Beyond Slideshows

Beyond Slideshows: Influence Decisions With Effectively Planned And Delivered Web-Based Presentations

June 22, 1:00pm EDT. (Elluminate). Originally scheduled in April.

Presenting online - versus presenting in-person – brings own set of challenges and opportunities. Sure you don’t have to fret about what you’re wearing or if you’re going to trip while on stage, but you do have to think about how to engage and interact with your audience – all while you cannot see them!

Join Webinar expert and author of the new book, The Virtual Presenter’s Handbook, Roger Courville, to jump start your success when planning, designing, and delivering online presentations.

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Unleash the Power of Student Engagement with Mobile Technologies

Thursday, May 27, 2:00pm EDT. (eSchool News)

Today's emphasis on student engagement is encouraging schools everywhere to find new and better ways to connect with students. In this information-packed session led by Jim Till, VP of Blackboard Connect and John Dennett, Director of Solutions Engineering at Blackboard, we will explore how a variety of institutions have improved student engagement through the use of mobile technologies.

This seminar will explore new methods to exploit existing communications technologies, and will also discuss how new mobile services can reach students where they are "living" online or on mobile devices. Learn from real-world examples from higher education institutions, and help advance your institution's ability to enhance student engagement and success.

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The FCC and Network Neutrality

Wednesday, May 19, 1:00pm EDT.

“Network neutrality” refers to the principle by which Internet access is provided in a nondiscriminatory manner, treating all legal content the same regardless of the source or destination. In 2008, the Federal Communications Commission attempted to enforce network neutrality by requiring Comcast to change its Internet access practices. A recent Appeals Court decision rejected the FCC's action and called into question the FCC's authority to enforce network neutrality. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has responded with a "third way" proposal. In this presentation, we'll review the chairman's new proposal; explain what it means to the Internet in general and to higher education in particular; review the arguments, pro and con, made by commercial and public interests; and consider how the FCC, Congress, and other government agencies may respond to those arguments.

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Upcoming Booklist Webinars

• Trends in Teen Lit: The Independent View
• Power to the User: Interactive Online Reference Sources
• Now Hear This: Audiobooks from A to Z

Trends in Teen Lit (May 18, 2:00pm EDT.)

Young adult literature continues to be one of the most exciting and evolving areas in the publishing world. In this hourlong webinar, moderated by Gillian Engberg, Booklist’s Young Adult Books Editor, you’ll hear about new trends in teen books from author and Booklist columnist Michael Cart and three independent publishers: Melissa Wood of Sourcebooks, Andrew Wooldridge of Orca Book Publishers, and Rick Wilks and Susan Shipton of Annick Press. Join us for an informative hour that will surely give you fresh perspectives on new books for eager and reluctant teen readers alike.

Power to the User (June 1, 2:00pm EDT.)

Translation tools, visual search, mobile applications—these are just a few of the features that let the user interact with reference databases in new ways. In this program for librarians in all types of libraries, Sue Polanka, Head, Reference and Instruction, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, and Chair of the Reference Books Bulletin Editorial Board, will talk about the value and potential of interactive features, and representatives from Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book, ABC-CLIO, and Paratext will demonstrate their newest interactive features and give us a preview of what’s coming next. Don’t miss this look at some of the features that are shaping the next generation of online reference sources.


Now Hear This (June 8, 3:00pm EDT.)

In this informative hourlong webinar, Booklist Media editor Sue-Ellen Beauregard and school librarian, Booklist columnist, and Booklist Online audiobook blogger Mary Burkey will be joined by representatives from Books on Tape/Listening Library, BBC Audiobooks America, and HighBridge Audio for an exciting discussion of audiobooks from A to Z, including the latest titles featuring popular readers, how to integrate audiobooks into book club promotions and discussions, finding backlist and crossover titles that fit the bill for summer listening, and much, much more.

Re-tooling Frontline Staff with E-government Resources

Thursday, June 03, 1:00pm.

Knowing how to find and use E-government resources is critical for patrons who need access to information related to unemployment, food stamps, Medicaid, tax forms, health and housing; and many people are asking their public library staff to help them navigate this information. To meet these new and increased demands on frontline staff, libraries in Florida are collaborating with government agencies and social service organizations to provide the best service possible to patrons in their state.

Join WebJunction for this webinar with representatives of Florida libraries, who will share their strategies used to educate both the public and frontline staff on how to access this information and their experiences building partnerships with other agencies in their communities to respond to workforce development needs.

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Lyrasis Webinars

Lyrasis has put up a page of archived webinars and presentations from a variety of events.
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Library Design Symposium

• Optimized LLC Design
• Sustainability Overview
• BibliographyBuildingdesign
• The Green Library Experience
• A New Library/Information Commons at the Massachusett Maritime Academy

Collection Services Conference

• Collection Development for a Radically New Reality
• Give the People What they Want
• Why We Can’t All Just Get Along: Cultural Barriers to Shared Collections in Academic Libraries
• Recent Changes In Collection Development
  
• Ebook Vendor criteria
  

Working Together to Streamline Your Technical Services Workflow

• Diane Baden and Sally Grucan-Presentation One
• Margaret Lourie-Pesentation Two
• Steve Sutton and Steve Hyndman (YBP)-Presentation Three

Bibliographic Services Conference: Not Your Grandma's Library

• Kitty Little-Presentation One
• Corey Harper-Presentation Two
• Beth Jefferson-Presentation Three
• Jennifer Bowen-Presentation Four
• Tim McGeary-Presentation Five

More Presentations

• Trends to Embrace in 2010

Online Application Training

Thursday, May 13, 2:00pm EDT.

Have you conducted application training in the classroom before and wondered how to replicate that training online?

Discover how to teach as if you were there in person. Take this opportunity to hear a unique success story first hand from a customer who is doing just that.

In this session you will learn:

• Tips to keep your students listening and on their toes.


• How to give your students the practice time they need to learn.


• Ways to virtually walk around the room and watch your students work on class exercises.


• How to allow your students the hands on practice after class on applications they may not have on their own PCs.

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