[CASL-L] Free iCONN Webinars Jan./Feb. 2012

[Abery, Kris]

Please excuse the cross posting

The following iCONN Webinars have been scheduled for January and February 2012. To register access the Connecticut Continuing Education Calendar @ http://evanced.info/cslib/evanced/eventcalendar.asp


Free iCONN Webinar: E-reference and iCONN - Jan. 18th  3:00 - 4:00 pm
Did you know you have access to over 50 Gale e-reference titles from iCONN? And that Gale recently launched a more user friendly interface for them? Join us for this one hour webinar to learn more about what's available and how to use it.

Free iCONN Webinar: Libraries Mean Business - Jan. 23rd 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Reach out to your business community and offer them and outreach service like none other. Learn how to provide successful solutions for small businesses and other professionals through program ideas and a variety of online resources using Business and Company Resource Center.

Free iCONN Webinar: Patrons & Gale/iCONN  Resources: How to Get Users to Skip Google & Use Them - Jan. 26th 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
This webinar is all about getting users TO your Gale resources from iCONN. Did you know you can put a search box for Gale resources on your library's web page? You'll learn several different ways of accessing the resources - direct URLs, widgets, MARC records, Bookmarks, sharing and more. Pick the best one for you and your community! Configuring the interfaces of your Gale resources to make them easy to use as possible.

Free iCONN Webinar: Gale Virtual Reference Library & Ebook Subcollections - Feb. 2nd 9:00 - 10:00 am
Do you prepare book carts with selected books for teacher classroom visits to share with students? How would you like to make the same selected content available to them 24x7? Tune into this webinar to learn about how to turn your Gale e-books into "electronic book carts" for use with special projects or audiences. Resources Focus: Gale Virtual Reference Library, ebook Subcollection Manager.

Free iCONN Webinar: Literature Research & Your Gale/iCONN Resources - Feb. 6th 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Did you know Gale's Biography in Context resource contains all of Contemporary Authors? Or that Academic OneFile has over 200 full text literature journals? Or Books & Authors can help with collection development? Tune into this one hour webinar to learn more about finding literature content in your Gale/iCONN resources and how they can help you more frequently at the reference desk.






Kris Abery
Continuing Education Coordinator
Connecticut State Library
Email: Kris.Abery at ct.gov
Tele: 860 704 2206
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CTStateLibrary
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/LibraryofCT

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