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MN Certification Program

Continuing Education, MN Certification Program
Serving Your Community workshop, May 5, 2010 – Mankato
April 14th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

Many thanks to the organizers of this core Minnesota Certification program workshop, Mollie Pherson, SELCO, and Patty Biesterfeld, TdS. Consider attending.

Serving Your Community
Wednesday, 5/5/2010, 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
TdS Conference Room, 1400 Madison Ave., Suite 622, Mankato

Interested in learning customer service skills to enhance service to your library’s community? Traverse des Sioux Library System (TdS) and SELCO are pleased to bring Peg Werner, Director of the Viking Library System, to the Traverse des Sioux Library System Office in Mankato on Wednesday, May 5th for a workshop called Serving Your Community. This workshop, a core offering of the Minnesota Certification program, will focus on aspects of customer service in the library.

Free to all members of the Minnesota Regional Public Library Systems and interested library staff from libraries of all types across the state. Lunch is on your own.

This workshop will address the following MN Certification competencies:
*Technical Services: Collection Development 1, 3, 4; Cataloging and Classification 1
*Public Services: Administrative and Planning Services 1, 2, 9; Direct Patron Services 1, 2, 9

Please register online, or email Patty Biesterfeld at pbiest@tds.lib.mn.us or Mollie Pherson at mpherson@selco.info. Include your name, library, and email address, and please indicate if you require special accommodations. The deadline for registration is Friday, April 30, 2010.
Continuing Education, MN Certification Program
Day 2 – Intro to Library Services in MN – April 9 – Willmar
March 17th, 2010 | Permalink | Comment?

Day 2 Mollie Pherson, Regional Librarian for SELCO and Certification Program trainer, sent a reminder yesterday that the Willmar Public Library is hosting an Introduction to Library Service Day 2 session on Friday, April 9. If you have taken Introduction to Library Service Day 1 and have completed your Minnesota Certification homework, please feel free to attend! See the attached flyer for registration information and more details.

Please share with those who may be interested in the Certification Program or increasing their understanding of library services in Minnesota (and willing to prepare in advance). Mollie Pherson, SELCO, and Laurie Ortega, Pioneerland, will be the presenters.

Registration: To register for this event click here: http://evanced.info/minnesota/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=1903 or visit the calendar entry via the Webjunction Minnesota home page.
Continuing Education, MN Certification Program, Reference, Technology
Reference in the Electronic Age (April Workshop – 7 MN Locations)
February 3rd, 2009 | Permalink | Comment?

Have you seen the blog, Librarian By Day? http://librarianbyday.wordpress.com/ It’s written by Bobbie Newman, who will be coming to Minnesota in April to present the workshop, Reference in the Electronic Age. Should be fun! It’s open to all Minnesota library staff and is sponsored by the Minnesota Certification program. And, no registration fee!

At this workshop, attendees will learn how to conduct effective reference interviews, incorporate computer based resources and new technology into library services, how to fill information using resources beyond the immediate collection, and federal, state, and local requirements for Internet and computer usage in the library environment. Follow up by training a patron or a group – apply those skills to strengthen Minnesota’s residents!

Bobbi Newman serves as Digital Services Librarian, Missouri River Regional Library in Jefferson City, MO and as adjunct instructor at the University of Missouri, School of Information Science & Learning Technologies.

Seven Workshop Locations: 4/6 Wyoming, 4/8 Mountain Iron, 4/9 Detroit Lakes, 4/27 Rochester, 4/28 Mankato, 4/29 Redwood Falls, 4/30 St. Cloud

For more details and registration information visit the Calendar of Events at http://evanced.info/minnesota/evanced/eventcalendar.asp Click on April. Click on the desired date.

To go directly to the online registration form, visit http://www.arrowhead.lib.mn.us/certification/formref.htm.

By the way, Rebecca Patton, Public Library Consultant, Arrowhead Library System is providing the leadership on speaker arrangements and organizing this workshop. Thanks, Rebecca! In addition, the workshop carries no registration fee for participants, thanks to federal LSTA grant funding approved by State Library Services and administered by Arrowhead Library System!