Connecting with NER: A Distance Education Series

“Connecting with the NER”A Distance Education Series 

Stay up to date professionally without leaving your desk! The National Network of Libraries of Medicine/ New England Region brings you a new distance education series. This ongoing series will feature hot topics in health sciences librarianship and highlight major updates to National Library of Medicine resources.   For full details  http://nnlm.gov/ner/training/distancelearning.html

Register for one, two or all sessions. Each session will be held via teleconference and will have an online component via Adobe Connect. All you need to participate is a phone near a computer with Internet access. Registration is on a first come, first serve basis. Participation is limited to 20 phone lines. So, if there is more than one interested participant from your library, we encourage you to use a speaker phone to participate together.  To register, please contact Martha Pearson at martha.pearson@umassmed.edu and let her know which session you want to attend. Details of how to access the teleconference and Adobe Connect session will be forwarded upon registration.  

Programs Include: Health Literacy
Guest speaker: Rima Rudd
Date: February 12, 2008
Time: 1-2 PM 

“Library as Commons: Improving the Library Experience”
Guest speaker: Cheryl Bryan
Date: March 19, 2008
Time: 1- 2 PM

“Marketing Showcase”
Guest speaker: You!
Date: April 9, 2008
Time: 1-3:30 PM

Stay tuned to the “Connecting with the NER” distance learning series page at http://nnlm.gov/ner/training/distancelearning.html for upcoming programs. 

Road Map to Digital Collections: Hitting the Highlights

Are you curious about Digital Collections or are contemplating creating one? 

Here is a program for you!

 A Road Map to Digital Collections: Hitting the Highlights 

Amy Benson, Librarian Archivist for Digital Projects, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University will be the speaker at a Library information session “A Road Map to Digital Collections: Hitting the Highlights” to be presented on February 15 ( snow date February 29th) from 12:00- 3:00 pm. at ITT Technical Institute 10 Forbes Road Woburn . 01801. Hosted by ITT Technical Institute of Woburn MA. John Cathcart, Librarian.

 RSVP to Karen Maggio (day) or Marion Mahoney (eve) ITT Technical  Institute. 10 Forbes Road Woburn MA. 01818 @ 781-937-8324, or email Jcathcart@itt-tech.edu

Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices (MLA WebCast)

Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the Participatory Web (MLA webcast)

March 5, 2008, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Children’s Hospital Boston, Conference Room 3
1 Autumn Street
Boston, MA

3 MLA CE credits

DIRECTIONS:  

 Children’s Hospital

The goal of this program is to provide a basic understanding of web 2.0 terminology and concepts, assess the effect of the technology on health sciences library services, and identify the impact of web 2.0 services on health care today and in the future.

OBJECTIVES:

*Understand web 2.0 terminology and concepts

*Recognize web 2.0 technologies and their possible effects on library and health care  service

*Recognize feature differences among available tools 

*Assess the efficacy of particular web 2.0 technologies for use in your own environment

WRAPAROUND SESSION:

The webcast lasts for two hours and will be followed by a wrap-around session featuring Ken Liss, Senior Reference Librarian/Bibliographer, O’Neill Library, Boston College. He will discuss an innovative project at the BC Library which integrates some of these web 2.0 technologies.

REGISTRATION:

There is no charge for MAHSLIN members. The non-MAHSLIN member fee is $25.00. Registration deadline is Friday, February, 28th.

To register please email the following to Alison.clapp@childrens.harvard.edu :

Your Name:

Your Institution:

Your Phone:

Your Email:

More information about the web cast is available on the MLA website:

http://www.mlanet.org/education/distance_ed/web2.0/index.html

Alison Clapp & Nathan Norris
Co-chairs, MAHSLIN Education Committee