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New Leadership Series Added to WJIL Course Catalog
March 16th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?
Interested in developing leaders in your organization? The WebJunction Illinois Course Catalog has just added a series of courses related to leadership skills. Enrollment is free for all registered users of WJIL. Visit the Illinois Course Catalog and click on the “Leading Organizations” topic under the ”Organizational Management” heading.
- Leadership Essentials 1: Motivating Employees
- Leadership Essentials 2: Communicating Vision
- Leadership Essentials 3: Building Your Influence as a Leader
- Leadership Essentials 4: Leading with Emotional Intelligence
- Leadership Essentials 6: Leading Innovation
- Leadership Essentials 7: Leading Change
- Leadership Essentials 8: Creating Your Own Leadership Development Plan
Continuous Learning, Online Learning
Libraries go Boom: April Webinars Announced
March 4th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

Two new webinars are announced for April. Libraries Go Boom! Library Service to Older Adults and Baby Boomers will be presented by Douglas Lord, of the Connecticut State Library, on April 6. Douglas will discuss how libraries can identify and serve the needs of older patrons.

Then on April 20, WebJunction will host Competency Success Stories for Your Library. You’ll hear how various libraries are using competencies in their hiring, training, and continuous education initiatives. For more information about these an other upcoming webinars, visit L2.
Continuous Learning, Online Learning
Trendy Topics 2010: Marketing for Libraries
March 2nd, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

Alliance Library System and TAP Information Services are pleased to announce the second in a dynamic monthly series of online workshops you can enjoy right at your desktop on hot topics.

The latest conference on Marketing for Libraries is scheduled for Tuesday, March 9. Alison Circle of Columbus Metropolitan Library and blogger for “Library Journal”, will be the opening keynote speaker at 10:00. She will offer a step-by-step presentation on how to develop a marketing plan that integrates newest channels (Facebook, Twitter, and others) into a consistent value message that pays off in tangible results.

Find out more.
Continuous Learning, E-Learning, Online Learning
Mentors, Proteges and Strategic Planning: 3 New Courses Added to the WJIL Catalog
March 2nd, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?
The three courses listed below were recently added to the WJIL Course Catalog. If you are a registered user of WJIL, these courses are available to you for free.

Mentors and Protégés: Creating Successful Workplace Programs (LE@D)

There’s a lot of common-sense planning that goes into running an effective, creative, dynamic mentor program. It really isn’t about magic — it’s about organization, details, and continual evaluation to help us stay on target and focus on our goals.

Throughout this course, we will be exploring how to create the best interchanges between mentors and protégés, with an eye toward positive results for all involved.

Strategic Planning: Quick, Cheap, and Decent (LE@D)

What happens if you don’t have time to research and write an A+ strategic plan? What if you have an impossible deadline, no budget, no experience, and no staff? Something has to give.

This is a class for when you need a quick, simple, short-term working strategic plan for your library or project; when your plan needs to be good, not great; when your existing plan needs a fast makeover; when your existing planning process is stalled and you need a jump-start; when you have a difficult planning deadline; when your library’s leadership and management have never created a strategic plan before, and they want to start small, simple, and doable; or when there is only one of you to do it all.

If you’re looking for a more thorough introduction to the strategic planning process, or a solution to long-term problems, please consider Strategic Planning: The Five-Minute Introduction

Strategic Planning: The Five-Minute Introduction (LE@D)

Strategic planning is about inventing a new future and creating a written plan for coordinating the steps and the resources to get there. That doesn’t sound so very terrible, does it?

But, poll a library audience about why they hate strategic planning, and the issues appear all too familiar. What if I could offer you a strategic planning process that was both reasonable and beneficial to your library?

This class is designed to introduce you to the skills and techniques necessary for developing a strategic plan and emphasizes two important concepts:
- Strategic planning works.
- It does not have to be a long, expensive, tedious, and basically useless process.
Why Five Minutes? Because that’s how long it takes to explain the main steps of this effective strategic planning model.

If you’re looking for more practical, hands-on information, or if you need a quick, simple, short-term working strategic plan for your library or project, please consider Strategic Planning: Quick, Cheap, and Decent
Electronic Resources, Online Learning, Technology
Teaching Technology in Libraries
February 23rd, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

Libraries, especially public libraries, are finding that they still need to teach the basic classes of computer literacy to their patrons. As a part of their Technology Training Wheels the Alliance Library System has developed a short resource module for Teaching Technology in Libraries.

The Teaching Technology in Libraries module provides materials and resources for library staff members with training responsibilities and online tutorials and websites for patrons working to improve their skills. Staff members can view actual scripts, handouts, and other resources to assist with the design of computer classes in their own libraries. Many of the materials provided can be duplicated or adapted.
Online Learning
Quick Start Webinars
February 15th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

Quick Start allows library users to easily search all types of materials and have their search results displayed by “relevance and location.” Users will see their local library items first, then items held in their consortium, and finally, the rest of WorldCat.

In addition, users can now search the FirstSearch databases from within the Quick Start Interface. Access includes the base package of FirstSearch databases (provided for all Illinois libraries by the Illinois State Library) as well as any additional databases for which the library
has a subscription.

OCLC plans to migrate FirstSearch to the WorldCat.org platform sometime in 2011, so it would be desirable for Illinois libraries to register for and become familiar with the Quick Start service. To learn more, consider attending one of the OCLC webinars to be offered on February 15,
23, and March 9 at 1:00 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.oclc.org/info/illinois.
Online Learning, Social Computing
Maximizing Connections with “Mini” Conferences
February 9th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

Join us on February 17th for Maximizing Local Connections and Resources with “Mini” Conferences, the second in a series of webinars presented in collaboration with REFORMA. In these times of tight budgets and restricted travel, attending national conferences has become impossible for many library staff. Many local and regional agencies are joining forces to coordinate “mini” conferences that provide the means of connecting and collaborating locally, often providing a more focused and meaningful experience for attendees.

Since 2005, the Northeast Chapter of REFORMA has joined forces with ALA ethnic caucuses to present a terrific conference where library workers network, exchange ideas and listen to quality speakers. What started as an idea has grown into an annual event embraced by REFORMA, AILA, APALA, BCALA and CALA. Come hear best practices in planning, coordinating and hosting a “mini” conference from your colleagues who have had success in their regions. Webinar presenters include Loida Garcia-Febo, REFORMA president, Tess Tobin, REFORMA’s Northeast Chapter; and Haipeng Li and Janice Rice, co-chairs of the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color.

More information on registration on L2.
Online Learning, TechAtlas in Illinois, Technology, Technology Planning
March Webinar Madness on TechAtlas
February 8th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

Are you looking for help with managing your library’s technology inventory or maybe you need to start working on a technology plan? In March, WebJunction will be hosting a series of webinars to introduce you to the free, online technology planning and management tool called TechAtlas for Libraries. Participants in the sessions will get to see live demonstrations of the tools and also hear tips on best practices for planning and technology management.

For details see the following on L2:

TechAtlas for Libraries: Inventory Tools - March 10
Implementing an Online Help Desk Using Event Tracker – March 16
Technology Planning with TechAtlas – March 24
Online Learning, TechAtlas in Illinois, Technology, Technology Planning
Public Library Per Capita Grant Requirements
February 8th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

The FY2010-11 (due 15 October 2010) Per Capita grant has a technology plan requirement, ” The library must submit a Technology Plan…” from the FY2011 Requirements.

On the 24th of March, WebJunction is hosting Technology Planning with TechAtlas Webinar at 2 p.m. Find out more on L2.
Online Learning, Technology
Four More Windows 7 Courses added to the WJIL Catalog
February 8th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

With the popularity of Microsoft’s latest OS, related courses are being added to the WJIL Catalog as they are released. These 4 recents ones are all directed at IT staff who are either planning to migrate to Windows 7 or are pursuing/updating their MS certification. And this brings the total to 7 courses on Windows 7 in the WJIL Catalog. To enroll in these most recent offerings visit the WJIL Catalog, then click on “Windows” under the Operating and Automation Systems category.

Installing, Upgrading, And Migrating To Windows 7

Overview/Description

Windows 7 is a new desktop operating system from Microsoft. The majority of computer users interact with desktop operating systems more than any other type of computer operating system today. This course will show you how to install Windows 7 in a single and multiboot environment, along with showing the process involved in migrating or upgrading from previous Microsoft operating systems. This course maps to exam 70-680: TS: Windows 7 Configuring. This exam is required for the certification MCTS: Windows 7, Configuration.

Windows 7: Deploying

Overview/Description

Deploying system images and configuring VHDs are skillsets that system administrators working with Windows 7 must become familiar with. This course examines the methods used to capture, prepare, and deploy system images along with configuring VHDs. This course maps to exam 70-680: TS: Windows 7 Configuring. This exam is required for the certification MCTS: Windows 7, Configuration.

Windows 7: Configuring Hardware and Applications

Overview/Description

Configuring device and application support, restrictions, and compatibility is one of the main jobs of desktop administrators. Windows 7 has many features built into it to allow you to perform these actions. This course will examine how to install, configure, and troubleshoot devices drivers ; Applocker will be examined; application compatibility tools will be configured, and IE 8 will be examined to show how administrators can configure it for end user support. This course maps to exam 70-680: TS: Windows 7 Configuring. This exam is required for the certification MCTS: Windows 7, Configuration

Windows 7: Configuring Access to Resources

Overview/Description

Computer and network access configuration is a major part of a computer administrator’s job role. They make sure authentication and authorization schemes, user control, and file access are properly configured on computers in their networks. This course examines authentication and authorization, User Account Control, file access and shared resource management, and HomeGroup and BranchCache configurations. This course maps to exam 70-680: TS: Windows 7 Configuring. This exam is required for the certification MCTS: Windows 7, Configuration.

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Library Management, Online Learning

New Leadership Series Added to WJIL Course Catalog

Continuous Learning, Online Learning

Libraries go Boom: April Webinars Announced

Continuous Learning, Online Learning

Trendy Topics 2010: Marketing for Libraries

Continuous Learning, E-Learning, Online Learning

Mentors, Proteges and Strategic Planning: 3 New Courses Added to the WJIL Catalog

Electronic Resources, Online Learning, Technology

Teaching Technology in Libraries

Online Learning

Quick Start Webinars

Online Learning, Social Computing

Maximizing Connections with “Mini” Conferences

Online Learning, TechAtlas in Illinois, Technology, Technology Planning

March Webinar Madness on TechAtlas

Online Learning, TechAtlas in Illinois, Technology, Technology Planning

Public Library Per Capita Grant Requirements

Online Learning, Technology

Four More Windows 7 Courses added to the WJIL Catalog