Register Here.  The cost is $20 for non-members.  

As information professionals, we put a great deal of effort and time into creating authoritative metadata that describes the materials we care for in our libraries and archives. Linked Open Data provides a means and set of best practices that allow us to leverage this existing metadata by enhancing it with structured semantic meaning to facilitate easier, more widespread exposure and discovery via the Web.

This webinar will demonstrate a way to start working with Linked Open Data (LOD) that will allow for a better understanding through doing. By the end of the session, participants will have gained knowledge of the current landscape of linked open data tools and practices. The presentation will include:

? A brief overview of LOD concepts
? Tips on how to begin thinking about your data in a LOD way
? An introduction to common authority sources for LOD, and how to align your existing data with them
? A presentation of some tools for transforming data from other formats into RDF, including a demonstration of some simple scripts using the Python programming language
? A demonstration of some tools and platforms for publishing and visualizing your LOD

This webinar will prove most beneficial to those who already possess some familiarity with the concepts of linked open data, including a basic awareness of the RDF data standard. A basic knowledge about common library and archive metadata standards is required. Although some experience with web development and coding will be helpful, it is not required, and our focus will point towards non-developers.

This is the second session in METRO’s Summer 2015 Data Webinar series. Other programs in this series include:

• Intro to Data for Librarians, July 16th
• Managing and Preserving Data Sets, August 3rd

If you’re planning to attend all three sessions, enter the discount code SUM15DATA during registration to receive $2.00 off of each webinar.

Register Here.  $80 for non-members.

As you gear up for a school year full of library instruction, spend a day at METRO building a toolkit of engaging educational activities to include in your lesson plans.

Whether your instruction focuses on in-person workshops, one-off info lit sessions, or semester-long courses, you’ll leave with a range of ideas to utilize in courses of all types and at all levels. Along the way, we’ll hear how new approaches to learning are being implemented at a variety of libraries.

This session will cover:

– blended learning

– flipped classroom

– active learning

And we’ll tackle the following questions:

– what are the best methods for bringing digital or online instruction into the classroom?

– how can we enable students to learn from digital media at their own pace?

– when does it make sense to expose students to new ideas via digital media before class even convenes? how can the flipped classroom model be deployed to ensure classroom discussion starts from a place of shared knowledge?

– how can we include flipped classroom techniques into one shot reference instruction?what are the best ways to encourage students to learn by doing?

– what place does active learning have in today’s classrooms?

– what digital tools can students and teachers use for online instruction?

This daylong session will be led by Melissa Jacobs, Coordinator in the Office of Library Services for the New York City Department of Education, with assistance from Amy Mikel, Outreach Librarian at Brooklyn Public Library, and Kellen Maluski, Health Sciences Reference Associate at NYU.

This course is intended to bring a wide range of librarians from different types of institutions together to explore the ways in which new models in education can be used throughout the learning ecosystem.