Ongoing: Health and Wellness Competencies

Dates:  The Health and Wellness Competencies courses start every Tuesday.  You will receive your login information the morning before your session begins.  After receiving your log-in information, you have access to the course for a period of three months.

Instructor:  Francisca Goldsmith

To register for this course:  Click the link to Online Registration at:
http://infopeople.org/training/health-and-wellness-competencies

Fee:  Free. These mini courses are made possible by funding through the University of California Davis under award No. 06-43-B10584 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce and offered at no charge to participants.

Nearly a fifth of our nation’s GDP is spent on health care – double that of any other nation. The most significant growth in health care spending, according to the Public Health Institute, stems from an increase in the growing burden of chronic diseases linked to modifiable population risk factors such as obesity and stress. Since the devastating effects of such chronic illnesses can often be prevented or controlled by adopting healthy behaviors, health promotion has been identified as holding great potential for reducing health care costs for all. Public and consumer health librarians are essential for linking patrons from all walks of life to quality health information in appropriate formats.

Course Description:

This training consists of six self-paced online modules that will help librarians and library staff gain the knowledge to provide outstanding consumer health services and extend the role of the library with regard to building healthy communities. The modules utilize the Finding Health and Wellness @ the Library: A Consumer Health Toolkit for Library Staff as its textbook, a free resource created through a partnership between the California State Library and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region (NN/LM PSR).

The six online modules address these specific competency areas:

1. Know the Community
2. Know the Health Consumer; Literacy and Health Literacy
3. Knowledge of Subject Matter and Existing Resources; Evaluation
4. Use of Technology for Health Information
5. Ethical and Legal Issues 
6. Communication, Health Reference and Instruction

When you register for the Health and Wellness Competencies you will have access to all the mini-courses in this suite for three months. You may choose to complete as few as one or as many as all six. Each one is graded independently. You may contact the instructor by email at any time during your registration period and receive a response within 24-48 hours.

Unlike most self-paced courses, you have access to an instructor to answer your questions. If you contact the instructor by email at any time during your registration period, you will receive a response within 48 hours.

Time required: To complete this course, you can expect to spend 2 hours per module. You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night.

Who Should Take This Course:  Anyone from the library community with an interest in best practices for providing health information services to the public.

Online Learning Details and System Requirements may be found at:
www.infopeople.org/training/learning_details.html.

May: The MOOC Moment

 

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have become the talk of academe, with many colleges and universities debating whether they should start them or join one of the consortia offering the courses. Inside Higher Ed's recent survey of college and university presidents found that these leaders see MOOCs more as a threat to their business models than as an improvement for academe. Faculty responses range from fear for their jobs, to cynicism, to enthusiasm, to inspiration. MOOCs have prompted poetry, ad hominem attacks, calls for new college songs, multiple opinion pieces and countless comments on the Inside Higher Ed site.

On Thursday, May 30th, at 2 p.m. Eastern, join Inside Higher Ed editors Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman as they review the history, frame the context, and look to the future of MOOCs in a free webinar.

The webinar will consist of a 30-minute presentation and a 30-minute question period. There is no conference call required for this event -- the entire presentation, including audio, is delivered via the web. This event will be captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing by SpeechText Access.

Read up before you join the conversation. Click here to download a free copy of “The MOOC Moment” -- our booklet of forward-looking articles and essays about MOOCs, with enthusiasts and skeptics alike examining curricular and financial issues.
The MOOC Moment booklet and webinar are made possible in part by the generous financial support of Academic Partnerships. Your registration information will be shared with the company.

Ongoing: CORE 2: Subject Area Mini-courses

Course Start: The CORE 2 series of mini-courses start every Tuesday.  You will receive your login information the morning before your session begins.  After receiving your log-in information, you have access to all mini-courses in the CORE 2 series for a period of three months.

Fee:  $25 for those in the California library community and Infopeople Partners, $50 for all others.

To register for this course:  Click the link to Online Registration at: http://infopeople.org/training/core-2-subject-area-mini-courses

CORE 2 is a series of independent, self-paced mini-courses for those who have completed CORE Reference Fundamentals or who want to increase their knowledge of reference resources in various subject areas. Each mini-course includes special vocabulary, interviewing and other communication techniques, basic print materials, and carefully selected online resources. When you register for the series, you may explore any or all of the mini-courses and receive a separate certificate of completion for each one.

Description: The online mini-courses will provide the independent learner with a thorough introduction to special vocabulary and concerns relevant to each subject area. The current subjects are:

• Business resources and job hunting
• Consumer information
• Legal resources
• Medical information
• Genealogy
• Poems, songs, and quotations
• Homework help

You will complete a reading and a quiz and explore free online resources recommended for use in subject-specific reference. The instructor also provides best practices, as well as useful tips and techniques, that can be applied immediately.

Unlike most self-paced courses, you have access to an instructor to answer your questions. If you contact the instructor by email at any time during your registration period, you will receive a response within 48 hours.

Prerequisite: Completion of CORE Reference Fundamentals or an equivalent level of knowledge and experience in provision of reference services.

Time required: You can expect to spend two hours per mini-course. You can work on each at your own pace, at any hour of the day or night.

Who Should Take This CORE 2 Series: Anyone with an interest in subject-specific reference service or collection development.

Online Learning Details and System Requirements may be found at:
http://infopeople.org/learning_details.

Payment: Your invoice will be emailed to the email address of the person who completed the registration.  If that is not the person paying the invoice please forward invoice to the appropriate person. Payment is due within 30 days.  If you have any questions about your invoice or payment please contact Gini Ambrosino at assist@infopeople.org.

May: Handling Challenging Situations: What Do I Do Now? Part 2 of 2

Date:  Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Start Time:          12 Noon Pacific

1PM Mountain

2PM Central

3PM Eastern

For more information and to participate in the Tuesday, May 21, 2013 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/what_do_i_know_part_2

·         Are staff uncomfortable with library users they perceive to be homeless?

·         Are you looking for ways to reach users in need of social services?

·         Is your library a model for others hoping to provide wider services?

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A partnership between the San Francisco Public Library and the local Department of Public Health resulted in the placement of a social worker at the Main Library to link users to housing and social services. Eventually a job-training component was added, providing opportunities to develop marketable skills for people who had been homeless. Meet and hear the story of a library outreach worker who helps herself by helping others.

At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will:

·         Know the basic library behavior guidelines for homeless and mentally ill users

·         Learn about successful outreach and job training opportunities for homeless library users

·         Have strategies for helping people unreceptive to offers of help

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This webinar will be of interest to library front-line staff, primarily in public libraries but useful no matter the setting.

Presenters:  Leah Esguerra and Kathleen Lee

 

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 within 30 of the start of the event. If you pre-registered you will receive an email with login link and a reminder email the day before the event. If you did not preregister and you can register in the 30 minutes prior to the event and directly enter.

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://infopeople.org/training/view/webinar/archived