Library Tech Training

When: Wednesday Feb 20 12-1pm
Where: 105 Doe
Instructor: Harrison Dekker
Class Page: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/wikis/datalab/Talks/ucelinks
Description: Innovations like link resolvers, OpenURL, and Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) have fundamentally altered the way our users access scholarly publications. How familiar are you with them? Can you explain them to users? Come to this hands-on workshop and learn more.

Instructor: Karen Munro
Description:
A 50-minute introduction to how bSpace works: how to log in and set up a site, what tools are available, how librarians can be added to instructors' course sites. Include hands-on practice at setting up a site with some of the most popular bSpace tools.

Where: 105 Doe
When:

1. Thursday Feb 21 12-1pm
2. Wednesday Mar 5 12-1pm

Instructor: Anne-Marie Basso
When: Wednesday Feb 27 12-1pm
Where: 105 Doe
Description:

Learn why social bookmarking is so useful in this hands on session. Bring your laptop or use one of ours. We will post, tag, and share sites. You'll learn about subscriptions, annotations, and viewing sites with tag clouds. Finally, we will import an RSS feed of our bookmarks into a PMwiki page.

9 reasons to del.icio.us

1. Share great websites.
2. Organize your bookmarks.
3. Access your bookmarks from anywhere you have an internet connection.
4. Write notes about your bookmarks .
5. Search your bookmarks enabling you to have more of them.
6. Categorize your bookmarks by topic.
7. View your bookmarks by topic.
8. Import your bookmarks into your blog, facebook, or wiki.
9. Put a list of great resources together for students that you can add notes too and add onto whenever you want.

Instructor: Karen Munro
Where: 105 Doe
When:

1. Tuesday Feb 26 12-1pm
2. Thursday Mar 6 12-1pm

Description:
For people already familiar with bSpace, but interested in learning more about tools to facilitate research in course sites. Includes hands-on practice using the Citation Tool, the Web Content tool (to draw in an HTML research guide or a web-based chat page), and the Forum tool.

Where: 450C Moffitt
When: Thursday Jan 17, 2008 12-1pm
Instructor: Karen Munro
Description: This training session will cover the basics of creating and maintaining a library blog: when to use a blog, how to get one, authoring posts, creating categories, uploading images, and pulling in book covers from Amazon.

Class website: http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/wikis/dmtechtraining/index.php?n=Main.HomePage