Collaborate with your IT Department

CSL In Session is an online learning series from the Colorado State Library, and this looks like a particularly good session.

Making I.T. Happen! A Toolkit for Building Collaborative Relationships with your IT Department

With Jon Soloman
When 05/15/2013 | 12:30p – 1:30p, Mountain Time

IT folks carry the stigma of being particularly non-collaborative, but the stereotype of the loner programmer barricaded in a cubicle is not necessarily accurate. The growing number of collaborative projects between library public services and IT departments make it necessary to examine relationships and create excellent communications for resulting success. This program will discuss proven management and collaborative techniques for building relationships, through self-assessment and teambuilding techniques, and will offer a glimpse into how strong relationships between IT and public services libraries can lead to award-winning and innovative projects.

ALA Editions Workshop on Collaborating with Teens

ALA is putting on this two-part workshop.

Session 1: Thursday, November 10, 2011, 1:00pm – 2:30pm Eastern
Session 2: Thursday, November 17, 2011, 1:00pm – 2:30pm Eastern

Collaborating with Teens to Build Better Library Programs (ALA Editions Workshop)
Jennifer Velásquez
Item Number: 1541-8865
Publisher: ALA Editions
Price: $85.00

Metadata, linked data, and RDA vocabularies webinars

“The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) are pleased to announce that they will be continuing their educational partnership in 2011 with three joint webinars on topics related to metadata, linked data, and RDA vocabularies. This partnership builds on the highly successful September 2010 NISO/DCMI webinar that drew over 350 people from more than 100 sites.

A New Era in Scientific Search and Discovery

Elsevier is sponsoring a webinar tomorrow on “Enabling the Research Community to Deliver a New Era in Scientific Search and Discovery.”

We continue our ongoing conversation about applications with three invited experts. Guest speaker application developers discuss how applications enable scientific researchers and librarians to further analyze, discover and enhance the research experience at the same time. Applications of differing disciplines and categories will be covered.

The presentations in this webinar will cover:
• Different research obstacles that applications can address
• Specific examples of applications that enhance the research experience
• How researchers, librarians and developers can collaborate to build new applications

ALA Workshop on Web 2.0 and Collaboration

There is a two-part workshop on Web 2.0 and collaboration (as well as marketing and general social media tips and tricks) coming up on Dec. 1 and Dec 8th, both sessions at 1:30pm CST. The workshop will be led by David Lee King and Robin Hastings. You can register for this event at http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3165 (Using Social Software in Library Marketing: Facebook, Twitter and More). Robin will be talking about taking collaboration from just working with your coworkers to working with other community organizations and patrons, too. Details from the ALA page are:

The popularity of social networking software—tools like Twitter, Facebook and blogs—continues to skyrocket, particular among younger populations. For libraries in the 21st century, a presence on these social networking sites is an essential part of library outreach and patron services. In this exclusive event, librarians and social software experts David Lee King and Robin Hastings will teach you about what tools you can use to engage with your patrons and the best practices for using them.

You’ll learn about:

• Collaboration with libraries and patrons using YouTube, Flickr and Dropbox
• Marketing your library with Facebook and Twitter
• 4 things your library must do when signing up for any social media tool (listen, plan, respond, and opening up)
• Time-savers and tools to use for maximizing your library’s social media reach

The cost of the workshop is $85.  Note that Robin Hastings is a co-editor of the CL News blog.

2011 Virtual Convergence

On behalf of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA), I am thrilled to announce that registration is now open for our upcoming webinar series we’re calling the 2011 Virtual Convergence.

Throughout the day, from Jan. 18 through Jan. 21, we’ll be offering webinars on a variety of topics relevant to all types of libraries and library job functions.

Collaborative Learning 101

Bloomfire is providing a free webinar, Collaborative Learning 101. There are a limited number of spots.  The session runs on Thursday, July 1st at 1:30-2:30p EST. Click here to RSVP.

What is Bloomfire?

Thanks to Marianne for the link.

WebJunction hits the trifecta

Or, they hit a trifecta for learning and collaboration.

You have to look at bit behind the scene to appreciate the triple winning lineup of this Thursday’s webinar Building An Online Learning Community In Your State. It is a production of the dynamic Group N of ALA Emerging Leaders in collaboration with the ALA Learning Round Table and WebJunction.

Go ahead and register at:
http://evanced.info/webjunction/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=1651

E-conference: “Innovation for Libraries in the 21st Century!”

The most cost-effective professional development series for libraries continues next week with “Innovation for Libraries in the 21st Century!” – an online conference on May 12 from 11am to 6:30pm EDT (New York Time).

The cost is only $49 to interact with impressive speakers and collaborate with colleagues from around the globe – and you participate from your desk! Attend with your entire team for only $99! There is still time to register by visiting:

http://www.learningtimes.net/innovation/

The conference keynote is the dynamic Rich Harwood of the famed Harwood Institute. http://www.theharwoodinstitute.org/

Helene Blowers of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, Kitty Pope and Kendal Orrison from Alliance Library System are also featured.

Collaborative breakout workshops include:

* Coordinating a Social Media Presence for the Library – Sarah Houghton-Jan, San Jose Public Library

* Linking YOU to the World of Innovation Services – Houston Public Library panel

* Mayor of the Library: Foursquare and Location-Based Mobile Social Networks – Joe Murphy, Yale

* Innovations in Staff Development: Technology Training Wheels” – Beth Duttlinger, ALS

* Why Librarians Should Stay the Hell Away From Facebook” – Woody Evans, Tarrant County College

The complete program is available on the conference website at:

http://www.learningtimes.net/innovation/program-2

Sponsored by Alliance Library System and LearningTimes, this is the 10th in a series of unique events designed to bring high-quality, collaborative, professional development experiences to libraries – at the lowest possible cost. Note: if you can’t be there all day, you may access individual session recordings for 6 months after the conference.

For more information and registration visit:

http://www.learningtimes.net/innovation/

We hope to see you there!

John Walber for LearningTimes and ALS

Building the participatory library

John Blyberg and Meredith Farkas are putting on a free ALA TechSource Webinar — Organization 2.0: Building the Participatory Library.  The date of the session is Thursday, May 13, 2010 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CDT.

Web 2.0 technologies are often a short spark rather than a slow burn (Friendster, anyone?). While many institutions like libraries have been successful in implementing these technologies as part of their online presence, the web is also littered with inactive library blogs, lifeless virtual library communities, and out-of-date Facebook pages. To help ensure that yours is one of the success stories, join us for this free ALA TechSource hourlong webinar.