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Academic, General, Special

Coming Soon: Love Your Data Week!

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Love Your Data week is fast approaching on February 13-17, 2017! Please tell us if you plan to participate and we will list your institution’s name on the site so we can continue to grow the community of data lovers.

This year’s theme is emphasizing data quality for researchers at any stage in their career:

Blue heart for Monday Monday: Defining Data Quality
Green heart for Tuesday Tuesday: Documenting, Describing, Defining
Yellow heart for Wednesday Wednesday: Good Data Examples
Orange heart for Thursday Thursday: Finding the Right Data
Red heart for Friday Friday: Rescuing Unloved Data

Visit our website (https://loveyourdata.wordpress.com/) for content, resources, and activities for each day.  And join the conversation on Twitter #LYD17 or #loveyourdata!

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General, Public

Free Small Libraries Online Conference: Feb. 26

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Registration for Big Talk From Small Libraries 2016 is now open! This free one-day online conference on February 26 is aimed at librarians from small libraries; the smaller the better. The day features 12 presentations from professionals serving populations from 1,400 to 23,647 around the United States and Canada. Topics range from technology to programming to partnering with your community. Everyone is welcome to register and attend, regardless of how big or small your library is.

This conference is organized and hosted by the Nebraska Library Commission and is co-sponsored by the Association for Rural & Small Libraries.

Information in this post was furnished by the OCLC WebJunction Crossroads Newsletter, Feb. 3, 2016.

 

Petersburg, Nebraska, Public Library. From the Nebraska Library Commission's Flickr account: https://flic.kr/p/Bh6qd
Academic, General, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

American Libraries Live: The Present and Future of E-Books

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The Present and Future of E-books

Thursday, March 13, 2014
2:00pm Eastern | 1:00pm Central | 12:00pm Mountain | 11:00am Pacific
Sue Polanka, e-book expert and co-editor of the new journal eContent Quarterly, leads The Present and Future of E-books, a free interactive discussion featuring an all-star panel. This episode is an immediate and effective way to get to the heart of the real issues surrounding e-books in libraries.This episode is co-sponsored by OneClickdigital and Total BooX, and joining Polanka and the audience for the 60-minute discussion will be:
  • Jamie LaRue, former director of Douglas County (Colo.) Libraries
  • Troy Juliar, vice president of Content/Acquisition, Recorded Books
  • Jeff Metz, product manager, OneClickdigital
  • Yoav Lorch, founder and CEO, Total BooX

Don’t miss this episode! You can pre-register here or go to americanlibrarieslive.org on March 13 at 2pm EST to view (pre-registration is not required).

REGISTER TODAY!

Co-sponsored by:

OneClickdigital, from Recorded Books, is an easy-to-use website and platform for e-books and eAudio, providing one-click download and transfer to portable devices. Click to learn more.

Total BooX is an e-book service that gives library patrons a new digital reading experience, while making library budgets go further. Click to learn more.

American Libraries Live

Free, interactive, streaming video broadcasts discussing trends
and exploring industry issues