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CHICAGO - The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) is offering three full-day educational workshops on Friday, June 27, in Anaheim, Calif.

Library-wide IT Proficiency. Receive tools, techniques and many ideas on ways to increase the IT proficiency of all library staff. Start with basic elements of end-user education to promote departmental self-sufficiency. Move on to the higher level of assisting librarians with cutting-edge technology awareness and use. Grace Sines and Gary McCone of the National Agricultural Library and Brenda Chawner of the University of Wellington are presenting.

Datagrid Technologies and Libraries. Escape proprietary hardware lock-in on mass digitization initiatives. Identify the benefits of utilizing datagrid technologies with institutional repositories, digital libraries and digital preservation systems within libraries. The tools for these systems are open source and, with minimal instruction, become a collaborative network for use with academic bandwidth such as the Internet2 Abilene network. Experts from the UC San Diego Libraries and the San Diego Supercomputer Center share their experiences implementing datagrid technologies in their libraries.

Getting Started with Drupal. Learn how to set up and run Drupal, an open-source Web Content Management System, at your library. Cary Gordon, President of the Cherry Hill Company facilitates this hands-on opportunity at the Anaheim Public Library.

Register now for these workshops. Please note: you do not have to register for the ALA Annual Conference in order to attend these workshops.

Visit the 2008 ALA Annual Conference registration (http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2008a/registration.htm) page to register for these events. More information is available at the LITA Web site (http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/litaevents/litaannual2008/litaannual.cfm).