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October:
Webinar: Proactive Libraries in the 21st Century - Keeping your Library Relevant to your Community
Thurs, Oct 6 | 2-3pm | $20 METRO, myMETRO, & New York 3Rs Council Members; $40 Non-members
Instructor Maurice Coleman will discuss some ways to keep relevant, deal with lower funding coupled with increased demands, and how to stay able to meet your communities’ needs without knowing what those needs will be in the future.
Learn more & register at http://www.metro.org/en/cev/92
Digital Preservation Webinar Series Package
$50 METRO, myMETRO, & New York 3Rs Council Members; $100 Non-members
Save when you register to attend all four of our upcoming Digital Preservation webinars:
- The Ship Hasn’t Left Without You: Current Trends in Digital Preservation on Oct 11
- Email: Digital Preservation Nightmare? on Oct 18
- Core Issues in Digital Preservation on Oct 24
- Personal Digital Archiving: Basic Advice to Preserve Your Digital Memories on Oct 25
Learn more & register at http://www.metro.org/en/cev/
Webinar: The Ship Hasn’t Left Without You - Current Trends in Digital Preservation
Tues, Oct 11 | 1-2pm | $15 METRO, myMETRO, & New York 3Rs Council Members; $40 Non-members
This session will highlight trends in Digital Preservation adoption among cultural heritage institutions that the instructors have gained over five years of research.
Learn more & register at http://www.metro.org/en/cev/
Webinar: Email - Digital Preservation Nightmare?
Tues, Oct 18 | 1-2pm | $15 METRO, myMETRO, & New York 3Rs Council Members; $40 Non-members
Instructor Christopher Prom will outline practical steps that any institution can take to get started with email preservation, offering sepecific recommendations for organizational leaders, IT professionals, librarians, and archivists who are seeking to preserve email.
Learn more & register at http://www.metro.org/en/cev/
Webinar: Core Issues in Digital Preservation
Mon, Oct 24 | 1-2pm | $15 METRO, myMETRO, & New York 3Rs Council Members; $30 Non-members
Instructor Jacob Nadal will introduce key concepts for understanding the life-cycle and preservation issues involved in digital projects with a general model for preservation that applies to collections of all types.
Learn more & register at http://www.metro.org/en/cev/
Webinar: Personal Digital Archiving - Basic Advice to Preserve Your Digital Memories
Tues, Oct 25 | 1-2pm | $15 METRO, myMETRO, & New York 3Rs Council Members; $30 Non-members
This session will provide advice on preserving personal and family digital materials that attendees can implement themselves or pass on to their patrons. Instructor William Lefurgy will make the case that librarians and archivists should develop the capacity to talk about digital preservation with non-experts in order to assist smaller institutions and the public.
Learn more & register at http://www.metro.org/en/cev/
November:
Inside the Hiring Process
Mon, Nov 7 | 6-8pm | $20 METRO & myMETRO; $30 Non-members
At this panel discussion, we’ll uncover some of the mystery about how employees are hired in different types of libraries. Our panelists, representing academic and special libraries as well as a library recruiter, will talk candidly about the ins and outs of hiring the best candidate for the job.
Learn more & register at http://www.metro.org/en/cev/
Introduction to Web Programming Using JavaScript and DOM
Mon, Nov 14 and Mon, Nov 21 | 10am-4pm each day | $150 METRO; $125 myMETRO; $200 Non-members (covers both days)
JavaScript has become the technology that all Web developers must learn, and over the course of this two-day workshop, instructor KB Ng will help you master JavaScript with DOM (Document Object Model). DOM is an application interface for manipulating web pages and is an extremely important part of everyday JavaScript coding.
Learn more & register at http://www.metro.org/en/cev/
Upcoming Special Interest Group Meetings:
Reference: A Timely Time-Traveling Double Feature
Thurs, Oct 6 | 10am-12pm | Learn more & register at: http://www.metro.org/en/cev/
Prison Librarians
Fri, Oct 7 | 10am-12pm | Learn more & register at: http://www.metro.org/en/cev/95
Science, Technology, and Medical Librarians
Fri, Oct 21 | 2-4pm | Learn more & register at: http://www.metro.org/en/cev/
Smart Phones & Mobile Computing: Trends in Mobile Medicine
Wed, Oct 26 | 3-4:30pm | Learn more & register at: http://www.metro.org/en/cev/
Distance Education: Freeware for Distance Education Services
Thurs, Oct 27 | 10am-12pm | Learn more & register at: http://www.metro.org/en/cev/
Library 2.0
Tues, Nov 1 | 10am-12pm | Learn more & register at: http://www.metro.org/en/cev/97
Government Documents: 2010 Census Training
Wed, Nov 9 | 9:30am-12pm | Learn more & register at: http://www.metro.org/en/cev/
Please contact Laura Forshay at lforshay@metro.org, 212.228.2320 x 110 with any questions.
