LITA has multiple learning opportunities available over the next several months. Hot topics to keep your brain warm over the winter.
Re-Drawing the Map Series
Presenters: Mita Williams and Cecily Walker
Offered: November 18, 2014, December 9, 2014, and January 6, 2015
All: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central Time
Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know
Presenters: Brigitte Bell, Steven Bowers, Terry Cottrell, Elliot Polak and Ken Varnum,
Offered: December 2, 2014
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central Time
Getting Started with GIS
Instructor: Eva Dodsworth, University of Waterloo
Offered: January 12 – February 9, 2015
For details and registration check out the fuller descriptions below and follow the links to their full web pages
Join LITA Education and instructors Mita Williams and Cecily Walker in “Re-drawing the Map”–a webinar series! Pick and choose your favorite topic. Can’t make all the dates but still want the latest information? Registered participants will have access to the recorded webinars.
Here’s the individual sessions.
Web Mapping: moving from maps on the web to maps of the web
Tuesday Nov. 18, 2014
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central Time
Instructor: Mita Williams
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Get an introduction to web mapping tools and learn about the stories they can help you to tell!
OpenStreetMaps: Trust the map that anyone can change
Tuesday December 9, 2014,
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central Time
Instructor: Mita Williams
Ever had a map send you the wrong way and wished you could change it? Learn how to add your local knowledge to the “Wikipedia of Maps.”
Coding maps with Leaflet.js
Tuesday January 6, 2015,
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central Time
Instructor: Cecily Walker
Ready to make your own maps and go beyond a directory of locations? Add photos and text to your maps with Cecily as you learn to use the Leaflet JavaScript library.
Register Online page arranged by session date (login required)
Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know
We’re all awash in technological innovation. It can be a challenge to know what new tools are likely to have staying power — and what that might mean for libraries. The recently published Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know highlights a selected set of technologies that are just starting to emerge and describes how libraries might adapt them in the next few years.
In this webinar, join the authors of three chapters as they talk about their technologies and what they mean for libraries.
December 2, 2014
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central Time
Hands-Free Augmented Reality: Impacting the Library Future
Presenters: Brigitte Bell & Terry Cottrell
The Future of Cloud-Based Library Systems
Presenters: Elliot Polak & Steven Bowers
Library Discovery: From Ponds to Streams
Presenter: Ken Varnum
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Getting Started with GIS is a three week course modeled on Eva Dodsworth’s LITA Guide of the same name. The course provides an introduction to GIS technology and GIS in libraries. Through hands on exercises, discussions and recorded lectures, students will acquire skills in using GIS software programs, social mapping tools, map making, digitizing, and researching for geospatial data. This three week course provides introductory GIS skills that will prove beneficial in any library or information resource position.
No previous mapping or GIS experience is necessary. Some of the mapping applications covered include:
- Introduction to Cartography and Map Making
- Online Maps
- Google Earth
- KML and GIS files
- ArcGIS Online and Story Mapping
- Brief introduction to desktop GIS software
Instructor: Eva Dodsworth, University of Waterloo
Offered: January 12 – February 9, 2015
Register Online page arranged by session date (login required)
Questions or Comments?
For all other questions or comments related to the course, contact LITA at (312) 280-4268 or Mark Beatty, mbeatty@ala.org.