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Database Webinars
- Professional resources for library staff, teachers, administrators and parents
This month's webinar will highlight professional resources for library staff, teachers, administrators and parents. It is a follow-up to October's "Behind the Scenes" webinar. Resources will include EBSCO's Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, EBSCO's Teacher Reference Center, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) and more. (39 minutes).
- Behind the Scenes
...and now for something entirely different! This month we are going “Behind the Scenes.” We will look at the added content provided by the database vendors that can help you with instruction, presentations, discussions, and marketing. Things like book discussion guides, lesson plans and curriculum pathfinders, parent-child activities, printables, research guides and staff training materials. Check out the EBSCO Support Site tutorials and SIRS Educator Resources. (34 minutes).
- What IS Learning Express Library, anyway?
In these tough economic times, you may have an increase in the number of folks using the library to find jobs, create a resume and update skills. School is back in session and students may need a boost on their math and writing skills. Join Chris Van Burgh to look at the rich content of Learning Express Library: practice tests, courses, e-books. Civil service tests, citizenship, GED prep, and college level skills. Explore the editions for Schools, Public Libraries and Academic settings. (38 minutes).
- Not your parent's encyclopedia
See what amazing added content can be found in Britannica Online. In addition to the reliable subject information, there are video clips for math, language arts, science and social studies. You will find biographies, images, an atlas. Compare countries and create tables and charts that can be exported to a spreadsheet. Read Lincoln's inaugural address or Tolstoy's "The Three Hermits." We will look at the editions for Schools, Public Libraries and Academic settings. (35 minutes).
- Novelist Summer Reads
Long summer evenings are perfect for relaxing with a good book. But where is the best place to find good suggestions for what to read next? Novelist can help you find exactly what you and your patrons are looking
for. Novelist is a fiction book database that lets you search by plot, author, title, series. There are training materials for your staff on reader's advisory and searching tips. It also includes content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. We will explore how to locate your next beach read, cooking mystery or vampire book for your teens. Novelist Promotional Flyer
(39 minutes).
- Masterfile Premier
Learn about Masterfile Premier, a database, designed specifically for public libraries, provides access to articles, biographies, primary source documents, photos, book reviews, and more.
(31 minutes).
- HeinOnline
Learn about the HeinOnline Legal Database available to most public libraries.
(35 minutes).
- Wyoming Newspaper Project
Learn about the hundreds of newspapers available in the Wyoming Newspaper Project (http://www.wyonewspapers.org/).
(32 minutes).
- Biography Resources
Learn about Wilson's Current Biography Illustrated, Literature Resource Center, EBSCO's MasterFile and Student Research Center, Britannica Online, and the Wyoming Biography Databases. Quick Tips for Current Biography Illustrated.
(38 minutes).
- Online resources for argument and
persuasion
Learn about the online resources for argument and persuasion: CQ Researcher, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, and SIRS Researcher.
(39 minutes).
- GoWYLD and your New Year's Resolution -
How your computer can help you get healthy
Learn about Alt Healthwatch, Health Source: Consumer Edtion, MyLibrary DV, and Medline Plus. (40 minutes).
- Wyoming Place Names Wiki
Learn about the Wyoming Place Names Wiki. (37 minutes).
- End of the Year Tids and Bits
Learn about the some of the databases we rarely cover: EBSCO Visual Searching, and the Learning Express Library, ERIC, Chilton, and Cochrane databases.
(33 minutes).
- Wyoming Legal Resources
Learn about the free legal resources available from the Wyoming State Law Library. (37 minutes).
WYLD Network Webinars
- WYLD Search Tools
Learn more about searching WYLD libraries using Worldcat, Google Book search, Google Scholar, and any website in the world using the LibX browser plugin.(39 minutes).
- 360 Search
Learn how to use the 360 Federated search found on the GoWYLD.net databases page. (32 minutes).
- Directors' Station
Learn how to use Directors' Station. (54 minutes).
Other Webinars
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How E-Learning and Distance Education Can Help You and Your Library
Online education provides inexpensive, quality and convenient library workplace training programs. Are you overworked, understaffed, and financially overwhelmed? Are you small, poor, and rural? Invest in your staff to improve productivity, consistency, workplace relations, customer service and morale; an affordable way to do more with less by leveraging employee skills. Learn how to use online education, whether you are a library director, HR manager, inhouse trainer, manager, supervisor or employee. Slides.
(52 minutes).
Libraries collect all sorts of numbers -- circulation, visits, budgets and more. But how do your library's numbers compare with others? Fortunately, there are easy-to-use, online tools for public and academic libraries to find peer libraries, compare statistics and view trends. Take a quick tour of the IMLS and NCES comparison tools with Susan Mark.
(35 minutes).
Learn how Andy Angstrom, from the Teton County Library System, and Julie Eatmon, from the Laramie County Library System, run their library volunteer programs, where they find volunteers, tasks that they use volunteers for, how they recognize volunteers, and the pitfalls of using volunteer labor. Laramie County Library System Adult Volunteer Application, Young Adult Volunteer Application, Community Service Volunteer Application, Screen shot of the Volunteer Database, and Volunteer Handbook.
(54 minutes).
- Get on the Bus: Join the Online Social Library Communtiy
Get on the Bus: Join the Online Social Library Community consisted of five weeks of Web 2.0 technology training (Wikis, Blogs, Social Tagging, Social Networking, and RSS). Each week, trainers conducted a live webinar on a technology, offered links to resources with more information on the topic, and asked all participants to test out the technology as a homework assignment. The program is all online and is self-paced. Feel free to watch the archived versions of the webinars and do the training anytime.
- Museum and Library Grants Workshop
This workshop showcased Institue of Museum and Library Services staff who presented an overview of the agency's grant opportunities, followed by a panel of successful grant applicants, experienced grant application reviewers, and the Wyoming State Librarian, Lesley Boughton, who administers IMLS's largest library program in the state.
Watch the welcome videos by Senator Enzi and Congressman Lummis. (88 minutes).
- Meet the New Cataloging Rules: RDA (Resource Description and Access)
Resource Description and Access is the new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world. Built on the foundations established by AACR2, RDA provides a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media. Slides (53 minutes).
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