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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Training
Three Great Book Repair Guides
A Simple Book Repair Manual is a web-based guide created and hosted by the Dartmouth College Library. It covers what a library needs to set up a toolkit and make straightforward repairs. Conservation Book Repair : A training manual by … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Language, Libraries, Online Services, Training, Tutorials
Tagged Alaska Heritage Museum, Artemis BonaDea, book repair, Conservation Technician, Curator, Dartmouth College Library, Dartmouth College;, Stanford University, web-based guide
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Sandboxes
A couple of posts about sandboxes have caught my eye: LISNews posted about Peter Morville (writer of Ambient Findability, which if you haven’t read – you should) and his Flickr “sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns.” Roy Tennant … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Open Source, Software, Training, Web Design, Wiki
Tagged Ambient Findability, helpful tools, Peter Morville, Roy Tennant, search examples, University of Cincinnati, USD, web hosting, writer
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The Librarian Song
The Librarian Song (YouTube video) is, well, a song… about librarians… specifically about how librarians train users (Show it to them, do it with them, and then the user can do it themself). And above all… it is really funny … Continue reading
Recipes for a 5-Star Library
Recipes for a 5-Star Library is the latest “cookbook” from the MaintainIT project. The cookbooks are pdf files that are free to use The project focuses on public computers in libraries, and their Library Spotlight articles are drawn from real-world … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Publishing, Software, Training
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LOC Docent Training Videos
The Library of Congress web site has a collection of webcasts that they use for docent training. If you would like to learn about some of the collections within in the library, this is a fantastic way to do so! … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, LOC Docent Training Videos The
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Library Training Game
Within Range , a training game from Carnegie Mellen University Libraries, has several strikes against it : it is flash-based, it only trains in LC classification, and it was rated “worst game” on reddit.com. Otherwise, it is a pretty good … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Libraries, Software, Training
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Library 2.0 Webinar
10 Ways to Make Your Library Great in 2008—via Web 2.0 is a webinar being held next week that promises to be very informative. The focus is on social networking and how libraries and library staff can approach new technologies … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Training, Tutorials, Video
Tagged social networking
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Bibliographic Entity-Relationships
Karen Coyle has written a post on Coyle’s InFormation that I feel greatly helps to explain why it can be so complex to structure bibliographic information. I first encountered Entity-Relationships (note: right now this link is not a great introduction … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Definitions, Libraries, Training
Tagged Karen Coyle, search screen, word processor, word processor for others
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WebJunction’s Rural Library Sustainability Online Course
WebJunction has launched a Rural Library Sustainability Online Course, and it’s free! Their site has the following synopsis of the course: Visit each of the seven areas of interest critical to sustaining public access computing in your library. View case … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, Online Services, Training
Tagged Online Course
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WebJunction, Online Course, public access computing
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Projects and Time Management
No brand new flashy sites in this post; just a small collection of links on how one deals with the demands of time, projects and learning: Big or Small? — Jen Riley at the Indiana University Digital Library Program has … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Education, OCLC, Training
Tagged energy, Indiana University, Jen Riley, Karen Schneider, Roy Tennant
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Getting Change to Stick
A post, Getting change to stick, at Karen Coomb’s blog, has me thinking about change and growth, but not in an institutional sense, but in more of a personal sense. I think people can fall into the same trap: we … Continue reading
Chinese Learning Objects
Chinese Learning Objects, funded by the U.S. Department of Education and provided by the National Foreign Language Center, are online materials for learning to read Chinese. The good news is that, starting in July 2007, the materials will be available for … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online Services, Training
Tagged National Foreign Language Center, online materials, U.S. Department of Education
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Advice to a slightly less experienced geek librarian
Advice to a slightly less experienced geek librarian is written by Daniel Chudnov at One Big Library, and is an excellent essay with good advice for anyone exploring new ways to do things in libraries. I can vouch for a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Training, Tutorials
Tagged Advice, Daniel Chudnov, experienced geek librarian, One Big Library, slightly less experienced geek librarian
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Librarians, Library Staff, and Tech Projects
Jenn Riley recently posted an essay on the TechEssence blog titled Involving more librarians and library staff in technology projects. It is well worth reading, and provokes a couple of thoughs of my own: Every staff member, librarian, and administrator … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Training
Tagged and administrator, good administrator, Jenn Riley, librarian, staff member, technology projects
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Copyright Resources on the Web
Copyright Resources on the Web is an excellent and very comprehensive collection of links to, whaddayaknow, copyright resources on the web. from ResourceShelf
Posted in Copyright, Education, Libraries, Open Access, Training, Tutorials
Tagged Web
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Marketing your Academic Library
ALA’s ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) has posted an interesting article called “Developing a long-range and outreach plan for your academic library: The need for a marketing outreach plan“. It describes a series of promotional activities to market … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Promotions, Training, Web Design
Tagged College & Research Libraries;, e-newsletter, USD, Web hosting services
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Weed of the Month club
Weed of the Month doesn’t have anything to do with gardening (although that topic is covered) but with weeding library materials. Organized by Dewey Decimal Classification, it is an excellent overview of de-selection issues by topic area. from Catalogablog
Posted in Books, Libraries, Training
Tagged Dewey Decimal Classification, Month club
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College class writing their own textbook
Social and Cultural Foundations of Education will be an interesting course at Old Dominion University, as the coursework will not be taken from the textbook, it will be the textbook. In what may be a first for an undergraduate class, … Continue reading
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Tagged Old Dominion University
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Google for Educators
It seems to be a Google day: Google has put some of their offerings together as an educational platform for K-12 teachers to use for their classes. Google for Educators has nothing that isn’t being offered elsewhere, but it presents … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Google, Software, Training
Tagged Google, Google Teacher Academy, Northern California, Official
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