[Conntech] 1 Seat Available: Exploding Your OPAC (Middletown)

[Kris Abery]

Due to a cancellation there is one seat available in the "Exploding Your OPAC" workshop on Monday, Dec. 17th at the Middletown Library Service Center. To register access the Continuing Education Calendar of Events at: http://evanced.info/cslib/evanced/eventcalendar.asp 
A description of the workshop follows.

Exploding Your OPAC
Tired of maintaining your website's New Book Lists and Subject Pathfinders by hand? Want to incorporate new features into your current ILS, without having to wait for your vendor to implement them? Come and find out why the best thing you can do with your OPAC is to blow it up! You don't have to be an experienced programmer to get it done. Find out how to use simple Open Source tools to transform your MARC records into something that can go on your website, an RSS feed or anyplace else you can imagine. 

You will learn about:
*Repurposing the content in your catalogs 

Your instructor, Ed Sperr is Digital Services Consultant at NELINET.  Prior to joining NELINET, he worked as Education/Electronic Resources Librarian at the New England College of Optometry and as a Reference Librarian at Columbia College.  Ed has extensive experience with web design, patron instruction and using library technology to solve problems for librarians and end-users alike.  He holds an Bachelors in English 

Monday, December 17, 2007
9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Middletown Library Service Center Computer Lab
Fee: $25     Limit: 12