[Web4lib] Exciting classes from SOLINET coming up!

[Max Anderson]

Please excuse cross-posting

Promoting Library Services Using Blogs and
RSS<http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?doc_id=3610&WKSHPID=26PLSBR>(Live
Online)
"...not only will you know what your patrons and co-workers are talking
about, but you will have the knowledge and ability to create a blog, read
RSS feeds and use both to promote your library services..."
11/5/2007 - 11/6/2007, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, meets two hours each day
Instructor: Max Anderson

OCLC Connexion Client Copy Cataloging
Skills<http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?doc_id=4348&WKSHPID=05OCCCCSLO>(Live
Online)
"...class gives participants an introduction to copy cataloging principles,
as well as specific procedures for searching, editing, producing, and
exporting bibliographic records in the Cataloging system in OCLC Connexion
Client..."
11/5/2007 - 11/6/2007. 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, meets two hours each day
Instructor: Marlee Givens

Resource Sharing Detective: Citation
Tracing<http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?doc_id=4356&WKSHPID=26RSDLO>(Live
Online)
"...students will learn, through discussion and exercises posing "real life"
resource sharing scenarios, to use a variety of search tools to find elusive
material requested by interlibrary loan patrons..."
11/5/2007 - 11/6/2007, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, meets two hours each day
Instructor: Russell Palmer

Interpreting the MARC
Record<http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?doc_id=2908&WKSHPID=05IOMR>(Face
to Face, Roanoke Higher Education Authority)
"...topics include history of the MARC format, applications of the MARC
record, the fixed and variable fields, differences among record formats, and
which fields can be searched and how..."
11/7/2007, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Marlee Givens

Practical Approaches to Information
Literacy<http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?doc_id=4351&WKSHPID=26PAILLO>(Live
Online)
"...offers strategies for working more actively with faculty and students to
change library learning environments--both physical and virtual—in ways that
will more actively engage students in the research process..."
11/7/2007 - 11/9/2007, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, meets two hours each day
Instructor: Russell Palmer

Basic Serials Cataloging- One
Day<http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?doc_id=2826&WKSHPID=05BSC>(Face
to Face, Piedmont College)
"...focuses on the elements contained in the CONSER core record, including
appropriate MARC 21 tagging, as well as problem-solving and decision-making
relative to serials cataloging..."
11/8/2007, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Beth Thornton

Introduction to the Authority
File<http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?doc_id=2905&WKSHPID=05IOAF>(Face
to Face, Roanoke Higher Education Authority)
"...exercises to teach you to analyze a MARC Authority record, apply
authority headings in cataloging, and search OCLC's Authority File..."
11/8/200, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Marlee Givens

Advanced Local Holdings
Maintenance<http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?doc_id=4250&WKSHPID=05ALHMLO>(Live
Online)
"...work on creating progressively more complicated Local Holdings Records
as well as integrating Constant Data into our records..."
11/8/2007 - 11/9/2007
Instructor: David Greenebaum

Preservation and Salvage of Audiovisual
Materials<http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?doc_id=3020&WKSHPID=12PSAM>(Live
Online)
"...topics include life expectancies of common media, preservation methods
for extending the life of AV materials, disaster preparedness strategies,
and elements of response and recovery..."
11/9/2007, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Instructor: Jessica Leming

ERM System: An Introduction<http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?mode=preview&doc_id=4595&WKSHPID=26ERMLO>(Live
Online)
"...basic introduction to electronic resource management systems, their
capabilities and limitations..."
11/9/2007, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Instructor: David Greenebaum
Thanks!
Max
-- 
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         --Large floating brain (without hands), Futurama, "The Day the
Earth Stood Stupid"