Training

An Infopeople Online Learning Course

Format: Online

Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and Infopeople Partners, $150 for all others.

Wikis . . .blogs . . .RSS feeds . . .MySpace. . .tagging. . .social software. These are hot Web 2.0 topics in the news and in conversations about library service and the web. Increasingly, library staff are expected to be conversant in these areas. Things have been evolving so quickly that it can be hard to get a foothold. If you haven’t had a chance to keep up or don’t know where to start, this course is for you. You will leave with an understanding of how these things work as well as some ideas about how they can be useful in your library.

• Do you find yourself repeating the same steps over and over again with your users (placing holds, renewing items, checking records)?
• Do you need to teach your staff a new skill (ILS/ALS change, new policy, Office '07)?
• How many times have you explained in person or on the phone how to search your catalog and online databases?

While explaining/showing people personally is important you can also create an instructional screencast that they can access any time that they're on a computer (especially at their point of ne

In a time when libraries are trying to adapt to a rapidly-changing technology environment, our budgets and available staff time seem to be shrinking every year. Staff that try to keep up with new technology or other advancements in the profession may find themselves swimming upstream by themselves. You may be in charge of training initiatives at your library or you may be responsible for technology innovations, but your time may be limited. The good news is that there are many freely available Web 2.0 tools that are easily adapted to many training situations.

(An Infopeople Online Learning Course)
June 26, 2007 - July 30, 2007

Your library's employees are its most valuable resource. They must be skilled, knowledgeable, and adaptive to user expectations. No matter what your role in staff training and development—whether you are a library director or manager, a training coordinator, or the person with "accidental" responsibility in this area—you need strategies for skill building.

Sep - Dec 2004

Format: Meeting Room

Have you ever wished that you could: