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Continuing Education Calendar - Fall 2004!
(September, October, November, December)
Register Online!
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Workshop Descriptions
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By Request at Your
Location
The following workshops are offered on-site for library staff:
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YS Book Review
10/5/2004 -- 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM -- NMRLS, Danvers
11/3/2004 -- 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM -- NMRLS, Danvers
12/2/2004 -- 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM -- NMRLS, Danvers
The Youth Services Book Review Group meets once a month, from 10:00 to 12:00, at the NMRLS office in Danvers. Books from publishers are available to reviewers in advance of their publication date. Reviews are shared each session in round-robin fashion. New reviewers are always welcome! Just come and the books will fall into your hands! Contact Susan Babb) for more information.
**Note: If you review a book first, you get to keep it! Registration is not required!
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MSLMA/NMRLS Library Media Specialist Discussion Series
9/20/2004 -- 03:15 PM to 05:15 PM -- Landmark School, Beverly
Session One: Collaboration and Integration
Discuss with your colleagues the issues of collaboration such as scheduling and marketing. How can you successfully integrate your library program into the curriculum? What works? Bring your questions and your success stories to share!
This workshop will be facilitated by Susan Babb, YS Consultant; Hosted by Carol Ann Dumond, Library Media Teacher, Landmark School
Please note: Ten (10) PDPs will be awarded if 5 of the 6 Sessions are attended. This series has been approved by the DOE.
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Business Reference Resources
9/21/2004 -- 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM -- NMRLS, Danvers
Library reference staffs are resilient folks. What happens when your favorite business directory resource vanishes as a result of regional budget cuts?
Eleanor Sathan (Regional Reference Librarian) and Glenda Schaake (Head of Reference), both from Memorial Hall Library in Andover, will lead a tour of online and print options to aid in answering your business reference questions.
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Programming for Tomorrow's World
10/18/2004 -- 11:00 AM to 01:30 PM -- Governor Dummer Academy, Byfield
A Youth Services workshop to help colleagues both in public and school libraries with programs and services in light of grim budgets. This workshop will include:
*Programming in the Library
*Non-traditional programming
*Resource and Information sharing
Presenters are: Kate Belczyck, Children's Librarian, Memorial Hall Library, Andover; Jennifer Brown, Reference Librarian, Governor Dummer Academy, Byfield; and Beth Gallaway, Youth Services Consultant, Metrowest Region.
Participants should bring a brown bag lunch; beverages and dessert will be provided.
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What's on Your Mind? a Paralibrarian Discussion on Recognition
10/20/2004 -- 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM -- Tewksbury Public Library, Tewksbury
This workshop follows the brainstorming workshop held last April for paralibrarians. One of the top topics paralibrarians wanted to pursue is recognition from your fellow staff members, director, Trustees, community. Participants should come prepared to share their stories and learn strategies from each other.
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Basic Library Techniques (BLT) - Reference - 2 Day Workshop
Thursday, October 21, 2004 AND Thursday, October 28, 2004
10:00 AM to 04:00 PM
Stevens Memorial Library, North Andover
This two-session workshop is one of the Basic Library Techniques courses required for state certification of non-MLS directors of Public Libraries serving communities under 10,000.
The two sessions will cover the following: the reference interview; basic reference resources (print and online); children's and YA reference resources; reference policies; referral and supplemental reference services; and future trends and
technologies.
Participants may want to bring a brown bag lunch. We will break for lunch during each session.
Presenters:
Eleanor Sathan, Memorial Hall, Andover
Glenda Schaake, Memorial Hall, Andover
Susan Babb, NMRLS
Mary Behrle, NMRLS
Scott Kehoe, NMRLS
Please note: Please note that all regional members are invited to attend the Basic Library Techniques series, but be aware that these workshops are designed for the state certification of non-MLS directors of public libraries serving communities under 10,000. The workshops in this series are a combination of the theory, philosophy, and practice of library science.
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Breakfast Brown Bag: Book Discussion Groups
10/26/2004 -- 09:00 AM to 11:00 AM -- NMRLS, Danvers
NMRLS area libraries host an assortment of book discussions - in person and online. Some are targeted to family discussion, some for teens, others for senior groups. A number of NMRLS cities/towns have been very successful with "One Book, One Community" programs.
Join us to discuss a variety of ways to generate a buzz about reading in your community. Please bring stories of your programs, PR material that your library used, and questions for your colleagues about how to begin.
Bring a bagel, muffin, or donut to munch on! Coffee and tea will be provided.
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Brown Bag : Mystery Readers' Advisory
Cancelled
11/2/2004 -- 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM -- Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield
Cozy or noir, historical or procedural -- if it is all a Mystery to you, join us for all the clues of Mystery Readers' Advisory. If you want to gather evidence on Mystery genres, authors, and settings, stake out our brown bag discussion and share your detecting skills with other RA sleuths as expert witness Leane Ellis from the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library in Wakefield investigates Mystery resources, booklists, and Readers' Advisory surveillance techniques.
Bring your lunch. Coffee will be available.
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MSLMA/NMRLS Library Media Specialist Discussion Series
11/3/2004 -- 03:00 PM to 05:00 PM -- Pike School, Andover
Session Two: Strategic Planning
Long range planning for library service is a sound strategy. Since the release in 1998 by the MBLC of a School Library Media Center long-range Planning Process, more and more schools have engaged in long range planning. Whether you have already completed a plan or are thinking about creating a plan, come discuss what's involved and what works in planning and put it at the top of your list of things to do!
Please note: Ten (10) PDPs will be awarded if 5 of the 6 Sessions are attended. This series has been approved by the DOE.
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Assistant Directors' Forum
11/4/2004 -- 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM -- Beverly Farms Branch Library, 24 Vine Street, Beverly Farms
Join your Assistant Director colleagues at this Fall discussion to share ideas and solutions on topics important to your library. Remember to send agenda items to Mary Behrle .
Please bring your lunch. Coffee will be provided.
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When Customers Cross the Line : Harassment in the Library
11/5/2004 -- 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM -- NMRLS, Danvers
What happens in a library setting when a patron misunderstands your friendliness across a service desk? Has your helpfulness ever been mistaken for something more? What if a library user harasses a member of your staff? How does one respond in these situations?
Understanding how to identify harassment and what the law says is a proper response are key issues for both staff and library directors.
Attorneys Charles Wagner and Sally Bratten of the Boston law firm of Charles P. Wagner & Associates will provide an overview of these topics and answer your questions.
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Youth Services Brown Bag Lunch: Internet Sites You Should Know!
11/9/2004 -- 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM -- Rowley Public Library
Pack your lunch and your favorite web sites for this workshop! Be prepared to share and demonstrate up to 5 of your favorite web sites with your colleagues. Reference, collection development, programming, whatever you find most critical and useful to your work!
Susan Babb, Consultant, will facilitate the discussion and create a follow up handout of the best sites.
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Population Age Groups: Using Census Information to Plan Library Services
11/10/2004 -- 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM -- NMRLS, Danvers
This workshop will center on using your local Census information as a tool to plan present and future library programming. Whether you are looking to serve your growing older adult population, toddlers, school-age children, or your business community, learn how to gather Census data items by specific age groups.
Cesar Monzon of the U. S. Census Bureau / Boston Region will be the instructor for this workshop.
Please note: This session is hands-on. Space is limited.
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The Fifth Annual
Meet the Author
11/15/2004 -- 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM -- Reading Public Library
Agenda:
3:30 - 3:40: Introductions
3:40 - 5:00: Panel Presentations:
Nancy Garden: Molly’s Family (author), Annie on My Mind, Holly's Secret
Sharon Wooding: Molly’s Family, I'll Meet You at the Cucumbers (illustrator)
Barbara Diamond Goldin: Journeys with Elijah, Mountain of Blintzes, Fire - Beginnings of the Labor Movement
Lesléa Newman : Where is Bear?, The Boy Who Cried Fabulous, Fire Engine for Ruthie, Haichiko Waits
5:00—5:15: Break, Book Sales
5:15—5:45 Question and Answers
5:45—6:00: Book Signings & Door Prizes
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Learn @ Lunch: Music on the Web - It's Legal Now!
11/16/2004 -- 12:00 PM to
1:30 PM -- NMRLS, Danvers
Date Added!
12/2/2004 -- 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM -- NMRLS, Danvers
So you may have heard about Napster, did you know that now it's legal!? What about iTunes? What's an iPod? Who am i? " i " hope to answer the first three of these four questions during your lunch. How people, especially young people, buy music is changing drastically! Apple has sold over 100 million songs through its iTunes service this past year! And Microsoft has just entered the arena with their own online music service! All these changes in the music industry will eventually effect how libraries offer music to their patrons, so start thinking ahead! Get in the know and come learn at lunch. No karaoke will be performed!
This session, taught by NMRLS Consultant Scott Kehoe, will be presented in a lecture style so you can sit back, enjoy your lunch, and learn! Your questions and eating your lunch are encouraged, but not simultaneously.
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NOBS and NMRLS Summer Reading Program Wrap-Up and Preview
12/6/2004 -- 09:30 AM to 11:30 AM -- Peabody Institute Library, Danvers
Intended for librarians (but open to all) who participated in the Massachusetts Regional Library Systems' Statewide Summer Reading Program Explore other worlds @ your library®.
At this roundtable program you will:
- Bring samples of library publicity, displays, and programs to show and discuss with colleagues
- Share your successful summer program tips & techniques with your colleagues
- Take a look ahead at SRP 2005 Going places @ your library®!
This workshop will be facilitated by NMRLS Consultant, Susan Babb.
Coffee begins at 9:30.
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Let's Talk: A Chat Session on Graphic Novels with Linda Braun
12/14/2004 -- 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM -- virtual
If you would like to talk to other librarians about graphic novels - what they are, where to find them, and how to add them to the collection - then join us in this 90 minute chat session. You'll be able to learn about graphic novels from the comfort of your library, office, or home. Just log in to the URL provided when you register for the session and you'll be ready to go on the day of the session. When you register, along with the chat room URL, we'll send you titles of articles and website URLs that you can look at in order to get ready for the session led by Linda W. Braun.
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