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Upcoming DALNET Training Sessions

Database Standards Cataloging Forum
Monday, November 16, 2009
1:30PM-4:00PM
Location: Wayne State University
Purdy Kresge Library Auditorium

Representatives from all DALNET libraries are invited to attend this discussion about import source parameters in the DALNET union catalog. Members will discuss workflow issues, overlay settings, and work towards a better understanding of the issues involved in making shared policies decisions in a union catalog environment. This session is intended for cataloging and technical services staff, as well as policy decision makers.

Online Registration is limited to DALNET members.
Registration for this event is free.
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Books, Lives and Videotape: A Michigan eLibrary Readers' Advisory Presentation by NoveList's Duncan Smith
Friday, November 20, 2009
2:00PM-4:00PM
Location: Wayne County Community College District, Northwest Campus
Welcome Center Building, Room W1B (ground floor)
Free Visitors' Parking Lot located west of the Welcome Center

Get a new take on working with fiction readers by participating in this program led by NoveList creator and product manager Duncan Smith. Using videotapes of readers talking about books they have read and enjoyed, Duncan provides a reader-centered approach to meeting the needs of your fiction readers. Integrating resources such as NoveList into the readers' advisory process will also be covered as part of this presentation. NoveList is provided to by the Michigan eLibrary (MeL).

This program is the perfect way for you to learn how to make the best use of NoveList in working with your library’s fiction readers. The following common scenarios will be addressed:
  • Helping readers who are reading books you haven’t read.
  • Finding books in a series in reading order.
  • Locating books for readers when they can’t remember the author (or the title).
  • Finding reading suggestions for readers who like a particular genre or plot.
Duncan Smith is the creator and product manager of EBSCO Publishing's electronic readers' advisory resource NoveList. He is a nationally recognized trainer in the area of readers' advisory services. Smith is also the author of several articles on readers' advisory services, his latest article “Your Brain on Fiction,” will appear in a forthcoming issue of RUSQ. In 1997, he received the Margaret E. Monroe Award for Library Adult Services from the American Library Association's Reference and User Services Division.

Online Registration is open to all libraries interested.
Registration for this event is free.
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MeL Database Training
Monday, December 14, 2009
9:00AM-4:00PM
Location: Walsh College
Room 120


More information coming soon.

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