Thursday, October 18, 2012

RDA for the Non-Cataloger: What’s In It For You?

ALCTS webinar


Date: October 31, 2012

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.

Description: Many libraries will be implementing RDA (Resource Description & Access) early in 2013. What will this mean for technical services and other library staff? How are RDA records different from AACR2 records? This webinar will provide a general overview of the changes in RDA, particularly those affecting staff in technical services and those noticeable in the OPAC. No knowledge of current cataloging standards or MARC required! While this webinar will not teach how to catalog with RDA, it will be a useful foundation for catalogers new to RDA as well as other library staff and administrators.

Who should attend? Technical services staff, public services staff, administrators

Presenter: Lori Robare is Head of the Monographic Cataloging Team at the University of Oregon Libraries. She recently served as Chair of the ALA/ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access and has previously served as chair of the ALA/ALCTS Subject Analysis Committee. She has presented frequently on RDA to both specialized and general audiences

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Single Webinar Registration Fees:  $39 ALCTS Member; $49 Non-member; $39 International; $99 Group (a group of people that will watch it together).
Check the ALCTS Web site for discount pricing for the entire RDA webinar series.

For additional information and access to registrations links, please see the following website:

ALSC Assoc for Library Services to Children webinars

Upcoming webinars

Please note that many of the webinars are offered more than once to accommodate different schedules.  Each registration fee allows the participant to attend one session.  For instance, "Sensory Storytime" is being held four times but the same information will be presented each time.

September

The Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 from 3 - 4 pm Central
Instructor: Dilys Evans, author and artist
Free to ALSC members

October

Every Child Ready to Read: How to Train and Motivate Adults to Foster School Readiness
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 from 11 am - 12:30 pm Central
Instructors: Dorothy Stoltz and Connie Wilson

November 

The Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration
Thursday, November 8, 2012 from 3 - 4 pm Centralific
Instructor: Dilys Evans, author and artist
Free to ALSC members
Every Child Ready to Read: How to Train and Motivate Adults to Foster School Readiness
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 from 6 - 7:30 pm Central
Instructors: Dorothy Stoltz and Connie Wilson

December

Every Child Ready to Read: How to Train and Motivate Adults to Foster School Readiness
Thursday, December 6, 2012 from 11 am - 12:30 pm Central
Instructors: Dorothy Stoltz and Connie Wilson

January

Seeing the World through a Different Lens: International Films for Youth
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 from Noon - 1 pm Central
Instructor: Frances Yates

February

Expanding the Caldecott Experience: Programming with Caldecott Winning and Honor Books
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 from 11 am - Noon Central
Instructor: Gene Nelson, library director and past Caldecott committee member
Free to ALSC members
Seeing the World through a Different Lens: International Films for Youth
Thursday, February 21, 2013 from 11 am - Noon Central
Instructor: Frances Yates

March

Get to Know the Caldecott Winners
Tuesday March 12, 2013 from 5 - 6 pm Central
Instructors: KT Horning and Nick Glass
Seeing the World through a Different Lens: International Films for Youth
Thursday, March 14, 2013 from 4 - 5 pm Central
Instructor: Frances Yates

April

Expanding the Caldecott Experience: Programming with Caldecott Winning and Honor Books
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 from 6 - 7 pm Central
Instructor: Gene Nelson, library director and past Caldecott committee member
Free to ALSC members
Seeing the World through a Different Lens: International Films for Youth
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 from 5 - 6 pm Central
Instructor: Frances Yates

May

Get to Know the Caldecott Winners
Thursday May 16, 2013 from 1 - 2 pm Central
Instructors: KT Horning and Nick Glass

Rethinking Reference Collections



An Infopeople online course, November 6, 2102 to December 10, 2012

Formats for reference resources are evolving and library staff and user expectations are evolving along with them. Are you ready to rethink the purpose and development of your library's reference collection? Rethinking your collection enables you to suggest changes to reference collection development that better reflect the realities of today’s demand and usage. You’ll be able to make decisions about purchases and policies that help build a reference collection for the future.

In this popular course, you will explore:
  • How reference resources are changing
  • Methods for measuring usage of reference resources
  • Weeding guidelines
  • Collection decisions that meet staff and user needs
  • Ways to promote use of reference materials
Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and Infopeople Partners, $150 for all others. 
For a complete course description and to register go to http://infopeople.org/training/rethinking-reference-collections

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Augmenting the Learner Experience & Awaking the Digital Imagination: New media, new pedagogies, and new possibilities

Blended Librarian Community




Thursday, October 11, 2012

Principles of Classification



ALCTS webinar

Date: October 24, 2012
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.

Description: Have you ever wondered why we have library classification systems and how they work? How does one system organize information compared to another?

This webinar will first cover basic, general principles of classification. It will also present the basic structure of the two main systems we use, Library of Congress Classification (LCC) and Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), and will discuss their strengths and weaknesses. It will illustrate some of the main differences between LCC and DDC with practical examples.

Audience: This webinar would be of interest to catalogers and non-catalogers who want a basic introduction to the classification systems and their structure.

Presenter:Lai Ma is a Ph.D. Candidate and Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University-Bloomington, where she also obtained a M.L.S. Lai has taught courses in the area of knowledge organization for more than four years. Her research interests include the interrelationship between information infrastructure and society.

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Registration Fees:  $39 ALCTS Member; $49 Non-member; $39 International;
$99 Group (a group of people that will watch it together).

For additional information and access to registrations links, please go to the following website:

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce@ala.org.

Role of the Professional in Library Technical Services E-Forum



October 16-17, 2012
Hosted by Betsy Appleton, Stephanie Gehring, and Allison Yanos

Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It's free and open to everyone!

Each day, sessions begin and end at:
Pacific: 7am - 3pm
Mountain: 8am - 4pm
Central: 9am - 5pm
Eastern: 10am - 6pm

*Description:*

What constitutes a professional in library technical services, and how do we define what is professional-level work? Do you find that the library/information science degree is the best preparation for high-level technical services tasks and responsibilities? Or maybe your technical services department has decided to shift responsibilities to those who have experience, regardless of whether they have a master's in library science?
For some of you, the job descriptions at your library may have blurred so much that it's difficult to determine what should be done by a professional and what should be done by staff. For those at an academic library, how do faculty/staff designations and expectations (such as tenure) factor into your work as a technical services librarian?

Please join the ALCTS' "Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services" Interest Group for an exciting and informative e-forum on October 16th and 17th to discuss the roles and responsibilities of professionals and staff within technical services. This e-forum will provide participants an opportunity to talk about what you consider appropriate staff and librarian duties, ways of organizing and dividing up responsibilities and workflow, as well as other related topics. Librarians and technical services staff from all types of libraries are invited, and encouraged, to participate.

*Betsy Appleton* is Electronic Resources Librarian for George Mason University Libraries in Fairfax, Virginia. Her professional interests include electronic resources management, licensing electronic resources, streamlining work flows, and training and development. She has presented at the Charleston Conference, and is currently serving as co-vice chair for ALCTS The Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services Interest Group.

*Stephanie Gehring* is Resource Management Coordinator for the University of Houston Libraries in Houston, Texas. Her work experience includes positions in academic and public libraries and library book vendors. Her professional interests include training and development, streamlining work processes, library/vendor relations and library merchandizing. She has presented programs at the Kentucky Library Association and is currently serving as co-vice chair for ALCTS's The Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services Interest Group.

*Allison Yanos* has been the Catalog & Database Maintenance Librarian for Baylor University Libraries in Waco, Texas since 2006. Her professional interests include print and electronic monograph cataloging, training, batch record editing & loading, data quality, and workflow efficiency. She is currently serving as co-chair for ALCTS's The Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services Interest Group

*What is an e-forum?*

An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to participate, but it's free. See a list of upcoming e-forums at: http://bit.ly/upcomingeforum.

*To register:*

Instructions for registration are available at: http://bit.ly/eforuminfo.
Once you have registered for one e-forum, you do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the email list. Participation is free and open to anyone.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Sharing Our Collections : Looking to the Future

LLAMA Webinar

Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 -- 1:30 to 3 p.m. Central time 


Cooperative and consortial resource sharing is blurring the lines between Circulation, Access Services, and Interlibrary Loan as libraries find new ways to share collections and create efficiencies. This webinar will look at the future of consortia: shared e-book collections, floating collections, cloud-based integrated library systems, and the need to be increasingly flexible and collaborative to meet the opportunities and challenges of the future.
Presenters:
Carmit Marcus from Ex Libris will describe what is envisioned for next generation Information Systems and answer some of our questions about them. Carmit will use her experience as one of the developers of the Alma cloud-based ILS to explain how these systems are evolving to keep up with today’s technological advances.
Janet Schneider from the Arapahoe Library District will explain how floating collections in a multi-facility library system allows patrons to shape the collections at their home library. There are advantages to the floating collection concept as well as some challenges and requirements that need to be in place for successful implementation.
Linda Di Biase from the University of Washington will provide an overview of the groundbreaking Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) cooperative e-book purchasing project that the Orbis Cascade Alliance has implemented in collaboration with EBL and YBP. This demand-driven mode allows patron behavior to determine what is collectively owned by the consortia.
At the end of this program: participants will have a better understanding of evolving library systems and innovative approaches to providing user-center library services.
Fees:
LLAMA member: $49
Non-LLAMA member $59
LLAMA group rate (5 or more people at one site) $199
Non-LLAMA group rate (5 or more people at one site) $239
Register online: http://tinyurl.com/3zhtecm
For questions about this webinar or other LLAMA programs, contact Fred Reuland, freuland@ala.org