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Keynote Speaker Announced for Amigos Fast Forward Online Conference
Internet Librarian 2012
Amigos Learning Passport
Offered in October - Basic Book Repair Techniques
Live Online EAD and EAD2HTML Workshops
Image Editing Fundamentals Coming in August
Upcoming Know & Go Sessions
Upcoming Training Classes from Amigos

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Keynote Speaker Announced for Amigos Fast-Forward Online Conference

Amigos Library Services is pleased to announce that George Blood will be the keynote speaker for the September 7 online conference Fast-Forward >> The Future of Audio Video Materials.

 

A popular speaker at many conferences, George oversees George Blood Video, responsible for the digitization of historic analog and born-digital video collections, and George Blood Audio, providing recording services for classical musicians and ensembles that digitizes approximately 1,000 hours of audio collections from around the country each month. 

 

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Internet Librarian 2012 Offers Discount to Amigos Members

Amigos members are eligible to receive $170 off the early-bird registration fee for the three-day Internet Librarian 2012 Conference, October 22-24 in Monterey, CA.

 

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****Offer Extended**** 
Amigos Learning Passport

Buy now...Get more!

 

Purchase the Amigos Learning Passport by August 31 and receive two extra hours of regional registration credit. The Amigos Learning Passport program is a pre-payment plan for Amigos Members only* that offers the best value for your training dollar. Learning Passport plans are effective July 1 through June 30. These plans are packed with value, and this year's prices make them even more affordable.

 

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Offered in October - Basic Book Repair Techniques
If your circulating collection needs TLC, our Basic Book Repair workshop will provide the hands-on training you need.

 

Rebecca Elder, our Adjunct Field Preservation Services Officer, will teach a two-day Basic Book Repair workshop in Boerne, TX (near San Antonio) October 17-18. This course is designed to provide information and hands-on experience in basic book and paper repair for general (non-rare) library collections. 

 

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Registration Available for Live Online EAD and EAD2HTML Workshops

Amigos is pleased to offer two XML workshops in the coming weeks:

 
Introduction to the Encoded Archival Description
August 21-24, 2012
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (CDT)

 

EAD2HTML: Transforming Your Finding Aids with XSL
September 11-14, 2012
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (CDT)  

 

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Image Editing Fundamentals Coming in August
Are you mystified by the process of editing digital images? If the answer is yes, why not try our Image Editing Fundamentals workshop.
 

Join Amigos' Imaging Field Services Officer Bill Walker August 15-16, 2012, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CDT, for a thorough introduction to the principles of editing digital images.

 

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Upcoming Know & Go Sessions

Amigos is offering two informative Know & Go sessions in the coming weeks: What to Do Now That Meebo Is No More? Free Chat Widgets for Virtual Librarians, and The New WorldShare ILL. 

 

What to Do Now That Meebo Is No More? Free Chat Widgets for Virtual Librarians is scheduled for August 27 from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. CDT. Join Arta Kabashi, Amigos' Continuing Education Librarian, for this online session discussing alternative chat options available now that Meebo is no more. Register on the Amigos website.


The New WorldShare ILL is scheduled for September 10 from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. CDT. Join Tim Prather, Amigos' Continuing Education Librarian, for this informative hour and learn about OCLC WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, a new service that is replacing WorldCat Resource Sharing. This new service centralizes workflows now managed in multiple systems and will provide new functionality that speeds fulfillment of interlibrary loan requests while saving time for library staff and library users. Register on the Amigos website.
  

Amigos has expanded no-charge benefits for members to include the popular Know & Go online educational series. Know & Go sessions are offered twice monthly on Monday afternoons. Visit the Amigos website for other timely Know & Go topics in the coming months. 

Upcoming Training Classes from Amigos

Classes meet online and times are Central Time.  

 

 

CONTENTdm 6: Adding Visual Materials 
August 14 & 16
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.     

 

CONTENTdm 6: Adding Textual Materials
August 21 & 23    
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  

 

CONTENTdm 6: Editing Collections & Using Tab-Delimited Text Files
August 28 & 30
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Reference Sources

September 10, 17, 24

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

 

Tools for the Reference Desk

October 1 & 8

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

 

Cataloging with RDA

October 16 - 19

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

 

Cataloging & Classification Basics

October 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, November 1

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



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