The following Continuing Education workshops have been scheduled for April 2013. To register access the Continuing Education Calendar of Events @ http://evanced.info/cslib/evanced/eventcalendar.asp

Older Adults LSTA Grant Writing Workshop – Mon., Apr. 1^st (MLSC)

The Division of Library Development offers directed programming for Older Adults grants which will provide up to $5,000 to libraries to provide or enhance library programs, services, materials and collections* to older adults who have difficulty accessing traditional library services or extend lifelong learning programs to older adults. Attending one informational grant-writing session is required in order for a library to submit an application.

Your Library, Your Town: Data You Need To Know – Tues., Apr. 9^th (MLSC)
This half-day workshop is an overview of census, and federal and state agency data available to librarians and media specialists interested in planning programs for their community, and answering reference questions about their communities. In this hands-on workshop we will learn how to access community data to better serve our library patrons. Looking at this data can help us learn the answers to these questions and others.

How many cars drive past your library each day?
How many students in your area are not fluent in English?
Is your town mill rate changing
Any black bear sitings in your area?
What were your towns election results for the last municipal elections?
Any hazardous waste sites in your town?

Free iCONN Webinar: Libraries Mean Business –Thurs., Apr. 11^th (Online)
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 Heritage Quest Online Database Training – Tues., Apr. 16^th (Online)
On Tuesday, April 16th, Beth Reiten, Customer Education & Training Specialist for ProQuest will conduct a 1-hour webinar on the U.S. Census module of HeritageQuest Online. HeritageQuest Online is a unique resource for both genealogical and historical researchers. In this session, we will cover the U.S. Census module, the Notebook tool, search history and explore finding and manipulating results. In addition we will learn how to best print images using Adobe Acrobat. We will also work with the Census Book help, maps and census forms. Participants will take away experience with genealogical research and supporting handouts to help refresh their memory after the session.

HeritageQuest Online consists of 6 modules:
U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1940: The page images for the entire census, 1790-1930 – and a good portion of the 1940 census – are included in HeritageQuest Online. Many corresponding name indexes are also available. These are completely new indexes created by ProQuest. In addition to the ability to search by name, our census records can be searched by place of birth, age, ethnicity and other variables making this the most versatile census searching available online. Researchers can quickly see all African-Americans or all persons born in Ireland living in a state or county.

Genealogy and Local History Books Collection: The Books collection delivers more than 7 million digitized page images from over 28,000 family histories, local histories, and other books. Titles have been digitized from our own renowned microform collections, as well from the American Antiquarian Society via an exclusive partnership.

PERSI™ - The PERiodical Source Index: A comprehensive subject index covering more than 6,600 genealogy and local history periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800. PERSI™ provides the researcher the ability to search on surnames, locations, and methodologies as well as the ability to browse the journals by title and keyword. There are more than 2.1 million article citations currently available, with updates occurring annually.

Freedman's Bank Records: At the close of the Civil War, the Freedman's Savings & Trust Company was the primary bank for America's freed slaves and others from 1865-1874. This HeritageQuest collection documents more than 105,000 bank depositors and over 480,000 of their dependants and heirs. It is considered one of the most important resources for African-American genealogical research.

Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files: This collection details records of 80,000+ individuals who served in the Revolutionary War and contains both genealogical and historical information. Each veteran's file contains six or more pages on each veteran and normally includes the veteran's former rank, unit, and period of service, age or date of birth, residence, and sometimes-genealogical information on other family members.

U.S. Serial Set: This collection offers a glimpse into the people and places on whose behalf Congressional action was sought during the period 1789-1969. Consisting of documents and reports prepared for the U.S. Congress, it includes Private Relief Actions, Memorials, and Petitions. The subject matter covered by this collection includes: pensions, military and naval matters, claims of election fraud, public works projects, immigration and naturalization, land grants, taxation, and many types of monetary claims made by individuals and businesses.

Free iCONN Webinar: Literature Research & Your Gale/iCONN Resources – Mon., Apr. 22^nd (Online)
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.

Free iCONN Webinar: Patrons & Gale/iCONN : How to Get Users to Skip Google – Thurs., Apr. 25^th (Online)
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.

Kris Abery

Continuing Education Coordinator

Connecticut State Library

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Hartford, CT 06106

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