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.

 

Downloadable Audio with Overdrive

Register for Overdrive’s Open Training Month

September is OverDrive’s Open Training Month! Join the expert trainers at Overdrive
in an educational and fun program designed to increase staff knowledge
and maximize circulation of your OverDrive download library.

The curriculum covers each area of your download service:

Collection Development
User Experience
Patron Support
Promotion
Reports
Learn more and register here:
<http://overdrive.com/products/dlr/training/CourseSignUp.asp> .

 

Free EBSCOhost Training Coming Up

Only a few days left until the free EBSCOhost training. For Jefferson County and other local librarie the training will be held Wednesday, February 6th from 9am – 12pm and again from 1pm to 4 pm.

If you haven’t yet registered or if you can’t make it, the training will be held in Jacksonville State University on February 7th and Calhoun Community College on February 8th.

Contact Jodi for more details. If you don’t know how to contact Jodi, then contact me and I’ll get the information to you.

 

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.

 

Webjunction and APLS

 

Thanks to APLS, Alabama is now a community partner with WebJunction. As Alabama library staff memebers we can take advantage of an enhanced version of the site with access to online courses.

Some of the courses you will find include Access, Excel, QuickBooks, Project Management, Frontpage, Photoshop, and several University of North Texas Le@d Courses.

Visit www.webjunction.org to register. Select Alabama under ‘community partner affiliation.’

The site is still in development so check back often to see what’s new. Look for announcements from Webjunction and the Alabama Public Library Service.

 

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.

 

ShareIdeas.Org

Nokia and Vodafone have sponsored the launch of a new global wiki community site designed to share ideas on how to use mobile communication technologies for social and environmental benefit.

Check it out at www.shareideas.org

 

Free Online ProQuest Training

Now is the time to register for your free Sirs Discoverer and Sirs Knowledge Source online training seminars!

Proquest offers free training every month on various databases in the Proquest family. This month, Sirs Discoverer and the databases of Sirs Knowledge Source (Researcher, Government Reporter and Renaissance) are being offered.

Each session is online live. Once registered, you will be emailed with instructions about preparing for the session. The session is online, so it requires a computer. You will also need a phone, this is how the trainer will speak to the group. Each session is 45 minutes long.

I have attended a session in this format and I’ve found it to be fun (for training , anyway!). 

ProQuest will send you a completion certificate. 

Click the link to view the calendar.

http://inter.viewcentral.com/reg/proquest/k12calendar