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Enhancing Your Library’s Web Presence with WordPress

Enhancing Your Library’s Web Presence with WordPress: Free Webinar

Thursday, January 21, 2016 ? 3 pm Eastern ? 60 min

Registration: http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/enhancing-your-librarys-web-presence-with-wordpress.html

WordPress makes it easy for libraries of any size or budget to have a user-friendly web presence. Whether your library’s website needs to be refreshed or rebuilt, this webinar will provide practical steps for creating, maintaining, and enhancing your website without technical expertise. Learn how the right WordPress template and plugins can help you provide your community with an informative and nimble website, 24/7.

Presented by: Sara Wright, Director, and Elizabeth Lawrence, Library Assistant, aka Library Ninja, Berthoud Community Library District, Colorado

Data Visualization for the Rest of Us: A Beginner’s Guide

Data Visualization for the Rest of Us: A Beginner’s Guide: Free Webinar

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 ? 3 pm Eastern ? 60 min
Registration: http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/data-visualization-for-the-rest-of-us.html

You don’t have to be a graphic designer to present your library statistics in a way that effectively communicates value. Learn quick and easy tips for visually displaying statistics that will enable you to tell a powerful story about your library, whether your data visualization aspirations consist of adding a few Excel charts to a board report or designing a complex infographic for your website.

Presented by: Linda Hofschire, Research Analyst, Library Research Service, Colorado State Library

This is an encore presentation from the 2015 Association for Rural & Small Libraries conference.

Beyond an Apple a Day: Providing Consumer Health Information at Your Library

Beyond an Apple a Day: Providing Consumer Health Information at Your Library

Tuesday, December 15, 2015
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
CDLC Offices, 28 Essex Street, Albany

This hands-on class will cover the health information seeking behavior of consumers and the role of the librarian in the provision of health information for the public.

Come learn about the evolution of consumer health, health literacy and the e-patient!

Participants will be equipped with knowledge of top consumer health sites, e-patient resources and collection development core lists. We will also discuss creative ideas for health information outreach.

Lydia N. Collins is the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region (NN/LM MAR).

This program is open and free to all CDLC member library staff. We hope to see you there!

Registration is required by Monday, December 14th.

Registrants are encouraged to bring a laptop or tablet to get the most from this workshop. CDLC has a small number of laptops available to borrow. Please let us know if you need one.

As always, if you register and are unable to attend, please contact Susan D’Entremont at susan @ cdlc.org.

 

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