Nov: Copyright & Fair Use 101

November 13 from 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST  (10:00 - 11:00 AM Pacific Time)

Anne Gilliland (UNC Chapel Hill) and Christine Fruin (University of Florida) will discuss the legal and historical background for copyright principles, the exceptions to copyright found in the principles of fair use, and an overview of recent legal decisions that inform current day policies and processes for research libraries.

Registration is freely available at http://bit.ly/1fFKVNu

The webinars are sponsored by ASERL, Boston Library Consortium, Greater Western Library Alliance, Triangle Research Libraries Network, and Washington Research Library Consortium.

Please feel free to distribute this information widely to your colleagues.

Oct/Nov: Online Open Forums on Revised Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) invites you to attend one of their free online open forums to learn more about the work of their task force appointed to oversee substantial revisions to the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education that will be completed by June 2014. The Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education, first adopted in 2000, have defined information literacy for librarians, educators, and assessment agencies. The task force is working on a new approach that underscores the critical need for faculty members and librarians to collaborate to effectively address information literacy education that aligns with disciplinary content. While the exact approach is still under discussion, two new elements will be incorporated: threshold concepts and metaliteracy. These two foundational elements should provide the basis for more sustained collaborations with disciplinary faculty and create more aligned teaching and learning communities at the institutional level.

During the online open forum you will learn about the direction the task force is taking with the revisions, the composition of the group, and opportunities for you to provide feedback or ask questions about the process. Due to limited space we ask you to attend as a group under one registration. We encourage you to include stakeholders from across campus including but not limited to librarians, faculty, provosts, academic support services, general education curriculum committees, and members of accrediting agencies.

There is no charge to participate in an online open forum and each lasts one hour. Online open forums will be held:

• Thursday, October 17, 10am Pacific/11amMountain/noon Central/1pm Eastern

• Tuesday, October 29, 8am Pacific/9am Mountain/10amCentral/11am Eastern

• Monday, November 4, 10am Pacific/11amMountain/noon Central/1pm Eastern

Sign up is limited to 300 logins for each event, first-come first-served. Register now! Links to the recorded online open forums will be posted afterwards on the website.

On-Demand: So you’re thinking of upgrading your ILS (CARL)

The second of two of the California Academic and Research Libraries’ (CARL) webinars, “So you’re thinking of upgrading your ILS” that took place yesterday, October 16, has been archived. To view the archived session, please click here, http://tinyurl.com/l2hmx7v. Once you have clicked on the link, you will need to enter your name, email address, screen name and organization. If your organization is not listed on the drop down menu, you can choose any of the organizations listed.

If you would also like to view the first webinar in the series, you can connect to it by clicking on this link, http://tinyurl.com/kr33t6w.

Nov: Cloud Computing: Impact on Library Services

Cloud Computing: Impact on Library Services

An Infopeople Webinar

When

Start:

November 19th, 2013 12:00 PM

End:

1:00 PM

ICal

10 AM, Pacific - 12 Noon, Mountain - 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM

https://infopeople.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=187

• What is Cloud Computing?
• Do you know you’re probably already using the cloud?
• Want to learn how your library will benefit from using cloud services?

Cloud computing has been around for a number of years. It has become more than just a trend but a dynamic service that has changed not only how companies conduct business, but the services they provide to us, the computer user.

In this webinar, we will discuss what Cloud Computing is, how it has changed the way we use the Internet, and how our libraries might benefit from it.

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

• Be able to identify 3 types of cloud computing.
• Know 3 security risks involved with cloud computing.
• Be able to calculate approximate costs of using cloud services.

This webinar will be of interest to staff from all types of libraries interested in benefits and risks of cloud computing, including IT staff, managers, and those making budget decisions.

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.

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Nov: The Evolution of Usage Statistics

SPONSORED BY: Swets and Library Journal

EVENT DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013, 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET

Register now!

The ability to prove library value enables institutions to maximize budget dollars, properly allocate their spend, and improve user satisfaction. We have come a long way in the types and quality of data as well as methods for collecting and analyzing that information. Join our webinar to discuss how metrics have evolved to their current state and what direction we can take with new and alternative metrics in the future. Our panelists will address their methods for measuring library value from the data they choose to evaluate, to the tools they utilize, and how they perform their analysis and utilize it in real practice.The ability to prove library value enables institutions to maximize budget dollars, properly allocate their spend, and improve user satisfaction. We have come a long way in the types and quality of data as well as methods for collecting and analyzing that information. Join our webinar to discuss how metrics have evolved to their current state and what direction we can take with new and alternative metrics in the future. Our panelists will address their methods for measuring library value from the data they choose to evaluate, to the tools they utilize, and how they perform their analysis and utilize it in real practice.

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Nov/Dec: Refresh Your Library’s Website

An Infopeople live, online course, November 5 to December 9, 2013

Do you want to improve your library’s website without doing a complete overhaul? The good news is that small changes can have big impacts.

In the live online meetings during this course, the instructor will demonstrate how to:

• Evaluate your library’s website for basic usability
• Do a content audit and rearrange existing content
• Write website content more effectively and format it for readability
• Choose and prepare images for optimal display
• Identify typography that improves usability

Instructor: Laura Solomon

Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and Infopeople Partners, $150 for all others.

For a complete course description, dates and times for the live meetings, and to register go to https://infopeople.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=139.

Nov: Responsive Web Design (RWD): An Introduction to Building a Single Website for the Desktop, Tablet and Smartphone

Date:  November 13th, 2013

Start Time:          12 Noon Pacific

1PM Mountain

2PM Central

3PM Eastern

·        Are your library customers complaining they can’t read your website on their phones?

·        Wondering how to make your website easily readable on smartphones, tablets, as well as the desktop?

Responsive web design, the ability to craft a web site that adapts into the resolution of the device it is being displayed on, is changing the game for web developers. In this webinar, we’ll look at how responsive design principles can be applied to your web development and enable you to build a single web site that adapts to work on the desktop, tablet, and smartphone environments.

During this webinar, presenter Jason Clark will:

·        Define responsive web design and the major underpinnings of this web development method, notably CSS media queries.

·        Show you toolsets and resources that will help you get started with responsive web design.

·        Work through performance bottlenecks and solutions for optimizing your web site to accommodate this new method.

·        Walkthrough a specific responsive design example and give you the CSS and HTML code to practice on your own.

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

·        Be able to identify and apply the key components of the responsive web design (RWD) method.

·        Build a working RWD prototype using supplied “proof of concept code” from http://www.lib.montana.edu/~jason/files.php.

·        Identify the benefits of the RWD method along with the ways to keep RWD web sites lean and loading quickly.

This webinar will be of interest to all librarians interested in web development trends and techniques.

For more information and to participate in the November 13th webinar, go to https://infopeople.org/civicrm/event/info?id=186&reset=1

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