Library 2.0 - staff training schedule
February 27th, 2006Dear all-lib,
As a follow-up to our presentation on Library 2.0 at January’s all-staff meeting, we agreed to offer some training sessions on new technologies mentioned in our talk.
The schedule is below; we hope to see you there! No need to RSVP.
We’ll send out reminders close to each date. Links to additional readings will be provided for those who can’t attend but are interested in the content.
Thanks,
Nicole and Ellen
for the SFX-Verde team
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All sessions take place in DIRC and are lecture/demo format (not hands-on).
Series topics:
1) What is RSS and how can I use it? - part 1
RSS is the acronym for a family of web feed formats. Web feeds allow Internet users to subscribe to websites; these are typically sites that change or add content regularly.
- Tues. Feb. 28, 3-4 pm
2) RSS part 2
This session is for those familiar with RSS and will look at some interesting ways to use RSS feeds to embed content in web pages other than the ones they originate from.
- Thurs., March 2, 3-4 pm
3) Social bookmarking and tagging
Social bookmarking is an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources.
- Mon. March 13, 2:30 - 3:30 pm
4) SFX and Open URLs
SFX and open URLs, the Full Text Finder, and demos and discussion of Barton as an SFX source.
- Tues, April 18, 1-2 pm
5) What is Faceted browsing?
Unlike a simple hierarchical scheme, faceted classification gives the users the ability to find items based on more than one dimension. This is becoming a popular and useful way to narrow large results sets and make the different types of metadata more easily seen and used.
- Monday April 24, 11am -12 noon
6) Verde
What Verde is and how it came to be; how it is like Vera and how it is different from Vera; how it relates to SFX, and what options it offers for displaying Verde’s data to our users.
- Tues., May 2, 1-2 pm