The LILRC Continuing Education Blog has moved!
We are now hosting our CE Blog at http://blog.lilrc.org/ce. If you’ve been enjoying our blog, please be sure to change your bookmark, so that you can continue to stay in touch with new LILRC continuing education happenings!
Here’s a sneak peak:
October 27th & 28th, Dowling College
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the LILRC Annual Conference on Libraries and the Future. What a better time than now to take a look back at where we’ve been in order to explore where we’re going. Our first Annual Conference explored the theme of “Access to Information: Paradigms for the Future,” in which strategic visions of library services were explored. Thru the years, the LILRC Annual Conference has delved into timely topics including virtual reality, the library of the future, cyberstudents, einformation and e-libraries, access in the digital age, information commons, and much more.
As we reflect on the past and look to the future, the conference theme chosen for this year, “Extinction is Not an Option: Ensuring OUR Future” will mark 20 years of what hopes to be innovative and inspiring speakers, an engaging learning experience, and an opportunity to network with colleagues. And so, we would invite you to mark your calendars and take advantage of early bird rates for registration.
We’ll kick off Thursday night with a guest speaker from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and follow-up on Friday with three distinguished speakers including:
▪ James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University
▪ Eli Neiburger, Associate Director, IT and Production, Ann Arbor District Library
▪ Michael Porter, Community Product Manager, WebJunction, OCLC
We look forward to seeing many of you on October 27th & 28th, at DowlingCollege, Fortunoff Hall.
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The July-December 2011 LILRC sponsored continuing education programs are now available in an electronic version of the brochure here (in PDF format). Please look for the printed version, which will be mailed very soon.
Guest speakers include:
Be sure to visit the LILRC Continuing Education Calendar online at http://lilrc.org/calendars/cont_edcalendar.php for additional information on upcoming workshops.
Tuesday, May 24th–Over 30 librarians from public and academic institutions gathered for LILRC’s latest workshop on emerging technology, Engaging Your Community with QR Codes, which was lead by Joe Murphy, Librarian at Yale University.
This presentation explored what QR codes are, how they are being used, and library applications. Through discussion and the use of videos, Joe demonstrated how libraries can engage their audience within and beyond libraries–including such examples as scavenger hunts within and outside of the library, learning to use the academic library, marketing, information delivery and much more.
PRESENTATION SLIDES:
(http://www.slideshare.net/secret/sMJ0CeCNrK6MXF)
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
QR CODE GENERATORS:
Special thanks to the Sachem Public Library for hosting this event.
April 29, 2011-Today’s program was all about design and guest speaker John LeMasney, Manager of Educational Technology Training and Outreach at Princeton University, explained and discussed a diversity of topics from emotion, intention, inspiration, and much more related to design.
PRESENTATION SLIDES:
The session began with a conversation covering how people may critique your work and the common tools used for desktop publishing such as Microsoft, etc. Participants then shared their own backgrounds and knowledge of different design projects. During this conversation, attendees where asked to consider:
In the context of libraries, we considered the question: why do people come to your library; to your space–what attracts them?
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Open Source Design Resources:
Other Sites of Interest:
Texts:
For more information, please visit John LeMasney’s website at: http://johnwlemasney.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/lilrc-graphic-design-best-practices.
April 15, 2011–PubMed has recently undergone some major changes and what a better way to learn about them then to have a hands-on training session! Thanks to NN/LM MAR, the LILRC Committee on Services to Health Sciences Libraries was able to run, PubMed Clinics of North America, with guest trainer Helen Tannenbaum, Communication and Outreach Coordinator.
Helen Tannenbaum teaches a PubMed Clinics of North America class at Farmingdale State College, Greenley Library, to 17 academic, public and hospital librarians from Long Island.
The day’s activities included exercises on how to locate articles, the process and procedure for subject indexing, and participants even participated in a scavenger hunt.
Sample Search: Using advanced search feature to combine two previous search results.
NN/LM PubMed Brochures
NLM PubMed Online Training: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html
NN/LM Non-English Guides to PubMed: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/intlpubmedlinks.html
MedlinePlus® for Health Professionals: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/mp4hptri.pdf
Also be sure tour the new, customizable My NCBI home page and functions:
Special thanks to Farmingdale State College, Greenley Library for hosting this event and to all that attended.
April 6, 2011–Pamela Erickson, Implementation Specialist for EBSCO Publishing conducted a free hands-on training session for us at Farmingdale State College, Greenley Library. Participants received a first-hand, in-dept look at EBSCO’s Alt HealthWatch database exploring the interface, basic and advanced search techniques and much more.
Fun Fact: Do you know what EBSCO stands for?
Answer: Elton B. Stephens COmpany
The EBSCO Support site, which was recently redesigned, now offers a variety of resources including tutorials, handouts, online training sessions and much more. Visit http://support.ebscohost.com for more details.
