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Please check our Continuing Education pages at http://www.nmrls.org/ce/ to see our current calendar of workshops! The blizzard of 2005 made us cancel and reschedule some of our workshops!

Workshop cancellations due to inclement weather: If the public schools close in the city or town where a workshop is to be held, the workshop will be cancelled. A message will be placed on the NMRLS voicemail system, homepage, and listserv by 7:30 a.m. the morning of the workshop. If a workshop is cancelled before the date it was to be held, NMRLS will make every effort to contact the registered members.

 

Statewide Computer Training and Distance Education Sessions Available Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The six regional library systems, through funding that the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, are expanding the work begun by the Foundation's U.S. Library Program. The regions are coordinating and developing statewide and local computer training opportunities for library staff members.

In the Northeast Region, these training workshops are scheduled in March:

Learn at Lunch: The Internet, Privacy and Spyware
3/2/2005 -- 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM -- NMRLS, Danvers
OR
3/3/2005 -- 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM -- Chelmsford Public Library, Chelmsford

If your PC is runs Windows and is connected to the Internet, it probably has software installed on it that tracks information about you, without your knowledge. This type of unsolicited commercial software, also known as spyware, malware and parasite software is providing information about you to other people on the Internet for their profit. Find out what spyware is, how it gets on your PC, how to remove it and how to protect yourself from this threat. This session will be taught by TIC Consultant Dy Brockbank in lecture style so bring your lunch, sit back, and learn! Register at: http://www.nmrls.org/ce/ceform.shtml

Coming Attractions:

April 27 & 28, 2005
Emerging Technologies and Libraries by Linda Braun of Librarians & Educators Online (LEO). These identical full-day lecture and demo sessions will be held at opposite geographic locations in the NMRLS area.

April 21, 2005
On-line "chat" on Digital Media with Linda Braun.

April 22, 2005
On-line "chat" on Blogs/RSS with Linda Braun.

Watch for further announcements confirming the places and times of April sessions in the NMRLS newsletter and on our electronic discussion list.