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Public Library Programs to be Featured at 2012 Amigos Member Conference
Free Online Overview: ALA's Library Support Staff Certification Program
Access by Touch: Delivering Library Services Through Mobile Technologies
PHP: Interacting with the World
Upcoming Know & Go Sessions
Upcoming Training Classes from Amigos

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Public Library Programs to be Featured at 2012 Amigos Member Conference

The 2012 Amigos Member Conference, "Plotting Futures," will highlight forward-thinking activities at public libraries.

 

"Read/Watch/Listen LOCAL: How to Bring Unique Homegrown Talent into Your Library" will be presented by Dana Braccia, Content & Digital Communities Manager, Scottsdale (AZ) Public Library. In the spirit of the national Eat Local movement, the Scottsdale Public Library piloted a LOCAL Collection, designed to:  

  • showcase the emerging literary, film, and musical efforts of its community
  • introduce library users to unique homegrown talent that is not yet nationally known
  • give local authors, filmmakers, and musicians a tangible way to connect with an Arizona audience

You'll want to hear Dana discuss the program and how it has been embraced by the Scottsdale community.

 

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Free Online Overview: ALA's Library Support Staff Certification Program

The Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) Program is a national certification program that allows library support staff to demonstrate their competencies and be certified by the American Library Association. Through coursework or portfolio development, library support staff can earn the certification to advance their careers and gain new skills.

 

Join us Monday, April 30, for this free one-hour web information session to learn more about the certification program. Karen Strege, Co-Director of LSSC, and Ian Lashbrook, LSSC Research Associate, will describe the program and answer your questions. Library managers and support staff are invited to learn more about the program and its value to support staff, their employers, and library users.

 

What: ALA's Library Support Staff Certification: An Overview 

When: April 30, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. CDT
Where: Online

Cost: Free

 

Access by Touch: Delivering Library Services Through Mobile Technologies

From computers to the Internet, libraries have successfully met the challenge of adapting their services to changing technologies. Today's challenge is delivering services to smartphones, eBook readers, and tablets to users on the go who now view more content on mobile devices than desktop and laptop computers. CDs and DVDs are becoming pass�, eBook sales outpace paper books, and users increasingly download music, movies, and books from iTunes and Kindle, storing their purchases in the Cloud.

 

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"PHP: Interacting with the World"
Offered in May

This live online class goes beyond basic PHP (originally Personal Home Page, now PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor). In addition to increasing PHP knowledge (e.g., regular expressions, databases), you will be able to interact with other web applications (e.g., Amazon.com) through APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

 

After completing this class you will be able to use regular expressions in PHP, use PHP to set/read cookies, use PHP to interact with databases using SQL, create PDFs using PHP, and create APIs to access selected web applications.

 

PHP: Interacting with the World 

May 22, 24, 29, 31, 2012

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

 

Upcoming Know & Go Sessions

Amigos is offering two informative Know & Go sessions in the coming weeks: WorldCat Resource Sharing Enhancements and EAD and EAD-CPF Update.

 

WorldCat Resource Sharing Enhancements is scheduled for April 23 from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. CDT. Join Tim Prather, Amigos' Continuing Education Librarian, for this online session highlighting the new improvements to OCLC's WorldCat Resource Sharing service. Tim will discuss improvements to Custom Holdings, new statistical reports, and the new Article Exchange, offering libraries the ability to email copies of requests to patrons/borrowing libraries from any status. A preview of planned upcoming changes will also be discussed. Register on the Amigos website.

 

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Upcoming Training Classes from Amigos

Classes meet online and times are Central Time.  

 

Configuring Hardware and E-collections for E-readers in Libraries
April 23 & 30
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Image Editing Fundamentals
May 1 - 2
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

CONTENTdm 6: Website Configuration Tool
May 2 - 3
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Metadata for Digitized Resources
May 22 - 25
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Web Publishing: The Basics
May 22, 24, 29, 31
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.     

All You Need to Know about E-reader Service in Your Library
June 4, 11, 18, 25
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.     

Cataloging & Classification Basics
June 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 

Visit the Amigos Training Schedule for the complete list of scheduled training.