[OPLINLIST] Great LIS workshops----Online OR weekends only

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TO REGISTER:
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Title: Using JavaScript to Jazz Up Web Pages
Date: Feb. 6th- Mar. 9th
Location: Online
Description: Participants of this hands-on workshop will gain a working knowledge of JavaScript so that they can implement design features of Web pages, making them dynamic and interactive. This workshop will also teach students the tools to find and use JavaScript resources on the Internet. Some previous experience with HTML and computer programming is useful but not required.

Title: Access Government Documents
Date: Feb. 10th- Feb. 11th
Location: Columbus, Room 106, State Library
Description:  Government documents contain a wealth of information that is seldom tapped by researchers and librarians. This workshop gives participants a basic working knowledge of these documents, methods for accessing them and an explanation of how the materials are arranged.

Title: PHP and MYSQL: For Web Database Creation and Implementation
Date: Feb. 13th- Mar. 16th
Location: Online
Description: This workshop offers a basic understanding of PHP (Personal Home Page Tools, a server-side scripting language) and MySQL (a powerful database system that is used for storage and retrieval of information residing on a server but accessed through a Web interface). Participants will learn to build and configure PHP as a server module and implement a MySQL database with which a Web interface will interact.*Participants must have familiarity with HTML, programming, database theory and browsers.

Title: Practical Public Relations and Communication Tools (B)
Date: Feb. 17th- Apr. 14th
Location: Kent, 315 Library
Description: The goal of this workshop is to give students and library practitioners experience in the production of public relations and communication tools that will assist them in promoting library programs and services. Participants will learn how to create press releases, public service announcements, simple library newsletters, blog posts and wikis. They will also gain experience using Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools for library promotion.

Title: Donor Relations Essentials for Archivists (A)
Date: Feb. 24th- Feb. 25th
Location: Columbus, Room 106 State Library
Description: This workshop will focus on the policies, practices, promises and pitfalls in the functional area of collection management. Upon completion of the workshop, students will understand  the relationship between accepted professional policies / practices and the institutional applications of these policies / practices in the donor relations arena. Students will gain a better sense of their professional and social responsibilities as well as the ethical and legal dimensions of archival work. * Workshop participants should be familiar with the critical archival function of acquisitions and accessioning (the process whereby archivists, manuscript curators, and special collections librarians interact with donors who seek to place manuscript materials or records at a repository).

Title: Repair Decision Methods For Circulating Materials
Date: March 2nd
Location: Kent, Room 319 Library (Rm.322 Friday Only)
Description: The goal of this workshop is to teach repair methods that are less damaging to books, leading to preservation-oriented, archival-quality collection maintenance. Participants will learn to determine the appropriate methods for preserving books, repairing torn pages, tipping in loose pages, tightening hinges, reattaching broken hinges, repairing simple spine damage, re-casing books, binding pamphlets and making simple phase boxes.

Title: Picture Book Webs: Extending Picture Books with Drama, Language Arts, Music, Art, Math, Science and Writing
Date: March 2nd- March 3rd
Location: Kent, Room 311
Description:  This workshop teaches new ways for sharing picture books with children in preschool through third grade. Participants will discover how to enhance literature throughout the curriculum using drama, language arts, music, math, science and writing. They will also gain motivation to use more picture books and literacy activities with children in public and school libraries while increasing young children's emergent literacy activities.

Title: Juggling Act: Managing a Special Library
Date: March 2nd- March 3rd
Location: Kent, Room 317 Library
Description: This workshop will give students practical library experience within a special library, including select management duties. The setting will be the Eleanor Squire Library of Cleveland Botanical Garden, a small special library specializing in gardening resources. Workshop participants will perform general librarian duties, work with staff within the organization and perform select managerial duties at the Eleanor Squire Library. This unique workshop will give students experience in maintaining a special library to see if pursuing a career in library management is of interest.

Title: Digital Imaging I: Image Processing
Date: March 10th- March 11th
Location: Columbus, Room 108 State Library
Description: This workshop introduces students to the fundamental concepts, terminology, techniques and applications of digital imaging as they relate to the development of digital image collections depicting works found in museum collections, archives and special collections in libraries. Students will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to create, process and manage digital images of text, graphics, slides and reproductions of 3-D objects. This workshop focuses on individual images.

Title: Metadata for Digital Collections
Date: April 14th- April 15th
Location: Columbus, Room 108, State Library
Description: This is the perfect workshop for anyone who wants to learn to establish digital collections in distinct information communities for the purposes of managing, publishing and preserving documents in the digital environment. Emphasis will be on the development and implementation of metadata schemas and on the standards and technological applications used to create machine-understandable metadata. Among other skills, workshop participants will gain experience in applying a selected metadata standard to records or collections and will learn to design, evaluate and modify metadata elements according to local need. Finally, participants will be able to contribute to the implementation of metadata in a website or database.


Rhonda Filipan, M.A., M.L.S.
Academic Program Coordinator
Kent State University
School of Library and Information Science
www.kent.edu/slis<http://www.kent.edu/slis>
330-672-0013

**Reserve a spot at the 2012 Library and Information Professions Careers Night:
http://bit.ly/CareersNight2012
Kent:  Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Columbus:  Thursday, March 8, 2012


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