Training/Workshop

Sure, E-learning solutions can provide enormous savings, but start-up and design costs can be prohibitive. Join Jane Bozarth, author of E-learning Solutions on a Shoestring, to explore examples of inexpensive – even free! – e-learning solutions. Learn to:
• Make the “buy vs. build” decision.
• Identify inexpensive means of adding interactivity and visual interest.
• Make better use of tools and resources, including those you already have.
• Break down examples of online training programs into essential parts and identify ways of cutting costs to produce similar products.
• Identify inexpensive means of adding interactivity and visual interest.

We're back! In this session will be showing some of the best apps for education across multiple types of devices. It doesn't matter if you use an iPad, Android device, or even Google Chrome, more often than not, there is in fact an "app for that".

We will provide examples of fun assignments to conduct using apps, and also show some of the best ways to share an iPad screen or Android screen in your classroom. (Hint: It's not using a Document Camera!)

Get some new ideas for your classroom and share some of your ideas of how apps can be used in education.

Did you know:

• At the end of 2011 there were more than 1 billion mobile-broadband subscriptions worldwide?
• More library customers are using mobile devices and assume your library can be accessible from anywhere, at any time, and on most any device?

This webinar will help you learn how to easily and effectively make your library’s website accessible and useful to mobile users. Chad Mairn will describe and demonstrate various tools, tips, and techniques for creating mobile websites, making them interactive and engaging, and integrating them with other resources, services, and systems available through your library.

At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify 3 innovative library mobile website designs.
• Explain how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work together to build mobile websites.
• Describe what a mobile framework is and why they are used.
• List 3 existing mobile services/apps that can be included in library-created mobile websites.
• Describe the best practices in mobile Web development
• Use a step-by-step guide for implementing a mobile website.

Join Mary Ehrenworth, the Deputy Director at the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University, and co-author of Pathways to the Common Core, as she explores creating a school culture of reading, the challenges and methods for getting just-right books into kids’ hands, increasing nonfiction engagement, and building structures for clubs and parent involvement through the central core of a school’s reading life— the library.

Welcome to American Libraries Live! AL Live is a new way for everyone involved in the library world to dialogue and communicate! Take a look at our blog to learn more about this exciting new event.

Resource Description and Access (RDA), the new content standard for library cataloging, the replacement for Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, was released in 2010, but RDA has not been fully implemented by the Library Congress, and is only very slowly being adopted in other US libraries. Meanwhile, in May 2011, the Library of Congress announced its Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME), in part to find a replacement for the MARC format - although BIBFRAME is much more than simply a new format - it is a new foundation for bibliographic description, designed for our networked, digital age. This webinar will take a look at what is happening in resource description, building on the BIBFRAME report, "Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data Model and Supporting Services", released by Library of Congress and Zepheira, in November 2012.

In this hands-on webcast presented by Jonathan Stark, author of 'Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript' and 'Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript', you'll learn why it is no longer safe to assume that visitors to your website are sitting in front of large monitors equipped with a keyboard and mouse. As smartphones overtake the desktop as the primary portal to the Web - and as new device types and interaction models continue to emerge - designers need to adopt future-friendly strategies that support a full range of user contexts with a single codebase.

What will be covered?

• The "One Web" philosophy and benefits
• Mechanics of media queries
• Code organization and best practices
• Adding support for adaptive images
• Fallback techniques for older browsers

Who is this webcast for?

This webcast is for web designers and developers who are interested in creating mobile web sites and web apps. A working familiarity with standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript would be very helpful but is not required.

When your supervisor assigns you to a team to implement a new project, does your heart begin to pound? Do you feel a sense of dread wash over you? If so, this session is for you!

Learn how to be a better team player in your library, on a committee, in sports, or as a family! Face your insecurities, eliminate unhealthy competitiveness, improve your communication skills, and overcome your fear of change.