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News from Library Juice Academy

Contents:

Courses in May and June

Information About Courses

Certificate in User Experience (UX)

Certificate in XML and RDF-Based Systems

Webinar Series - Gary Price

Webinar Series - Libraries on the Ballot

Call for Presenters

Sponsor a Librarian

In the Planning Stages...

Teach For Us

Other Information

Courses in May

Cataloging for the Non-Cataloger
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/005-intro-cataloging.php> 
Instructor: Melissa Adler 

The Mechanics of Metadata
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/016-intro-metadata.php> 
Instructor: Grace Agnew

Game-Based Learning in Library Instruction
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/011-gaming.php> 
Instructor: Scott Rice

Introduction to the Semantic Web
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/020-intro-semantic-web.php> 
Instructor: Robert Chavez

Copyright for Librarians 101: Copyright Basics
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/039-copyright-101.php> 
Instructor: Rachel Bridgewater

Embedded Librarianship <http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/026-embedded.php>

Instructor: Courtney Mlinar

Introduction to Project Management
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/027-project-management.php> 
Instructor: Robin Hastings

Courses in June

Introduction to RDA <http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/012-intro-RDA.php> 
Instructor: Melissa Adler

Marketing the Library in the 21st Century
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/044-marketing.php> 
Instructor: Debra Lucas-Alfieri

Success in First Library Supervisor Position
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/030-first-supervisor-position.php> 
Instructor: Tony Garrett

Patent Searching
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/018-patent-searching.php> 
Instructor: Martin Wallace

Online Instruction
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/015-online-instruction.php> 
Instructor: John Doherty

Introduction to Drupal for Libraries
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/023-drupal-1.php> 
Instructor: Cody Hennesy

Diversity Plans for Academic Libraries
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/014-diversity-plans.php> 
Instructor: Julie Biando Edwards

Designing a Usable Website (Concepts of User-Centered Design)
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/045-user-centered.php> 
Instructor: Carolyn Ellis

The Sustainability Movement on Campus: Forming a Library Action Plan for
Engagement <http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/029-sustainability.php> 
Instructor: Madeleine Charney

Information About Courses

We have enlisted instructors
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/instructors.php>  for our classes based
on their expertise in their areas of instruction, as well as their
teaching abilities. Classes are taught asynchronously, using the Moodle
course platform, so participants can do the work as their schedules
allow. Most courses are four weeks in length and cost $175. CEU
documentation is available to participants who need this (1.5 CEUs per
4-week course, a 4-week course requiring 15 hours of work). Discounts
are available to institutions who want to enroll at least five people in
a course. Payment can be by credit card, or through your institution's
normal accounts payable process in response to a billing invoice. We
accept enrollments into the first week of instruction, to accommodate
last-minute needs. Visit the website to see our listings for July and
August as well. http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/

Certificate in XML and RDF-Based Systems
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/certificate-xml-rdf.php> 

In this 6-course certificate program, you will gain competency as a
coder in XML and RDF-based systems that create, transform, manage, and
disseminate content and metadata. Typically, these are the structures at
the heart of content management systems, repositories, and digital
libraries. Topics covered include XML fundamentals, XPath, DTDs and
Schemas, standard markup languages, XSLT and Xquery, the semantic web,
RDFa and RDFa Lite, RSS, ontologies and linked data, and the SPARQL
semantic query language and protocol. Register for all six courses and
get a 10% discount.

Certificate in User Experience (UX)
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/certificate-ux.php> 

In this 6-course certificate program, you will learn the fundamentals of
user experience (UX) and how to apply user-centered strategies to
library websites and beyond. The program begins by teaching you the key
concepts of UX design and how to employ them in your website projects.
Next, you will learn the ins and outs of information architecture: how
to structure and organize your content so that it is both discoverable
and navigable in the easiest way possible. The next two courses will
give you the tools to continually get feedback on your website through
usability testing and other research methods. You will then learn how to
better write for the web so that once your users discover your content,
they can both understand it and act on it. Finally, you will learn how
you can create a website content strategy, so that from that point
forward all your content will be useful, usable, and findable. All
together, these courses cover a breadth of topics that will equip you
with the skills necessary to create, manage, and sustain library
websites that provide an excellent user experience. Register for all six
courses and get a 10% discount.

Webinar Series: What's New with Gary Price
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/webinars-gprice-whatsnew.php> 

In these fast-paced sessions Gary Price
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Price_%28librarian%29>  shares a
handful of the latest and most useful web resources, tools, and search
techniques he's been posting and sharing on LJ's infoDOCKET
<http://www.infodocket.com/> . Plus, each session focuses on a special
topic loaded with resources and discussion. Topics include online
privacy and security, current awareness tools, real time information
sources, ethical issues for the 21st Century librarian, personal
information archiving, and online productivity tools.

Webinar Series with EveryLibrary: Libraries on the Ballot
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/webinars-everylibrary.php> 

Is your library going to be on the ballot within the next 3 years? Get
the information you want and the tools you need to plan the campaign and
win on Election Day. Join EveryLibrary and Library Juice Academy for a
new 9-part webinar series focused exclusively on local library ballot
measures like levies, bonds, and referenda. Whether you are running an
Information-Only campaign through the library or are managing a Vote Yes
campaign through a ballot committee, you will learn relevant, proven,
and actionable techniques for voter segmentation, canvasing and GOTV
work, coalition building, opposition research, and campaign management.
These webinars are non-partisan, non-political, and pro-library.
Sessions will include interactive Q&A time with subject-experts, and
participants will receive best practice guides for each topic.

Call for Presenters: Webinar Series on Creative Solutions in Academic
Libraries <http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/webinars-solutions-call.php> 

There is no shortage of discussion about "problems faced by academic
libraries" at the big scale, regarding trends in higher education and
technology, where the approach to these problems is mainly a question of
strategic planning. There is less attention to the small scale problems
that academic librarians solve in the process of adapting services and
processes to a changing environment or to new plans. These solutions to
small scale problems can be in the realm of technological kludges or
hacks, organizational adjustments, creative ideas in outreach,
procedural changes, questioning and revision of "the way we do things,"
recognition of areas where "what didn't work before" can work now, time
management strategies, and others.

We are looking for presenters for a series of monthly webinars where
academic librarians will share a creative solution that may be helpful
to librarians in other institutions. These hour-long webinars will
likely include two 20-minute presentations and a period for discussion,
with presentations grouped by theme. Presentations may be by individuals
or groups. There will be monetary compensation for presenters based on
the number of paying attendees.

Sponsor a Librarian <http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/sponsoralibrarian/> 

A problem that many librarians are concerned about is the difficult job
market and the difficulty that out-of-work librarians face in keeping up
their skills. Library Juice Academy's "sponsored librarian" project aims
to help unemployed librarians pay for their continuing education. If you
are an unemployed librarian who wants to take classes from Library Juice
Academy <http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/> , you can set up a profile
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/sponsoralibrarian/?page_id=19>  on our
site. If you want to donate some funds to help an unemployed librarian
pay for their classes, you can find their profile and use your PayPal
account or credit card to pay for a full class or donate an amount
toward the enrollment fees. We also encourage peer-to-peer micro-lending
<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/sponsoralibrarian/?page_id=24> , so that
unemployed librarians can pay their donors back once they have found
employment. We think this system will help facilitate the mutual support
that is part of what makes librarianship a satisfying field to work in.

In the Planning Stages...

Doc talks webinar series 

We are planning a webinar series where current doctoral students in
library and information studies will give presentations on their
dissertation research. The intended audience will be librarians and
library students who are interested in the newest directions that the
field is taking, and other doctoral students and LIS faculty. Michael
Wartenbe of UCLA will organize and present these sessions.

Support staff certificate program

We are planning a series of courses intended for paraprofessionals who
are earning credits toward the ALA-APA's Library Support Staff
Certification. Halsted Mencotti Bernard will teach these classes.

Teach for Us <http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/teachforus.php> 

We are currently seeking to add more instructors with expert knowledge
of practical topic areas in librarianship. Classes are asynchronous, and
go for two or four weeks, requiring seven and fifteen hours of student
work, respectively. Instructors will need to be able to guide class
participation on a daily basis for the duration of the course. Although
we have a structure for helping instructors design their courses, they
are responsible for assigning any readings, requiring any writing or
other work product, creating any tests, and keeping students on track
over the course of the workshop. Pay is generous, comparable to what
other programs are offering instructors, if not a little better. We
offer help in terms of best practices and a little coaching.

Other Information               

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<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/news/?cat=8> , and we'd also like you to
read our FAQ <http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/faq.php> .

Library Juice Academy 

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Tel. 218-260-6115

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