Category Archives: Webinar

Teaching Patrons about Privacy- LITA Webinar

Teaching Patrons about Privacy in a World of Pervasive Surveillance: Lessons from the Library Freedom Project, with Alison Macrina
Offered: October 6, 2015, 2:30 pm Eastern Time
In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA and FBI dragnet surveillance, Alison Macrina started the Library Freedom Project as a way to teach other librarians about surveillance, privacy rights, and technology tools that protect privacy. In this 90 minute webinar, she’ll talk about the landscape of surveillance, the work of the LFP, and some strategies you can use to protect yourself and your patrons online.

Register

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

PLA Webinar on Serving Teen Parents

Upcoming Webinar Hosted at the SALS Main Office
Join the Facebook Event or please RSVP to Jen Ferriss

Date: August 26, 2015
Time/Location:   2:00–3:00 PM EST at 22 Whitney Place, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

The Every Child Ready to Read (ECRR) initiative has provided a powerful toolkit for introducing parents to early literacy practices. When those parents also happen to be teenagers, it helps to take a fun-yet-thoughtful approach to programming, lest you lose your audience.

In this webinar, you will learn reliable, time-tested methods for reaching your teen parent population and introducing the Five Practices in a way that is simple, straightforward, and highly interactive.

At the conclusion of this one-hour webinar, participants will:

  • Have a clear understanding of five different “make-and-take” activities that correspond to the five early literacy practices—Talking, Singing, Reading, Writing, and Playing—as promoted by the ECRR initiative; and
  • Gain access to a list of at least ten “best practices” for working with teens, as well as three essential tips to establishing community connections within this special population.

This webinar is intended for anyone who works with or aims to work with their community’s teen parent population including public or school librarians who specialize in youth services, teen services, outreach, early literacy, or other areas. Parents, social workers, teachers, and childcare workers are also welcome.

Instructors:
Xelena Gonzalez, early literacy specialist, San Antonio (Tex.) Public Library
Corinne Sanchez, community services supervisor, San Antonio (Tex.) Public Library

 

Using OpenRefine to Manage Messy Metadata

Register Here.  The cost is $40.

Wed, Aug. 12, 2015   3 p.m. – 5 p.m. US/Eastern

Messy, inconsistent metadata makes collection management tasks challenging, yet it is the unfortunate the reality for most of us. In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of using OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine), “a free, open source power tool for working with messy data” to analyze, normalize, and clean up collections metadata so that datasets can be better integrated into workflows and across systems. The workshop is designed for practitioners who are interested in accessing, cleaning up, and modifying data with freely available tools. We will explore and explain how OpenRefine provides options to navigate around challenging data, and normalize both formatting and the data itself.

Participants will walk through several practical exercises using sample collections metadata featuring common metadata transformation techniques. We’ll explore approaches to transformation like text clustering and writing basic expressions to get your data in its ideal state. Advanced OpenRefine topics, such as reconciliation of datasets against Freebase and other external datasets and web services will be discussed, but not in-depth. This is an introductory workshop, ideal for those who are new to OpenRefine and are interested in exploring it’s simple yet powerful features.