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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

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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 Post, The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, The New York Times, ReadWriteWeb, and many other sites.

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Registration Opening: 2014 Library Tech Conference

Library Technology Conference 2014 registration will open on
Thursday, December 12, 2013, at noon, 12:00 PM CST.

Registration Link

Registration is limited to no more than 450 total participants. Once this level of participation is reached, registration will be CLOSED! Please register early in order to ensure your spot at the conference.

LibTech image retrieved online.
LibTech image retrieved online.

The 2014 conference will be held on March 19-20, 2014  at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.

This year’s Library Technology Conference is again intended to provide an opportunity for library professionals and the technologists who support them to discuss the technologies that are affecting library services; to see examples of what libraries are doing with these technologies; and to provide a venue where participants can learn specific skills or knowledge that they can take back and adapt for use within their own libraries. The number of conference participants will be limited to no more than 450 in order to help ensure a quality conference experience and to help facilitate the interactive and hands-on nature of many of the sessions.

The two-day conference features two keynote speakers, Mita Williams and Barbara Fister, and will also include more than 60 conference sessions – traditional lecture-style sessions, hands-on/workshop sessions, interactive technology dialogue sessions, and poster sessions. From appification of information to tips for becoming a training video star, a wide range of library technology-related topics are covered during Lib Tech 2014 sessions.

We hope that you and other staff from your library will make plans to join us for this conference! For more information, visit the conference website.

Have additional questions or need more information? Please contact us at libtechconference@macalester.edu

Information in this posting was released by Minitex Tuesday, December 10, 2013 3:23 PM

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Webcast: Data-Driven Academic Library

Image by Bionic Teaching. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Commons' licensing.
Image by Bionic Teaching. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Commons’ licensing.

ProQuest, Springer, Library Journal and ER&L are sponsoring a series of upcoming webcasts. The first in the series addresses how academic libraries use data to make decisions. Identifying best practices to effectively communicate data to various stakeholders.  

This webcast will include presentations from both Sarah Tudesco, Assessment Librarian, Yale University and Bonnie Tijerina, Head of E-Resources and Serials, Harvard Library. 

What Is a Data-Driven Academic Library?
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
2:00-3:00 PM CT

Registration

Here are the links for the next two webcasts in this series:

  • Click here to register for Part 2 of this series: The Evolution of Usage: Analyzing and Benchmarking Use.
  • Click here to register for Part 3 of this series: Measuring Impact: Redefining Scholarly Value Through New Data.
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Upcoming CMLE Event: Reaching Reluctant Readers

Patrick Jones. Image Retrieved Online 11/7/13.
Patrick Jones.
Image Retrieved Online 11/7/13.

Save the Date!

Join Central MN Libraries Exchange (CMLE)

December 6, 2013 from 1-4:00 PM

 Stearns History Museum, St. Cloud, Minnesota.

State-wide reluctant reader expert, author and librarian Patrick Jones will lead this afternoon event!

Need a substitute to attend? Apply for a CMLE scholarship.

Food, Take A-Ways, Prizes