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Classes and workshops are open to any interested library personnel, unless otherwise stated. Registration may or may not be required. Please see individual class descriptions for details.

Measure, Assess, Improve, Repeat: Using Library Performance Metrics

Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Presenters: NISO
Location: You may attend the webinar in the Nest at OWLS or log in from your home or office. Please indicate your preference on the registration form.
Sponsored by: Outagamie Waupaca Library System, Wisconsin Library Services, NISO

About the Webinar
Increasingly, all kinds of libraries are expected not only to gather and report data about their activities but also to analyze that data and use it to evaluate their performance. Such an analysis is difficult to undertake or even begin without a framework that informs the evaluation process.

Performance metrics can assist with this difficulty but present their own sets of challenges. What performance metrics are relevant to library operations? Are performance metrics already being successfully applied in libraries? How can information standards assist with this area of growing importance to libraries, the entities they report to, and the information providers that supply them?

Practitioners of 'evidence-based librarianship' will discuss and demonstrate evaluations of library collections and services using a variety of performance metrics. Metrics, when utilized creatively, offer many far-reaching applications and opportunities for demonstration of return-on-investment and proof of a library's value to its parent institution, as well as new responsibilities to continue to show relevance.

(1.5 contact hours for recertification)

For additional information about this program please contact Bradley.

Count Me In: Measuring Individual Item Usage

Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Presenters: NISO
Location: You may attend the webinar in the Nest at OWLS or log in from your home or office. Please indicate your preference on the registration form.
Sponsored by: Outagamie Waupaca Library System, Wisconsin Library Services, NISO

About the Webinar

Libraries' growing awareness of performance measures has created an increased interest in and desire for fine-grained usage data. For years, gathering item-level usage data has meant counting uses of the physical containers of intellectual property, e.g.: books, tapes, discs, or periodicals, to name a few. Now that electronic versions of such items inhabit a much greater percentage of many libraries' collections, including that held in their own institutional repositories, usage data about individual book chapters, journal articles, sound recordings, motion picture scenes, and so forth is within reach or is already trickling into libraries' records.

Standards initiatives such as COUNTER and SUSHI have demonstrated feasibility of expanded XML-based schemas to record and communicate more fine-grained data. Authors and funding agencies, in addition to library collection managers, are interested in better understanding the impact this usage tracking can provide. What kinds of schemas would work best to provide this? What kind of mechanisms can be created to support this without becoming unduly burdensome for data providers? What are further practical applications for the analysis of this information? 

(1.5 contact hours for recertification)

For additional information about this program please contact Bradley.

InfoSoup Memory Project Training

Friday, September 17, 2010, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Presenters:
Location: Appleton Public Library 2nd floor computer lab
Sponsored by: Outagamie Waupaca Library System

This training will provide an overview of how to add your library's local history collections to the InfoSoup Memory Project. Topics will include:

• Selection;
• Clearing copyright;
• Standards for scanning;
• Creating metadata; and
• Uploading content to CONTENTdm.

All library staff and volunteers who will be involved with a digitization project are encouraged to attend. Registration is limited to 10. This is a repeat of the workshop offered on Sept. 1.

(3 contact hours for recertification)

For additional information about this program please contact Bradley.

Ebooks: Libraries @ the Tipping Point

Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Presenters:
Location: The Nest - OWLS lower level meeting room
Sponsored by: OWLS

Ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point will bring together public libraries, academic libraries, and school libraries (K-12) in a day-long virtual conference environment. The day will be presented online and will include keynote presentations and panel discussions on the evolving concept of the book in a digital world and will keep participants future-focused and actively engaged in visioning and assuring an exciting role for libraries. Attendees will have access to webcasts and live chat rooms as well as the ability to interact with speakers and exhibitors.

• Librarians and library administrators will learn about current best practices for library ebook collections and explore new and evolving models for ebook content discovery and delivery.
• Publishers and content creators will learn how to effectively identify and develop the ‘right’ content offerings for each segment of the relatively untapped library ebook market.
• Ebook platform vendors and device manufacturers will learn just what libraries need and want in this rapidly changing environment.

View the complete program here: http://ebook-summit.com/program/

(5 contact hours for recertification)

For additional information about this program please contact Bradley.

FVLC: Internet use with a library perspective

Friday, October 8, 2010, 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Presenters: Connie Albert, Waupaca County Agent, UW Extension
Location: Scandinavia Public Library
Sponsored by: Fox Valley Library Council

Please note: The correct start time is 7:30 am. Our workshop form won't allow a value earlier than 8:00!

Fox Valley Library Council invites you to a program at Scandinavia Public Library about internet use with a library perspective, presented by Waupaca County UW Extension agent Connie Abert on Friday, October 8. Topics include:

• Internet safety
• Internet safety tools librarians, teachers, and parents can use with children (NetSmartz www.netsmartz.org and others)
• Social media
• Generational contrasts in internet use
• Problems of too little and too much internet use

Connie is a thoughtful speaker and is open to your questions. If you have questions or comments that you would like specifically addressed, contact coordinator Sue Vater Olsen, svater@mail.owls.lib.wi.us.

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast provided by FVLC
8:30 - 9:30 presentation by Connie Abert
9:45 – 10:30 FVLC meeting

Please RSVP to Sue Vater Olsen, svater@mail.owls.lib.wi.us, with the following information: breakfast participation, dietary needs (if any), and any special needs by Tuesday, October 5. Changes in registration can be accommodated, however planning is much easier with your early registration.

If you have a name tag, please wear it.

(1 contact hours for recertification)

For additional information about this program please contact Bradley.

It's Only as Good as the Metadata: Improving OpenURL and Knowledgebase Quality

Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Presenters: NISO
Location: You may attend the webinar in the Nest at OWLS or log in from your home or office. Please indicate your preference on the registration form.
Sponsored by: Outagamie Waupaca Library System, Wisconsin Library Services, NISO

About the Webinar

The OpenURL is inextricably entwined with modern information services supplied by, among others, libraries, resource providers, and system vendors. All of these constituents and the end users whom they serve rely on the accuracy and dependability of OpenURLs to bring information within easy reach; ideally, within two mouse clicks. But the services powered by OpenURLs can be brought low quickly by one or more errors within the citation data and/or the OpenURL encoding itself. Such errors can leave librarians mystified, resource providers puzzled, and users unhappy at a service's failure to deliver, yet they are all too common.

Is anyone keeping watch over the accuracy and dependability of OpenURLs? Are resource providers and system vendors held accountable for their applications of the OpenURL standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.88)? What can librarians do to bring these problems to the attention of their suppliers? This webinar will address these and other issues of OpenURL accuracy in both theory and practice.

(1.5 contact hours for recertification)

For additional information about this program please contact Bradley.

Facebook Studio

Friday, October 22, 2010, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Presenters:
Location: Appleton Public Library 2nd floor computer lab
Sponsored by: Outagamie Waupaca Library System

Join us in the Appleton computer lab for some hands-on Facebook training. The lesson plan is 'a la carte'. What do you want to learn? We can help you:

• Set up a new page or enhance an existing one
• Post links, photos, videos, and events
• Post page-to-page
• Acquire a Vanity URL
• Add an InfoSoup tab so patrons can search the catalog from Facebook
• Import your blog to a tab and/or your wall
• Add apps to your page (such as polls or petitions)

Since most of you already have a Facebook page, please come prepared to share your best practices!

(3 contact hours for recertification)

For additional information about this program please contact Bradley.

Legal Update 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM

Presenters: Tom Lipinski, Professor and M.L.I.S. Program Director, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Location: James J. Siebers Memorial Library 515 West Kimberly Avenue Kimberly , Wisconsin 54136
Sponsored by: OWLS

Details to come. Complete this brief survey to help us narrow down the topics to be discussed: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2FBJNF7

(5 contact hours for recertification)

For additional information about this program please contact Bradley.

Unprecedented Interaction: Providing Accessibility for the Disabled

Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Presenters: NISO
Location: You may attend the webinar in the Nest at OWLS or log in from your home or office. Please indicate your preference on the registration form.
Sponsored by: Outagamie Waupaca Library System, Wisconsin Library Services, NISO

Content details to come.

(1.5 contact hours for recertification)

For additional information about this program please contact Bradley.

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