Fw: Upcoming eCourses: Drupal, Reference, and Library Instruction

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Subject: Upcoming eCourses: Drupal, Reference, and Library Instruction

Having trouble viewing this e-mail? View as a web page. Forward this to your colleagues. THREE GREAT LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES! Using Drupal to Build Library Websites An eCourse with Sean Fitzpatrick Six-Week eCourse Begins Monday, February 6, 2012 Drupal is an open source content management tool that allows users to build complex websites without extensive programming, making it perfect for library websites. In this eCourse, librarian, consultant and Drupal expert Sean Fitzpatrick will guide participants in building an attractive, functional library website using Drupal. This test website will be hosted on a server for six months after the eCourse, facilitating additional learning. Whether the objective is a simple site or full-service digital branch, this introductory eCourse will give participants the know-how to get a library website up and running. Sean Fitzpatrick is graduate of the University of North Texas School of Library and Information Science, and has spent his career developing online content and websites for libraries and organizations that support them. Reference Through Social Media: Developing Standards, Guidelines, and Policies An eCourse with Sarah Steiner Four-Week eCourse Begins Monday, February 6, 2012 Too often chat, social media, and text-based reference services operate without standards and policies. This eCourse will guide you in writing useful, concise, legally-sound standards and guidelines for providing reference through social media. Simply establishing basic greeting, closing, and tone standards that reflect user expectations will significantly improve user satisfaction. With a solid foundation of best practices, and practical advice on implementation and ongoing assessment, you and your colleagues will communicate with library users in a consistent and reliable way. Sarah Steiner is the Social Work and Virtual Services Librarian at Georgia State University Library in Atlanta. Rethinking Library Instruction: Libraries as Social Learning Centers An eCourse with Paul Signorelli Four-Week eCourse Begins Monday, February 6, 2012 During this four-week eCourse, you will learn how to increase awareness of what your library has to offer as Signorelli teaches basic instructional techniques to improve presentation skills. Learning outcomes: Use instruction to help promote more effective use of library collections, physical or online Use instruction to promote more effective use of library services Use informal and formal needs-assessment to identify topics for instruction and evaluation tools to measure instruction's effectiveness Design, prepare, and present an informal learning resource that responds to your library users' current learning needs Paul Signorelli has more than 20 years of experience as a learning leader for libraries and other organizations and businesses. Shop the ALA Store for a full selection of products! Follow ALA Editions on alaeditions.org, Facebook and Twitter! ALA Store purchases fund advocacy, awareness and accreditation programs for library professionals worldwide. To manage your e-mail subscriptions to ALA Editions communications, click here. If you no longer wish to receive email from ALA Editions, click here. To unsubscribe from all American Library Association communications, click here. American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611.

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