South Central Regional Library Council

2004 Fall Session

 

Please check out our training calendar on the SCRLC web site (http://www.lakenet.org/scrlc/calendar.html) for more details.

 

 

HR@Your Library -- Jackie Stroh, Stroh & Associates

Friday, October 29, 2004 9:30-3:30, Broome County Public Library, Binghamton, NY

Registration - $110/SCRLC members; $125/non-members. Lunch on your own.

Directors and supervisors can increase a library's chances for success by hiring well and communicating regularly.  This workshop will include conducting a two-way interview, managing performance, and facilitating employee retention through progressive discipline.

 

WALDO Update -- Robert Karen, WALDO

Friday, November 5, 2004 10:00-2:30, Broome County Public Library, Binghamton, NY

Registration – Free! But registration is required. Lunch and refreshments included.

SCRLC members receive significantly discounted prices for online databases because of SCRLC’s partnership with WALDO.  Robert Karen will provide current information about their electronic products.  Serials Solutions will demonstrate their products for e-journal access and management.

 

Train the Trainer: Legal Resources  -- Wendy Scott and Robert Weiner, Syracuse University

Friday, November 12, 2004 9:30-3:30, Broome County Public Library, Binghamton, NY

Registration - $15/SCRLC members; $25/non-members. Lunch on your own.

Join Wendy Scott and Robert Weiner, law librarians at the H. Douglas Barclay Law Library, Syracuse University College of Law as they provide an overview of basic federal and state print legal resources, as well as free websites providing legal information. 

 

 Serials Cataloging -- Marc Wildman, SUNY Cortland

Friday, November 19, 2004 9:30-3:30, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Ithaca, NY

Registration - $55/SCRLC members; $70/non-members. Lunch on your own.

This class will provide a one-day introduction or refresher for cataloging serials. Using Bibliographic Formats and Standards, along with CONSER rules, the class will learn which fields separate the serials from the monographs. The emphasis of the workshop will be on print serials, but some non-print examples will be provided.

 

Electronic Communication -- Eric Machan Howd, Tompkins Cortland Community College

Thursday, December 2, 2004  9:30-3:30, Steele Public Library, Elmira, NY 

Registration - $55/SCRLC members; $70/non-members. Lunch on your own.

You'll learn to: manage your ever-growing emails, participate in online discussion lists, communicate in an online chat room, describe a weblog (even better, help to build a ‘blog!) and choose which RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed is the best! Library staff need these skills both for their own communications and to answer patrons’ questions about these information tools.

 

NOVEL & the SCRLC Database Suite: Finding the Information Your Patrons Need 

Annette Birdsall, Tompkins County Public Library

Thursday, December 9, 2004 9:30-3:30, Broome County Public Library, Binghamton, NY

Registration - $30/SCRLC members; $40/non-members. Lunch and refreshments included.

Learn how to effectively use the NOVEL suite and the SCRLC suite -- including the FirstSearch Base Reference Package plus Wilson FullText Select, NewsBank Regional Newspapers, and Gale Literature Resource Center. We will explore the scope of resources available, how to access them, how to choose the best database for the task, and how to improve your searching skills.

 

NOVEL & the SCRLC Database Suite: How to TEACH Database Searching

Robert Lackie, Rider University

Friday, January 28, 2005 9:30-3:30, Broome County Public Library, Binghamton, NY

Registration - $30/SCRLC members; $40/non-members. Lunch and refreshments included.

Patrons and students need the guidance of informed library searchers to demonstrate how to efficiently pursue their research.  Fortunately, there are tried-and-true methods searchers can use to access this elusive content, and effective ways to communicate these methods to patrons. 

 
South Central Regional Library Council

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SCRLC, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca NY 14850   Telephone: 607-273-9106   Fax: 607-272-0740

 

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