March 2012: Free Continuing Education Events | Library ...

Here?s our monthly reminder of free training on the web. Confirm date and time when you pre-register, or follow the links for archive information. Webinars listed in Central Standard Time.

Thursday March 1, 2012
Nonfiction Spring Book Buzz II(School Library Journal)
Looking to do some end of the school year reference buying? Come and hear about new nonfiction from ReferencePoint, ABDO, and Scholastic. The webcast will include series books, standalone titles, books for reports, and books for general-interest reading.
Time: 12-1:00 p.m.

Engaging Volunteers During Difficult Economic Times?(InfoPeople)
With service levels at all time highs and funding elusive to meet the demand for service, many libraries are engaging volunteers more proactively or even for the first time. Involving volunteers in delivering library services can be rewarding, challenging, yet also time intensive. And, while volunteers may offer their services for free, there are still costs that need to be considered when planning a volunteer program.
Time: 2-3:oo p.m.

Monday March 5, 2012
The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow (Educause)
Wondering what?s new in mobiles, electronic books, learning analytics, and other emerging technology areas? Join Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative as they review the Horizon Report and examine ways it can be put to work at your institution. During this live, one-and-a-half hour webinar, they will review various emerging technologies likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression over the next five years and highlight how institutions across the world are implementing these technologies.
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.

Wanna Play? Gaming @ Your Library?(TL Virtual Cafe)
NPC? PvP? WoW? Does this sound like a secret code? Whether or not you know the meaning behind these acronyms, come join three ?gaming-positive? educators as they introduce you to gaming @ your library. Hear about the benefits of gaming, discover how to embrace games that respects the users and the medium, and learn how you can incorporate video games into your library ? even without paying a cent.
Time: 7-8:00 p.m.

Tuesday March 6, 2012
It Takes a Community to Bridge the Digital Divide (WebJunction)
Join us to hear about the key role that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is playing in the broadband adoption challenge and the actions already underway for building digital communities. Learn how to get started with inclusion efforts from organizations who have taken the steps to implement practical programs which meet local needs and share your ideas about collaborative efforts which lead digital inclusion.
Time: 12-1:00 p.m.

Directors? Summit: Discover a 21st Century Roadmap for Community Outcomes (Library Journal)
Join us as we explore some of the key themes from the Library Journal 2011 Directors? Summit, held in partnership with Columbus Metropolitan Library. Garry Golden speaks and Patrick Losinski, executive director of Columbus Metropolitan Library (Ohio), will lead a discussion between Garry and the audience. Library Journal?s Editor-in-Chief Francine Fialkoff will give the welcoming introductions.
Time: 1-2:00 p.m.

Wednesday March, 7, 2012
American FactFinder: The Census Bureau?s Online Data Retrieval Tool?(NCompass Live)
This session will show you how to navigate the Census Bureau online data portal called American FactFinder. The system has recently been totally redesigned and has several new features. We?ll give you tips and shortcuts for obtaining the data you need. American FactFinder is the key place to retrieve information from the 2010 and 2000 Censuses, annual socio-economic data from the American Community Survey, and a variety of other commonly used Census data sources.
Time: 10-11:00 a.m.

EBSCOhost Basics For Public Libraries (EBSCOhost)
Help your library patrons find exactly what they are looking for.? This 30-minute webinar will discuss publication searching, journal alerts, and demonstrate how to find cover stories when a patron can?t remember the periodical name or issue. Sign up today!
Time: 12-12:30 p.m.

Thursday March 8, 2012
Spring Picture Book Announcements (School Library Journal)
Interested in picture books? Attend SLJ?s Spring Picture Books webcast to learn about the season?s line up from OwlKids Books, NorthSouth, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children?s Book Group and Candlewick Press.
Time: 12-1:00 p.m.

It?s All About the Money: Corporate Fundraising for Children?s Programming in Public Libraries (InfoPeople)
Corporate sponsorships are a perfect solution to gain funding for children?s programs in public libraries. In this webinar we?ll show you how to target the right companies, approach them with confidence, and get them to donate with ease. With a little bit of planning and effort, your library can raise money, obtain food donations or gift cards, and other resources to help you run a successful children?s program.
Time: 2-3:00 p.m.

Friday March 9, 2012
Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums (OCLC)
Metadata helps users locate resources that meet their specific needs. But metadata also helps us to understand the data we find and helps us to evaluate what we should spend our time on. Traditionally, staff at libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) create metadata for the content they manage. However, social metadata?content contributed by users?is evolving as a way to both augment and recontexutalize the content and metadata created by LAMs.
Time: 11-12:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Bozarthzone! Social Media for Trainers (InSyncTraining)
Explore the use of free technologies like blogs, wikis, Facebook, Twitter, and online groups to help build communication, increase participation, and enhance transfer of training to the job. We?ll both define and demystify each tool. You will get ideas for applying low-cost collaboration strategies to your own training programs?both classroom and online!
Time: 1-2:00 p.m.

Wednesday March 14, 2012
The Progress Principle: Sparking Employee Engagement and Performance(AMA)?
Leaders face a formidable challenge in keeping employees engaged in their work?deeply involved and fully committed. Traditional motivators, like incentive systems, can get people to show up and do the work. But it takes something more to spark the passion that leads to the highest levels of creative productivity. This webcast unravels the secrets of inner work life?the usually hidden emotions, perceptions, and motivations that arise as people react to events in their work day. You?ll discover how what you say and do every day can drive positive inner work life throughout your organization and fuel great performance for the long term.
Time: 11-12:00 p.m.

My EBSCOhost Folders (EBSCOhost)
This one-hour online training session will review the functionality of using My EBSCOhost Folder. Topics to be covered include creating custom folders, managing content in the folder(s), alerts (creating, updating and checking the status), and sharing folders.
Time: 12-1:00 p.m.

How to Produce a Video, Put it on YouTube and Measure Results (Nonprofit Webinars)
YouTube is one of the most popular destinations on the world wide web, but nonprofits are underutilizing this free platform for video messaging. In this one-hour webinar, we?ll discuss strategies for producing effective web videos for internal and external communications, advancement, development, public information and recruitment.
Time: 2-3:00 p.m.

Thursday March 15, 2012
Avoiding Wrong Turns on Your Leadership Journey (AMA)
Research conducted by Marshall Goldsmith and Associates over a period of 10 years has identified a list of 20 attitudes and behaviors that are surefire career killers. In this insightful discussion, Marshall Goldsmith delves deeper into some of the worst offenders on this list and suggest ways that you can stop sabotaging yourself and your career and instead, get where you want and deserve to be in your organization.
Time: 11-12:00 p.m.

Tuesday March 20, 2012
Making the Ask: Getting People to Give, Volunteer and More (Nonprofit Marketing Guide)
Not getting the results you expected? You might not be asking the right way. Much of our work in nonprofit marketing and fundraising is about persuasion. How can we convince people to support our work with their time or money, or to change their own behaviors? It all starts with asking for what we need in a clear, convincing way.
Time: 12-1:00 p.m.

Scoop on Series Nonfiction: What?s New for 2012 (Booklist)
An hour-long continuation of our popular series of webinars on series nonfiction for youth, featuring presentations from five of the top publishers in this booming field: ABDO, Lerner, DK, Enslow, and Scholastic. Books for Youth senior editor Daniel Kraus moderates.
Time: 1-2:00 p.m.

Digital Preservation: Audio and Video Formats (InfoPeople)
In the last of our four-part series on Digital Preservation, this webinar presents and explains basic formats and standards used in digital audio and video collections for libraries, archives, and museums. Participants in this webinar will be able to make informed decisions about digital audio and video projects and revisit their planned or existing projects with an eye to making sure they will be useful sustainable into the future.
Time: 2-3:00 p.m.

Wednesday March 21, 2012
Mind Matters! Getting Results Through Psychology (AMA)
Setting expectations, directing, delegating, enforcing policy, if you?ve been doing the same thing and not getting anywhere, listen to this webcast for new techniques that tap into the human psyche. Because understanding the root reasons of human behavior allows you to make different choices about how you manage and what kind of results you get. Thought, behavior, personality ? all three affect everything from having a preference for a particular employee to how often you voice your opinions in a group.
Time: 11-12:00 p.m.

Being Customer Focused: New and Emerging Trends in Customer Service (InfoPeople)
Libraries offer a compelling set of resources and services to meet the needs of their communities. But old service models often focus on the needs of the library first, and the user second. Retail establishments such as bookstores, coffee shops, information services, computing services, and purveyors of e-readers are all encroaching on the library?s core user base by replicating services traditionally associated with libraries. They really know what they?re doing, and we can, too!
Time: 2-3:00 p.m.

Collaborating with Partners on Joint Grants: Do?s And Don?ts (Nonprofit Webinars)
More and more funders prefer (or require) organizations to leverage their resources by collaborating with complementary partners. In a world where competition is often more common than cooperation, how do we navigate these waters? This workshop will showcase some successful collaborations that involved joint grantseeking, and offer pointers on how you can succeed too!
Time: 2-3:00 p.m.

Thursday March 22, 2012
Nonpartisan Voter Participation Basics for Nonprofits(Nonprofit Vote)??
We?ll cover the basics of voter engagement for nonprofits?like voter registration, voter education, candidate engagement, and get-out-the-vote efforts?and explain how to stay nonpartisan. The discussion will focus on ways maximize your impact while integrating outreach into services you already provide.
Time: 1-2:00 p.m.

Spring Mystery Announcements (Library Journal)
While library budgets remain tight and the rise of ebooks have flattened print book circulation, Library Journal?s recently published 2012 Book Buying Survey also finds that mysteries still rule supreme in public libraries. These mystery lovers will be coming to you for the latest titles by their favorite authors and new discoveries by rising stars.
Time: 2-3:00 p.m.

Tuesday March 27, 2012
Adult Programs on a $0 Budget (WebJunction)
In just a few short years, the Laurens County Library, in rural South Carolina, has created an impressive and well attended series of adult programs on a shoestring budget. Join us for a webinar to learn how the library selects topics, recruits presenters, raises funds, and promotes through effective public relations practices. Find out what Laurens has done that works, what doesn?t work, and learn how your adult programming can make your library a valued community hub, building awareness and increasing usage of all your services.
Time: 1-2:00 p.m.

Wednesday March 28, 2012
Improving the User Experience Through Usability Testing (GLA)
Stephen Francoeur, a user experience librarian at Baruch College (New York, NY) will give an introduction to usability testing and how it can be used to create a more user-friendly library website.
Time: 1-2:00 p.m.

Outreach to Hispanic/Latino Populations ? Tu Biblioteca! (InfoPeople)
Engaging the ever-growing Spanish-speaking/Latino population in your library?s programs and services presents interesting and rewarding opportunities. This webinar will explore various efforts to identify new opportunities, funding resources and community partners to expand your library?s potential to serve this community.
Time: 2-3:00 p.m.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Face-to-Face Solicitation, But Were Afraid to Ask?From Preparation to Closing the Gift (Nonprofit Webinars)
The single best way to achieve the greatest gift possible?and deepen a donor?s relationship with your organization?is through a face-to-face solicitation. This webinar will provide you with the background, skills and techniques to help you prepare for the encounter and conduct the conversation that will move a giver to the next stage in becoming a life-long donor.
Time: 2-3:00 p.m.

Content Creation for Teens (GLA)
Instead of just merely collecting ?stuff? and lending it out to patrons, more and more libraries are encouraging their patrons to ?make something? at the library. Whether it be the hackerspace at the Fayetteville Free Library, the YOUMedia lab at the Chicago Public Library, or smaller programs at other libraries throughout the country, libraries are offering more programs to encourage their patrons to be prosumers instead of just simply consumers.
Time: 2:15-3:15 p.m.

Thursday March 29, 2012
Introduction to Corporate Giving (Grant Space)
Explore the world of corporate support and tools and resources on corporate giving. Seeking to target companies that might fund your organization??Join us for an introduction to the world of corporate support for nonprofits and funding research tools to help you identify corporate prospects.
Time: 12-1:00 p.m.

Unraveling the Mobile Web (O?Reilly)
This is a series of three webcasts so please be sure to register for series two and three. In this first series of three, Mobile Web browsing is exploding and with it the importance of Mobile Web Performance. Studies show that Mobile users expect equal or better performance than desktop, where they demand 2s load times. In this webcast presentation, we?ll go over the different aspects of mobile: network, hardware & software. We?ll review the challenges each presents, understand how they affect web performance, and show ways to overcome those challenges.
Time: 12-1:00 p.m.

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