The Library Skills Winter Institute 2008
COURSE OFFERINGS
Basic Library Skills Course
Basic Library Skills meets Tuesday through Friday and is designed for those who are attending an Institute for the first time. This course provides a four-day overview of public libraries and public library services. Topics include an introduction to public libraries, their purpose and relationship to the community, library operations, collection development, and services and outreach to various populations. Several presenters and facilitators will share their expertise. The course includes a choice of hands-on Internet training sessions at MOREnet labs.
Internet training courses are:
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Search Engine Basics: This session is designed to give the user information about and practice with various search engines. The class covers several different search engines and how best to use them.
Mining the Deep Web: This session provides basics about what the Deep Web is and how to find it. Participants will be given resources and tools to help use the Deep Web to find the information they want and experience examples of Deep Web searches.
Advanced Library Skills Course
Advanced courses meet Tuesday through Friday. Completion of the Basic Course is generally required for advanced courses; a release request for those wishing to enroll in an advanced course without taking the basic course is listed under Course Prerequisites and Release from Basic. The Release Form must be submitted via regular mail and received by the registration deadline, February 8, 2008.
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Library Services for Young Adults: This course will focus on the role the library plays in enhancing the lives of young adults, ages 12 to 18, and the programs and services that can be developed to serve them effectively. The instructor will be Tricia Suellentrop, Youth Services Manager for the Johnson County Library (KS). In 2005 Tricia was selected as one of Library Journal's "Movers and Shakers" for her work with teens in the corrections system and is a co-author of the 3rd edition of Connecting Young Adults and Libraries published by Neal-Schuman in 2004.
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Library Administration and Management: This course will focus on examining library structure and governance, the role of the library in the community, the administrator’s responsibility to the board, community and staff, funding issues, library standards, ethics and legal issues. The instructor will be Pat Wagner, trainer and consultant with Pattern Research, Denver, Colorado. Pat has conducted programs in personnel, management and leadership on topics ranging from customer service to strategic planning for all types and sizes of libraries throughout the country.
Evening Elective Course
The Department of Mental Health in cooperation with the Missouri Institute of Mental Health and the State Library has created a training curriculum for librarians. The curriculum features 4 web based training modules on improving library services for patrons with disabilities. Staff from DMH will describe and provide an overview of the curriculum. Presenters: Nancy Nickolaus, Tonya Hays-Martin and Alan Nellis.