinar series
focused on the key elements of a project plan, produced by the Coalition to
Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries, and Museums.
This session will describe how careful planning
leads to more successful projects. We will cover how to develop an idea, define
your audience, look at funding options, do an environmental scan, assess your
resource capacity and needs, and develop a project scope and schedule for
implementation. Attendees will be invited to use the two weeks between webinars
to outline a project idea based on these key principles. Submitted project
plans will be reviewed by webinar moderators with individual feedback provided
for each submission.
“Evaluating Your Project Plan”
Date & Time: 19 February 2015. 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
North America [UTC -5]
Presenters:
- Robert Horton, Associate deputy
director, IMLS
- Sarah Fuller, Program specialist, IMLS
Description: Part 2 of Project Management
101: Planning Your Project webinar series focused on project plan
evaluation, produced by the Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives,
Libraries, and Museums.
In this highly interactive second session, we will use
sample project ideas and case studies to look at how we can
assess the strength of a project plan before it is implemented. We will also
discuss other project management resources and where to learn more about the topic.
“The Golden Age of Gaming: Board Games for
Grown-ups”
Date & Time: 26 February 2015. 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
North America [UTC -5]
Presenters: John Pappas, Library Manager at Bucks County Library System; Marti
Fuerst, Librarian at Large, Omaha, Nebraska.
Description: Board
games have social, creative, and educational potential. Schools are using games
and game mechanisms as enrichment activities with application to the Common
Core. It's time that libraries got "on board" as well! Following on
the successful "Board in the Library"
series published on WebJunction, this webinar will provide practical advice on
how to choose the right games for your community, how to set up your own
circulating board game collection—including a quick inexpensive starting
collection—and how to plan board gaming events. Learn more about modern board
games—their rules, mechanics, classifications and themes. Game on!
Infopeople
Webinars
“Sensory-Enhanced Storytimes”
Date & Time: February 11th, 2015. Start
Time: Pacific - 12 Noon, Mountain
- 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM
Description:
* What are the distinguishing elements of a
sensory storytime?
* Have you considered offering a sensory
storytime?
* Do you already offer one and need some
inspiration?
Join Laura Olson and Laura
Baldassari-Hackstaff, youth librarians for Douglas County Libraries in
Colorado, who co-developed and have been offering a sensory storytime for three
years. A sensory storytime is a traditional storytime, with added enhancements
that engage the participants through their senses and thus add to their
enjoyment of the experience.
This webinar will describe the development of
an ongoing sensory storytime, from inception to establishment and growth.
Participants will receive detailed information on how to develop and sustain
this program, including who from their community to contact, what resources
they will need, when to offer their storytime, how to market their storytime,
and why it supports the ALA’s Core Values of Librarianship.
At the end of this one-hour webinar,
participants will:
* Be able to create a step-by-step plan to
develop and implement a sensory storytime program
* Be able to organize the staff, time, budget,
and other resources needed to begin and support a sensory storytime program
* Know the elements of a sensory storytime, and
why it is an important program for their communities
This webinar will be of interest to youth
librarians and staff who offer storytimes.
Webinars are free of charge; you can
pre-register by clicking on the Register Now button (at the
top and bottom of this page). If registering with less than 30 MINUTES
from the start of the webinar you can join directly from the thank you page by
clicking the Join Now button. If you pre-registered
you will receive an email with login link and a reminder email the day before
the event.
* Webinar archive of this event will be
available within 24 hours or sooner
“Introduction to Intellectual Freedom in
Libraries – 2015 Update”
Date & Time: February 17th, 2015. Start
Time: Pacific - 12 Noon, Mountain
- 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM
Description:
* A parent asks you to remove a book from the
shelf because she feels it could harm her children.
* A library user complains that the current
collection of magazines doesn’t include his political viewpoint and too much of
a different one.
* You heard that a library worker in the next
county was reprimanded for a post she put on the library's social media site.
Now you wonder about writing your next posts for your library.
* One public comment on the library's social
media site seems like a slur and another seems like a threat. Should you remove
them?
What do you do?
In this webinar, you will learn techniques to
approach these challenges and others, along with a firm background of
intellectual freedom in libraries, including relevant laws and court cases.
At the end of this one-hour webinar, attendees
will be able to:
* Identify and interpret key ALA documents,
policies, and decisions related to intellectual freedom, both in print and
online
* Identify and understand holdings in key court
cases on intellectual freedom in libraries
* Understand how the law treats different
libraries - academic, school and public.
* Understand the types of speech that are not
protected by the First Amendment, and when to call the police to report child
pornography
* Develop skills for recognizing and strategies
for responding to challenges
This webinar will be of interest to library
staff at all levels in any type of library. It will be particularly beneficial
for those who are relatively new to the library field and who have not had any
formal training in the core values of the profession.
Webinars are free of charge; you can
pre-register by clicking on the Register Now button (at the
top and bottom of this page). If registering with less than 30 MINUTES
from the start of the webinar you can join directly from the thank you page by
clicking the Join Now button. If you pre-registered
you will receive an email with login link and a reminder email the day before
the event.
* Webinar archive of this event will be
available within 24 hours or sooner
“Teen Learning Labs”
Date & Time: February 24th, 2015. Start
Time: Pacific - 12 Noon, Mountain
- 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM
Description:
* Curious about the benefits of community-based
informal learning in the library?
* Want to find some of the best equipment and
software for programming at your library?
* Want to learn more about staffing and
professional development strategies for library learning labs?
Be sure to join us for Teen Learning Labs where
we'll discuss the background, basics, and benefits of user-directed,
project-based programming. You'll hear about successful examples of this
programming in libraries across the U.S.
At the end of this one-hour webinar, attendees
will be able to:
* Identify the prominent themes and core
concepts behind library Learning Labs
* Explain the library's place as a natural site
for community-based informal education
* Identify libraries of all sizes with
successful Learning Labs
* Design strategies for including patron
interest in making and learning
* List the best equipment and software used in
Library Learning labs
* Identify staffing and professional
development strategies
* Identify ways of tracking learning outcomes
This webinar will be of interest to: Public
library staff interested in expanding programs and services to include informal
learning opportunities for staff and library users. It will be of particular
interest to teen services staff.
Webinars are free of charge; you can
pre-register by clicking on the Register Now button (at the
top and bottom of this page). If registering with less than 30 MINUTES
from the start of the webinar you can join directly from the thank you page by
clicking the Join Now button. If you pre-registered
you will receive an email with login link and a reminder email the day before
the event.
* Webinar archive of this event will be
available within 24 hours or sooner
“Customizing Library Vendor Tools for Better
Customer Service”
Date & Time: February 26th, 2015. Start
Time: Pacific - 12 Noon, Mountain
- 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM
Description:
* Are you struggling to make several
vendor-hosted tools behave like a cohesive website?
* Frustrated by the lack of customization
available in your vendor tools?
* Do your users get confused by vendor tools
designed for librarians?
There might be an answer!
Using JavaScript, a simple scripting language
that runs in a users browser, you can often make customizations to your
library’s online tools that your vendor could only dream of. In this webinar,
I’ll show you how to improve the usability of vendor tools with JavaScript,
allowing you to tailor the tools to your users’ needs.
PLEASE NOTE: While knowledge of JavaScript or
other scripting languages can be helpful, it’s not required.
At the end of this one-hour webinar,
participants will:
* Understand the limitations of working within
traditional vendor-hosted systems
* Describe the basics of how JavaScript can be
used to alter vendor systems
* Identify common usability problems in vendor
tools
* Create a plan for using JavaScript to make
changes to vendor systems
This webinar will be of interest to public and academic
libraries, technical staff and administrators.
Webinars are free of charge; you can
pre-register by clicking on the Register Now button (at the
top and bottom of this page). If registering with less than 30 MINUTES
from the start of the webinar you can join directly from the thank you page by
clicking the Join Now button. If you pre-registered
you will receive an email with login link and a reminder email the day before
the event.
* Webinar archive of this event will be
available within 24 hours or sooner
OCLC
Webinars
“Introduction to EZproxy hosted service”
Date & Time: Thursday, February 5, 2015. 11:00 am Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Description: Join
Don Hamparian, Senior Product Manager at OCLC, to learn about the EZproxy
hosted service: hear how your library would benefit from the hosted solution,
see how it works, and learn the steps to implement. For institutions that have
EZproxy locally installed, we’ll also review upcoming releases and service
improvements.
“Virtual WorldShare ILL and ILLiad User Group”
Date & Time: Thursday, February 5, 2015. 3:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Description: Join
your resource sharing colleagues to hear updates from OCLC and Atlas Systems
staff on recent and upcoming changes to WorldShare Interlibrary Loan and
ILLiad. Presenters will also share highlights from the ALA Midwinter conference
roundtable discussions about the future of resource sharing/ILL in the next 3-5
years.
“Managing your E-content life cycle: A
WorldShare Management Services overview demonstration”
Date & Time: Thursday, February 12, 2015. 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Description: During
this one-hour overview demonstration, you will see how WorldShare Management
Services:
* Help your library simplify your electronic resources management workflows
* Improve discovery and access of your
library’s e-resources, including e-books, e-journal packages, databases and
open access collections
* Free you from the restrictions of local
hardware and software, and provide more time to focus on serving your users and
community.
“WorldShare Interlibrary Loan: Update and Chat
with the OCLC Team”
Date & Time: Wednesday, February 18, 2015. 1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Description: This
program will include an overview of new features now available in WorldShare
Interlibrary Loan as well as information about plans for future enhancements to
the service.
You will also have an opportunity to chat with members of the
WorldShare Interlibrary Loan team about effective ways to use the new service,
best practices they have observed from users – and any other topics of interest
to you.
“Simplifying acquisitions: A detailed
demonstration in WorldShare Acquisitions”
Date & Time: Wednesday, February 18, 2015. 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Description: During
this one-hour detailed demonstration of WorldShare Management Services, you
will:
* Get a first-hand look at how your library can
save time in your acquisitions workflows
* See how all physical and electronic
acquisitions functions are available from one Web-based interface, eliminating
the need to go back and forth between multiple systems
* Learn how you can access WorldCat, knowledge
base and vendor data easily, as well as leverage the shared work of libraries
and share vendor information.
“Beyond FirstSearch: WorldCat Discovery and
what it means for your library”
Date & Time: Thursday, February 19, 2015. 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Description: WorldCat
Discovery Services will replace OCLC FirstSearch in December 2015. WorldCat
Discovery goes beyond FirstSearch to provide access to 1.8 billion items in
WorldCat and a central index of more than 2,000 e-resource collections plus
mobile views, web visibility and much more. Come see what WorldCat Discovery
Services are, how they work and how you can plan your library’s transition to
WorldCat Discovery.
“Managing your licenses and E-resources: A
detailed demonstration in WorldShare License Manager and WorldCat knowledge
base”
Date & Time: Tuesday, February 24, 2015. 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Description: During
this one-hour detailed demonstration of WorldShare Management Services, you
will learn how WorldShare License Manager brings together the two key features
of electronic resource management: (1) knowledge about licenses that govern
their purchase and use, and (2) knowledge base and linking technology that
connect users to needed content in a single place.
License Manager: You will see
how to reduce the complexity of managing all of your licenses and how you can
eliminate the need to synchronize data across multiple interfaces to manage
license agreements, rights, access and resolution to full text.
WorldCat knowledge base: You will see
how the knowledge base provides comprehensive data about the e-resources of
member libraries, automatically updating records in WorldCat, thus giving
instant access to licensed resources for users. Also, you will see there is no
additional necessary uploading or synchronization of licensed resources with
local catalogs.
Texas
State Library and Archives Commission Webinars
“Flip the Script: Changing the Direction of
Your Library”
Date
& Time: Fri, Feb 6, 2015. 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM SAST
Description: Pottsboro
Public Library Director Dianne Connery reprises her standing-room-only presentation
from the most recent meeting of the Association for Rural & Small Libraries
(ARSL). Learn how their library dramatically changed focus in the last 3
years—from book depository to tech hub, and how they’ve turned outward to build
relationships and try new ideas.
“Start Your Día Right: Celebrating El día de
los niños/El día de los libros at your library”
Date & Time: Tue, Feb 10, 2015. 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM SAST
Description: You
know that it is important to provide multi-lingual literacy programs at the
library, but how do you start your Día the right way? Discover some of the many
ways that El día de los niños/El día de los libros activities and programs can
link children and languages in the public library. Jeanette Larson will walk
participants through the development of various types of activities, many of
which can be incorporated into existing programs, and highlight ways to find
even more ideas and resources. While at the Texas State Library, Jeanette
worked with Día founder, Pat Mora, to develop the first program resources for
libraries and she is the author of El día de los niños/El día de los libros:
Building a Culture of Literacy in Your Community through Día (American Library
Association, 2011). Participating Texas public libraries will receive a copy of
Larson’s book.
“Graphic Novels: A Gateway for Reluctant
Readers”
Date & Time: Thu, Feb 12, 2015. 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM SAST
Description: During
this one hour webinar, Kyla Hunt, a librarian at the Art Institute of Fort
Worth, will talk about how reading graphic novels can help build literacy. She
will discuss how and why various types of comics appeal to different
reader-groups, from wordless picture books for younger kids to manga for teens.
The webinar will include a discussion of program ideas designed to encourage
readers to get excited about the world of comics, and eventually, the world of
reading.
“How to Listen to Your Community 1: Using
Surveys to Gather Data for Needs Assessment and Advocacy”
Date
& Time: Wed, Feb 18, 2015. 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM SAST
Description: Collecting
data on patron use and needs for library and technology services is critical to
providing valuable services to your community. This session discusses how to
efficiently collect data through surveys, and will address planning your survey
to get information you can use, structuring the survey and wording questions,
and how to use the data for strategic planning and advocacy efforts.
“Texas ILL Lending Reimbursement Program
Overview”
Date & Time: Fri, Feb 27, 2015. 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM SAST
Description: Texas
State Library staff will provide information about updated requirements and
procedures for the FY2015 ILL Lending Reimbursement Program. Please contact
Sara Hayes at shayes@tsl.texas.gov for more information.
“How to Listen to Your Community 2: Using
Interviews and Focus Groups to Gather Data for Needs Assessment and Advocacy”
Date
& Time: Wed, Feb 25, 2015. 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM SAST
Description: Interviews
and focus groups provide an opportunity for deeper insight into patron use and
community needs for library and technology services, and can be used alone or
in concert with surveys to help you prioritize future services. This session
will address how to prepare for conducting interviews and focus groups, develop
questions, create an environment for rich responses, and analyze the results.
With some preparation and courage you’ll find engaging with your community this
way to be a uniquely enriching experience!
Carterette Series Webinar
(Georgia Library Association and the Georgia Public Library
Service)
“Got Fandom?: How Mini-Cons Can Transform Libraries
and Communities”
Date & Time: Wednesday, February 25, 2015. 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Presenters: Natalie
Couch and Megan Aarant
Description: Fandoms
and libraries go together like Sherlock and Watson. Megan Aarant and Natalie
Couch from Chattahoochee Valley Libraries in Columbus, GA will share their best
practices on how to tap into the power of fandom to promote multiple literacies
and attract customers by hosting a mini-convention at the library. Learn how
they took a small, teen centric mini-convention called FanFest and expanded it
into an all-ages event that attracted 1,000 customers in just one year. Get
creative content ideas for all budget sizes, learn why libraries play an
important role in fandoms, and discover how a program like this can transform
the image of the library in your customer's eyes.
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