Space still available: LIS Continuing Education via the Internet (Michele Manley) SERIALST Moderator 07 Jan 2004 21:27 UTC
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 17:31:38 +0000 From: "Michele Manley" <ubdlis@hotmail.com> Subject: Space still available in...LIS Continuing Education via the Internet LIS Continuing Education via the Internet The winter roster of LIS continuing education workshops delivered wholly via the Internet is now available from the University at Buffalo library school. A computer with Internet access and a Web browser are all that are needed to access these self-paced English-language instructional modules, accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during the posting period. They may be taken from anywhere in the world and an MLS is not a prerequisite for enrollment. Full descriptions of workshops, prices, and dates of class sessions can be accessed from <http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/robinson/ce/descriptions.htm>. New workshops have been added covering serials cataloging, proposing & surviving new library technologies, XML, and constructing database driven web sites. All workshop topics: . Cataloging . Sleuthing Serials: Serials Cataloging in Reverse . Computers - Networking: . Basic Networking & Operating Systems for Librarians . Proposing & Surviving New Library Technologies . Government Information/Documents: . Documents Jump Start . Legislative Research . Regulations . Public Libraries: Readers' Services: . Genre Fiction in Public Libraries . Readers' Advisory Services . Web Design - Internet Technologies: . Constructing Usable, Accessible Web sites from Scratch . Introduction to XML . Designing and Constructing Database Driven Web Sites Course modules are posted on the Web and accessed via a password sent by E-mail to registrants. Participants proceed at their own pace through course modules accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during the posting period. Questions and assignments are fielded by the instructor via a Web Bulletin Board or by E-mail (the Sleuthing Serials workshop also has optional Blackboard Virtual Classroom sessions). These non-credit courses do not require enrollment at the University at Buffalo and will not appear on university transcripts. They accrue Continuing Education credits -- CEUs. For more information contact Judith Robinson, Department of Library and Information Studies, School of Informatics, 534 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-1020; (716) 645-2412 ext. 1166; FAX (716) 645-3775; E-mail: lisrobin@buffalo.edu; http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/Robinson/index.htm