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| NOVELIST: GREAT READER'S ADVISORY |
| Audience: Everyone |
Description: Duncan Smith, Creator of NoveList on
Great Reader's Advisory
Getting the most out of NoveList Plus
Don't miss Duncan's inspiring and informative presentation on Reader's Advisory!
...And learn about the latest version of NoveList -- NoveList Plus!
Duncan Smith, NoveList co-founder, will provide an overview of the latest enhancements to NoveList and proven strategies for using this resource in your work with readers.
Attend this program and learn...
• NoveList’s expanded coverage of nonfiction titles for readers of all ages.
• Strategies for finding series in reading order!
• How to assist readers who can’t remember a book’s author or title but know they borrowed it from your library!
• Features that will help you create book displays and support book discussion groups in your area.
• Content that will make you a hero with your colleagues at local schools.
• Techniques for finding authors who write like a reader’s favorite author.
Using recently recorded videos of real readers, Duncan will not only provide an approach for working with readers of all ages but help us connect to the difference that reading is making in the lives of our users.
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| Hours: 2 |
| Cost: No Charge (Registration still required) |
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| SUCCESSFUL TEEN SERVICES |
| Audience: Everyone |
Description: How to bring them in, get them involved,
and keep them coming back for more!
This workshop will focus on practical advice for providing successful teen services in the library. Interesting and inexpensive programming, tips for keeping teens involved, and sure-fire survival strategies will be included.
Presenter: Kimberly Paone is the Supervisor of Adult/Teen Services at the Elizabeth Public Library. She has been working closely with teenagers in the library for over eight years.
* This workshop will be followed by a library tour at 4:00 pm led by Josh Carlson, Teen Services Librarian, on behalf of the East Brunswick Public Library Youth Services Department. Please stay for this short tour to share the successful teen services that the East Brunswick Public Library has been able to offer.
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| Hours: 3 |
| Cost: $25.00 |
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| ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS - THE BASICS |
| Audience: Those with some computer experience but new to
Photoshop CS. |
Description: If you would like to familiarize yourself with image creation and editing using Photoshop CS--this class is for you. Exploring the different tools and features available in Photoshop CS will help you to maximize your creative potential. In this course, you'll use many of those tools and toolbox features and work with images.
Course Objective: You will explore the Adobe Photoshop CS
interface and use several tools for selecting parts of images. You will practice to use layers and to apply layer effects and filters to create special effects. Additionally, you will use painting tools and blending modes to create shading effects. Finally, you will save images in print and web formats.
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| Hours: 6 |
| Cost: $40.00 |
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| ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS - INTERMEDIATE |
| Audience: Those who took “Adobe PhotoShop CS - The Basics” workshop or equivalent experience |
Description: You have familiarized yourself with the basic image editing tools of Adobe® Photoshop® CS. Now, you will want to enhance the images. This action filled course will teach you how to transform tools, merge layers, work with layer effects and layer blending modes.
Students will apply, edit and remove layer masks, work with several types of filters to improve your pictures and create interesting effects. Students will also add type to pictures, special effects and understand the basics of Photoshop ImageReady.
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| Hours: 6 |
| Cost: $40.00 |
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| GREAT WEB DESIGN WITH CSS, PART I |
| Audience: Those who have a working knowledge of HTML and some experience with web page design. |
Description: Do you want more control over the look and feel of your site? Do you want to give your site a consistent design that's easy to change? Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) gives you the power to control your webpages' style (separate from their
structure.) Get an overview of what Cascading Style Sheets are and how they can be used effectively to provide the aesthetic requirements for a web site.
In this workshop students will:
See why writing good xhtml/html files is critical to working with CSS
Get an overview of how style sheets cascade in a web browser
Work with the Designer Style Sheet
Discuss CSS selectors, properties and values
See examples of how working with CSS affects the look of web pages.
Do hands-on exercises and learn, step by step, how to use CSS typography and layout properties.
This workshop is for those who have heard of CSS but have yet to master its power. It also serves to remove the obstacles many have found frustrating working with CSS. It gives everyone a solid overview of how it works and some practical exercise in applying CSS to a web page, a satisfying experience felt by almost all web designers, developers and authors.
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| Hours: 12 (6/day) |
| Cost: $80.00 for two days |
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| GREAT WEB DESIGN WITH CSS, PART II |
| Audience: Those who have a working knowledge of HTML and some experience with web page design. |
Description: Do you want more control over the look and feel of your site? Do you want to give your site a consistent design that's easy to change? Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) gives you the power to control your webpages' style (separate from their
structure.) Get an overview of what Cascading Style Sheets are and how they can be used effectively to provide the aesthetic requirements for a web site.
In this workshop students will:
See why writing good xhtml/html files is critical to working with CSS
Get an overview of how style sheets cascade in a web browser
Work with the Designer Style Sheet
Discuss CSS selectors, properties and values
See examples of how working with CSS affects the look of web pages.
Do hands-on exercises and learn, step by step, how to use CSS typography and layout properties.
This workshop is for those who have heard of CSS but have yet to master its power. It also serves to remove the obstacles many have found frustrating working with CSS. It gives everyone a solid overview of how it works and some practical exercise in applying CSS to a web page, a satisfying experience felt by almost all web designers, developers and authors.
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| Hours: 12 (6/day) |
| Cost: $80 for two days |
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| JUST WHEN I GET COMFORTABLE, EVERYTHING CHANGES |
| Audience: Everyone |
Description: Change is all around us today. We change managers. We change the look of our buildings. We change our policies and procedures. Property taxes are cut. Our budgets are reduced. And sometimes we are told to change how our library will operate. It is important to understand that we as individuals must come to grips with the underlying psychological effects of major change. And if we do not, we will be ill-equipped to deal with that change and to help others deal with the change.
Change can be effectively managed. Communicating information is critical. The more aware the management and staff are of the nature of the change, the more successful the change implementation process will be everyone involved.
As a result of this workshop participants will learn:
To recognize that before we can embrace the way things will be, we must go through a process of letting go of the “way things use to be.”
To see change as an opportunity for self-motivation and innovation.
To identify strategies for helping change to be accepted and implemented in the workplace.
The reasons why people resist changes in the workplace, including the four stages of coping with change.
And explain the five levers of organizational change management.
To describe the Pygmalion effect and how it can be used to shift perception and frame change.
The seven steps to becoming a change leader in their organization
The four decisions management must make when communicating change
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be encouraged to complete an action plan for implementing specific goals created during the session.
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| Hours: 6 |
| Cost: $40.00 |
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| A PERFECT FIT: PROGRAMMING THAT FITS YOUR COMMUNITY AND YOUR BUDGET |
| Audience: Everyone |
Description: Start - with stories and ideas from a library with a long history of community-connected and budget-conscious programming. These stories and ideas cover a lecture series in its 21st year (wait until you hear the speaker fee total!), special events, programming for staff, filling gaps, making basic programs unique, and giving your library a voice in community programming.
Continue - to think about how to design the programming that your community needs and about what kinds of
interests and talents you have at hand.
And then - have a chance to share some ideas and stories of your own.
The conclusion? That happens at your library, in your community, and actually goes back to the beginning…More stories, more ideas…
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| Hours: 3 |
| Cost: No Charge. Registration still required. |
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| OPEN SOURCE TOOLBOX FOR LIBRARIES |
| Audience: Anybody who wants to explore more options with open source software. |
Description: The library community is a buzz about open source software. Open source usually refers to an application whose source code is made available for use or modification as users see fit. Make sense?
Probably not! Would it help if you knew that open source is not just about programming, but about following a philosophy?
Still confused? Not surprising. What will open source mean to our libraries? More flexibility and freedom than software purchased with license restrictions. This is an important path for libraries to consider. Why open source? Because both the open source community and the library world live by the same rules and principles.
Nicole Engard will give you the facts and dispel myths about open source. This presentation will not only introduce librarians to what open source is and what it means for libraries, but also provide attendees with links to a toolbox full of freely available open source products to use in their libraries.
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| Hours: 3 |
| Cost: $25.00 |
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| WORKING WITH THE GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY TO GET THE MOST OF YOUR REFERENCE 'EBOOKS' |
| Audience: Current customers. |
Description: Overview of Gale’s ‘eBook’ platform – the Gale Virtual Reference Library – to provide and understanding of the navigation features in the platform, the options for your end-users in using Gale’s ‘eBooks’ and some administrative options ranging from the Sub-Collection Manager to bookmarking or linking to entries or Titles. An overview of the content in the Collections as well as a discussion of searching the eBooks with Gale databases and using MARC records to link the eBooks with the Library OPAC.
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| Hours: 1.5 |
| Cost: No Charge. Registration still required. |
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| WORKING WITH THE GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY TO GET THE MOST OF YOUR REFERENCE 'EBOOKS' |
| Audience: Current customers. |
Description: Overview of Gale’s ‘eBook’ platform – the Gale Virtual Reference Library – to provide and understanding of the navigation features in the platform, the options for your end-users in using Gale’s ‘eBooks’ and some administrative options ranging from the Sub-Collection Manager to bookmarking or linking to entries or Titles. An overview of the content in the Collections as well as a discussion of searching the eBooks with Gale databases and using MARC records to link the eBooks with the Library OPAC.
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| Hours: 1.5 |
| Cost: No Charge. Registration still required. |
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| CULTURAL AWARENESS |
| Audience: Everyone |
Description: New Jersey is one of the most diverse states in the country. The way customers think and act in the library is often based upon expectations learned in a different country or culture. What are some of these cultural differences? What are examples of some of the mistakes libraries make in this area? How can we be more sensitive and inclusive of cultural differences in the library?
This dynamic and interactive session will introduce cultural concepts to help participants gain a deeper understanding of cultural differences, and improve multicultural relationships with co-workers and customers.
Presenter: Lourdes Tango is a training consultant experienced in designing and facilitating programs in Cross-cultural Communication and Diversity Topics that include Culture, Race, Gender and Generational differences, Global Competency and Team Building. Lourdes holds an Intercultural Foundations Certificate from the Intercultural Communication Institute in Portland,
Oregon and a Certificate in Conflict and Dispute Resolution from New York University.
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| Hours: 4 |
| Cost: $25.00 |
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| FACEBOOK FOR LIBRARIANS: CONNECT WITH YOUR CUSTOMERS |
| Audience: Everyone who wants to explore Facebook |
Description: With more than 90 million ACTIVE users, it is the 4th most trafficked site on the Web. Demographically, more than half of Facebook users are outside of college and the fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older.
Your customers -- and your potential customers -- are living on Facebook!
Attend this workshop and learn how create a Facebook presence for your library and use that presence to effectively engage your customers.
After attending this class, students will be able to:
Manage their library's Facebook presence
Use updates to communicate with their customers
Configure privacy options--and explain how to do so to customers.
Use Facebook Notes to share websites and other items of interest with customers.
Find and install Facebook applications
By the end of this class you will have a Facebook page for you or your library!
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| Hours: 3 |
| Cost: $25.00 |
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| DREAMWEAVER CS, THE BASICS, PART I |
| Audience: Those with some computer experience but new to DreamWeaver CS. |
Description: Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 software provides the most complete set of tools available for building, editing, and
maintaining accessible websites and web applications.
In this workshop, students will:
Explore the Adobe® Dreamweaver ® CS3 Environment
Create, Save, and Edit HTML Documents
Create Templates
Format Text using Dreamweaver's CSS
Place images & use basic editing tools
Practice to create hyperlinks, email links, and image links
Understand the importance of size and weight ratios for images and documents
Create basic tables for design layout and content
Discuss basic accessibility features in design
Import text and Word documents to Dreamweaver
Define and practice to upload finished Website
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| Hours: 6 |
| Cost: $40.00 |
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| DREAMWEAVER CS, THE BASICS, PART II |
| Audience: Those with some computer experience but new to DreamWeaver CS. |
Description: Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 software provides the most complete set of tools available for building, editing, and
maintaining accessible websites and web applications.
In this workshop, students will:
Explore the Adobe® Dreamweaver ® CS3 Environment
Create, Save, and Edit HTML Documents
Create Templates
Format Text using Dreamweaver's CSS
Place images & use basic editing tools
Practice to create hyperlinks, email links, and image links
Understand the importance of size and weight ratios for images and documents
Create basic tables for design layout and content
Discuss basic accessibility features in design
Import text and Word documents to Dreamweaver
Define and practice to upload finished Website
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| Hours: 6 |
| Cost: $40.00 |
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| XHTML REVIEW |
| Audience: People who barely know, have forgotten or know incorrectly how to use tags in their web pages. |
Description: An all day review of what Extensible Hypertext Markup Language is and how it is to be used. A review of the tags people need to know to make web pages and the best practices for using them.
Lesson 1 - Overview
Lesson 2 - Basic Markup
Lesson 3 - Lists
Lesson 4 - Data Tables
Lesson 5 - Links
Lesson 6 - Embedded Images
There will be short, hands on exercises for all of these lessons. Students will be shown how to error check (validate) their pages against the W3C standards.
Program Flyer
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| Hours: 6 |
| Cost: $40.00 |
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| GAMING AND LIBRARIES |
| Audience: Everyone |
Description: Join us for a morning presentation on the importance of gaming and its place in public libraries for customers of all ages. Topics include gaming literacy, myths and facts about gaming, how to host gaming events/tournaments and why libraries should include gaming. Various consoles will be shown along with ample time to try out the systems yourselves!
Program Flyer
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| Hours: 3 |
| Cost: $25.00 |
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| LIBRARY MASHUPS: EXPLORING NEW WAYS TO DELIVER LIBRARY DATA |
| Audience: Anybody who is interested in exploring Library Mashups. |
Description: Nicole C. Engard, editor of "Library Mashups: Exploring new ways to deliver library data", will explain what mashups are, how they can be used and share examples from libraries around the world. Attendees will explore what tools to use to mash up library data with content from the web to reach more customers.
Program Flyer
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| Hours: 3 |
| Cost: $25.00 |
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| NEW REFERENCE: DELIVERING REFERENCE SERVICE IN THE 21ST CENTURY |
| Audience: This class is ideal for working front-line reference staff. Librarians and paraprofessionals will benefit. |
Description: During this workshop, attendees will be able to hear and discuss what it means to deliver reference service in the 21st Century. Providing service to the Net Generation, or Millennials, means embracing new technologies and new ways of interacting with information seekers.
Topics include:
Chat skills - getting used to real-time text chatting
Tailoring services to the Millennials
Incorporating social software into traditional reference work
Information source fluency - choosing the best resources
Managing your desktop "real estate" - optimizing your browser for efficient access and delivery of information
At the end of this workshop you will be able to:
Facilitate communication in an online chat, or IM, environment
Incorporate social software into the reference workflow
Select the best information sources
Customize a browser
Create new Web tools to increase efficiency of access and delivery of information
Develop a marketing strategy for your new reference services
Program Flyer
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| Hours: 5 |
| Cost: $40.00 |
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| ENSURING READY REFERENCE SUCCESS: REFERENCE SKILLS FOR LIBRARY ASSISTANTS AND PARAPROFESSIONALS |
| Audience: Library Assistants and Paraprofessionals |
Description: Handle information requests more efficiently, effectively, and confidently!
This workshop is tailored for Library Paraprofessionals/Library Assistants
who provide reference or information service.
At this workshop, the presenter will discuss;
• The reference interview: Questioning strategies that will help you determine what the customer really wants--quickly!
• How to improve your reference performance: techniques listening and questioning; effective attitudes and behaviors.
• Finding answers: types of information needs; types of reference materials, both print and electronic, to use
in responding to these needs.
By the end of this workshop you will be able to: Successfully exhibit and use the "model reference behaviors" that help you elicit the patron's real question - quickly!
Consistently followed, these very powerful techniques can have a much greater impact on the success of reference than the size of the collection, the number of years experience of the staff, the number of staff, or the level of education of the staff.
Program Flyer
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| Hours: 6 |
| Cost: $40 |
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| BOOK REPAIR |
| Audience: Everyone who is interested in book repair techniques. |
Description: More Secrets to Get More Life out of Your Books!
This full day hands-on workshop (Basic & Advanced) will cover the fundamentals and techniques of proper, effective repair that will help keep your books looking better and circulating longer that include:
Setting up a repair area
Evaluation and workflow
Supplies and resources
Measuring, cutting and gluing
Paper cleaning and repair
Tipping-in pages
Split texts and loose sections
Three types of hinge repair
Spine repair
Endsheet replacement
Participants are invited to bring 2-3 books that require the types of repairs listed above for evaluation and to solicit repair advice.
The fee includes take-home repair kit - $20 value
Program Flyer
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| Hours: 6 |
| Cost: $40.00 |
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| CURRICULUM STANDARD TIME |
| Audience: School Librarians/Media Specialists |
Description: You have been incorporating national and state curriculum standards into your information literacy lessons, but it is time to add the latest ones from the American Association for School Librarians and the National Educational Technology Standards.
Explore how the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner, the NETS-S (for students) and the NETS-T (for teachers) can make you a building leader. Then work on modifying one (or more) of your favorite lesson plans to incorporate these new standards. Workshop includes a free copy of the AASL Standards in the published format and a downloaded copy of the two NETS documents.
Program Flyer
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| Hours: 3 |
| Cost: $25.00 |
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