Monday, February 14, 2011

New date for "Free Content for Library Collections": College of Dupage


The postponed College of DuPage program “Free Content for Library Collections” has been rescheduled to March 11. Register to receive the access information.

Free Content for Library Collections

Presenters: Michael Galloway and John Mark Ockerbloom
Friday, March 11, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm

The Internet offers a treasure trove of free resources that can greatly expand the range of information and services that libraries can offer their patrons. But it's not always easy to find the best information to meet users' needs.

In this program, Michael Galloway, Manager, Digital Collections for ipl2: Information You Can Trust, and John Mark Ockerbloom, editor of The Online Books Page, will give a tour of some of the millions of books, magazines, journals, and informative web sites that can be accessed online for free. They will discuss how they evaluate and describe online resources to include in their directories, how readers can find what they need in these directories and elsewhere online, and how they can distinguish useful information from unreliable or irrelevant sites. You'll find out how you can integrate free online resources with your local library offerings in ways that give patrons better service than either online or print alone can provide. And you'll also learn how your library and your patrons can contribute to this growing corpus of knowledge.

Register for "Free Content for Library Collections" at http://www.cvent.com/d/0dqvxq

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If you watch this as a group please email me afterwards with the number of people who watched it for our headcount. This is important information for the state grant application for next year.

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