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2014 Minitex ILL Conference: Registration is Now Open

23rd Annual Minitex ILL Conference

Tuesday, May 6, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:15 PM

Continuing Education & Conference Center
University of Minnesota – St. Paul Campus
1890 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108

To register and get the full lineup of speakers, go to http://tinyurl.com/mhqr87h

Keynote Speaker: “Big Data: Too Big to Ignore” by Phil Simon

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Phil Simon photo provided by Minitex

Phil Simon  is a keynote speaker, recognized technology expert, and the award-winning author of six management books, most recently The Visual Organization. He consults organizations on matters related to strategy, data, and technology. His contributions have been featured on NBC, CNBC, Inc. Magazine, BusinessWeek, The Huffington

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A Calendar of Events (Online & F2F)

Whether you want online learning opportunities or face-to-face learning events, there are many exciting professional development possibilities for library staff. Short of funds to attend an upcoming  conference? Library staff in Central Minnesota can apply for a CMLE scholarship to assist with costs. Get more detail at www.cmle.org by clicking on scholarships.

Registration opens on January 15th for this free, online, self-paced program!

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Other January & February Free Online Learning (WebJunction)

Check out WebJunction’s Training page for information about these sessions, which are free and available to staff of libraries throughout the Minitex region. Pre-registration is required.

Archived versions of earlier WebJunction webinars are also available on the webpage.

The WebJunction website also contains a monthly list of other freely available training opportunities that are available to the library community.

Also, remember, WebJunction Minnesota, which provides access to online, self-paced courses and other features, is available to all members of the Minnesota library community. See the WebJunction Minnesota website for more information

Save These Dates in March through July (Face 2 Face)

March 19–20, 2014

The 7th Annual Library Technology Conference will be held March 19–20 at Macalester College in St. Paul. The 2014 conference will feature keynotes from Mita Williams, blogger and user experience librarian at the University of Windsor, and Barbara Fister of Gustavus Adolphus College, a Library Journal columnist and blogger on library trends in content creation and more.

May 6, 2014

The 23rd Annual Minitex Interlibrary Loan Conference will take place on Tuesday, May 6, at the Continuing Education & Conference Center on the Saint Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota. Phil Simon, technology expert, frequent speaker, and award-winning author of six management books will be keynote speaker. More information and registration materials will be available in early March.

June 3, 2014

The 12th Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) will be held Tuesday, June 3, at the Continuing Education & Conference Center, University of Minnesota, St. Paul. The keynote speaker will be Dan Cohen, founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). MDL is a service hub for to the DPLA. More information will be posted in early spring on the annual meeting webpage.

July 30–31, 2014

2014 eLearning Summit will be held July 30–31 at the University of Northwestern – St. Paul. The keynotes will be Cable Green, Director of Global Learning for Creative Commons, and Robbie Kendall Melton, Associate Vice Chancellor of eLearning and Emerging Mobilization Technology for the Tennessee Board of Regents.

Videos of the 2013 eLearning Summit keynotes are now available.

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Save the Date: Minitex ILL Conference

January 6, 2014

23rd Annual Minitex ILL Conference

Date & Location

Tuesday, May 6, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:30 PM

Continuing Education & Conference Center
University of Minnesota – St. Paul Campus
1890 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108

Registration information will be distributed in March 2014.

Keynote Speaker: “Big Data: Too Big to Ignore” by Phil Simon

keynote
Phil Simon photo provided by Minitex

Phil Simon  is a keynote speaker, recognized technology expert, and the award-winning author of six management books, most recently The Visual Organization. He consults organizations on matters related to strategy, data, and technology. His contributions have been featured on NBC, CNBC, Inc. Magazine, BusinessWeek, The Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, The New York Times, ReadWriteWeb, and many other sites.

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An Introduction to Digital Preservation

PrintManaging Digital Content Over Time: An Introduction to Digital Preservation

What Will be Covered? Organizations of all kinds create and use a wide variety of digital resources in the course of business. These resources represent each organization’s intellectual capital and, as such, have value and need to be carefully managed and preserved. While many of the traditional resources found in libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions—books, photographs, objects—can survive for years with no intervention, our digital content is much more fragile. Managing it requires ongoing care and preservation activities to ensure continued access far into the future.

This online training series—based on the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Program—introduces fundamental concepts for managing your digital content over time through a series of six modules delivered in three sessions. The sessions include: Identify and Select, Store and Protect, and Manage and Provide. Viewers can choose to register for all three sessions, or just one of the three.

Who Should Attend? This introductory series is for staff of any library, archive, museum, or other organization concerned about the long term care of their digital resources. No previous knowledge about the topic of digital preservation is assumed.

To Register Visit: http://tinyurl.com/nalzeeg

 

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Reluctant Reader Post Event Wrap-up

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On December 6th, CMLE hosted the Reaching Reluctant Readers Event with author-librarian Patrick Jones, in St. Cloud, MN.  The purpose of this event was to continue to support literacy within the CMLE region by providing additional insight as to why some youth are reluctant to read, along with potential tips and tricks to engage patrons/users. Thirty people registered for this event, and attendees included librarians, media specialists and paras, college professors, principals, reading teachers, and even some college students. The passion and buzz in the room was contagious; the goal was simple. We all wanted tips and best practices about how  to encourage the joy and wonder of reading!

Patrick  is considered a state-wide expert on teen reluctant readers. He presented from the perspectives of a librarian  and as an author and offered fantastic suggestions that attendees could easily implement immediately.  Jones identified why some youth elect not to read (aliteracy) even if reading was modeled by reader example(s.)  He suggested that the act of reading can be perceived as a barrier to engaging with other youth. Some view reading as an anti-social, solitary and a sedentary act that poorly competes with today’s electronics. As an author, he talked about the physical appearance of books that tend to capture a reluctant reader’s attention; including larger fonts, extensive open space on each page and eye-catching covers. Jones also referred to the best writing style for this type of reader as straightforward, minimal characters and action packed. His concluding thought was to remind us that people who don’t read well sometimes actually fear books, which can feel foreign to us as avid readers. Jones reminded us that the main thing we need to do is to use strategies to reduce the fear!

As a take-away from this event, CMLE asked attendees  about their personal reading experience and discussed favorite reluctant reader books during a round table rally. Topping the list were Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) by Jeff Kinney, Speak by Laurie H. Anderson and American Born Chinese by Gene Yang.

If you attended this event, what  was your favorite takeaway or “aha moment” ? Please share in the  comments field!