Join us for a webinar that will give you skills and techniques to deal with your ever growing pile of things to read, do, store and tweet.

Dealing with Information Overload

Webinar

September 22, 2010: 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Information overload is a very real consequence of having the means to create information become so ubiquitous and inexpensive.  As information professionals, we are in a prime position for helping our communities deal with the inevitable tsunami of information crashing into their lives every day.  Find out how to deal with information overload through ten principles, including organizational techniques, how to filter your input, time and stress management, managing overload in different media: email, RSS, interruptive technologies, the telephone, print media, multimedia, and social networks. Come away with a plan for tackling your own mound (physical or virtual) of overload!

Bio
Sarah Houghton-Jan is the Digital Futures Manager for the San José Public Library in the heart of the Silicon Valley. She is also the author of the blog LibrarianInBlack.net.  Sarah was named a 2009 Library Journal Mover & Shaker as a Trendspotter.  She trains and consults for libraries all over the world about issues of library and technology.  Her book, Technology Training in Libraries, was published in 2010.

NISO is announcing its schedule of educational programs for the second half of 2010, including six webinars; free monthly open teleconferences; an in-person forum; and a joint NISO/DCMI webinar in August.

The complete fall schedule of 2010 NISO educational events is listed below and more details are available at: www.niso.org/news/events/2010/ . Registration is now open for all events.
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This fall, Nylink is offering Get Started:  Preservation Building Blocks for Small Institutions.  This low cost workshop is great for anyone who is dealing with preservation issues at their institutions.  While preservation is often pushed to the side for more glamorous topics like web 2.0 technologies, it is an issue we all deal with and must be aware of.

Here are some other preservation and collection based trainings going on:

Association of State and Local History:

Collections Management and Practices
Dates: June 24-25, 2010
Location: Keeney Memorial Cultural Center, Wethersfield, CT
Host: Connecticut Humanities Council, Hartford, CT

Museum Classes Online:

Online classes starting July 5, 2010:

MS104: An Introduction to Collections Preservation
MS107: Introduction to Museum Security
MS207: Collections Management: Cataloging Your Collection
MS217: Museum Cleaning Basics
MS223: Care of Metals
MS235: Scripting the Exhibition
MS242: Museum Microclimates

For more information on the classes, and to order a class, go to www.museumclasses.org .

Buy two or more similarly priced 2010 classes in one order and get 5% off.

Lyrasis:

Preservation and Salvage of Audiovisual Materials (Live Online) 07/06/2010, 10:00am-12:00pm Eastern Time

This class offers preventive preservation strategies and salvage options for audiovisual materials commonly found in libraries and archives.

Society of American Archivists:

Electronic Records: Preservation of PDFs:  Webinar on demand

Disaster Planning for Electronic Records: June 22,  webinar

New York’s Statewide Preservation plan has identified preservation education as a top area of need in NYS.  The other two top priorities are disaster preparedness and infrastructure.   Those concerned with the preservation of collections should check out more about the NYS Connecting to Collections project.

Get Started:  Preservation Building Blocks for Smaller Institutions will be offered at Nylink on October 20.  This is a great class for folks who are charged with preservation activities at their institutions.  Anyone working in a library, museum, archive or special collection is welcome to attend, regardless of the size of your organization.  Plus the workshop is only $45!

Nylink’s July-December Training Calendar is now available.

Here is a sampling of classes:

Upcoming Webinars:

June 3:    Local Holdings Record Updating by Batch

June 16: Introduction to the eXtensible Catalog (XC)

June 17: Dealing With Web-Delivered Resources: Web Sites & Databases

July 19:  WorldCat Resource Sharing Auto Deflection & the Policies Directories

MARC Basics Webinar Series:

July 20: MARC Basics: Sound Recordings

August 25: MARC Basics: Books

September 30: MARC Basics: Serials

November 10: MARC Basics: Visual Media

Metadata Cookbook Webinar Series Returns!

June 9: Metadata Cookbook Series: Dublin Core

July 14: Metadata Cookbook Series: EAD

August 12: Metadata Cookbook Series: VRA Core

October 13: Metadata Cookbook Series: ONIX

Online Digitization Classes:

Self-paced: How to Build Digital Collections Using CONTENTdm

Instructor Facilitated:

June 7: Digitization Basics

July 19: Digital Project Management

Special Events:

October 20: Get Started: Preservation Building Blocks for Smaller Institutions

November 16 & 17: SCCTP-Advanced Serials

Thank you for your continued support of Nylink training.

Deidre Dowling

Education Coordinator

Nylink

SUNY’s Conference on Instructional Technology 2010 is being held on May 28-28 at SUNY Plattsburgh.  This is SUNY’s  largest and most prominent event on instructional technology in education, providing a forum for faculty, instructional support professionals, and policymakers to present, discuss, and explore innovative avenues for integrating technology into the teaching and learning environment.

The conference is open to anyone, whether you work for SUNY or not!

There appears to be many intriguing sessions covering everything from engaging students through new technologies and exploring the impact of i-pod touch and smart phones on music.

Sounds like a great opportunity to get out of the office, explore and discover new instructional technologies and chat with colleagues.

Just got your New York public librarian professional certificate? Are you looking for professional development hours?

According to state legislation, “Public librarian professional certificates issued as of January 1, 2010, and thereafter shall only remain valid when 60 hours of professional development are completed every five year period. Such periods will be defined as every five years from the initial certificate date.” Nylink provides training to help you maintain your Public Librarian Certification. See our education calendar for a complete and current list of Nylink training and conference events.

A wide range of options for professional development is available.

Joyce Rambo, Nylink’s Reference and Digital Collections Librarian, has been working hard on a unique set of asynchronous training sessions for participants in the South Central Regional Library Council’s collaborative digitization initiative, Tools of History. Joyce became involved in the project at the suggestion of Matthew Hogan, SCRLC’s Manager of Digital Services & Resource Sharing.
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The future of information services and mobile technology is tightly intertwined. That’s why OCLC and Library Journal have come together to present a free online symposium on the future of mobile on Thursday, May 20 from 1-4 pm ET.

• How will better connection speeds affect services and functions?
• What will the rise of the smartphone mean to personal computing?
• How will upcoming mobile trends impact your library, your users, and our culture?

Join our panel of mobile industry experts and librarians and find out. There’s no travel, no cost. Just insight.

Register for the OCLC/Library Journal Online Symposium about mobile today at www.oclc.org/innovation

Reading Radar, a mashup created by John Herren, combines New York Times bestseller list data that the NYT makes available via its Developer Network with book data from Amazon Web Services.

Reading Radar gives you the cover and the NYT Bestseller List stats alongside reader reviews and other data from Amazon. It’s simple, it’s highly functional, and can be incorporated into your library’s website via Yahoo Pipes.

This useful and tidy bit of code was just one of the many tips passed along by Nicole Engard in the recent Library Mashups class she taught for Nylink last week. Nicole’s new book, Library Mashups is available now, and we’re excited to note that she will be speaking at our Annual Meeting on June 3rd at FIT.