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RDA is Here, Are You Ready?
Upcoming Know & Go Sessions
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Digital Imaging, Audio, Project Classes Scheduled This Fall

Are you beginning a digital project soon?  Do you have a digital project already underway and need additional training or skills? If you answered yes either one of these questions, then Amigos has some training to help you and your project.

 

From digital library systems and metadata to project management, Amigos has you covered. Listed below are the classes scheduled this summer and fall to get you moving on your project. Click on the class to see the complete description as well as online registration.

 

Digital Library Systems and Applications

July 30 - August 2

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

 

Metadata for Digitized Resources

August 13 - 16

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT       

 

Digitizing Analog Audio Resources

September 4 - 5

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

 

Project Management for Digital Imaging

October 1 - 4

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

 

Doing Digital Preservation: Small Steps to Ensuring Access

October 30 - 31

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

 

RDA Is Here, Are You Ready?

As of April 1, the Library of Congress and U.S. National Library of Medicine are using Resource Description and Access (RDA) as their official descriptive cataloging standard. Now that RDA is fully implemented in these national libraries, are you and your organization ready?

 

Amigos can help.


RDA Toolkit Discounts

Amigos Members are eligible for a 15 percent discount on RDA Toolkit subscriptions. This applies to both solo and site subscriptions. Details are available on the Amigos website.


Training

To help you get trained on RDA, Amigos has scheduled additional sessions of the popular Cataloging with RDA. This eight-hour live online class walks you through the basics of moving from AACR2 to RDA that include:

  • Distinguishing between work, expression, manifestation, and item
  • Building descriptions of resources using RDA Core elements
  • Creating authorized access points using preferred names for persons, families, and corporate bodies, and preferred titles for works
  • Articulating relationships between works, expressions, manifestations, and items and between resources and persons, families, and corporate bodies using RDA vocabularies
  • Using the RDA Toolkit and workflows to identify rules relevant to describing resources and creating access points
     

Upcoming classes

 

July 16 - 19, 2013
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT each day
Complete class description and online registration for this session.

 

August 27 - 30, 2013
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT each day
Complete class description and online registration for this session.

 

October 8 - 11, 2013
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT each day
Complete class description and online registration for this session.

 

November 19 - 22, 2013
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT each day
Complete class description and online registration for this session.

 

Upcoming Know & Go Sessions

Amigos is offering two informative Know & Go sessions in July: Digital Public Library of America, and EAD Revision Update.

 

Digital Public Library of America is scheduled for July 8 from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. CDT. Join Christine Peterson, Continuing Education Librarian, for this hour-long tour of the newly unveiled Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), including what has been done and what is to come. What to get involved? Christine will show you ways to do so.  Register on the Amigos website.

 

EAD Revision Update is scheduled for July 22 from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. CDT. Join Bill Walker, Imaging Field Services Officer, for this hour-long session covering the revised Encoded Archival Description (EAD) beta release and revised timeline for completion of the update. A sample EAD instance will be displayed and explained. 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.

 

 

E-book Collection Development for Public & Academic Libraries

June 18 & 20

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

 

Free E-books - Where They Are and How to Download Them

June 25 & 27

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

 

E-books: From Policy Implementation to Marketing and Evaluation

July 9 & 11

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

 

ILL101: Basic Concepts of Interlibrary Loan       

September 24 - 27

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

 

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

October 15 - 18

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

 

Principles of Controlled Vocabulary & Thesaurus Design

December 3 - 6

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CST         

 

 

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