Today's Topics: 1. Free ALCTS webinar: Creating Effective Webinars [updated URL] (Elaine Franco) 2. CCQ call for papers: Assessment of Cataloging and Metadata Services (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 ALCTS webinar: Creating Effective Webinars Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time. Description: Learn how to create and deliver effective and memorable webinars from two veterans of this style of presentation. You will leave with new skills, including a few easy tips and tricks, in effective presentation design and powerful workshop delivery. You will learn how to manage live (synchronous) and recorded (asynchronous) learning spaces. In addition, resources related to effective webinars and presentations will be provided. Learning outcomes: After attending this webinar, participants will be able to: * Design better presentations. * Understand how to prepare for delivering the presentation (producer/tech support). * Better engage the audience. * Prepare for the unexpected, technical and otherwise, during the webinar * Understand some of the basic features of ?web conference? software and how to use them to your advantage. Who should attend? Anyone who is interested in giving a webinar or who wants to improve his/her techniques in giving a webinar. Presenters: Maurice Coleman is the Technical Trainer at a Harford County Public Library in Maryland. He has presented numerous virtual and face to face presentations on social media, technology implementation, and presentation and training skills. In addition, he hosts the library training and presentation podcast T is for Training at http://tisfortraining.wordpress.com and was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2010. He can be found through Twitter at @baldgeekinmd. Jill Hurst-Wahl teaches on-campus and online for Syracuse University?s School of Information Studies and is a contributor to the ?T is for Training? podcast. Jill is a frequent conference presenter, including sessions in 2016 at Computers in Libraries, Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, and the Academic Librarians Conference in New York State. Jill can be found online at https://ischool.syr.edu/people/directories/view/jahurst/ and through Twitter at @jill_hw. ***************** Registration Fees: Free To sign up and receive the webinar access link, sign up online at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5147847845651520513 This webinar will be recorded. The recording will be posted on the ALCTS web site shortly following the webinar. For questions about this webinar, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or [email protected]. Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee. ------------------------------ Message: 2 CCQ call for papers: Assessment of Cataloging and Metadata Services A special issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly will be devoted to an exploration of how cataloging units or organizations have conducted assessment of their workflows, services, quality of work, or the impact of their work on their respective institutions or society. The guest editor invites submissions from professionals in cataloging and metadata, as well as other related disciplines. Submissions by authors outside North America and from a variety of library types (academic, public, special) are encouraged. TOPICS Case studies, historical surveys, and research studies are all of interest. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to: * Assessment of: o Cataloging and metadata workflows o Quality of cataloging and metadata o Services offered by cataloging and metadata units o Cataloging and metadata standards o Productivity * Impact of cataloging and metadata work or services on the larger organization or society * Assessment of cataloging and metadata by vendors or utilities * International assessment efforts * Advantages and disadvantages of various assessment methods * Communicating the results of assessment * Metrics for assessment * Use of statistics for cataloging and metadata assessment * Methods of assessment, e.g., surveys, focus groups, interviews, statistics, benchmarking, and more. IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract (up to 300 words) due to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> by September 1, 2016 * Notification of appropriateness: September 15, 2016 * Manuscript submission: March 15, 2017 * Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 30, 2017 * Final papers due: May 30, 2017 GUEST EDITOR Rebecca L. Mugridge, Interim Dean of Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York Cataloging & Classification Quarterly emphasizes full-length research and review articles, descriptions of new programs and technology relevant to cataloging and classification, considered speculative articles on improved methods of bibliographic control for the future, and solicited book reviews. Articles are refereed. Instructions for authors can be found at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wccq20/current#<http://www.tandfonline.com/to c/wccq20/current> . Best, Rebecca ****************** Rebecca L. Mugridge Interim Dean of Libraries University Library, LI-123 University at Albany 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222 Phone: 518-442-3570 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ------------------------------ End of Tsig Digest, Vol 51, Issue 7 *********************************** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
