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| Friday, June 14, 2019, 12:00pm - 4:00pm |
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Chemical Information Sources, Requests, and Reference (Fundamental) |
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Price: $125 - Member, $200 - Non-member |
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The course takes a hands-on approach to introduce learners to the types of questions that chemical researchers ask and reference sources that can be used to answer them. It will provide an overview of the structure of the chemical literature, types of reference sources in the chemical sciences, unique access points for chemical information, and strategies for an effective search. Informal lectures, interspersed with hands-on reference questions, will compare and describe the major chemical information resources.
Instructors: Judith N. Currano, Head, Chemistry Library, University of Pennsylvania; Dawn French, Senior Analyst - Knowledge Services, R&D Cristal USA, Inc. |
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| Saturday, June 15, 2019, 8:00am - 12:00pm |
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Writing Influential Copy: Value Statements, Elevator Speeches, and More (Intermediate) |
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Price: $125 - Member, $200 - Non-member |
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To write messages that can influence others, you need a combination of language, psychology, and marketing skills. Once you understand the steps and tactics, you can use them forever. This deep dive into wordsmithery will be led by a professional writer, editor, and marketer from the information industry. Detailed instruction will be followed by group writing assignments and individual evaluation. Don't worry, there won't be any sentence diagramming! There will be, however, "a-ha moments" and laughter. Attendees will leave with the knowledge to create compelling value statements, soundbites, funding appeals, elevator speeches, web copy, email subject lines, social media posts, and more.
Instructor: Kathy Dempsey, Marketing Maven, Libraries Are Essential
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Negotiation Skills for Information Professionals (Fundamental) |
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Price: $125 - Member, $200 - Non-member |
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During this session, information professional become more prepared for negotiations with a vendor, whether the goods and services to be provided are databases, technology or library equipment. At the conclusion of the session, the participants will have a better understanding of what is involved in a successful negotiation, understand how the salesperson has been prepared for the meetings, how the Info Pro needs to also prepare, and most importantly how to create a “win-win” situation so that both sides come away with some degree of success.
Instructor: Michael Gruenberg, President, Gruenberg Consulting, LLC, Carl Grant, Interim Dean, University of Oklahoma Libraries |
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| Saturday, June 15, 2019, 8:00am - 4:00pm |
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So You Want to Learn to Code: R Programming for Librarians and Other Information Professionals (Fundamental) |
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Price: $225 - Member, $415 - Non-member |
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R is an extensible, open-source language and computing environment for Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, and Linux platforms. RStudio is a very popular way to create R scripts that interact with the R software. Using R, analysts can create code that combines statistical approaches from many scientific disciplines to best suit the analytical framework you need to analyze your data. R works on data of all shapes and sizes, and the plotting functions of R allow you to produce high-quality graphics. This hands-on workshop is designed to teach non-programmers to write modular code and to introduce best practices for using R for data analysis. The workshop is divided into three topic areas: (1) Introduction to R and RStudio, (2) Introduction to Data Wrangling in R, and (3) Data Visualization in R. These skills will help propel research and your career forward.
Instructors: Doug Joubert, Informationist, National Institutes of Health; Candace Norton, Bibliometrics librarian, National Institutes of Health; and Cindy Sheffield, AlzPED Project Manager, National Institutes of Health.
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Introduction to Taxonomy Design & Creation (Fundamental) |
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Price: $225 - Member, $415 - Non-member |
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Taxonomies are becoming increasingly important and common for organizing and retrieving information. Implementations include library systems, museum and archive systems, digital asset management systems, content management systems, document management systems, records management systems, web publishing, and data analysis. Through this CE course, information professionals can go beyond a basic understanding about taxonomies and learn the practical aspects of designing and creating taxonomies and thesauri so that they can take on or manage a taxonomy development project. Standards and best practices are important, but do not cover every situation, and there are numerous occasions when different factors need to be considered in making decisions in designing and creating taxonomies. This CE course provides guidance in making those decisions. The outline of course topics comprises: (1) Definitions and types (2) Applications, uses, and benefits (3) Creating and wording of terms (4) Synonyms, alternative labels, non-preferred terms (5) Sources for terms (6) Term relationships (7) Structural design: hierarchies and facets(8) Software tools(9) Project process, management (10) Taxonomy governance.
Instructor: Heather Hedden, Senior Vocabulary Editor, Gale, A Cengage Company
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Chemistry for the Non-Chemist Librarian (Fundamental) |
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Price: $225 - Member, $415 - Non-member |
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It is necessary that any information scientist with responsibilities for providing chemistry reference services understand the structure and language of chemistry. This course takes a hands-on approach to introduce learners to the basic principles of the five major divisions of chemistry, chemical terminology and drawing, and other intellectual tools that chemists need to do their work, punctuated by real-life chemistry experiments that offer insight into the research process and acquisition of research data. It will be composed of four basic sections: an introduction to chemistry as a science, strategies for effective communication with chemists, basic chemical concepts and research questions, and the ways in which chemists’ research needs dictate their information needs.
Instructors: Judith N. Currano, Head, Chemistry Library, University of Pennsylvania; Susan Cardinal, Chemistry Librarian, University of Rochester
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| Saturday, June 15, 2019, 12:30pm - 4:30pm |
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Making Informed Decisions: A Data Literacy Primer (Intermediate) |
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Price: $125 - Member, $200 - Non-member |
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In this course we will look at fundamental concepts regarding collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and interpreting data. We will discuss how these concepts can be applied to our own information center or library's data-driven decision making processes. At the end of the session, students will have dissected a library dataset and it's metadata and will draft an initial data collection and analysis project for their own library or organizational unit.
Instructor: Elaine Lasda, Associate Librarian, University at Albany
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Methods in Qualitative Studies for the Information Professional (Intermediate) |
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Price: $125 - Member, $200 - Non-member |
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Ethnography can play a crucial role for any information professional in developing goals, strategies and processes to improve outcomes across a wide range of disciplines. This course is based on workshops given on qualitative data analysis for faculty and students at the University of Georgia. Discussion in these workshops revealed problems, misconceptions and oversights which frequently arise in conducting qualitative data analysis, and are not discussed in the literature. This class will demonstrate how new innovative approaches to librarianship can be developed using ethnographic methods. Participants will learn the value of ethnographic studies for organizations and communities. This course provides hands-on experience for information professionals in conducting ethnographic studies. It includes an overview of major approaches to data analysis using ethnographic methods and application of ethnographic principles in the library environment. Real library case studies will be provided. Participants will be provided with raw verbatim transcripts of recordings and will be introduced to encoding procedures. The encoded transcripts will be analyzed.
Instructors: Emily Williams, Ph.D., Consultant, University of Georgia; John Cruickshank, M.Sc., Librarian, University of Georgia
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