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Archived March 2012 Library Webinars

Kris — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:00:58 +0000

The following March 2012 webinars have been archived and are now available for viewing:

ALA: Transforming Libraries

Common Knowledge: Facebook Updates: Impact of Page Timelines

InfoPeople: Being Customer Focused: New and Emerging Trends in Customer Service

InfoPeople: Corporate Fundraising for Children’s Programming in Public Libraries

InfoPeople: Digital Preservation: Audio & Video Formats

InfoPeople: Engaging Volunteers During Difficult Economic Times

InfoPeople: Outreach to Hispanic/Latino Populations – Tu Biblioteca!

OCLC: Adult Programs on a $0 Budget

OCLC: Best Practices in Virtual Reference: Keeping the Virtual Lights on 24/7

OCLC: It Takes a Community to Bridge the Digital Divide

The Tejano Experience: Serving the 3rd Generation Hispanic

Kris — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:00:10 +0000

The 3rd generation Hispanic is bilingual, bicultural and has lived in our community for decades, yet remains sparsely represented in our user base. How can we use the unique characteristics, traditions, and needs of this community to engage them and build the library habit?

Wednesday, December 1, 2010
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Online

For additional details and registration information visit: TSL: The Tejano Experience: Serving the 3rd Generation Hispanic

Spanish for Library Staff

Mary Engels — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:59:02 +0000

In response to suggestions from the Welcome discussion group we are pleased to offer 2 different workshops for library staff who serve Spanish speaking customers

#1. 12 Magic Customer Service Phrases Library Personnel Need To Know In Spanish
Date: 6/8/2010
Start Time: 9:30 AM
End Time: 3:30 PM
Description:
Did you ever have to help a person who only spoke Spanish? Do you feel frustrated because you couldn’t communicate…because you couldn’t do more? Did you try to learn Spanish but didn’t find a course that taught ONLY what your job required? Then this workshop is for you! This interactive and fun workshop, provides some basic tools to handle language and cultural barriers. Words, phrases, dialogues that will open the door to your Latino patrons such as greetings, simple commands and instructions. In addition basic library vocabulary and phrases to give directions and understand questions will be covered.

Location: Middletown Library Service Center Meeting Room
Fee: $30.00
Contact: Kris Abery
Contact Number: 860-704-2206
Presenter: Susana G. Baumann

#2. 12 Magic Computer Phrases Library Personnel Need To Know In Spanish
Date: 6/9/2010
Start Time: 9:30 AM
End Time: 3:30 PM
Description:
Trying to help your Spanish speaking patrons to use computers? Feeling frustrated because you can’t communicate? Computer savvy but language challenged? Then this workshop is for you! This full day workshop will cover phrases to interact with Latino patrons using computers. In addition easy techniques to give instructions and troubleshoot problems with computers will be covered.

Location: Middletown Library Service Center Meeting Room
Fee: $30.00
Contact: Kris Abery
Contact Number: 860-704-2206
Presenter: Susana G. Baumann

1. Access the Continuing Education Calendar of Events at:
http://evanced.info/cslib/evanced/eventcalendar.asp.
2. Click on the month of the event at the top of the page.
3. Find the date of the event and click on the underlined event title
to register.
4. Enter the following information: FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, PHONE
NUMBER, EMAIL ADDRESS, NAME OF YOUR LIBRARY OR ARCHITECTURAL FIRM,
SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS REQUIRED, NOTES (for additional instructions).
5. Click on COMPLETE REGISTRATION when done.
First time users will be prompted to enter an address. Please enter
YOUR LIBRARY OR FIRM ADDRESS. Once completed you will receive an
event confirmation form.

If you have questions about these workshops you can contact me at mengels@cslib.org or 860-704-2207.

Mary Engels, Director
Middletown Library Service Center
786 South Main St.
Middletown, CT 06457
Phone 860-704-2207; in CT 800-437-2313
Fax: 860-704-2228
mengels@cslib.org
http://ct.webjunction.org

Services to Older Adults Roundtable meeting: May 18th

Douglas Lord — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:52:39 +0000

Come, listen, and participate in the May 18th, 2010 Services to Older Adults Roundtable. The focus is on Health Literacy and the location is the Middletown Library Service Center.

We’re fortunate to have guest speaker Michelle Eberle, Consumer Health Information Coordinator of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region. Michelle served on the Center for Disease Control’s Expert Panel on Health Literacy for Older Adults.

Susan Hansen and I heartily encourage reference staff to come AND we encourage librarians to bring their senior center directors whenever possible. Register on CLC’s page.

Also, in case you missed it, you can also find an archived version of my April 6 national webinar “Libraries Go Boom” through the root webjunction ct site.

Bonus prizes for any and all who post information or resources up on our message boards at WebJunction CT prior to the meeting.

See you at the meeting; start time is 9:30 for cofee and networking, and the meeting gets started at 10:00 AM.

Text4Baby

Douglas Lord — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:25:45 +0000

Text4baby is a free mobile information service designed to promote maternal and child health. An educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition that counts among many partners the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, text4baby provides pregnant women and new moms with information they need to take care of their health and give their babies the best possible start in life … using their cellphones! Women who sign up for the service by texting BABY (or BEBE for Spanish) to 511411 will receive free SMS text messages each week, timed to their due date or baby’s date of birth.

Text messaging via mobile phone can deliver the right health information at the right time to pregnant women and new moms, and can be particularly helpful in reaching underserved populations. While not everyone has access to the Internet, 90% of Americans have a mobile phone. Text messaging is disproportionately higher among women of childbearing age and minority populations who face higher infant mortality rates. In studies from around the world, mobile health services like text4baby have demonstrated the ability to help change improve health outcomes.

Connecticut Money School: free financial courses

Douglas Lord — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:13:44 +0000

Alert your patrons! The Connecticut Money School (CMS) provides free, volunteer-led financial education courses for adults in Connecticut.

The current course listings include these topics:

Debt, Saving, Credit, Loans, Health Care, Homeownership, Senior Issues, and State Benefits.

And are offered in these communities:

Bridgeport, Darien, Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven, Norwalk, North Branford, Orange, West Haven, and Westport.

Connecticut Money School (CMS) is a project of the Connecticut Association for Human Services (CAHS) and five nonprofit partners.

LSTA Grant Program

Douglas Lord — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:51:15 +0000

The Connecticut State Library is pleased to announce the availability of approximately $125,000 in Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funding for grants in seven categories. Program grant awards will range between $3,000 and $25,000.

See the LSTA page for applications, deadline, workshop information, program categories, and application guidelines.

LSTA funds are provided through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute’s mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas.

Ethnic Community Self-Help Program

Douglas Lord — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:17:40 +0000

This federal grant opportunity is from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families Office of Refugee Resettlement. Deadline: February 24, 2010.

From the Executive Summary:
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) invites the submission of applications for funding, on a competitive basis, to connect newcomer refugees and their communities with community resources. The objective of this program is to strengthen organized ethnic communities comprised and representative of refugee populations to ensure ongoing support and services to refugees after initial resettlement.

Free Webinar: Reaching Spanish-speaking Agricultural Communities

Kris — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:27:13 +0000

Spanish-speakers working in agriculture communities are looking to their libraries and other community technology centers for public access to computers. But like the recent Latinos and Library Perceptions Report confirms, there’s more to be done to reach out to these communities. Join special guests, Patricia Rempel, PhD, Reference and Collections Librarian at Coutts Education Library, University of Alberta and José Garcia, Teen and Reference Services Librarian, King County Library System and NW REFORMA Past President, for this free webinar as they share insights from research on perceived usages of community public access computers by Spanish-speakers in rural Washington gathered through interviews with information professionals. The presentation will include real life examples of library usage in these communities as well as the direct results of the outreach efforts of the libraries studied

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Online

For more information and to register for this program, visit: WebJunction Calendar of Events

Partnering with Parents and Families to Support Immigrant and Refugee Children at School report in pdf

Douglas Lord — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:57:28 +0000

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools publication Partnering with Parents and Families to Support Immigrant and Refugee Children at School provides background on the impact of the immigrant and refugee experience on children and youth and the importance of engaging the entire family in addressing the mental health needs of immigrant and refugee students.

The publication lives at the Caring Across Communities section of the Center’s web site. If you’re interested in this topic, you might like the Immigrants & World Languages CT WebJunction site.

The report’s contents include:

•    The Changing Face of American Classrooms
•    The Impact of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience on Students
•    Families – A Critical Component of Student Mental Health
•    Working with Immigrant and Refugee Families
•    Offering School-based Mental Health Services
•    Partnering With Immigrant Families to Support Student Mental Health
•    Stronger Family = Stronger Students
•    Caring Across Communities Grant Initiative:
•    15 Model Programs