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ALCTS offers a wide variety of online continuing education opportunities through webinars, web courses, and e-forums. Several of the popular Fundamentals web courses are available this Summer and the committee is working on the Summer/Fall webinar schedule. See below for a list of available web courses and a tentative schedule of upcoming webinars. Additional details and registration information will be posted at http://www.ala.org/alcts/events as it becomes available.

 

Web Courses Scheduled for Summer:

-          Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions (July 11-August 5; August 22-September 16)

-          Fundamentals of Preservation (July 18-August 12)

-          Fundamentals of Acquisitions (July 25-August 19)

Webinars (tentative schedule, subject to change):

-          Aiming for a Robust Metadata Infrastructure for the Future (August 1)

-          The Art of Scanning (August 24) (IR series)

-          FRAD (August 31) (RDA series)

-          Floating Collections (September 21)

-          Things we thought we knew about RDA but didn't (September 28) (RDA series)

-          CONSER Standard Record: Where Are We Now? (October 5)

-          Constructing the Future Library: Architectural and Digital Considerations (October 12)

-          RDA Basics: Scores (October 19) (RDA series)

-          RDA Basics: Sound Recordings (October 26) (RDA series)

-          Cataloging Law Material with RDA (November 2) (RDA series)

-          ISSN and You (November 9)

-          Cooperative Collection Development (November 16)

-          Promoting Institutional Repositories on and off Campus (November 30) (IR series)

-          Standards and Metadata (December 7)

-          2 CUL: Cornell and Columbia Collaborate – Next Gen Tech Services (Dec. 14)

Questions? Interested in sponsoring or creating an event? Contact alcts@ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.