Professional Growth and Development Opportunities from ALCTS; ALA & iPAC; Purdue University; OCLC; and TPDL
ALCTS Virtual ALA Preconferences
- Loan Agreements for Exhibits Materials: The Basics. June 18–20, 2013
Increasingly, libraries are loaning collection materials to other institutions for exhibit, Unlike museums, libraries are often unprepared for this complicated process. This virtual preconference will lay down the basic elements of a loan agreement, including legal and financial expectations of both parties and the care and preservation of the borrowed item. A case study will offer advice and tips on creating a loan agreement from scratch, as well as direct participants to existing resources.
This virtual preconference is comprised of three one-hour sessions. |
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- Shared Collection Development: Collaborative Models for Digital Collections. June 10–June 11, 2013
This two-day virtual preconference provides an overview of collection development for shared electronic resource collections.
The first session (90 minutes) describes a consortium eBook demand-driven acquisitions project from the perspective of a library vendor and the consortium. The second session (one hour) addresses special considerations related to developing and licensing shared electronic resource collections.
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To assist libraries in providing e-government services to patrons, the American Library Association (ALA) and the Information Policy & Access Center (iPAC) at the University of Maryland will host the no-cost webinar “Libraries & E-government” on May 30, 2013, from 2:00–3:00p.m. EST.
As part of the webinar, participants will:
- Learn how to use LibEGov (www.libegov.org), an easy-to-use web tool that helps libraries serve the e-government needs of their communities
- Become more familiar with online resources available from government agencies and non-governmental organizations in the areas of immigration and taxation; and
- Learn about the benefits of the virtual Ask A Librarian feature available through the Government Information Online service.
Developed by ALA and iPAC, LibEGov is the product of an Institute of Museum and Library Services funded national leadership grant, intended to foster collaboration between libraries and government agencies, as well as to offer guidance to libraries on the provision of e-government information and services to a range of populations within their communities.
Program: This symposium will explore roles for practicing librarians in teaching competencies in data management and curation to graduate students. With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, librarians from Purdue University, Cornell University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Oregon have investigated this topic through developing and implementing “data information literacy” (DIL) instruction programs for graduate students in a range of science and engineering disciplines.
Members of the DIL project will share their experiences in working with faculty and graduate students, with a primary focus on the practical applications of their work. Keynote speakers will provide additional perspectives on teaching data literacy competencies. A portion of the conference will be devoted to further exploration of selected topics of interest as determined by attendees…
Registration: Registration for the event is now open at: http://www.conf.purdue.edu/data. There is no registration fee, but the attendance is limited to the first 80 individuals that register. After that, you may request to be placed on the waiting list.
To follow the event on Twitter and all updates from the DIL project, please search the hashtag #datainfolit. Updates from the event will be posted throughout the day September 23-24.
More information about the Data Information Literacy Project can be found at the project’s website: http://datainfolit.org. Please contact Jake Carlson, Data Services Specialist at Purdue University with any questions: jakecarlson@purdue.edu.
OCLC Research Library Partners Invited to Participate in Past Forward Meeting Live Online 4-5 June
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, the entire two-day meeting about managing special collections in the 21st century will be streamed live on the web from Yale University in New Haven, CT.
They will be streamed Tuesday, 4 June (9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EDT) and Wednesday, 5 June (9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. EDT).
Webcast viewers are encouraged to participate by tweeting their comments or questions with #pastfor. We’ll address their questions and comments live during the discussion portions of the presentations. For those who don’t tweet, don’t worry! Just e-mail us at oclcresearch@oclc.org instead.
In addition, we encourage webcast viewers to make the experience more social by inviting colleagues to watch the event and participate remotely with them. We also encourage all who plan to view the event online to register to view the live webcast. Registration is free and optional, but it allows us to contact remote viewers if there should be any technical issues with the webcast…
TPDL 2013 “constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2013, the 17th edition of the conference, will be organized by University of Malta and it will be held in Valletta, Malta on September 22-26, 2013.
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