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LIS Workshops — July/August

Although summer is a busy time for many around campus, we are offering a few learning opportunities with the added enticement of air conditioning. Visit go/lisworkshops to view our schedule and get signed up for sessions of interest. You’ll find Drupal introductions and work sessions so you can spruce up your departmental web sites.  You’ll also find a few more chances to find out about lynda.com and how you can start using it (wherever you are!) to improve your skills.

LIS Workshops — May/June

There are a few more learning opportunities on the horizon before our language schools students arrive on campus, so we hope you’ll visit go/lisworkshops to view our schedule and get signed up for sessions of interest. We’re squeezing in a Drupal introduction as well as a work session so you can spruce up your departmental web sites.  You’ll also find a few more chances to find out about lynda.com and how you can start using it (wherever the summer may find you!) to improve your skills.  You may be surprised to learn that lynda is not just for technology — it includes such topics as “time management skills,” “achieving your goals” and “effective meetings.”

LIS Workshops — May

Sign-ups are now open for our May workshop offerings.  Visit go/lisworkshops for all the details. You’ll find Drupal sessions to help you build and manage departmental web sites, as well as a few more opportunities to find out how you can start using lynda.com to improve your technology skills.

Liaison Discussion Section (AND optional all-LIS meeting): Customer care and feedback

Topic: Customer care and feedback: techniques and tips discussed. Led by Jess Isler.
Who’s Invited: All liaisons and anyone else who is interested
When: Wednesday, April 18, from 10:15-11:15 am Thursday, April 19, from 3-4 pm
Where: LIB 145, Davis Family Library

This will be a short presentation, followed by open discussion. Virtually everyone in LIS works in a service role for some type of customer, be they faculty, staff, students, or our fellow LIS colleagues. It can be helpful to reflect periodically on our approach to a familiar topic and see how we might improve upon it. Jess will share advice and techniques learned during meetings with College employees at the forefront of customer care (employees from within and beyond LIS) and supplemented by research (articles, blog posts, and books). Attendees will be encouraged to share their own tips and techniques for approaching customer care interactions and how to deal effectively with feedback. It will be geared toward all LIS staff whose work includes customer service. Please send Jess any questions in advance (jisler@middlebury.edu).

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“Liaison Discussion Section” meetings address research and/or technology topics of interest to liaisons. They can be conversations, or presentations, or both. They take place most often on the 3rd week of the month, but in order to allow people who work different hours to attend, they’re sometimes scheduled for different days/times.

This Liaison Discussion Section will take the place of the optional all-LIS meeting scheduled for April 19.

Liaison Discussion Section: Migrating from Segue

Topic: Migrating from Segue: Common questions and how to answer them. Presented by Barbara Merz and Bryan Carson.
Who’s Invited: All liaisons and anyone else who is interested
When: Wednesday, March 21, from 9:30-11 am
Where: Wilson Media Lab, Davis Family Library

This will be a demo plus Q&A about what often happens (ie, what fixes are needed) when a site is transferred from Segue to WordPress or Moodle. It will be geared toward LIS staff who support these platforms.  Barbara will lead the WordPress portion of the workshop, and Bryan will lead the Moodle portion. Please send them any questions in advance (merz@middlebury.edu and bcarson@middlebury.edu).

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“Liaison Discussion Section” meetings address research and/or technology topics of interest to liaisons. They can be conversations, or presentations, or both. They take place most often on the 3rd week of the month, but in order to allow people who work different hours to attend, they’re sometimes scheduled for different days/times.

LIS Workshops – March/April

Check out our latest offerings featuring workshops on web site creation and maintenance using Drupal, and how to migrate Segue sites.  Signing up is simple: just click a workshop title below then fill in the form.

Drupal Workshops

Date Workshop Time Location
Thu, 3/8 Introduction to Drupal 3:00-4:30 pm Davis 105
Fri, 3/23 Drupal Work Session 3:00-4:30 pm Davis 105
Wed, 4/4 Introduction to Drupal 3:00-4:30 pm Davis 105
Wed, 4/18 Drupal Work Session 1:00-2:30 pm Davis 105

 Segue Migration Assistance

Date Workshop Time Location
Mon, 3/26 Segue Migration Work Session 10:30am-Noon Davis 105
Mon, 3/26 Segue Migration Work Session 3:30-5:00 pm Davis 105
Tue, 3/27 Segue Migration Work Session 10:30am-Noon Davis 105
Tue, 3/27 Segue Migration Work Session 3:30-5:00 pm Davis 105
Wed, 3/28 Segue Migration Work Session 10:30am-Noon Davis 105
Wed, 3/28 Segue Migration Work Session 3:30-5:00 pm Davis 105
Thu, 3/29 Segue Migration Work Session 10:30am-Noon BiHall 161
Thu, 3/29 Segue Migration Work Session 3:30-5:00 pm BiHall 161

Remember that you can take a look at our workshop schedule and course descriptions anytime by typing go/lisworkshops in your Web browser’s address field.

LIS Workshops – February

Our February offerings are now available.  Signing up is simple: just click a workshop title below then fill in the form.  Be sure to note the location as some of our workshops will be held in McCardell Bicentennial Hall in response to customer feedback.

Date Workshop Time Location
Wed, 2/8 Drupal Work Session 2:00-3:30 pm Davis 105
Fri, 2/10 Online Learning with  9:00-10:00 am Davis 105
Wed, 2/15 Introduction to Drupal 2:00-3:30 pm BiHall 161
Tue, 2/21 Drupal Work Session 3:00-4:30 pm BiHall 161
Wed, 2/29
Online Learning with
 
4:15-5:00 pm BiHall 161

Remember that you can take a look at our workshop schedule and course descriptions anytime by typing go/lisworkshops in your Web browser’s address field.

Liaison Discussion Section: Video Tutorials for Library Instruction

Topic: Video Tutorials for Library Instruction, presented by Larraby Fellows of CCV
Who’s Invited: All liaisons and anyone else who is interested
When: Friday, January 13, from 2:30-4 pm
Where: Davis Family Library 105

Larraby Fellows, Public Services Librarian at the Community College of Vermont, will tell us how she creates video tutorials for library instruction. Larraby’s presentation will help us kick off our second round of information literacy tutorial planning and creation. Larraby has a nice collection of tutorials on the CCV site. A few of my personal favorites: Go Local? VT Issues & Events as Paper Topics, How Do I Get Help? and Search Words.

Topics will include:

  • Setting goals based on the purpose of the tutorial (eg, on-the-fly instruction, explanation of research concepts, advertisement)
  • Creating consistency and “branding” across tutorials: Setting protocols, where to find copyright-free image collections, how to decide which images to use
  • Moving from step-by-step tutorials toward concept tutorials
  • Time requirements, workflow recommendations, keeping material up-to-date
  • Results/statistics
  • Tech tips: Larraby will tell us why she uses Adobe Captivate (we don’t have Captivate here at Midd)

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“Liaison Discussion Section” meetings address research and/or technology topics of interest to liaisons. They can be conversations, or presentations, or both. They take place most often on the 3rd week of the month, but in order to allow people who work different hours to attend, they’re sometimes scheduled for different days/times.