Live Webinars for September 2011

September webinars. Go learn stuff!

FEATURED WEBINAR: Amazon vs. Apple: eBook Platform Debate

Thursday, September 15, 1:00pm EDT.

Joe Wikert (GM and Publisher, O'Reilly Media)
"This will be like shooting fish in a barrel. When I said I'd like to see a debate about Amazon vs. Apple's ebook platforms and said I'd take the Amazon position I never thought I'd find someone who would represent Apple! Shortly after that, Amazon announced their Kindle Cloud Reader initiative. Wow, yet another point for my case! I have loads of respect for Kassia Krozser but she's got her work cut out for her. I'm very much looking forward to the debate as well as addressing questions from the audience."

Kassia Krozser, (proprietress of BookSquare.com)
"Joe may wish he chose the Apple side! I won't deny that Amazon has many strengths, but they also have an amazing weakness: selective vision. The Kindle platform is based on an old, creaky format. Apple gets the web, and it gets the technology, hardware and software, that runs the web...which, we all know, will expand both our ability to read all kinds of books in digital format *and* our definition of a 'book'."


Sept 1. Is Self-Employment for You? (w/Pat Wagner, Library Consultant)

Sept 1.  Securing Windows 7 and Internet Explorer (O'Reilly)

Sept 7.  Jump Start Your Grant Seeking (TechSoup)

Sept 7.  Every Child Ready to Read (Nebraska Library Commission)

Sept 8. Endpoint-Level Security for Your Library (TechSoup)

Sept 12.  Back to School Special: For Media Specialists (Teacher-Librarians Virtual Cafe)

Sept 13.  The New Volunteer Manager's Toolkit (Volunteer Match)

Sept 13.  Games Synchronous Trainers Play (InSync Training)

Sept 14.  Preserving Digital Content (NISO)  $

Sept 15.  Stop Managing Too Much with Too Little (Pattern Research)

Sept 15.  Books for Boys (School Library Journal)

Sept 19.  Social Media for Social Good  (Nonprofit Tech 2.0)

Sept 20.  Using Market Segmentation to Understand What Customers Really Want (TSL)

Sept 21.  Volunteer Programs (Georgia Library Association)

Sept 22.  Scan and Deliver: Creative User-initiated Digitization (OCLC)

Sept 22.  SLJ YA Fall Announcements (School Library Journal) 

Sept 22.  A Primer for New Managers (Webex) 

Sept 26.  Enhancing Storytimes, Displays, and Programs with Math (TSL)

Sept 27.  Planning for the Unexpected: Natural Disaster (Office Depot)

Sept 28.  Become an Expert Google Searcher (O'Reilly)

ALA (American Library Association)  All = $

Sept 13. Roadmap to JPEG 2000
Sept 14. Return on Investment in a Tough Economy
Sept 15. Creating Social Media Policy for Your Library
Sept 20. Extensible Catalog: Empowering Libraries to Experiment and Build
Sept 21. Check-out eReaders: Sacramento Public Did It and You Can Too
Sept 21. Floating Collections
Sept 28. RDA and Cartographic Materials

Booklist

Sept 13. Ready for Romance? New Novels and Hot Trends
Sept 22. Acquisition using Specialized Selection and Analysis Tools
Sept 27. Series Nonfiction: What's New for Fall 2011

Infopeople
Sept 8. Video Book Trailers as a Way to Reel in Readers
Sept 14. Location-based Social Networks

Library Journal

Sept 13.  Mystery Fall Announcements
Sept 14.  Maximizing the Mobile Opportunity
Sept 20.  Digital Preservation that Increased a Library's Value

WebJunction

Sept 20. Innovations from America's Best Small Libraries
Sept 26. Putting the Public Back In Public Libraries
Oct 19.  Innovative Use of Skill-based Volunteers in Public Libraries
Oct 25.  Teaming Up with Teens @ Your Library

Wild Apricot

Sept 7.  Writing for the Web: Today's Best Practices
Sept 7.  How to Captivate and Engage Your Customers with Your Website
Sept 8.  Create an Effective Volunteer Handbook
Sept 15.  Evolve Your Volunteer Program to Include New Roles
Sept 26.  Introduction to Corporate Giving

Ebook Summit.  Full day Online Conference.  Oct 12.  Sponsored by LJ.  $

Book Programs for Babies

Thursday, August 25, 2:00pm EDT.

In those few moments when a baby relaxes and cuddles in your lap as you read them a book, a wonderful thing is happening—babies learn that books contain words, pictures, and stories that interest them.

You can start teaching early literacy skills to babies without them or their grownups even knowing that that’s what you are doing! Whether you are preparing programs for babies in your library or community center, teaching early literacy skills to daycare providers, or providing support to new parents in an outreach program, a few tips can make your work easier and more productive, as well as more fun and effective for the babies and their adults.

Kathy Kirchoefer has ten years' experiences shaking the "sillies" out of library staff at trainings and inspiring others to develop programs for babies and the grown-ups who love them. Kathy is also the author of Babies into Books, self-paced online course from LE@D.

Register

Virtual Presentations: Design and Production Tips

What It Looks Like and Sounds Like: Tweaking Design Elements and Production Values for Virtual Education

Wednesday, August 17, 2:00pm EDT.

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/177298784

Although online education–webinars, YouTube, Blackboard, Moodle, iTunes, podcasts–is relatively new, the foundations for designing effective programs go back decades, and even centuries. What can we learn from radio newscasters, graphic designers, poets, filmmakers, printers, actors, musicians, and painters to improve the look, sound, and feel of our virtual programs?

Even if you don't have training in graphic design and sound engineering, you can improve the effectiveness of your virtual education programs with a few neat tricks.

Topics: Create checklists and agendas, address production issues before, during, and after, apply classic rules of legibility and commercial design to 21st Century presentations, upgrade sound and recording issues, and collect more practical technology tips.

OCLC Events at ALA

Recordings are now available for many of the OCLC meetings held during the American Library Association 2011 Annual Meeting. Please visit the OCLC Web site, choose meetings from the list and click the hotlinks to view the presentations.

2011 American Library Association Conference

New Orleans, LA USA

• Americas Regional Council Member Meeting and OCLC Symposium  [9 streaming video segments, 2 PDF slide presentations]
  The OCLC Americas Regional Council (ARC) met in New Orleans on June 24 at the start of the 2011 ALA Annual Meeting. More than 150 librarians attended in person, and even more participated virtually, to hear updates from the cooperative’s member leadership.  The meeting was followed by the OCLC Symposium on The Infinite Collection: Resources in the Digital Age. 

• Join the Revolution: Library Management at Web Scale  [4 videos, 55 minutes]
  Listen as members of the user community share early experiences with Web-scale Management Services and how moving traditional ILS functions to the Web has positively impacted library services, improved the bottom line, and increased global library visibility and collaboration. 

 

• Data, Devices and Discovery: Bringing it All Together with WorldCat Local  [Streaming video, 1 hour, 7 minutes]
  Listen to how three different universities implemented WorldCat Local and learn from their experiences about what worked and what was challenging. You¹ll hear from Morag Boyd, Head of Special Collections Cataloging at The Ohio State University; Ben Hunter, Head of Cataloging and Collections at the University of Idaho and Elliot Polak, Head of Library Technology at Norwich University. 

 

• End-to-End E-resource Management: How OCLC Makes it Easier  [Streaming video, 46 minutes]
  New OCLC services let you centralize and simplify management of e-resources from selection and purchase to discovery, delivery and ongoing maintenance. Hear how the new, cooperative WorldCat knowledge base features and data help OCLC members connect users to e-resources in library collections through WorldCat Local, WorldCat Resource Sharing and OCLC’s Web-scale Management Services. Learn how the knowledge base integrates with the new OCLC License Manager to help gain control of all aspects of your license arrangements. 

 

• Jazzing up your library systems with the OCLC Platform  [4 Streaming video segments, 54 minutes]
  Speakers discussed new opportunities for libraries and their partners to enhance and extend their library management systems through community-developed applications. 

 

• From Charles Cutter to Tim Berners-Lee: Data Quality in the 21st Century  [4 streaming video segments, 1 hour 46 minutes]
  Lars Svensson of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek discusses the DNB's work with linked data, Adam Schiff of the University of Washington and Michael Norman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign talk about their libraries' participation in the Expert Community, and Glenn Patton from OCLC tells about collaborative initiatives involving WorldCat that improve data quality, collective metadata management and access to library resources. 

 

• OCLC Update Breakfast at ALA Annual Conference  [Streaming video, 37 minutes]
  New Orleans, Louisiana, 26 June 2011. OCLC President and CEO Jay Jordan provides an update on OCLC's activities and strategic directions. 

 

• Creating Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference  [Streaming video, 1 hour 8 minutes]
  Chris Martire, Director, Member Services, OCLC, welcomed 75 participants to a session during the ALA Annual conference. This meeting included a keynote speaker (below) and lively roundtable discussions.
  Bradford Lee Eden, Associate University Librarian for Technical Services & Scholarly Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, provided an informative keynote presentation,“Transforming Collection Management and Technical Services Operations: the Next-Generation Technical Services (NGTS) Initiative of the University of California Libraries.” 
  
  
• Two-click Article Sharing through WorldCat Resource Sharing and the WorldCat Knowledge Base  [Streaming video, 51 minutes]
  The integration of WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad with a knowledge base and license management tools saves time for library staff and delivers faster access to electronic resources. Hear about the impact of article sharing on OCLC member libraries and their users.

Three New August Webinars

Digital Textbooks: Innovations from the Academic Business Model

(Aptara)

Top Issues Facing Today's Business and Financial Officers

(Educause)

Using Windows 7 to Teach Basic Computer and Photo-Editing Skills to the Public

(TechSoup)

Free Webinars from Pattern Research

All programs are free.  All webinars start at 2 pm Eastern Time and continue for one hour, with extra time for questions.

Ten Tips for Writing Well with Dixie Darr - August 4, 2011

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/625732584

This free webinar provides a quick tour of some of the more common mistakes even experienced professionals make (and regardless of one’s level of education). Topics include punctuation, jargon, keeping words “in agreement,” too many words, using the wrong words, and failure to edit, as well as using social media abbreviations (texting shorthand) in workplace documents.

What It Looks Like and Sounds Like: Tweaking Design Elements and Production Values, with Tim Sullard and Pat Wagner - August 17th, 2011

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/177298784

Graphic design and printed workbooks. Live performances, such as theater and music. Poetry and fine fiction. Film and theater. Radio. All old-school formats for delivering information that can provide insights into what can polish your virtual classroom presentation skills.  Topics: Create checklists and agendas, address production issues before, during, and after, apply classic rules of legibility and commercial design to 21st Century presentations, upgrade sound and recording issues, and collect more practical technology tips. This is the third in a series with the Medical Library Association.

Ten Tips for Book Programs for Babies with Kathy Kirchoefer - August 25th, 2011

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/987739841

You can start teaching early literacy skills to babies without them or their grownups even knowing that that’s what you are doing! Whether you are preparing programs for babies in your library or community center, teaching early literacy skills to daycare providers, or providing support to new parents in an outreach program, a few tips can make your work easier and more productive, as well as more fun and effective for the babies and their adults.

Is Self-Employment for you? Building a Business, with Pat Wagner - September 1, 2011

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/750123448

Being smart, competent, experienced, credentialed, and effective are not enough. Self-employment is as much a lifestyle choice as it is a financial decision. Are you a perfectionist, or can you set limits on how much you do? Does negotiating about money make you uncomfortable, or can you ask for what you want? Does your family think being self-employed means glamour and big bucks, or are they supportive of long hours, missed vacations, and time on the road? Do you hope for a job where people will pay you and leave you alone, or do you actually like human beings?

We will review the basics, including identifying necessary skill sets, managing finances, setting deadlines, finding and keeping customers, and avoiding common mistakes.

Stop Managing Too Much with Too Little, with Pat Wagner

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/534864312

“Time management” is too often a code phrase for “Burn Yourself out for the sake of the team.” Instead, create an operations plan with precise target audiences and limited goals, but improved products and services. The most difficult step: deciding what you will stop doing, so you can free up time, money , and staff for better quality work.

Throwing darts at a wall is not the best way to choose what to eliminate. We will review several tested, practical strategies that help make hard decisions. Topics include reviewing the iron triangle (time, cost, quality), creating a working strategic plan, establishing priorities, ethical constraints, and making hard choices.