POSTPONED --Free Content for Library Collections

A web presentation by the College of DuPage Press Library Futures: Staying Ahead of the Curve: Free Content for Library Collections will be hosted by the Arrowhead Library System and North Country Library Cooperative at the Arrowhead Library System building in Mountain Iron, MN:

Broadcast date: Friday, February 4, 2011

11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Central Time

Presenters: Michael Galloway and John Mark Ockerbloom

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.

If you are able, bring your lunch and participate in group discussion following the broadcast. If you cannot get away, register online here and a link to watch at your desktop will be sent to you. Be sure that you chose the Series (4 programs) Paid for by State Library or Agency option which is free, so that you are not billed.

For other locations to view with collegeagues around the state, go the the Minitex site.

The February 4th teleconference, “Free Content for Library Collections” has been postponed due to bad weather. Apparently, a snowstorm to rival the Blizzard of 1967 is headed for Chicago and we were not certain our presenters and program host could get here from Philadelphia and Florida (there were scheduling conflicts as well).

An ENCORE PRESENTATION of the February 9, 2008, teleconference, "Tools of Engagement: Attracting and Engaging Library Users," will air from Noon to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time this Friday, February 4th, in place of the postponed "Free Content" program.

For information on this program, go to:
http://www.dupagepress.com/library-learning-network/library-challenges-2008/teleconference-2/