[texshare-users] Amigos Training News - May 2011

Fri Apr 22 16:20:48 CDT 2011

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Training News from Amigos Library Services

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Customer Skills for Library Staff - Learn How to Enhance Interactions
with Your Patrons

Information seekers interact daily with library staff to meet their
information needs. Do you have the necessary customer skills it takes to
engage in successful interactions with your patrons?

This course helps reference staff identify necessary skill sets needed
for any reference interaction whether it is face to face, virtual, or on
the telephone. Additionally, you will learn to recognize common barriers
to productive reference interactions, develop techniques to overcome
them, and discover how to display exemplary service to anyone visiting
your library, whether it be face-to face or virtually.

This online class meets on June 8, 15, & 22; from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
CDT each day. Visit the Amigos website for the complete description and
online registration.

(Read more at http://www.amigos.org/node/819)

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Upcoming Know & Go Sessions

Wolfram Alpha and More Ready Ref on the Web and HTML 5: Will It Be Worth
It?

Wolfram Alpha and More Ready Ref on the Web

Arta Kabashi, Amigos Continuing Education Librarian, will discuss the
strengths and weaknesses of popular search engines such as Wolfram
Alpha, Google, and Bing. She will cover best practices when using them
to assist your patrons. This session is scheduled for May 23, 1:30 -
2:30 p.m. CDT. Registration and details are available on the Amigos
website.

HTML 5: Will It Be Worth It?

Join Christine Peterson, Amigos Continuing Education Librarian, in this
session to explore the new version of HTML. Although not slated to be a
W3C recommendation until 2012, major commercial websites are already
using pieces of HTML 5 and major browsers are beginning to support the
new version. Come learn how you and your library can begin to take
advantage of what HTML 5 has to offer. This session is scheduled for
June 6, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. CDT. Registration and details are available on
the Amigos website.

Know & Go sessions are only $25 for Amigos members and are free to
Passport Holders.

(Read more at http://www.amigos.org/node/818)

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Learn How to Teach Online

Join Christine Peterson, Amigos Continuing Education Librarian, in the
in-depth and intensive class "How to Teach Online" to learn the basics
of teaching in an online environment. The Adobe Connect interface will
be the primary focus, but the techniques and skills covered in this
class can be applied to other online classroom platforms. After the
class, each participant will be able to demonstrate 3 interactive Adobe
Connect functions, identify three ways to incorporate interactivity
within a live online session as well as putting it all together and
teaching a short segment to the rest of the class.

This class is scheduled to meet on June 14, 17, 21, 24, & 28 from 10:30
a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT each day. Visit the Amigos website for the
complete description and online registration.   

(Read more at http://www.amigos.org/node/820)

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May Training Classes from Amigos

Digital Library Systems and Applications

May 3 - 6

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT

Creating Copy, Loan and Deflection Policies in OCLC

May 4

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT

Moving the Front Lines Online: Embedding Reference Librarians in Online
Classes

May 6

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT

Sharing Means Caring: Collaboration between Librarians/Faculty and Its
Benefits

May 23

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT

Evaluating Virtual Reference Platforms

May 24 & 31

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About ILL But Were Too Busy to Ask

May 24 - 27

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CDT

Metadata Standards and Crosswalks

May 31 - June 3

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT

Visit http://www.amigos.org/learning/calendar/ for the complete list of
scheduled training.

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Quick Links

Training Calendar 

http://www.amigos.org/learning/calendar/

Training Catalog 

http://www.amigos.org/learning/catalog/

Amigos Home

http://www.amigos.org/

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Amigos Learning Passport

The Amigos Learning Passport is back and better than before.  

The July 2011 - June 2012 program details are available on the Amigos
website at http://www.amigos.org/node/443.  

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Amigos Library Services | 14400 Midway Rd. | Dallas | TX | 75244

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