[Web4lib] OCLC Research Announces Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series

[Roy Tennant]

OCLC Research Announces Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural
Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series

First Webinar to be Held Wednesday, 26 August from 11 a.m.-12 noon Eastern
Daylight Time/8-9 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time
To register go to 
<https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/j.php?ED=124820887&RG=1&UID=1086916867>

OCLC Research, on behalf of the RLG Partnership and under the management of
Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant, is developing a series of webinars to
teach library staff new technology skills and educate them about new
products to help increase their productivity in today¹s changing library,
archive and museum environment. The goal of these webinars is to highlight
specific innovative applications, often locally developed, that libraries,
museums and archives may find effective in their own environments, as well
as to teach technical staff new technologies and skills.  The webinar
series, titled Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage
Institutions (TAI CHI), will have two tracks: an instructional track and a
product demo track.
 
· Instructional Track:
The instructional track will provide a practical, efficient overview of key
details for technical staff so they can get up to speed on new technologies.
Webinars in this track will focus on topics such as OCLC Web Services, Solr
indexing platform, XSLT, XPath and XQuery, Java, Javascript and the Google
Books API. 

· Product Demo Track:
The product demo track will provide overviews and demonstrations of new and
useful products for staff at cultural heritage institutions who are
interested in increasing their general product understanding as well as in
making informed purchase and use decisions.  Webinars in this track will
include products such as Library à la Carte and Blacklight.

Participation is free and open to all but advanced registration is required.
This series of webinars will be recorded and made available on the OCLC
Research Web site and in the iTunes Store.
 
The first product demo track webinar in the series will cover Library à la
Carte on Wednesday, 26 August from 11 a.m.-12 noon Eastern Daylight Time/8-9
a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Library à la Carte
<http://alacarte.library.oregonstate.edu/> is software developed at Oregon
State University that lets you build customized Web pages by choosing
exactly what you want from a menu of choices.  Jane Nichols, Oregon State
University subject librarian, will demonstrate how to create course Web
pages, assignment tip sheets and subject guides in minutes without writing a
single line of HTML.  This content management system makes it easy to
integrate Web 2.0 features, chat and RSS feeds, etc. with traditional
library content, such as catalogs and article databases, into Web pages. Kim
Griggs, Oregon State University programmer, will discuss installing and
customizing Library à la Carte and future developments.
 
To register to attend the first webinar, go to
<https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/j.php?ED=124820887&RG=1&UID=1086916867> .
 
If you have any questions, let me know.
Roy