Aug: Before You Seek a Grant: A Checklist for New Nonprofits (Grantspace)

August 7 (1-2 pm) Mountain

Learn the characteristics of effective nonprofits and assess whether yours is ready for foundation fundraising. This class is designed for new nonprofits or community groups with very little experience in grantseeking. We focus specifically on foundation fundraising.

For more information and to register for this program:  http://grantspace.org/classroom/training-calendar/online

Aug: A Primer on Instructional Design for Library Trainers (Montana State Library)

August 5 (9-10 am) Mountain

Do you provide training and presentations at your library, either formally or informally? You might benefit from learning about instructional design - the specific and strategic methods used to plan, execute, and evaluate training and learning activities. In this session, Jo Flick will introduce library staff who train to some of the most common models for instructional design and demonstrate some take-away strategies that you can use to improve your training activities.

For more information and to register for this program: https://app.mt.gov/cal/html/event?eventCollectionCode=msl

Aug: Preparing to Program (Library Juice Academy)

August 4-29, 2014
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175

Want to learn how to program, but lack the background to understand programming concepts? This class is for you. Preparing to Program won't teach you how to program, but it will teach you think like a programmer and introduce you to basic computing concepts. You will learn some of the traditional conceptual tools that programmers use to plan projects, how to get things done on a command line, basic data and control concepts, and you will write simple programs at the end of the course. This course will provide the foundation for the more rigorous instruction in programming in subsequent courses. This course is followed by Beginning Programming in Python, Part I.

http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/083-preparing-to-program.php

Aug: Security & Depository Access: Juggling Requirements and Restrictions (FDLP)

Wednesday, August 20, 2014 / 2 p.m. Eastern Time

Part 1 of the Series entitled “All about Public Access”
Learning outcomes:  This webinar is for Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) depository coordinators and will cover security issues that impact public access to depository materials. GPO outreach librarians will provide an overview of the most common security concerns encountered and go over the regulations concerning such issues. Multiple security concerns will be addressed, including: underage users in the library, filtering software on computers, and libraries in buildings with limited public access. Practical advice will be provided, so that libraries can conform to the legal requirements and FDLP program regulations.

Expected level of knowledge for participants: beginner knowledge of FDLP

The webinar is free, but registration is required. Upon registering, a confirmation email, which includes instructions for joining the webinar, will be sent to you.

http://www.fdlp.gov/index.php?subid=2824&option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=1580&mailid=376

Nov-Dec: Reference Interview 101 (RUSA)

November 10 - December 19, 2014

Course Objectives and Description
Reference Interview is a comprehensive course focusing on the methods of evaluating reference service, behavioral aspects of reference service, and the different types of questions that can be used to help patrons identify what they need. Using images, audio, and video, this in-depth educational approach covers everything from the approachability of the librarian to how to follow up with a patron. Scheduled chat sessions will model interviewing techniques using sample dialogues.

$130 for RUSA members
$175 for ALA members
$210 for non-ALA members

http://www.ala.org/rusa/development/referenceinterview

Sep-Oct: Reference Interview 101 (RUSA)

September 22 - October 31, 2014

Course Objectives and Description
Reference Interview is a comprehensive course focusing on the methods of evaluating reference service, behavioral aspects of reference service, and the different types of questions that can be used to help patrons identify what they need. Using images, audio, and video, this in-depth educational approach covers everything from the approachability of the librarian to how to follow up with a patron. Scheduled chat sessions will model interviewing techniques using sample dialogues.

$130 for RUSA members
$175 for ALA members
$210 for non-ALA members

http://www.ala.org/rusa/development/referenceinterview

Nov-Dec: Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions (ALCTS)

November 10-December 5

This four-week online course provides an overview of acquiring, providing access to, administering, supporting, and monitoring access to electronic resources. Gives a basic background in electronic resource acquisitions including product trials, licensing, purchasing methods, and pricing models and will provide an overview of the sometimes complex relationships between vendors, publishers, platform providers, and libraries.

$109 ALCTS members; $139 nonmembers

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webcourse/fera/ol_templ

Sep-Oct: Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions (ALCTS)

September 22 – October 17

This four-week online course provides an overview of acquiring, providing access to, administering, supporting, and monitoring access to electronic resources. Gives a basic background in electronic resource acquisitions including product trials, licensing, purchasing methods, and pricing models and will provide an overview of the sometimes complex relationships between vendors, publishers, platform providers, and libraries.

$109 ALCTS members; $139 nonmembers

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webcourse/fera/ol_templ

Oct-Nov: Business Reference 101 (RUSA)

Oct. 27 - Nov. 23, 2014

Course Objectives and Description
Do you wish you felt more confident when faced with a business reference question? Want to demystify SIC and NAICS codes, ROI and 10k's? Then Business Reference 101 is for you! This four-week, Web-based professional development course is designed for academic, special or public librarians and other researchers and library staff who have a basic understanding of some business resources but who do not work with them often enough to build expertise. The course will provide students with a framework for understanding the business reference process as well as an overview of business reference sources specific to each of the course modules (see below). Business Reference 101 participants will also have access to proprietary business reference databases such as Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage, Gale's Business Insights: Global, Morningstar, IBISWord, Plunkett Research Online and ReferenceUSA, among others.

$130 for RUSA members
$175 for ALA members
$210 for non-ALA members

http://www.ala.org/rusa/development/businessreference101

Sep-Oct: Business Reference 101 (RUSA)

Sept. 22 - Oct. 17, 2014

Course Objectives and Description
Do you wish you felt more confident when faced with a business reference question? Want to demystify SIC and NAICS codes, ROI and 10k's? Then Business Reference 101 is for you! This four-week, Web-based professional development course is designed for academic, special or public librarians and other researchers and library staff who have a basic understanding of some business resources but who do not work with them often enough to build expertise. The course will provide students with a framework for understanding the business reference process as well as an overview of business reference sources specific to each of the course modules (see below). Business Reference 101 participants will also have access to proprietary business reference databases such as Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage, Gale's Business Insights: Global, Morningstar, IBISWord, Plunkett Research Online and ReferenceUSA, among others.

$130 for RUSA members
$175 for ALA members
$210 for non-ALA members

http://www.ala.org/rusa/development/businessreference101

Nov-Dec: Fundamentals of Acquisitions (ALCTS)

November 10 – December 5, 2014

Six-week online course that is a basic primer for library acquisitions concepts common to all library material formats. It covers:
•    goals and methods of acquiring monographs and serials in all formats
•    Theoretical foundations and workflows of basic acquisitions functions
•    financial management of library collections budgets
•    relationships among acquisitions librarians, library booksellers, subscription agents, and publishers.
This course provides a broad overview of the operations involved in acquiring materials after the selection decision is made.

$109 ALCTS members; $139 nonmembers

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webcourse/foa/ol_templ

Sep-Oct: Fundamentals of Acquisitions (ALCTS)

September 22 – October 17, 2014

Six-week online course that is a basic primer for library acquisitions concepts common to all library material formats. It covers:
•    goals and methods of acquiring monographs and serials in all formats
•    Theoretical foundations and workflows of basic acquisitions functions
•    financial management of library collections budgets
•    relationships among acquisitions librarians, library booksellers, subscription agents, and publishers.
This course provides a broad overview of the operations involved in acquiring materials after the selection decision is made.

$109 ALCTS members; $139 nonmembers

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webcourse/foa/ol_templ

Sep: Chapter-level Metadata and the Future of eBook Research (Webjunction)

September 4, 2014  /  11am PST

As the world of academic scholarship moves from the page to online, more and more research now happens at the chapter-level. The parsing of content, the need for it to be easily searchable, with accurate and complete results, is paramount to meeting the demands placed by researchers and students. This webinar explores what it means to do research at the chapter-level, the benefits provided to researchers and students, and the challenges faced by libraries in delivering the level and quality of discoverability demanded by patrons. It will also offer a sneak peak at Routledge’s forthcoming online handbooks platform, Routledge Handbooks Online, which will provide chapter-level metadata and abstracting to over 300 handbooks across 20 subjects in the social sciences and humanities.

http://www.sos.wa.gov/library/libraries/training/trainingView.aspx?event=2221&audience=state

Sep: Taming Tech Tools for Libraries (Webjunction)

September 18, 2014 / 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific 

Join this webinar to explore a toolbox of 25+ free tech tools that you can use to help your library better serve patron needs and to work smarter.
With so many new tech tools popping up everywhere, we are all working on a wild frontier of possibilities. But how do you know which tools are worth “taming” to help you provide better library services? In this webinar, tech-tamer Kieran Hixon will unpack a toolbox of 25+ free tech tools that can help your library better engage with patrons and build digital literacy skills. From completing daily tasks to growing advocacy efforts, these web based tools can help you work smarter.

http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/taming-tech-tools-for-libraries.html

Sep: The Internet as Material: Empowering the Next Phase of Connected Hardware Innovation (O'Reilly)

Friday, September 12, 2014 / 10am PST

The emerging IoT space holds enormous potential for positive social, environmental and financial impact if it is built with the most important node at its center: people. In order for the next wave of innovation around connected devices to happen, people must be able to understand the technology, relate it to their lives, and be able to envision and prototype solutions to real-world problems, even when these problems are relevant only for the few. This, in turn, will only happen when the Internet becomes a Material, accessible to non-engineers and non-experts that can grasp and deploy interactions with the Internet in the physical world, as easily as they can with physical materials.

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3104

Responsive Typography: Design for Meaning, Not for Screen Size (O'Reilly)

Wednesday, September 10, 2014 / 10am PST

Responsive Typography is the notion that our type must move and change and adapt just as the rest of our designs do as users shift from device to desktop and beyond. In fact, it may have a bigger impact on readability and usability than any other aspect of design. In this webcast led by Jason Pamental, author of Responsive Typography, we'll talk about:

The '4 Ps' of Responsive Web Type:
    Performance - load what you need, when you need it (and how to manage the process)
    Progression - ensure that all devices get a good design and enhance the experience for devices/browsers that can handle it
    Proportion - one scale doesn't fit all screens and I'll show a more modern scale that can help make designs work better on all devices
    Polish - Great design is details, and type is no different - I'll show how to add refinements like ligatures, fractions, swashes and more, quickly and easily

Combine these ideas and you've got flexible, appropriate, and dare I say fabulous typography for your site that works on virtually every platform and device.

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3144

Aug: Automating Your Infrastructure with Chef (O'Reilly)

Wednesday, August 6, 2014  /  10AM PST

With the explosion of the Internet has come the challenge of building scalable, adaptive systems that can grow or shrink with an organization's needs both technologically and financially. Cloud providers such as EC2, Azure and Rackspce Cloud have dramatically lowered the barrier to dynamically resizing infrastructure on-demand. However, with an increase in the number of systems comes additional complexity; Chef empowers teams to scale their infrastructure in an automated, well-defined and repeatable fashion. You can use Chef to manage Linux, BSD and Windows hosts alongside one another, deploy software automatically, scale using cloud providers, and automate just about all aspects of your infrastructure. In this webcast, learn what Chef can offer your team from provisioning local development environments to deploying software and managing complex infrastructure.

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3147

Aug: Fearless Browser Test Automation (O'Reilly)

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 / 10AM PST

Browser test automation can be intimidating, leaving developers to spend their time manually testing browsers (many times in VMs) or opting to simply not test a range of browsers. Join John-David Dalton as he discusses browser test automation, removes the roadblocks/gotchas, and shows lots of awesome things you can do (code coverage, perf testing, tagging, & more).

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3148

Sep: Strategic Decision Making: Shifting your culture from reactive to proactive (4Good)

Wed, Sep 17 2014, 10:00AM PST

One of the most powerful tools organizations possess is their ability to make effective decisions. When organizations implement well thought out decisions, they are often able to solve critical problems and align their decisions with strategic goals. This level of pro-activity propels organizations toward the fulfillment of their mission, goals, and strategic objectives.

https://4good.org/claudette-rowley/strategic-decision-making-shifting-your-culture-from-reactive-to-proactive

Sep: Developing and Using Effective Interview Questions for Better Hiring (4Good)

Wed, Sep 10 2014  10-11am PST

Ensuring that you have the right person on board in the right position is critical to your organization’s success. Strengthening your interview process with behaviorally based questions can give you important insights about whether an applicant will be a good fit for a particular position and your organization’s culture, resulting in better-informed hiring decisions.

Past behavior is often the best predictor of future behavior, and a behavioral interview requires the candidate to give specific examples in which they exhibited a desired behavior in the past.

This webinar will 1) help you design better interview questions and use those questions effectively during the interview process and 2) provide specific examples of behavior-based interview questions.

Take-aways:
    How to develop behaviorally-based interview questions based on the desired qualities, traits and skill set you are looking for
    The one thing you must do when asking interview questions
    How to probe more deeply into candidates’ responses

https://4good.org/pam-williams-and-marci-moore/developing-and-using-effective-interview-questions-for-better-hiring