This webinar is intended for catalogers who have little or no experience with rare and unique maps but who nonetheless find themselves faced with a rare or unique map to catalog. The presenter will share general principles, best practices, and tips for cataloging special collections maps.
Special Collections materials can be rare and unique, but they can also just be odd and unusual. In this webinar, a special collections cataloger will guide catalogers of all levels through the bibliographic description of special collections monographs.
Webinar covers NISO and other industry standards and best practices relating to e-resource collection management: usage statistics (COUNTER/SUSHI), licensing (SERU), and publisher/platform changes (Transfer). Hour-long webinar recording.
For the new or soon-to-be new systems librarian, this webinar focuses on the knowledge, skills, and awareness needed immediately as well as provides guidance for development over time. Offers experiential insights regarding the basics of systems librarianship.
The three speakers will discuss the variety of ways that they support the adoption, adaptation, and creation of OER on their different campuses. At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will have a workable road map for starting and/or expanding an OER program at their institution.
This course is not currently being offered as part of this year’s course schedule; however, for groups who have 20 or more individuals interested in taking the course, we can offer it exclusively to your organization! Let's face it, learning and using new technologies can seem overwhelming. However, many of the technologies that spring up every day can help you be a better leader in your library and a better manager of teen library services. You can also use many tech tools to help teens gain leadership skills.
Presenters are representatives from the three initial Centers of Excellence libraries for the Collaborative Federal Depository Program and will provide a general overview of the program while discussing some of the benefits, challenges and outcomes of developing a COE collection.
The mercurial state of public libraries’ relationship with e-books and their publishers is not always an easy issue to understand. This one-hour, on-demand webinar features a discussion of the current state of e-books with regards to public libraries and the publishing industry. Points cover current and best practices as well as what will be coming down the pike.
This e-forum will discuss tips, techniques, and tools of effective time and project management for technical services librarians.
Beyond the digital divide is the "division of learning," a term coined by Shoshana Zuboff in her 2019 book, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" to describe the rift between today's data-hungry tech giants and the people using these platforms who are kept unaware of how their personal information is being handled, repackaged, and sold. At risk is the destruction of privacy as we know it, as the profiteers in the surveillance economy s eek to render all human experience into tools for predicting--and manipulating--behavior.