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Know & Go: Resources for Teaching Teens (and Adults!) Coding

Know & Go: Resources for Teaching Teens (and Adults!) Coding

Coding skills have become a very real entry point for employment, and identifying coding resources for teens, adults, and even children is becoming increasingly important. This provides an opportunity for libraries to step in and create a tangible difference within their communities by creating programming utilizing these resources. Luckily, there are a multitude of online – and often free – resources to assist coding students and teachers alike within these library programs.

Join us as we look at online coding resources such as Codeacademy and Code Avengers. We will also explore possible library programming ideas for teens and adults.

Learning Objectives:
  • Identify at least two online coding resources
  • Describe the benefits of hosting a coding program in your library
  • Identify one possible resource or programming idea that you could utilize at your library
Target Audience:
Everyone
Prerequisites:
None
Homework Expectations and Completion Requirements:
  • None
  • This event is open to group registration; no CEUs are available for this event.
Technical Requirements:
Live Online System Requirements
Session Duration:
This course consists of a 1-hour session.
Instructor:
Kyla Hunt – hunt@amigos.org(link sends e-mail)
Fees
Amigos Member Fee:
$0.00
Non-member Fee:
$25.00
Scheduled Dates

December 7, 2015, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm CST (Register Now)

Available On Request

 

An Introduction to Archivematica (a free digital preservation resource)

Know and Go: An Introduction to Archivematica: https://www.amigos.org/node/3457

November 2, 2015, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm CST

 

Archivematica is a freely available, open source digital preservation solution. By bundling together open source digital preservation tools into one interface, Archivematica provides archivists and digital curators the ability to process digital materials in any format and make standards-compliant packages for preservation in a storage location of their choosing. Join us for an introductory session, including standard Archivematica workflows, using digital access systems with Archivematica, and a live demonstration presented by Sarah Romkey, Systems Archivist with the Archivematica project.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Gain an overview of Archivematica, a software system that is designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects.
  • Discover how Archivematica helps to reduce the risk of technology obsolescence, incompatibility and complexity.
  • Describe how Archivematica is flexible and customizable.
  • Examine Archivematica with a live demonstration.

 

Target Audience:

Archivists, librarians, and individuals who are interested in learning about open-source digital preservation tools.

 

Prerequisites: None

Homework Expectations and Completion Requirements: None

This event is open to group registration; no CEUs are available for this event.

Technical Requirements: Live Online System Requirements

Session Duration: This course consists of a 1-hour session.

Fees

Amigos Member Fee: $0.00

Non-member Fee: $25.00

 

Scheduled Dates

November 2, 2015, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm CST

Register Now: https://www.amigos.org/node/3457

Ebooks in Libraries: Amigos.org Webinar

Title: Ebooks in Libraries: An Update

When: Monday, November 16, 2015

Where: Online

Amigos Members: Admission is free!

Non-Members: Register by November 2nd for Early Bird Pricing

Libraries have been working with ebooks for a number of years now and in a variety of ways. The landscape, however, has continued to shift – sometimes under our feet. It is time to take a day to assess where we are.

Some libraries work within the limitations of existing services, providing exceptional value for their communities. Others create their own services from scratch, while still others take advantage of both scenarios. What are you doing to enhance your ebook services? Have you studied your statistics, run user or usability studies, tried an assortment of marketing techniques? Have you created partnerships or worked with specific groups? Gone “where no library has gone before?” Your experiences could help other libraries.

Sessions include topics to tempt public, academic, and special libraries:

  • Two sessions on Demand-Driven Acquisition – one a 4-year evaluation of use at their library and the other assessing the short-term DDA model.
  • How a library worked with a vendor to present sessions to other libraries, but had the unintended consequence of nudging the vendor to make changes to their interface.
  • Thoughts from a public librarian on subscription-based ebook platforms like Freading/Freegal, Hoopla, and Total Boox.
  • How two library with space limitations have used ebooks as a way to keep pace with the needs of their communities.
  • Description and evaluation of a public library that provides one-on-one ebook assistance for their patrons.
  • New way to enliven the classics through the 50 x 50 campaign.
  • Overview and demonstration of Amigos’ new ebook project, the Amigos eShelf Service, which will be available to all libraries in November.

Online conference sessions will run 45 minutes each throughout the day. Recordings will be available to attendees after the conference.

If you have questions, contact Christine Peterson at 800-843-8482 ext 2891 or peterson@amigos.org