[CASL-L] Seats Available: Your Library, Your Town, Intro. to WordPress & Evernote Basics

[Abery, Kris]

There are still seats available in the following Continuing Education workshops and iCONN webinars scheduled for April 2013. To register access the Continuing Education Calendar of Events @ http://evanced.info/cslib/evanced/eventcalendar.asp



Your Library, Your Town: Data You Need To Know - Tues., Apr. 9th (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?



Introduction to WordPress Websites - Wed., Apr. 17th (MLSC)

Looking for a simple way to have an attractive and useful web presence? One that is easy to maintain as well? Sound too good to be true? Come learn how it can be done with Wordpress. Wordpress is a content management system that lets you create and maintain a website without learning complex & expensive web development software. At the end of the workshop you'll be able to update your Wordpress website from any computer that has an internet connection.

Not sure if you have Wordpress available to you? Check with your website hosting service, they'll be able to help you. There are also services that let you set up a Wordpress site for free. During this workshop we'll provide you with a temporary Wordpress website that you can use as a model for later development.

In this session we'll cover
How Wordpress helps you organize your information
Setting up an easy to update page for news.
Changing the look of your site through the use of themes.
Options for letting people leave comments on your site.
Incorporating content from blogs, flickr and other services.
Adding media content on your pages.
And much more!


Tech Tools: Evernote Basics & Productivity Tools - Thurs., Apr. 18th (MLSC)

Evernote is an amazing tool for keeping track of everything you might otherwise lose track of. At it's simplest, it's a great note-taking
tool. But that's just the start. With browser and app add-ons, you can clip web content directly into Evernote, save the full text of
articles and web pages complete with sections highlighted, email notes and content from multiple devices, store documents, take video
notes, record audio and more. And that's just the free version. With the premium version you can store text searchable PDF files and more.
It really can be your external brain!

Best of all, Evernote synchronizes with all your computers and portable devices, giving you access to your notes everywhere. Content
can be organized into notebooks that are private or shared with others as need be. Notes can be tagged with with your own keywords to
help you find content later.

In this workshop we'll delve into Evernote and its family of products that includes Clearly, Skitch and Evernote Food. We'll also
look at how other productivity apps, like IFTTT, Google Reader and more, can interact with Evernote. If you have a smartphone and/or
tablet, bring them with you so you can explore tools for your devices. We'll also be working on PCs in the computer lab.

If you don't already have an Evernote account, please sign up for the free service before the workshop, so we can dive right into
working with the tools. https://www.evernote.com/





APRIL ICONN WEBINARS



Free iCONN Webinar: Libraries Mean Business -Thurs., Apr. 11th (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. 16th (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(tm) - 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(tm) 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. 22nd (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. 25th (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
231 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Tele: 860.704.2206
Fax: 704.2228
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CTStateLibrary
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/LibraryofCT

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