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ALA Continuing Education Clearinghouse
This is a database of continuing education opportunities offered by ALA and its units. It includes face-to-face workshops and conferences, online learning, and workshops that can be licensed by local institutions.
"Basics and
Beyond" Digital Imaging Workshops, Illinois Digitization Institute
"Basics and Beyond" is designed to teach libraries, museums
and archives how to digitize cultural heritage materials using generally
accepted best practices. The primary focus is the digitization of photographic,
manuscript and archival collections, although some information on three-dimensional
digitization has also been included. These workshops and courses are meant
to serve as an introductions to digitization techniques, and do not cover
every aspect of digital projects. It is hoped that these training materials
will ultimately provide the impetus for participants to integrate digitization
programs into the mainstream practices of their institutions.
Preservation Workshop Series, Northeast Conservation Center (NEDCC)
Founded in 1973, the Northeast Document Conservation Center is the largest
nonprofit, regional conservation center in the United States, specializing
in preservation of paper-based materials. Its services include paper,
book, and photograph conservation treatment; preservation microfilming;
digitization; photograph duplication; surveys and consultation; disaster
assistance; and workshops and conferences. Visit NEDCC'S Web site at http://www.nedcc.org/
Specialized Conservation
Workshops, CCAHA Workshops
CCAHA offers workshops primarily for professional staff, such as curators,
collections managers, archivists, librarians, or others who have primary
responsibility for the care and handling of artifacts. CCAHA is also willing
to develop specialized workshops tailored to your needs. Topics include:
"Preservation Challenges", "Building Environments and Basic
Care", "The Care and Handling of Photographs", "Emergency
Preparedness, Response and Recovery Workshop", "The Care of
Maps, Posters, and Oversize Artifacts", "Strategies for Brittle
Materials", and "Commercial Library Building". Hands-on
workshops include: "Conservation for Permanent Collections",
"Care and Repair of Circulating Library Collections", "Housing
Solutions for Paper-Based Artifacts".
Training & Workshops, AMIGOS Library Services
Amigos Library Services, Inc. provides on-request, regional and electronic
learning opportunities. Training courses cover an array of topics important
to today's changing libraries, scheduled and delivered in a variety of
ways. From OCLC to the Internet, reference and technical services to management
and technology, we will assist you in determining your training needs,
then identify or develop courses and delivery methods to meet them.
AMIGOS is dedicated
to serving libraries. A nonprofit organization, Amigos is today one of the nations'largest library resource-sharing networks and a leader in
providing information technology to libraries. The Amigos Membership consists
of over 750 libraries and cultural institutions, located primarily in the southwestern United States, who utilize Amigos' comprehensive line
of services, including cataloging, reference, resource sharing, preservation,
digital imaging, consulting and training.
Workshops
& Courses, SOLINET
SOLINET (Southeastern Library Network, Inc.) provides workshops
in administration, cataloging, preservation, technological and legal issues,
professional and personal development, programming and marketing and reference.
SOLINET offers a web-based program as well as location-specific training
within the southeastern.
SOLINET, a membership network of libraries and other information organizations,
works in collaboration with many partners, from local to international,
to provide leadership for cooperative action, improve access to information,
and enable members to effectively anticipate and address the region?s
needs for education, economic development, and improved quality of life.
Complete Inventory of Courses. Sample Courses: Metadata for Digitization and Preservation (Web-based train), Managing and Preserving Digital Materials, Developing a Disaster Plan (Web-Based Training), Grant Writing for Digitization and Preservation Projects, Management 101, Presentation Skills, Advanced Networking, Javascript, Metadata Standards, Introduction to A/V Cataloging
2007
July 8-12, 2007, EDUCAUSE
Learning Technology Leadership Program, Madison, Wisconsin
The program is designed for individuals who implement and support the use of technology in teaching and learning and have significant experience in such areas as instructional design, instructional technology, learning support, and e-learning and aspire to leadership roles, both formal and informal.
This Institute program focuses on how to develop leadership and the ability to influence institutional directions in enhancing the learning environment rather than on the delivery of instructional design or instructional support services. The program explores how individuals can facilitate systemic transformation of teaching and learning in institutions of higher education.
The distinguishing feature of this program is its emphasis on the transition of the professional role of learning technologist from responding to an identified need for instructional support to that of an initiator of academic change. Leadership in this context may not be attached to the position title but rather be assumed and exercised by the professional. It is leadership in the context of learning design and technology that makes this program unique.
June 24-30, 2007, VRA and ARLIS/NA
Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
May 1-3, 2007, Northeast Document Conservation Center (NDCC)
School for Scanning: Building Good Digital Collections, Minneapolis, MN
NDCC is revamping the School for Scanning conference in response to participants' comments. They will not be offering it again until May 2007; instead, they are replacing it with full-group lectures AND breakout sessions. The conference will be geared toward an audience without a lot of (or any) experience in digitization, a sort of Elementary School for Scanning. For institutions with a few projects (or a digitization program) under their belts, refer to the Persistence of Memory conference.
March 6-9, 2007, Online
Metadata for Digitized Resources, Amigos Library Services
Providing metadata for digitized resources goes beyond traditional cataloging. What are the challenges to organizing and providing access to digitized materials on the web? This workshop outlines the types of metadata necessary to a well-maintained digital collection, including metadata for discovery, navigation, administration/preservation, rights management and structural metadata. Obtain basic knowledge of the extensible Markup Language (XML) and some of its derivatives the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and the Encoded Archival Description (EAD). Understand the differences between XML and HTML. Understand the emerging standards for Web access, including the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and its relation to XML. Learn how the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard wraps digital objects and their metadata together. Discover Dublin Core, an international standard for description and discovery on the Web.
February 26, 2007, Online
CONTENTdm: The Basics, Amigos Library Services
A hands-on workshop designed to assist new users of CONTENTdm software in building digital collections. The introductory class includes a software overview covering CONTENTdm functionality, interoperability and integration tools such as various importing and exporting wizards.
Participants configure and populate their own digital collection using materials provided. The step-by-step tutorial takes the new user through configuring metadata and rights management templates for data entry, adding items singly and in batch, and using a wizard to create compound objects. Participants also learn how to migrate data into CONTENTdm using tab-delimited files containing metadata and digital object references. The participants will learn how to implement and maintain a controlled vocabulary. Techniques are taught for individual record, sub-set and global maintenance of the collection using both the client Acquisition Station and the web-based editor. Automated customization of pre-defined queries and results are taught through the use of the Custom Queries and Results tool.
February 20-23, 2007, Online
Project Management for Digital Imaging, Amigos Library Services
This workshop is structured to assist both current and future project managers beginning or already in the planning stages of production-based projects. Focus will be on selection of appropriate items and collections for imaging; documentation and workflow, writing and managing RFPs, involvement in cooperative projects, vendor selection, copyright and rights management issues, funding sources, and writing grant proposals. Key preservation issues involved with imaging projects are emphasized.
Prerequisites: Completion of the "Introduction to Imaging and Imaging Technology," workshop, completion of the Cornell "Moving Theory into Practice" online digital imaging tutorial http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html or other experience in scanning text or images.
February 12, 2007, April 17, 2007, Online
Classroom Management Technique for Librarians, SOLINET
Librarians are teachers too, however, as library school students, we are not exposed to the wide-ranging “toolbox” of classroom management strategies that teachers have learned and apply every day.This two day, two hours each day class will, through discussion and exercises, introduce a range of classroom management, teaching, and presentation techniques that librarians can use and apply in a variety of settings to keep classes motivated and on task.
February 8, 2007, February 28, 2007, Online
XHTML: The Future of Web Design, SOLINET
This hands-on class will cover: Making your HTML code conform to XHTML rules; text formatting, color, adding images; tables; creating hyperlinks. Particpants will also get an overview of XHTML editors, storage space issues and how to register their web page.
