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CHICAGO — ALA Editions announces a new facilitated eCourse, Apps for librarians: Empower your users with mobile app literacy. Nicole Hennig will serve as the instructor for this five-week facilitated eCourse starting on Feb. 2, 2015.

In this five-week eCourse, you’ll learn about the most useful apps available on tablet and mobile devices and how they can be applied in your library to create the best learning experiences for your patrons and students.

CHICAGO — ALA Editions announces a new iteration of its popular eCourse Planning and Preparing for RDA: Resource Description and Access. Roman S. Panchyshyn will serve as the instructor for this four-week facilitated eCourse starting on Feb. 2, 2015.

CHICAGO — ALA Editions announces a new facilitated eCourse Using User Experience (UX) Design to Improve Library Services from the Web to the Circulation Desk. Amanda Goodman and Michael Schofield will serve as the instructors for this six-week facilitated eCourse starting on Feb. 2, 2015.

CHICAGO — Drawing on a multitude of historical texts, Michèle Valerie Cloonan’s “Preserving our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age,” published by ALA Neal-Schuman, is a sweeping yet accessible volume providing a broad understanding of preservation for librarians, archivists and museum specialists and related LIS and continuing education classes. Cloonan offers readers an overview of longevity, reversibility, enduring value and authenticity of information preservation.