Events Filed Under: Libraries

Handheld Librarian 7 will include talks on ebooks, location-based social networking, lending devices, reference and mobile technologies impacting society - by librarians for librarians.

The two-day, interactive online conference will examine how libraries are capitalizing on community collaborations- whether through faculty scholarship and student learning, facilitating connectedness and fostering literacy in a town, or reaching out online.

Handheld Librarian V will address themes such as ebooks, location-based social networking, lending devices, reference and mobile technologies impacting society.

Learn about the experience creating an interactive information literacy tutorial from beginning to end in collaboration with a multimedia designer in this ACRL Webcast. Evaluate the potential of tutorial as an assessment tool and an opportunity for self-evaluation.

Learn to apply the appropriate analysis methods to your project's data or information, depending on the research methodology you are using.

Learn about best practices for credit-bearing information literacy courses based upon a literature review and several years of experimentation with various approaches to teaching a one-credit course at Boise State University.

Join us for the fourth online conference in a highly popular series on the use of mobile technology in libraries. More people than ever are using mobile devices for a wide variety of purposes including communication, internet access, text messaging, and entertainment. It is important that libraries provide mobile services as handheld use increases.

Topics will include form creation, including ADA accessibility features, in Adobe Acrobat Professional 9.0., Google Forms, and the data aggregation methods of each to track instructional progress and improvement in student learning.