Apr'15: Taking the Fear out of Digital Migration Projects (Choice/ACRL)

Thurs Apr 16 / 11am-12pm Pacific

http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eabdnkdz186ca0a3&llr=ie6npkcab

Don’t know where to start with digitization projects?  Feeling overwhelmed with the number of projects your library would like to take on for space reclamation?  Working together to help libraries efficiently transition to an e-focused research environment that reclaims space, preserves important materials, and provides the on-demand access to authoritative information that users expect is our mission! Join this webinar to learn how ProQuest is taking the fear out of Digital Migration and Conversion.

Mar'15: Coming to Terms - Behind the New Liblicense Model License (CRL)

Wednesday, March 04, 2015
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm CST

http://www.crl.edu/events/coming-terms-behind-new-liblicense-model-license

Ann Okerson, CRL senior advisor on electronic resources strategy and founder of Liblicense, will discuss the recent rewrite of the Liblicense Model License.  The Liblicense model is a rich source of information and guidance for libraries seeking to license digital resources for faculty, students, and researchers.

Okerson will talk about the work of the development team, and the new issues, questions – and land mines –libraries face in negotiating acquisition of electronic resources today.  She will be joined by other members of the team: Ivy Anderson , Director, Collection Development & Management, California Digital Library; and Tracy Thompson, Executive Director, NELLCO (an international consortium of law libraries).

Jan'15: Connecting Digital Products to Physical Programming (GALE Geek)

Friday, Jan. 16 (9-10 am Mountain)

Amy Calhoun, Virtual Branch Coordinator at Sacramento Public Library, is a guru at connecting outreach with promoting digital resources.  Hear about techniques and successes that include Classics by the Capitol (including this phenomenal video), online book hangouts, library trading cards, and much more!

For more information and to register for this program, visit:  http://solutions.cengage.com/GaleGeek/upcoming-webinars/

Jan'15: Fugitive hunters: Community-based digital collection development of born-digital government information (North Carolina Library Association)

Monday, Jan. 12 (10-11 am Mountain)
Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents ... Fugitive hunters: community-based digital collection development of born-digital government information

“Fugitive” documents – documents not sent automatically to FDLP libraries – have always been a problem for the FDLP community. Libraries have historically dealt with fugitives aggressively and creatively, collectively and individually, in response to the needs of their Designated Communities. However, the scope of the problem in the born-digital era is geometrically greater. This presentation will give context to the "fugitive" issue and the digital present, demonstrating that born-digital community-wide collection development is a logical, rational, responsible, and important part of a document librarian's job. It will help govt information librarians convince their administrations that building collections of born digital government information is the most effective and efficient way that each library can address the information needs of their own communities.

For more information and to register for this program, visit: http://www.nclaonline.org/date-browser

Sept: Grant Writing for Preservation and Access Digitization Projects (FDLP)

Sept. 30, 2014
2 p.m. Eastern Time

The webinar will cover: preparing for your grant proposal, matching your project to the appropriate funding agency, writing an effective grant proposal while avoiding common faults, and understanding the review process.
http://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/training-and-events

Aug: Going Digital (Lyrasis)

August 19 (12-1 pm) Mountain

Join us for a one hour free webinar that briefly introduces the critical components of digital content creation and collection development.

For more information and to register for this program: http://www.lyrasis.org/classes-and-events/Pages/Free-Events.aspx

Jul: Understanding rights for cultural heritage content (Mountain West Digital Library)

Amy Rudersdorf, Assistant Director of Content, Digital Public Library of America

Thursday, July 17, 2014, 11:00 a.m. (MDT)/ 10:00 am. (PDT)
Via Adobe Connect: https://marriott-library.adobeconnect.com/rightsmanagement/

Rudersdorf will provide an overview of rights for cultural heritage content. The presentation will cover the concepts of public domain, creative commons licenses, and orphan works, and will address the implications of take-down requests.

This free, one-hour webinar from a national library leader will provide guidance on assigning rights to digital library collections.
- See more at: http://test.mwdl.org/events/rightsManagement.php#sthash.dTvYunjh.dpuf

Jun: How Practicing Professionals can get Hands-on Experience in Digital Curation (Lyrasis)

June 24 (7-10:30 am Mountain

As the final event in LYRASIS’ NEH-funded Preservation Town Hall series, LYRASIS will be hosting a town hall meeting showcasing three different models for gaining hands-on experience in digital curation. Three speakers, George Coulbourne (The Library of Congress), Andrea Goethals (Harvard University) and Kari Smith (Massachusetts Institute for Technology), will present on different education/training opportunities, followed by an open panel discussion with attendees to discuss existing models, as well as existing needs. 

For more information and to register for this program, visit: http://www.lyrasis.org/classes-and-events/Pages/Free-Events.aspx 

Jun: Mobile Impact 201: Digital Content Strategies for Mobile (TechSoup)

June 5 (12-1 pm Mountain)

Now that your nonprofit has decided to establish a mobile presence, what can you say to engage donors, volunteers, and other constituents? Join us for this free webinar and learn how to harness the huge potential of mobile- how to turn it into a tool for change, instead of just another medium.

For more information and to register for this program, visit: http://www.techsoup.org/community/events-webinars/default 

Jun-Dec: Going Digital (Lyrasis)

A one hour free webinar that briefly introduces the critical components of digital content creation and collection development.

Dates available for the event:

6/19/2014 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST   
7/11/2014 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST   
8/19/2014 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST   
10/8/2014 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST
12/11/2014 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST   

- See more at: http://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=D98C407B-CF82-E311-A6FC-002219586F0D#sthash.FwIl1gyH.dpuf

Jul: Getting Started with Digital Image Collections (Library Juice Academy

Dates: July 7 - August 1, 2014
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175

http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/036-digital-image-collections.php

This course is primarily aimed at librarians who are new to managing special image collections and who wish to learn more about beginning a digitization program. Through readings, individual exercises, and class discussions, students will develop an understanding of the following key components of digitization project planning: evaluation and preparation of resources, building sustainable workflows and storage environments, and usability assessment. In the first part of the course, students will become familiar with current research into the behaviours and attitudes of image-seekers, and they will develop a broad understanding of how different metadata standards for libraries, archives and museums record and present information to the end user. In the following weeks, we will discuss basic steps for creating and preserving digital images, such as choosing an appropriate scanning resolution, file naming, and devising scale-appropriate storage methods. Students will evaluate various strategy and planning documents in order to develop goals for their projects, and will be given examples of workflows that can be customized for their own use. The focus will be on providing access to collections that are being digitized from analogue materials, but will also have applications to born-digital collections.

May-June: Introduction to Digital Curation (University College London)

8 week MOOC May 5-June 30, 2014

Digital curation can be defined as the ongoing management for use of digital material, but it can also be defined as an emerging trans-disciplinary field with no firm boundaries or established best practice. This course is designed to help you start to get to grips with digital curation in both these aspects.

Having completed it, you should be able to:

•     describe how a concern for digital curation has emerged over the recent past
•     explain the main models, ideas and strategies currently used to give shape to digital curation
•     use the vocabulary of digital curation
•     identify the competencies and skills currently deemed necessary for those working in digital curation
•     draw on a number of online resources in order to keep your knowledge up to date
•     participate in the wider digital curation community and the development of practice in this area

https://extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/product?catalog=UCLXIDC

May: Data Publishing with Dataverse (ACRL)

ACRL Numeric and Geospatial Data Services & Digital Curation Interest Group invite you to attend our next webinar: “Data Publishing with Dataverse”

Speaker:

Mercè Crosas, Ph.D., Director of Data Science, The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Harvard University, http://iq.harvard.edu/merce-crosas

Description: 

Over the last decade, our Data Science team at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science has been iteratively developing Dataverse, a data repository framework to facilitate and enhance data sharing, preservation, citation, reuse and analysis. The open source Dataverse software has been installed as a research data repository at multiple institutions worldwide. The Dataverse repository hosted at Harvard University is open to all researchers, and currently has over 53,000 data sets containing 734,000 files. During the last two years, based on user feedback and community practices, we have implemented extensible data publishing workflows and effective ways to link publications to data. In this talk, I'll present what we have learned in the process, and how it has helped us define data publishing.

Date: Thursday, May 22, 2014

Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm CDT

URL: https://acrl.webex.com/acrl/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=661343559