[Web4lib] Announcement: LOC Armchair today, Wiki World tomorrow

[Tom Peters]

Greetings!  The following two live online programs may be of interest to you and your library users.  They are both free.  There is no need to register.  Follow this URL to enter the online room:
   
  http://67.19.231.218/v4/login.asp?r=67955673&p=0
   
    
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT:
The Armchair Traveler
Get set to travel to far-flung locations and down-home sites at the click of a mouse. Join Library of Congress tour directors who will lead you in surfing the library's online collections and resources from Aruba to Zimbabwe and from Rutland, Vermont to Redding, California. All aboard! Presented by the librarians at the Library of Congress. 
This OPAL event will be held in the Auditorium. 

Thursday, January 12, 2006 beginning at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, 2:00 Central, 1:00 Mountain, noon Pacific, and 8:00 p.m. GMT:
Wiki World: An Introduction
Wikis are democratizing the World Wide Web in a way that no other Web application has. A wiki allows a group of people to collaboratively develop website with no knowledge of HTML or other markup languages. Any member of the wiki community can add to or edit anyone else's content, which is what makes Wikis so revolutionary and so controversial. Wikis are being used by librarians as knowledge repositories, subject guides, conference planning vehicles, and Intranets, but they could be used in any situation where quick and easy online collaboration is a goal. This session will explain what wikis are, how they could be used in libraries, and what to consider before creating one of your own. Presented by Meredith Farkas, Distance Learning Librarian at the Kreitzberg Library atNorwich University in Vermont. Meredith is the author of the blog Information Wants To Be Free and the creator and administrator of the ALA Chicago 2005 Wiki and Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. Sponsored by
 the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center. 
This OPAL event will be held in the Auditorium. 

   
  OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries--And All Library Users) is a collaborative effort of nearly 30 libraries on three continents.  For a complete list of upcoming OPAL live online programs, please visit:
   
  http://www.opal-online.org/progschrono.htm


Tom Peters

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