Live Webinars for May 2011

May Webinars.  Go learn stuff!

May 2.  Adding eReaders to Your School Library (Teacher-Librarian Virtual Cafe)

May 3.  Introduction to OCLC's Future Delivery Services (OCLC)

May 3. The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Tech Today and Tomorrow (Educause)

May 3.  Drive Leads and Revenue Using Twitter (Office Depot)

May 4. Social Tools for Program and Service Delivery (Common Knowledge)

May 4.  Live Webcast from Mt. Everest (Webex)

May 9.  Live Webcast with Newberry author Gary Schmidt (Houghton Mifflin)

May 10.  Hiring People with Disabilities (ADA Online)

May 11.  The Future of ILS (Part 1) RDA and Cataloging (NISO)  $
May 18.  The Future of ILS (Part 2) User Interaction (NISO)  $

May 12.  5 Creative Design Techniques for Results-Producing Webinars (Adobe)

May 18.  Project Management 101 (Georgia Library Association)

May 18.  Unconference Planning (Georgia Library Association)

May 26.  eBooks at Cushing Academy (OPAL)

ALA (American Library Association)  All = $

May 3.  Organizing the Evaluation of Electronic Resources
May 11.  Engaging your Campus in Institutional Repositories
May 13.  Family Programs on a Shoestring
May 18.  Transforming Our Image: Parts 1 and 2
May 19.  Best Practices in Teen Space Design
May 25.  Intellectual Property Issues for Librarians

Booklist
May 3. Lerner's Fall 2011 Librarian Preview
May 10. How Students Learn and Online Resources Help
May 17. Enhance Discovery with Tools from Bowker

Infopeople
May 17. Cross Training for a Flexible Staff
May 18.  Coping with Information Overload

Library Journal

May 3.  Life of a Book: From Idea to Marketplace
May 4.  Next Generation Discovery Forum
May 5.  Christian Fiction Spring Roundup
May 11.  Business Books 2011
May 17.  Achieving ROI from Self-Services

Nebraska Library Commission
May 11.  2011 Nebraska Book Festival
May 25.  Tech Talk

WebJunction

May 4.  Winning Library Grants
May 17.  Libraries Support Small Business and Entrepreneurs

Trendy Topics Online Conference (All Day)
May 11. Library Services for Older Adults ($)

Social Marketing for Corporate Libraries

Thursday, April 28, 12noon EDT.

Social networking tools can you and your library build a strong online presence. A presence that leads to connections, recognition and increased usage. However, you may be confused about which tools to use - Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIin? In this hands-on workshop, you will see:

• How to match your style and your library to the right tools
• Examples of effective use of these tools
• Lots of tips and ideas to start or to expand your online social presence

Join popular presenter Scott Brown (Social Information Group) as he provides the insight you need to overcome internal challenges to making social media work for your library or information center. You'll come away with useful resources and hands-on exercises to create your own pathway to success.

Register

Introduction to OCLC's Future Delivery Services

Tuesday, May 3, 11:00am EDT.

We are now in the initial phase of development for a future service that will give WorldCat Resource Sharing users a new interface that simplifies library and end-user requesting workflows through timesaving resource sharing tools. The new service, to be available from the interface that supports OCLC’s new Web-scale Management Services, will benefit interlibrary loan staff and library users in a number of ways.

• Interlibrary loan staff will manage user requests through a new easy-to-navigate interface that incorporates “buy-it” options into more traditional interlibrary loan functions. Staff will also benefit from workflow automation that will increase staff efficiency and save time.
• Library users will use familiar WorldCat.org-based services for discovery and to place requests.

Although full release of the new service will not occur until mid-2012, we want to let you know now of our plans for enhancing the resource sharing service you rely on to meet the needs of your users.

Register for this free webinar

Project Management & Unconference Planning

Project Management 101

May 18, 2011
10:00am-11:00am EDT.

Project Management 101: How to apply the principles of PM in libraries without alienating everyone you work with. Covering the basics and nothing but.

• What is project management and how does it help?
• Stakeholders
• Scope statements
• Scheduling/budgeting
• Triple constraint
• Risk assessment
• Change management

Unconference Planning
May 18, 2011
11:15am-12:15pm EDT

Unconference Planning: Have you heard about unconferences? No idea what they are or why they’re different from regular conferences? Are you interested in knowing more? Come find out what an unconference is, ways to organize it, and what the benefits are for having an unconference vs. a conference.

More info and Registration Link