Category Archives: Event

Beyond the Intro to GO!- Free Webinar

September 15, 2015, 3:00pm

Beyond the Intro to GO!

Now that you know how to use GO – let’s learn how to utilize and elevate learning in your libraries. Learn how to promote the regular use of Scholastic GO with parents, teachers, students, all the communities you serve. Activities that will help create and build digital reading stamina as well as promote the regular use of Scholastic GO in the lives of your teachers, students, and library patrons.

Please register at https://scholastic.webex.com/scholastic/onstage/g.php?d=620063012&t=a

Event password: fall

Call in number: 1-866-422-5206
Participant code: 2238180846

Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know- LITA Webinar

Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know – 2, with Steven Bowers, A.J. Million, Elliot Polak and Ken Varnum
Offered: November 2, 2015, 1:00 pm Central Time
We’re all awash in technological innovation. It can be a challenge to know what new tools are likely to have staying power ­­and what that might mean for libraries. The 2014 LITA Guide, Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know, highlights a selected set of technologies that are just starting to emerge and describes how libraries might adapt them in the next few years. In this fast paced hour long webinar, join the authors of three chapters as they talk about their technologies and what they mean for libraries. Those chapters covered will be

  • Impetus to Innovate: Convergence and Library Trends, with A.J. Million
  • The Future of Cloud-Based Library Systems with Elliot Polak & Steven Bowers
  • Library Discovery: From Ponds to Streams with Ken Varnum

    Cost:

    • LITA Member: $45
    • Non-Member: $105
    • Group: $196

    Register

Digital Privacy Toolkit for Librarians- LITA Webinar

Digital Privacy Toolkit for Librarians, with Alison Macrina
Offered: October 20, 2015
This 90 minute webinar will include a discussion and demonstration of practical tools for online privacy that can be implemented in library PC environments or taught to patrons in classes/one-on-one tech sessions, including browsers for privacy and anonymity, tools for secure deletion of cookies, cache, and internet history, tools to prevent online tracking, and encryption for online communications.

Register

  • LITA Member: $45
  • Non-Member: $105
  • Group: $196