JCPLA Staff Development Day

I enjoyed seeing many of you last week at Homewood.

All of the Handouts from the presentations are available on the Handouts page of this blog. I will gladly send you the Powerpoints, just email me.

Thank you(!) to Ka’ryn and Jim for putting this together and inviting me to present. I’ve heard good things about the other presenters and sessions. Also Thank you(!) to Homewood Library (a great venue for this sort of thing.) Also Thank you(!)  to :

Brooks F. of HPL for helping me set up

Sandra S. of HPL for being amazingly prepared for anything!

And Barbara W. of Central BST for filling me in on LiveMocha- What a great (and Free) resource! BPL has a link available from their databases page.

 

PLD Mini-conference

“Thanks Edith!” for inviting me to present at the PLD Mini-conference in Homewood.

Also, “Thanks!” to all the participants who attended the Database Potpourri session.

I hope you all got something out of it. If you want additional copies of any of the handouts, visit the handouts page of this blog. if you don’t find what you’re looking for send me an email and I’ll get it to you.

 

Thanks JCPLA!

I think the JCPLA Staff Development Day went well. I really enjoyed the presentations I attended with MaryAnn Morton and Dolores Hydock. In fact, after listening to Ms. Morton, I was inspired to go home and thank my family for just being my family and then practice silence as I listen to them talk about their day.  If you attended that session I’m sure you know what I mean!

I hope everyone who attended felt it was as productive as I thought it was.

If you attended my presentation on the Database Potpourri- Thank You!

All of the handouts from that session are now available on the “handouts” page of this blog.

Also, I did have a winner from my survey contest. Congratulations to Patricia G. at Hoover! She recieved a gift hat filled with office supplies and a JCLC coffee mug. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Coming up in August, I’m looking forward to presenting “Kid Friendly Databases.” The first session will be at Springville Road for the Collection Management meeting on the 15th and the second will be on the 22nd at North Birmingham for the Paraprofessional Meeting.

If you would like to have a session at you branch or location, just let me know. You can reach me through the “contact” page of this blog, through the Regional Library Computer Center, or through my Birmingham Library email.

 

parle vous france?

Rosetta Stone has been available for Jefferson County library patrons for several months now. Hopefully, you have had the chance to play around with this fun and educational resource. There are 30 languages available to choose from including Arabic, English French, Hebrew, Spanish, Tagalog, and Welsh.

Periodically you may have a patron with questions.

When a patron accesses RosettaStone from home, they will need to know their library card number.

The software will run on Windows 2000 and beyond and Mac OS X.

A Microphone is needed for the voice recognition exercises.

The Rosetta Stone software requires a Shockwave plug-in to be installed on the browser before it will work. This process should begin automatically when the patron tries to access the program for the first time. If not, ask the patron to follow these steps:

• Ask the patron to go ahead and register if they have not already done so or log in with their username and password.
• Click the “First Time Users” tab on the left side of the screen.
• Then click “Install Shockwave plug-in.”

If you attended a training session with me on Rosetta Stone you recieved a copy of the “Quick Start Guide” This is a Rosetta Stone publication and may be accessed on the “My Courses” page after you have logged in to Rosetta Stone.

Try this resource out! You might find that it’s as addictive as a video game. And the next time someone asks “Parle vous France?” You can say “Oui!”

Have fun learning!

 

Handouts

Some of my handouts are now available on the blog. Take a look at the handouts tab towards the top of the screen. On that page you will find a list of available handouts. Email me if you don’t find what you’re looking for.