Training Opportunities at METRO for the Month of August

Webinar: Simple Strategies and Tools for Keeping Up with Tech Trends

When: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm
Location: Online
Presenter: Jason Kucsma, Emerging Technologies Manager, METRO
Register here: http://bit.ly/1bteV9

As the World Wide Web matures, the amount of information we have access to is increasingly overwhelming. And the rapid speed at which technologies change make it even harder to keep up with what’s new, what’s important, and what’s not worth your time and attention. Still, it’s important for librarians to be familiar with changes in technology, because they will inevitably influence our users’ expectations and may have implications on how we adapt to meet those expectations. This webinar will provide you a few simple strategies for keeping up with shifts in technology without having to devote valuable work time that could be used effectively. This webinar will also detail some of the freely available tools to help you implement these strategies.

Using Omeka to Build Digital Collections for Libraries and Archives

When: Friday, August 7, 2009 – 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: METRO, 57 E. 11 St, New York, NY 10003
Presenter: Jeremy Boggs, Creative Lead at Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and Omeka’s Project Manager
Register here: http://bit.ly/rfp5y

Omeka is a free and open source collections based, web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and cultural enthusiasts. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation.

This workshop will introduce Omeka, provide a brief background on developing the software, show examples of different types of websites created with Omeka and teach participants how to use Omeka to build a website for your institution. Topics will include data entry, data migration, using/developing Themes, and using/developing plugins.

By the end of the program, participants will:

• Understand how to install Omeka, and manage content and enter Collections data in Omeka
• Install and modify public themes
• Install and manage plugins

Essential Wiki Master: How to Use, Install, Customize, Extend and Manage Wiki

When: August 11 & August 13, 2009 – 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: METRO, 57 E. 11 St, New York, NY 10003
Presenter: Kwong Bor Ng (Ph.D), Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies of Queens College, CUNY
Register here: http://bit.ly/AsIkD

Wikis have become an almost ubiquitous tool for collaboration among library staff or communication with the communities we serve. Still many of us know little about what’s “under-the-hood” that makes our wikis work. This two-day course will provide participants with valuable experience and knowledge working with server-side technology. If you’re looking to add more skills to your technology toolbox, this course combines lecture and hands-on exercises to deliver a well-rounded skillset that can be applied to more than just installing and maintaining wikis.

By the end of the program, participants will:

• Be able to use advanced formatting techniques to create and edit wiki pages
• Setup and manage a wiki and handle tools like extensions, templates, skins and bots
• Have access to a practice wiki though the internet for 2 weeks

Who should attend and prerequisite skills: System librarians, electronic resources librarians, web masters, digital archivists and others interested in installing and managing Wiki for Collaborative Content Building. Participants should know basic HTML and how to create and maintain a simple web site, but no programming skills required.

Site Visit: Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

When: Wednesday, August 19^th, 2009 – 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Location: Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, 70 Washington Square South, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10012
Presenter: Dr. Michael Nash, head of the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Register here: http://bit.ly/17PtZy

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University form a unique, internationally known center for the study of labor history and progressive politics. Archives, manuscript collections, photographs, books, and pamphlets document the history of labor, socialism, communism, anarchism, and utopian experiments. The collections also include important materials relating to the women’s movement, the cultural left, the history of labor law, and the struggles for civil rights, academic freedom, and civil liberties. The Tamiment Library houses the Archives of Irish America and the records of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

The Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives administers the records of more than 250 national, regional, and local labor organizations. These archives describe the history of organized labor, as well as the impact of immigration, social reform movements, and race relations on the worker and American society.

For questions or assistance with registration, please call 212-228-2320 x10 or write to training@metro.org

NYLA Institute – Web Design: Introduction to CSS

The New York Library Association is pleased to announce the latest Continuing Education opportunity:

Friday, November 13, 2009

10:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Nassau Library System | Uniondale, NY

Why do some websites look amazingly professional while others appear like they were designed in Microsoft Word? Much has changed since the early days of the internet. Whether you want to bring a more modern look to your website or customize a WordPress theme, every detail of the appearance of a page is controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This “hands on” institute will give you experience with key concepts and software tools that will help you begin using CSS with your HTML.

Prerequisite: basic knowledge of HTML

This is a hands-on workshop. Registration is limited to 19 participants to enable each attendee access to a computer workstation.

About the Presenter:

Luke Charde, a freelance web developer and technology trainer, has been involved in the design of scores of websites since the early days of the web. He enjoys helping people learn to use the ever-changing world of technology for better organizational and personal effectiveness. Because of Luke’s background in the educational field, he is adept at communicating technological concepts in an understandable manner and providing the tools and resources to enable continued learning.

Registration Note:
Preregistration is required. Space is limited. Registration is completed when your payment arrives at NYLA. You will be contacted by NYLA only if the workshop is filled. This will be a hands-on workshop.

This full-day workshop is $100 for NYLA members and $130 for non-members.

Promotional flier and registration form (pdf)

Register Online (credit card required)

Directions to the Nassau Library System

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Contact the NYLA Office with questions about this program 1-800-252-6952 Ext. 102

Johanna Geiger
Deputy Director
New York Library Association
6021 State Farm Road
Guilderland, NY 12084
518-432-6952 Ext. 102
events@nyla.org

Webinar: Introduction to Digital Collection Management Systems

When: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Register here:http://bit.ly/19PNw

Selecting and implementing an automated system to manage your institution’s digital collection must be done with consideration. A new digital collection management system is a major investment, one that your library may use for a long time. A system that meets the needs of your digital collection, takes user needs into account, and allows for growth is needed to succeed. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the issues to consider and questions to ask in evaluating digital collection management systems, and we’ll examine some related goals, costs and implementation issues.

By the end of the program, participants will:

• List several key features included in most digital collection management systems
• Detail the digitization tasks usually included and not included in digital collection management systems
• Name 4 commercial and 3 Open Source digital collection management systems
• Identify some questions to ask in the evaluation process

Presenter: Tom Ceresini joined Lyrasis (formerly PALINET) in September 2006.  As Technology Consultant, he works with members and business partners, focusing on software-based solutions and other technology issues, as well as training.  Previously, Tom worked at Siemens Health Services Corporation for 25 years, holding a variety of positions that included Software Engineer and Lead Network Security Analyst.

For questions or assistance with registration please write to training@metro.org or call 212-228-2320 x10

Carol LaRow’s Google Cool Free Tools Workshop, 8-11-2009

[via NYLINE listserv]

SCRLC is proud to announce Carol LaRow’s workshop, Google’s Cool Tools – And They’re Free!, will be presented in Ithaca on Tuesday, August 11, 9:30 am-3:30 pm. The deadline for registrations is July 28, 2009. Discover Google’s free online tools for research and learning, presented by a Google Certified Teacher, including tools for online collaboration and WEB 2.0 networking with colleagues, students, or patrons doing research. You will learn integration ideas especially for teacher librarians; view sample  projects; and explore tools that enhance your library, curriculum, and personal productivity.

Our presenter, Carol LaRow, taught language arts for 33 years. She is a Smithsonian Laureate, a Google Certified Teacher, and received WNYT’s Educator of Excellence Award. Carol is a technology consultant and provides staff development and keynote addresses for faculties and administrators throughout the Northeast. Google recently invited her as one of four teachers to present lesson plans she developed using use Google tools. Google has published them in Google Apps for Educators, K-12.

All workshops in the Summer Camp 2009 series are open to all librarians and library workers (school, public, academic, and special); no approval or authorization is required to attend.  Full information and registration details.

Coming to Ithaca for the session? You, your family, or friends may want to hike waterfall, swim in the lake, try an ethnic food restaurant, or take in a concert or play. To see what’s happening in Ithaca, please go to http://www.visitithaca.com and http://www.ithacaevents.com

Nora Hardy
SCRLC

CONSER’s Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop

[via NYLINE listserv]

Thursday, November 5 & Friday, November 6, 2009
Nylink Office, Albany

Course Description:

This course provides the basic principles of serials cataloging for original and copy cataloging for print and electronic serials. The course focuses on the elements contained in the CONSER core record, including appropriate MARC 21 tagging, as well as problem-solving and decision-making relative to serials cataloging. All materials are based on the CONSER Editing Guide and CONSER Cataloging Manual.

Course topics include:

• Original and copy cataloguing of print serials
• Cataloguing remote access and direct access electronic serials
• Subject analysis and classification of serials
• Trends in serials cataloguing

The course is a two-day workshop combining lecture with exercises and time for questions, answers and discussion.

Audience:

This workshop is designed for beginning serials cataloguers and other library staff.

Instructors:

Marguerite (Maggie) Horn is Library Systems Implementation Specialist at the SUNY Office of Library and Information Services.  She has over 30 years experience as a serials cataloguer and has worked as a trainer for SCCTP (Serials Cataloguing Cooperative Training Program) since inception.

Everett Allgood is Associate Curator, Technical Services and Original Cataloging, New York University Libraries.

For more information and to registeration.

Thank you for your continued support of Nylink training and events,

Deidre Dowling
Education Coordinator
Nylink

Providing Library Services in Times of Disaster: a roundtable discussion

Date and location (choose one):
July 27, 2009, CLRC, Syracuse
July 28, 2009, Mid-York Library System, Utica
Deadline to register is July 21, 2009.

Time:    Noon – 3:00

Presenters:
Syracuse roundtable

• Cristina Pope, SUNY Upstate Medical University
• Kristine Delany, Crouse Hospital
• Angela Thor, Medical Circuit Librarian

Utica roundtable:

• Deborah Hailston, Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare
• Gale Barone, Rome Memorial Hospital
• Wanda Bruchis, Mid-York Library System

Fee: $25 members**; $35 non-members. Lunch will be provided.

Description:  Disasters happen.  Libraries, like other organizations serving the community, strive to continue service in difficult times, often under challenging conditions and may be one of the only institutions open to the public. The goals of this roundtable are to:

• recognize and explore the services libraries can offer to the community in the event of disaster,
• understand the importance of risk assessment for your geographic area,
• discuss the importance of “backup” or cooperative libraries,
• explore the unique role medical libraries play in providing important data to hospitals when systems are down.

Participants will view a recording of the MLA webcast, Survival Tips and Stories: Expanding the Library’s Services in Times of Disaster, originally shown in November 2008.  While the webcast primarily outlines the role of medical libraries in times of disaster, there are important lessons all types of libraries can use when preparing themselves to continue service during times of crisis.  Panelists and participants will share their experiences providing library services during disaster recovery.

Registration

**In order to qualify for the CLRC’s DHP organization rate: you must represent a nonprofit organization, such as an archives, library, historical society, museum or other organization, that holds, collects and makes available historical records (i.e.: local history collections, manuscript and photograph collections, organizational records, etc.); and your organization must be located within the CLRC region of Onondaga, Oneida, Madison and Herkimer counties.

Summer Workshops at WNYLRC

Facebook for Libraries
When: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 10:00am to 12:00pm
Where: WNYLRC Training Center

This presentation demonstrates how Facebook, combined with other social networking tools such as blog software, provide libraries with the opportunity to develop an outreach presence. Librarians from the University at Buffalo Libraries will discuss how to maintain an active online community using customizable Facebook Pages and importing RSS feeds.

Creating Poster Presentations: Simple Tips for Making Your Audience Happy
When: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 9:00am to 4:00pm
Where: WNYLRC Training Center

Need to create a poster presentation for a conference and don’t know where to begin? Or do you feel your posters fall a bit flat and aren’t helping attract the audience you would like? This presentation covers some of the common problems faced by non-designers when creating poster presentations and offers some simple solutions and advice for creating more effective posters and poster presentation sessions. Topics include organizing content, basic layout and design tips, and output options.

Upcoming METRO Webinars

[via: NYLINE listserv]

Information Use and Reuse in the Library: The Creative Commons Solution
When:  Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm
Presenter: Michael Sauers
Register here: http://bit.ly/3kDpQ

With the debate over copyright raging, some are calling for the end of the “all rights reserved” regime, and libraries feeling like they’re caught in the middle. What are the alternatives? Creative Commons (CC) is the most respected alternative available today with its idea of “some rights reserved” as set by the content creators themselves. This presentation will talk about the principles of Creative Commons, show how you can easily apply it to your intellectual property today, and how you and your patrons can use CC to find material that can be legally reused in the creation of new content.

Introduction to Digital Collection Management Systems
When:  Wednesday, July 29, 2009 – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Instructor: Tom Ceresini
Register here: http://bit.ly/19PNw

Selecting and implementing an automated system to manage your institution’s digital collection must be done with consideration. A new digital collection management system is a major investment, one that your library may use for a long time. A system that meets the needs of your digital collection, takes user needs into account, and allows for growth is needed to succeed. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the issues to consider and questions to ask in evaluating digital collection management systems, and we’ll examine some related goals, costs and implementation issues.

Simple Strategies and Tools for Keeping Up with Tech Trends
When:  Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm
Presenter:  Jason Kucsma, Emerging Technologies Manager, METRO
Register here: http://bit.ly/1bteV9

As the World Wide Web matures, the amount of information we have access to is increasingly overwhelming. And the rapid speed at which technologies change make it even harder to keep up with what’s new, what’s important, and what’s not worth your time and attention. Still, it’s important for librarians to be familiar with changes in technology, because they will inevitably influence our users’ expectations and may have implications on how we adapt to meet those expectations. This webinar will provide you a few simple strategies for keeping up with shifts in technology without having to devote valuable work time that could be used effectively. This webinar will also detail some of the freely available tools to help you implement these strategies.

Introduction to Zotero
When:  Friday, July 24, 2009 – 10:00 am to 10:30 am
Presenter:  Jason Kucsma, Emerging Technologies Manager, METRO
Register here: http://bit.ly/s7Wjp

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox browser extension for collecting, managing, citing, and sharing research resources.  Join us for a basic introduction to Zotero and the METRO Zotero workshops.

For questions or assistance with registration, please call 212-228-2320 x10 or write to training@metro.org

WNYLRC announces Digitization Boot Camp II: Paper Series

[via NYLINE listserv]

WNYLRC is happy to announce our follow-up to last year’s digitization series– Digitization Boot Camp II: Paper Series.  This Boot Camp is designed for those people who will be digitizing paper items in the future and those who would like to contribute paper- and text-based material to WNY Legacy, although anyone with an interest in digitization is welcome and will benefit from this series.

The Boot Camp will consist of six workshops, one Q&A session, and a final session where participants will share and discuss the items that they have digitized. All Boot Camp participants will be asked to contribute at least 15 paper- or text-based items or one compound object to WNY Legacy as part of the experience. WNYLRC will reserve 10 seats for participants who would like to take all classes in the series as part of the Boot Camp. Participants who sign up for the series will pay a reduced price of $160.00. That’s a $60.00 savings vs. taking the workshops individually. Participants will receive CE credit for all sessions. Registration for the Boot Camp as a series will be open until August 19, 2009, at which time registration for single sessions will be opened for those who are not able to attend all workshops in the series. Day-long workshops will include lunch and refreshments.

See the schedule for a list of classes in the series and for dates/times.

WNYLRC is happy to announce our follow-up to last year’s digitization series– Digitization Boot Camp II: Paper Series.  This Boot Camp is designed for those people who will be digitizing paper items in the future and those who would like to contribute paper- and text-based material to WNY Legacy, although anyone with an interest in digitization is welcome and will benefit from this series.

The Boot Camp will consist of six workshops, one Q&A session, and a final session where participants will share and discuss the items that they have digitized. All Boot Camp participants will be asked to contribute at least 15 paper- or text-based items or one compound object to WNY Legacy as part of the experience. WNYLRC will reserve 10 seats for participants who would like to take all classes in the series as part of the Boot Camp. Participants who sign up for the series will pay a reduced price of $160.00. That’s a $60.00 savings vs. taking the workshops individually. Participants will receive CE credit for all sessions. Registration for the Boot Camp as a series will be open until August 19, 2009, at which time registration for single sessions will be opened for those who are not able to attend all workshops in the series. Day-long workshops will include lunch and refreshments.

See the schedule below for a list of classes in the series and for dates/times.  For more details and to register, go to www.wnylrc.org and click on Workshop Registration.  Please note that the Digitization Boot Camp will appear at the end of the list because the final session takes place in February 2010.

WNYLRC announces Preservation Institute: Care and Management of Paper and Print Collections

[via: NYLINE listserv]

WNYLRC is proud to announce our upcoming Preservation Institute: Care and Management of Paper and Print Collections.  The 2009/2010 Preservation Institute will acquaint participants with the issues, practices and current scholarship pertaining to the preservation of paper and print collections. Institute participants will work with a variety of preservation practitioners to gain both theoretical and hands-on experience. Participants will attend six sessions, each focusing on a different aspect of paper and print preservation.

For more information and to download the application form for this Institute.

Registration for WNYLRC members will be open on a first come first served basis until July 24, 2009.  After July 24, registration will open for both WNYLRC members and non-members on a first come first served basis until August 14, 2009.  Institute participants will be notified of acceptance into the Institute no later than August 21, 2009.

Laura Osterhout, M.L.S.
Regional Services Librarian
Western New York Library Resources Council
4455 Genesee St./P.O. Box 400
Buffalo, NY  14225
(716) 633-0705 x116
losterhout@wnylrc.org
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Laura Osterhout, M.L.S.

Regional Services Librarian

Western New York Library Resources Council

4455 Genesee St./P.O. Box 400

Buffalo, NY  14225

(716) 633-0705 x116

losterhout@wnylrc.org

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