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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 08:55:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>MLL</category><category>NEFLIN committees</category><category>technology</category><category>workshops</category><category>search engines</category><category>social software</category><category>e-readers</category><category>change</category><category>customers</category><category>library school</category><category>grant opportunities</category><category>mobile tech</category><category>webjunction</category><category>open source</category><category>digitization</category><category>general</category><category>blog post of the month</category><category>leadership</category><category>advocacy</category><category>book recommendation</category><category>lending library</category><category>survey tools</category><category>florida electronic library</category><category>LEAD</category><category>e-government</category><category>state library</category><category>web conferencing</category><category>planning</category><category>amazon</category><category>continuing education</category><category>free stuff</category><category>library 2.0</category><category>online conference</category><category>QRG</category><category>paraprofessionals</category><category>presentations</category><category>library policies</category><category>mentoring</category><category>23 things</category><category>flyp</category><category>ROI</category><category>equipment loan</category><category>on-site workshops</category><category>interns</category><category>member libraries</category><category>Link Love</category><category>programming</category><category>broadband</category><category>oclc</category><category>economy</category><category>e-rate</category><category>collection development</category><category>e-books</category><category>vendor discounts</category><category>interest_groups</category><category>policies</category><category>literacy</category><category>gaming</category><category>publishing</category><category>webinars</category><category>media specialists</category><category>construction</category><category>copyright</category><category>cataloging</category><category>annual meeting</category><category>AAL</category><category>youth services</category><category>disaster preparedness</category><category>courier delivery</category><category>awards</category><category>marketing</category><category>tasty treats</category><category>ILL</category><category>social media</category><category>blogging</category><category>FLA</category><category>conferences</category><category>resource sharing</category><category>google</category><title>The Blah, Blah, Blah Blog</title><description>NEFLIN...We work hard to make you look good.</description><link>http://neflin.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>976</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/yhJP" /><feedburner:info uri="blogspot/yhjp" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-4012672222426117441</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-08T10:47:01.916-04:00</atom:updated><title>NEFLIN's Partnership with Amazon</title><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;As a reminder, visit &lt;a href="http://www.neflin.org/amazon"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;http://www.neflin.org/amazon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; first before making purchases on Amazon.  NEFLIN will then receive a portion of any purchases in return. (All purchases are anonymous so we receive no identifying information on any items.)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;What is in it for you?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;In the past year, this program has allowed NEFLIN to add books and DVDs to our Lending Library and gaming items to our Equipment Loan Program.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Remind your friends, wake your neighbors...you don't have to be a NEFLIN member to participate.  Anyone who visits &lt;a href="http://www.neflin.org/amazon"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;http://www.neflin.org/amazon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and then makes a purchase on Amazon will provide the credit to NEFLIN.  We appreciate your support of NEFLIN!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-4012672222426117441?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/YecBakF2QzU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/YecBakF2QzU/neflins-partnership-with-amazon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/05/neflins-partnership-with-amazon.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-4135473348752822017</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-24T10:28:33.637-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">general</category><title>CCLA and FCLA Update</title><description>&lt;P&gt;I attended a session at the FLA Conference which provided an update on the upcoming merger of these two organizations (and as I learned four total orgs will merge).  &lt;a href="http://www.neflin.org/documents/cclafcla.pdf"&gt;This detailed handout&lt;/a&gt; provides everyone you would want to know.&lt;P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-4135473348752822017?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/u5qVQLtnvHs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/u5qVQLtnvHs/ccla-and-fcla-update.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/04/ccla-and-fcla-update.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-710698868698179416</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-13T09:45:23.869-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">e-books</category><title>How to participate in e-book study</title><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2011/10/17/press-release/"&gt;Pew Internet received a $1.4 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation&lt;/a&gt; to study the role of libraries in users’ lives and in their communities. So far, we’ve released reports chronicling &lt;a href="http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/01/23/tablet-and-e-book-reader-ownership-nearly-double-over-the-holiday-gift-giving-period/"&gt;the adoption of e-readers and tablet computers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/04/04/the-rise-of-e-reading/"&gt;the rise of e-reading&lt;/a&gt; — but we’re just getting started.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;How you can participate&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;While our phone surveys are random to ensure statistical accuracy, we  are actively looking for e-book borrowers to volunteer to take our  online surveys. So if you ever check out or download e-books from a  public library — or if you’re a librarian at a library that has e-books  available for check-out — &lt;b style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pewinternet.us1.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&amp;amp;id=558188fff4"&gt;please sign up&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Not an e-book borrower? We’d still love to hear from you. Some of our future online surveys will cover a lot of ground, so &lt;a href="http://pewinternet.us1.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&amp;amp;id=558188fff4"&gt;take a look&lt;/a&gt; to see which groups apply to you. Once you sign up (and click on the  confirmation link that we send you), you’ll be notified whenever  relevant online surveys are in the field.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-710698868698179416?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/mtKDbD2kgs4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/mtKDbD2kgs4/how-to-participate-in-ebook-study.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-participate-in-ebook-study.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-1472345484670370626</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-13T09:02:06.431-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">e-books</category><title>E-book Price Fixing</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;The Justice Department is about to sue Apple and five (of the Big Six) publishers for conspiring to raise the price of e-books. The warning is a game-changer in the government’s long-running anti-trust investigation.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://paidcontent.org/2012/03/08/419-the-u-s-threat-to-sue-apple-and-publishers-what-it-means/"&gt;Here’s an explanation of the case and what could happen next.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-1472345484670370626?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/H8tKlRTncto" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/H8tKlRTncto/e-book-price-fixing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/04/e-book-price-fixing.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-6768033863005521360</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-04T08:40:18.717-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">awards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">member libraries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">FLA</category><title>NEFLIN Members win FLA Awards</title><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;The following individuals and organizations were selected by the FLA Awards Committee for awards to be presented at the conclusion of the annual conference on April 20 in Orlando:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Librarian of the Year, Jim Morris, Florida Gateway College&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Friends, Foundations, and Boards Outstanding Member, Bill Flynn, Fernandina Beach&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Library Innovation, Luis Flores, Assistant Director Facilities Planning &amp;amp; Management, Jacksonville Public Library&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Libraries Change Peoples' Lives, Sharon Jaskula, JPL &lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"&gt;&lt;td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 171.9pt;" valign="top" width="229"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 278.1pt;" valign="top" width="371"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Outstanding Program Award - Friends of the Ocala Public Library&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-6768033863005521360?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/VtY8_BH102g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/VtY8_BH102g/neflin-members-win-fla-awards.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/04/neflin-members-win-fla-awards.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-3459497461622593666</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-29T10:19:26.753-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">florida electronic library</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">media specialists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">continuing education</category><title>Florida Electronic Library webinars in April</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register for one or all of these FEL/Gale Cengage webinar taught by virtual trainer Julie Pepera, Gale Cengage Customer Education Specialist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;SMALL BUSINESS HELP USING FLORIDA ELECTRONIC LIBRARY resources&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thursday, April 5 12, 10:00 - 11:00 am&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This online course will provide attendees with an overview of the two newest FEL resources – Small Business Resource Center and DemoGraphics Now. Both resources are useful for small business owners and entrepreneurs:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 5.75pt 0pt 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Small Business Resource Center      covers all major areas of starting and maintaining a small business, and &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 5.75pt 0pt 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;DemoGraphics Now can help      determine who and where customers are &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Attendees will learn the most efficient and effective search strategies and tools of both resources.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register for &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Small Business Help&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background: white; color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315904"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315904&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: white; color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="mso-special-character: line-break;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Reader's Advisory Using Florida Electronic Library Resources&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Thursday, April 12, 10:00 - 11:00 am&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This online course will provide attendees with an overview of FEL's new resource &lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Books &amp;amp; Authors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; which provides reader's advisory for children's, young adult, and adult fiction and non-fiction. Books &amp;amp; Authors is specially designed to complement the browsing habits of today's Web user, integrating easy-to-follow menus that allow users to broaden and narrow their searches according to author, title, series, awards and other criteria. At the same time, its meticulously edited database -developed by a team of genre experts - delivers up-to-date, reliable  information. The instructor will demonstrate how to efficiently and effectively get the most out of Books &amp;amp; &amp;nbsp;Authors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;Register for &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Reader’s Advisory&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; at &lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background: white; color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315907"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315907&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: white; color: #1f497d;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; Research for Media Specialists using Florida electronic library resources&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thursday, April 26, 10:00 - 11:00 am&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This one hour webinar will cover what resources are available from the Florida Virtual Library and Gale Cengage Learning to help Media Specialists work with students in their schools? How can you build library usage by assisting teachers in integrating these resources into the classroom?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;Register for &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Research for Media Specialists &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;at &lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background: white; color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315908"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315908&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Virtual Trainer: Julie Pepera, Gale Cengage Customer Education Specialist &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Cost: Free for Florida Library Staff&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Cancellation deadline is two business days prior to the webinar. See each webinar description for details.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow; color: #244061; mso-highlight: yellow;"&gt;See all NEFLIN classes at: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.neflin.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.neflin.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #244061;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-3459497461622593666?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/pLrUmvryiuc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/pLrUmvryiuc/florida-electronic-library-webinars-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Patricia Morris)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/03/florida-electronic-library-webinars-in.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-3062298773394009723</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-29T09:33:40.700-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">leadership</category><title>Leadership Institute now accepting applications</title><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;The Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute prepares individuals to lead libraries today and into the future. If you are a dynamic, creative and achievement-oriented individual who is interested in increasing and improving your library leadership knowledge and skills, apply today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;The Institute includes:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;• Ten face to face learning sessions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;• Online resources including a wiki and webinars.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;• Self-selected, goal-based mentoring partnerships.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;• Live and online learning support.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;This nationally recognized, comprehensive, 10-month Institute provides an opportunity for you to improve your leadership skills and become part of an elite group of over 250 Institute graduates who are leading changes in libraries across Florida, making a difference today while shaping the future of information access.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Institute is open to anyone who works in a Florida library (public, academic, school, and special).  It is designed for  professional librarians, as well as those in positions  without a master's degree in Library Science.  Candidates should have a  minimum of two years professional library experience and a demonstrated  successful professional work experience.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Applications available online.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Applications Accepted From April 1 - June 1, 2012&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Notification of Acceptance - August 1, 2012&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Registration Fee - $195 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Host sites are Plant City (Hillsborough County) and Delray Beach (Palm Beach County).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;For more information, &lt;a href="http://info.florida.gov/bld/leadership/institute.cfm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;visit our website&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or contact Jill Canono at &lt;a href="mailto:jill.canono@dos.myflorida.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;jill.canono@dos.myflorida.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-3062298773394009723?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/EGbNAB7kpVc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/EGbNAB7kpVc/leadership-institute-now-accepting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/03/leadership-institute-now-accepting.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-1754337162157144933</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-28T10:57:01.005-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">webinars</category><title>Library Webinars: April 2012</title><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;On our sister blog, &lt;a href="http://neflin2.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;Library Webinars&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, we have just put up the monthly list of live webinars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have found numerous webinars in April that can assist with your professional development. Here are some selected topics: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;eBook Purchasing and Lending eBook Readers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Engaging Pro Bono and Skilled Volunteers &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Great New Books for Boys&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(Making) Virtual Connections with Your Patrons &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Skills for the Everyday Leader &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Spring Buzz: Cookbooks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Check them out!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-1754337162157144933?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/F-xgo9GGpd8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/F-xgo9GGpd8/library-webinars-april-2012.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/03/library-webinars-april-2012.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-7286615129268712880</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-14T09:31:12.454-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">workshops</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">continuing education</category><title>New Class Added in Marion County</title><description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Personal Development Classes with Andrea Giggetts&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thursday, June 7&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Marion County Public Library, 2720 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, Fl 34470&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Andrea Giggetts of Giggetts and Associates will lead two half day workshops at the Marion County Public Library in Ocala on Thursday, June 7. &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A316844"&gt;Register&lt;/a&gt; below to attend one or both workshops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;How Did I Get So Busy? The 28-Day Plan to Free Your Time, Reclaim Your Schedule, and Reconnect with What Matters Most!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:00 am - 12:00 noon&lt;br /&gt;Do you feel stressed, overworked, and running on empty? There’s no doubt about it - these days we are just too busy. Even with the conveniences of technology, we are still compelled to get more done in less time. This workshop is for those who feel perpetually overwhelmed and overworked. Come learn how to strip meaningless activities that occupy your time. Objective: Our goal is to assist you in de-stressing and to nourish your mind, body, and spirit which will yield big rewards for the library.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Public Speaking with Pizzazz&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Is the fear of public speaking in the way of your success? &amp;nbsp;Are you afraid to stand up and speak your mind? &amp;nbsp;Do you want to be able to communicate more effectively at work? &amp;nbsp;Are you interested in improving your speaking skills during meetings, presentations, or by motivating people? And, are you searching for a positive, friendly atmosphere that will build your confidence and boost your self-esteem? Objective: You’ll build a better “speaking” you by developing your public speaking abilities and presentation skills. &amp;nbsp;Emphasis will be placed on the fundamentals of developing quality speeches. Participants will also deliver impromptu speeches in an experienced and poised manner and receive friendly evaluations and feedback to be used for their personal growth and development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Register for one or both workshops:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A316844"&gt;http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A316844&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-7286615129268712880?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/6FdwTICbLlw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/6FdwTICbLlw/new-class-added-in-marion-county.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Patricia Morris)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-class-added-in-marion-county.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-6392208234676394693</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-13T09:51:50.817-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">advocacy</category><title>Library Guy's team says "Thank You"</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CUiFBUuQRc4/T19QSIPSxjI/AAAAAAAAAdM/KcGDX3veknI/s1600/libraryguy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CUiFBUuQRc4/T19QSIPSxjI/AAAAAAAAAdM/KcGDX3veknI/s400/libraryguy.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;The sometimes forgotten part of advocacy is saying "thanks".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /&gt; &lt;br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt; Last Friday afternoon as the Florida state legislature concluded Paul "The Library Guy' Clark and his team were in the Capitol thanking legislators! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-6392208234676394693?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/FeHc8GNmBRM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/FeHc8GNmBRM/library-guys-team-says-thank-you.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CUiFBUuQRc4/T19QSIPSxjI/AAAAAAAAAdM/KcGDX3veknI/s72-c/libraryguy.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/03/library-guys-team-says-thank-you.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-1262029080236144100</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-12T13:46:54.048-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">member libraries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">planning</category><title>Invitation for NEFLIN members to attend a focus group</title><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;NEFLIN Members, &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;You are invited to attend an upcoming focus group in your area. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;NEFLIN is a member-driven organization.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;  We support you, so you can give great service to your community.&amp;nbsp; Your  needs, ideas, observations, dreams, visions, and success stories help  shape NEFLIN's services.&amp;nbsp; We need your help to focus on&amp;nbsp; "Building and  Connecting a Network of Bests".&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;NEFLIN will be holding  five focus groups around our region during  March, April, and May to  gather input from our members.  This is one  method we are using to  learn where to put NEFLIN's resources as we  develop our new Strategic  Plan.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.     ...and to  dispel the rumor  that there is no free lunch, they were not talking  about NEFLIN.   A  free lunch will be available for those attending the  focus group  sessions, along with a good amount of fun and learning. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Register below to attend one of these dates and location:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Friday, March 30, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm, Alachua County Library District, Tower Road Branch Library, &lt;b&gt;Gainesville&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Friday, April 27, 9:00 am -1:00 pm,&amp;nbsp;Brevard Central Library, &lt;b&gt;Cocoa&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wednesday, May 2, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm,&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Jacksonville&lt;/b&gt; Main Library&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Friday, May 4, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm,&amp;nbsp;NEFLIN Office, &lt;b&gt;Orange Park&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Friday, May 11, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm, Marion County Public Library, &lt;b&gt;Ocala&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;To Register: &lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A316392" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"&gt;http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A316392&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Follow our Progress.&amp;nbsp; Strategic Planning Website:&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.neflin.org/planning" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.neflin.org/planning&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-1262029080236144100?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/KKYOVjHrmtM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/KKYOVjHrmtM/invitation-for-neflin-members-to-attend.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/03/invitation-for-neflin-members-to-attend.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-1181145081450161674</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-04T12:30:42.157-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">workshops</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">grant opportunities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">survey tools</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">marketing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">library school</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">webinars</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">youth services</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cataloging</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">continuing education</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">on-site workshops</category><title>NEFLIN Spring Schedule Announced</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d_I9hxXKo5w/T1Ok9iMTJ_I/AAAAAAAAAmg/DnmYJYxajHE/s1600/Spring+pic.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d_I9hxXKo5w/T1Ok9iMTJ_I/AAAAAAAAAmg/DnmYJYxajHE/s320/Spring+pic.png" width="281" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;April-May-June Classes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Complete Schedule Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;b&gt;Live Online Webinars include:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supervisory Skills Series with Linda Bruno&lt;br /&gt;Conducting Surveys Series with Kathryn Brockmeier&lt;br /&gt;Facebook Privacy with Diana Silveira&lt;br /&gt;Rudimentary RDA with Deborah Fritz&lt;br /&gt;The Accidental Systems Librarian with Nicole Engard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Face to Face classes include:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mother Goose on the Loose with Betsy Diamant-Cohen&lt;br /&gt;Advanced Readers Advisory Service with Joyce Saricks&lt;br /&gt;Lapsit Programming for Infants and Toddlers with Sherry Norfolk&lt;br /&gt;Black Belt Librarians: Creating a Safer Work Place with Warren Graham&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Much more! &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin"&gt;See All Classes Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Classes fill up so register early to get a seat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-1181145081450161674?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/IcRl21ZrUaI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/IcRl21ZrUaI/neflin-spring-schedule-announced.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Patricia Morris)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d_I9hxXKo5w/T1Ok9iMTJ_I/AAAAAAAAAmg/DnmYJYxajHE/s72-c/Spring+pic.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/03/neflin-spring-schedule-announced.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-8723559330582122522</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-23T10:54:11.582-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">FLA</category><title>FLA's Annual "Tweet About Your Work" Day</title><description>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; 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Choose a day between April 2 and April 14&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; to &lt;a href="http://webtrends.about.com/od/glossary/g/what-is-a-tweet.htm"&gt;tweet your daily activities&lt;/a&gt; using the hashtag #libjobshadowFL.&amp;nbsp; Inform potential (and current) librarians about your workday.&amp;nbsp; Users can also visit the FLA Twitter page at &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/libjobshadowFL"&gt;http://www.twitter.com/libjobshadowFL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Librarians have embraced the changes brought about by the internet age and we are creating new roles to become the information guides of this new century.&amp;nbsp; Sharing our daily activities will help to illuminate the depth and breadth of our profession.&amp;nbsp; We want to hear from all types of librarians, whether new or time-tested, about the roles you are creating every day. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;For a list of our &lt;a href="http://mashable.com/2008/11/15/twitterspeak/"&gt;tweeters&lt;/a&gt; and the days they will participate, stop by the Virtual Job Shadowing Project Facebook page at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/FLAVirtualJobShadowing"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/FLAVirtualJobShadowing&lt;/a&gt;. The FLA Virtual Job Shadowing Project is coordinated by the Florida Library Association Library Personnel Recruitment Committee&lt;b&gt;.&amp;nbsp; To volunteer to tweet about your workday, please contact Susan L. Smith via email: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:ssmith1@hodges.edu"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ssmith1@hodges.edu&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; or phone (239) 598-6134.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-8723559330582122522?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/lNQyHZYFm5Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/lNQyHZYFm5Q/flas-annual-tweet-about-your-work-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/02/flas-annual-tweet-about-your-work-day.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-1906573374851495551</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-15T16:50:47.818-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">webinars</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">continuing education</category><title>Assessment Basics for Library Instruction - new class added</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tuesday, April 3, 2:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A316101"&gt;http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A316101&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A316101"&gt;webinar&lt;/a&gt; will cover a variety of issues regarding assessment of academic library instruction, including:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How assessment fits into the information literacy landscape&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How assessment is an integral part of instructional design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How teacher-librarians determine what types of assessments are right for their program or department&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How to use assessment to inform decisions about instruction or instructional programs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How to customize assessments to fit learning objectives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Cutting through jargon and buzzwords, this &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A316101"&gt;webinar&lt;/a&gt; will give participants examples of a variety of assessments to improve their instruction on the fly. Part of the discussion will include how one evaluates assessment techniques and tools, and what is likely to work best in various academic library instruction settings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Virtual Trainers: Susan Ariew and Drew Smith, University of South Florida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-1906573374851495551?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/Liqz9bZirAQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/Liqz9bZirAQ/assessment-basics-for-library.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Patricia Morris)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/02/assessment-basics-for-library.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-8041068904971366328</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-01T13:42:48.314-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vendor discounts</category><title>New Vendor Discount: Vernon Library Supplies</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vendor:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vernonlibrarysupplies.com/"&gt;Vernon Library Supplies&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Products: Library Supplies, Bar Code Scanners, Media Storage &amp;amp; Security, Labels, Shields &amp;amp; Protectors, Library Furniture&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contract Terms: Vernon Library Supplies, Inc. offers discounts to all libraries  currently members of NEFLIN. Please note that discounts shown are based  on prices listed on our website.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discount:&lt;br /&gt;No minimum order required for discounts&lt;br /&gt;20% on level 2 products&lt;br /&gt;10% on level 1 products&lt;br /&gt;(Check under “specifications” tab for level designation).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To Place Order:&lt;br /&gt;800.878.0253&lt;br /&gt;Contact: Francine Kersh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:sales@vernlib.com"&gt;sales@vernlib.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other 50 + vendor discounts can be viewed &lt;a href="http://www.neflin.org/discounts/vendor.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-8041068904971366328?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/lTuUEes_BX4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/lTuUEes_BX4/new-vendor-discount-vernon-library.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-vendor-discount-vernon-library.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-5645829772769795047</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-26T16:29:41.482-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">continuing education</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">on-site workshops</category><title>On-Site Personal Development and Technology Classes</title><description>&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Alachua County&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Personal Development Classes with Andrea Giggetts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, March 21,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Millhopper Library, Alachua County Library District&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Discovering Your Emotional Intelligence, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What Got You Here Won't Get You There: Discovering the Workplace Habits You Need to Break, 1:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register for one or both &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315409"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Technology Classes with Dawn Jensen&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, April 18,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Millhopper Library, Alachua County Library District&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Ebooks and Ereaders, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Geolocations, Augmented Reality and Why You Should Care, 1:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register for one or both &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315481"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Bradford County&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Personal Development Classes with Andrea Giggetts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Friday, April 13.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Bradford Public Library, Starke&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What Got You Here Won't Keep You There - Discovering the Workplace Habits You Need to Break - 9:00 am - 12:00 noon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How Did I Get So Busy? The 28-Day Plan to Free Your Time, Reclaim Your Schedule and Reconnect with What Matters Most - 1:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register for one or both &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315411"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Brevard County&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Personal Development Classes with Andrea Giggetts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, April 11,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Brevard Central Library, Cocoa&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How Did I Get So Busy? The 28-Day Plan to Free Your Time, Reclaim Your Schedule and Reconnect with What Matters Most&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Offered twice, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon AND 1:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315465"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Technology Classes with Dawn Jensen&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, February 22,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Brevard Central Library, Cocoa&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Getting Started in Social Media, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;New Technologies: Where the Web is Headed and How to Keep Up, 1:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register for one or both &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315480"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Duval County&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Personal Development Classes with Andrea Giggetts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, March 14,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Jacksonville Main Library, Multipurpose Room&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How Did I Get So Busy? The 28-Day Plan to Free Your Time, Reclaim Your Schedule and Reconnect with What Matters Most, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Public Speaking with Pizzazz, 1:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register for one or both &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315408"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Technology Classes with Dawn Jensen&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thursday, March 15,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Jacksonville Public Library, Multipurpose Room&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Ebooks and Ereaders, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;New Technologies: Where the Web is Headed and How to Keep Up, 1:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register for one or both &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315479"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;St. Johns County&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Personal Development Classes with Andrea Giggetts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Friday, March 29.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Bartram Trail Public Library, Fruit Cove, St. Johns County&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Discovering the Workplace Habits You Need to Break! - 9:00 am - 12:00 noon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Attitudes Toward Differences - 1:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register for one or both &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315410"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Suwannee County&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Personal Development Classes with Andrea Giggetts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Monday, February 13,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Live Oak Public Library, Suwannee River Regional LIbrary&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Discovering Your Emotional Intelligence - 9:00 am - 12:00 noon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Public Speaking with Pizzazz - 1:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register for one or both &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315371"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Volusia County&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Personal Development Classes with Andrea Giggetts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Monday, March 4,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;New Smyrna Beach Regional Library, Volusia County&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What Got You Here Won't Get You There: Discovering the Workplace Habits You Need to Break, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Attitudes Toward Differences, 1:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register for one or both &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315407"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Technology Classes with Dawn Jensen&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thursday, April 5, Library Support Center,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Daytona Beach, Volusia County&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Geolocations, Augmented Reality and Why You Should Care, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;New Technologies: Where the Web is Headed and How to Keep Up, 1:00 - 4:00 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Register for one or both &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A315477"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.neflin.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;www.neflin.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-5645829772769795047?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/rpDgr8gmYgY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/rpDgr8gmYgY/on-site-personal-development-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Patricia Morris)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/01/on-site-personal-development-and.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-2133279262895671164</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-24T09:42:09.648-05:00</atom:updated><title>Carole Fiore workshops in Volusia and Brevard Counties</title><description>&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313865"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bridging the Gender Gap: Enticing Boys to Books, Reading and Libraries&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thursday, March 29, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Deltona Regional Library, 2150 Eustace Avenue, Deltona, FL 32725&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As much as parents and caregivers, teachers, and librarians try, it is a reality that boys are much less likely to become independent readers than are girls. &amp;nbsp;Find out what are the influences that can help turn boys into lifelong readers. &amp;nbsp;Find out what topics, types of books -- including informational books and movable books – and titles will work to make boys into readers. &amp;nbsp;Find out about the “Guys Read” movement. &amp;nbsp;Participants will learn about selection criteria so that they can enhance their library collections to attract boys.&amp;nbsp;This interactive full day &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313865"&gt;workshop&lt;/a&gt; will help school and public librarians understand and meet the needs of boys, birth through 7th grade. &amp;nbsp;Participants are encouraged to bring 3 books that they have found successful in attracting boys to reading and libraries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trainer: Carole Fiore, Carole Fiore Training and Library Consulting&lt;br /&gt;Register for Bridging the Gender Gap:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313865"&gt;http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313865&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313864"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Marketing for Youth Services: Can It Be Magic?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday, March 30, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Brevard Central Library, 308 Forrest Avenue, Cocoa, FL 32922&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Attracting new users to the library can be difficult. &amp;nbsp;It is getting even more difficult in this media saturated world. &amp;nbsp;The crux of marketing is to find out your customer’s real needs and desires and then to create and sell a product or service that fulfills those needs and desires. &amp;nbsp;By the end of this highly interactive &lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313864"&gt;workshop&lt;/a&gt;, participants will:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be able to list at least 5 influences in children’s and teens lives that affect their choices in what they do with their leisure time.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be able to identify various audiences for children’s and teen programs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be able to identify “ever cool” brands and services and relate that to marketing library programs and services.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Have the chance to design at least one marketing piece to promote the youth program.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Participants are encouraged to bring some marketing pieces that they have used successfully to promote their programs and services.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Trainer: Carole Fiore, Carole Fiore Training and Library Consulting&lt;br /&gt;Register for Marketing for Youth Services:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313864"&gt;http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313864&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-2133279262895671164?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/KRmKPy0TdPs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/KRmKPy0TdPs/carole-fiore-workshops-in-volusia-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Patricia Morris)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/01/carole-fiore-workshops-in-volusia-and.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-6014213183013624988</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-17T11:38:49.018-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">workshops</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">member libraries</category><title>NEFLIN Members: Certificates and Evaluations</title><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;NEFLIN Members,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;After attending a NEFLIN workshop you no longer have to e-mail certificate@neflin.org to request a certificate.  Every registered attendee will automatically receive an e-mail with links to a certificate of attendance and online evaluation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;This is one of the features recently added to Acteva, NEFLIN's training management system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;We believe this will provide better service for those who need a certificate of attendance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;The only exception is when a group of people view a webinar together.  Those in the group who did not register will still need to send an e-mail to certificate@neflin.org to request a certificate.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Please contact me if you have any questions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Patty Morris&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Continuing Education Coordinator&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;(904) 278-5620 &lt;a href="mailto:patty@neflin.org"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;      patty@neflin.org &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-6014213183013624988?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/OsXQWz3LrqI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/OsXQWz3LrqI/neflin-members-certificates-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/01/neflin-members-certificates-and.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-7040400797570575226</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-06T11:35:40.411-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">e-books</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">webinars</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">continuing education</category><title>Implementing Ebooks into Your Library webinar</title><description>&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;Sue Polanka, author of the book and blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;No Shelf Required&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;, reviews what every library needs to know to optimize this popular format in your library, including:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1.2em; margin-right: 1.2em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Examples of the more than 50 Ereading device options: dedicated e-readers, tablets, apps, and screen e-readers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Navigating file formats, digital rights management, and compatibility&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Launching an Ereader lending program in libraries - examples, details, and legal implications&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Virtual Trainer: Sue Polanka, No Shelf Required&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tuesday, March 6 &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;new date&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2:00 - 3:30 pm on your DESKTOP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;Register at&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313819"&gt;http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313819&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-7040400797570575226?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/4vj7Lo6sJzU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/4vj7Lo6sJzU/implementing-ebooks-into-your-library.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Patricia Morris)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2012/01/implementing-ebooks-into-your-library.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-401319962565737991</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-16T10:32:39.630-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">general</category><title>NEFLIN Blog closes for the Holidays</title><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VdmdaCXt4Vc/TRD3Zr4O9aI/AAAAAAAAAZE/aQd5F58W5Ds/s1600/ccny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VdmdaCXt4Vc/TRD3Zr4O9aI/AAAAAAAAAZE/aQd5F58W5Ds/s1600/ccny.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Another year is coming to a  close and the NEFLIN Blog is going on Holiday. We will be back in 2012  with more great content.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Brad and Patty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-401319962565737991?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/aduz7XnTLgA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/aduz7XnTLgA/neflin-blog-closes-for-holidays.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VdmdaCXt4Vc/TRD3Zr4O9aI/AAAAAAAAAZE/aQd5F58W5Ds/s72-c/ccny.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2011/12/neflin-blog-closes-for-holidays.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-2413102691544648671</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-14T11:48:21.860-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">florida electronic library</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">technology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">e-books</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">webinars</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">google</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">continuing education</category><title>January 2012 classes</title><description>&lt;table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" id="textEdit" style="background-color: white; display: table; margin-bottom: 6px;" styleclass=" style_BlockMargin" tabindex="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td align="left" style="background-color: #0067ce; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14pt; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: left;" styleclass=" style_CourseBG style_RightColHead"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;NEFLIN&amp;nbsp;Face to Face and Online Classes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: white;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr valign="top"&gt;       &lt;td align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;" styleclass=" style_MainText"&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313796" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;The ABCs of Positive Living&lt;/a&gt; with Andrew Sanderbeck&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, January 4, 1:00 - 2:00 pm on your DESKTOP&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313821" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;The Accidental Technology Trainer&lt;/a&gt; with Stephanie Gerding&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Wednesday, January 11, 2:00 - 4:00 pm on your DESKTOP&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313775" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;Getting Started with FEL and Gale Resources&lt;/a&gt; with Julie Pepera&lt;br /&gt;Thursday, January 12, 10:00 - 11:00 am on your DESKTOP&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313299" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;Voice Over IP (Skype and Google)&lt;/a&gt; with Chad Mairn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Tuesday, January 17, 10:00 - 11:00 am on your DESKTOP &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313799" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;A Course in Miracles: Helping Patrons with their Nooks, Kindles and E-Readers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with Chad Mairn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Wednesday, January 18,&amp;nbsp;1:00 - 2:00 pm on your DESKTOP&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313777" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;Gale Databases - Behind the Scenes&lt;/a&gt; with Julie Pepera&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Thursday, January 19,&amp;nbsp;10:00 - 11:30 am on your DESKTOP&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Readers Advisory Service&lt;/strong&gt; with Joyce Saricks, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm at NEFLIN in Orange Park &lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313822" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;Basic: Wednesday, January 25&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313867" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;Advanced: Wednesday, April 11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313800" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;Implementing the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in Your Work and Life&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with Andrew Sanderbeck&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, January 25, 1:00 - 2:00 pm on your DESKTOP&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313816" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;Cultivating a Culture of Learning in Your Library&lt;/a&gt; with Lori Reed&lt;br /&gt;Thursday, January 26, 10:00 - 11:30 am on your DESKTOP&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313861" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;Public Records Information: Florida's Best at Your Fingertips&lt;/a&gt; with Joe Adams&lt;br /&gt;Friday, January 27, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon at Seminole State College of Florida in Sanford&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313770" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;Google Apps&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with Chad Mairn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Tuesday, January 31, 10:00 - 11:00 am on your DESKTOP&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A313818" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on"&gt;Purchasing Ebooks For Your Library&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with Sue Polanka&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Tuesday, January 31, 2:00 - 3:30 on your DESKTOP pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cost: Free for Florida Library Staff&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;NEFLIN Members: Register now at the links above&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #244061;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;Nonmembers may submit a &lt;a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14725953/Dropbox%20Acteva%20files/Nonmember%20Waitlist%20Form%202011-12.pdf"&gt;waitlist form&lt;/a&gt; until registration opens up two weeks before the class date&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;Cancellation deadline is two business days prior to the class. See each class description for details&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-2413102691544648671?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/9y_uQbAp3ug" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/9y_uQbAp3ug/january-2012-classes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Patricia Morris)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2011/12/january-2012-classes.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-2143124559026122835</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-06T11:43:18.672-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">member libraries</category><title>SmartPay webinars</title><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;NEFLIN is considering a consortial arrangement with Comprise Technologies for their SmartPAY service.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;This service allows patrons to make fine/fee payments and donations at your website. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;NEFLIN members may attend one of the following webinars for more information. (No registration is required.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Friday, December 9th @ 10:00am:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;1. Join the webinar at  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/378692441"&gt;https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/378692441&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;2. Join the conference call at 800-434-7385, and enter  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;PassCode: 577244&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;OR&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, December 14th @ 2:00pm:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;1. Join the webinar at  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/234749488"&gt;https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/234749488&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;2. Join the conference call at 800-434-7385, and enter  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;PassCode: 577244&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;SmartPAY from &lt;a href="http://www.comprisetechnologies.com/?page_id=32"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;Comprise Technologies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; enables patrons to make fine, fee, or donation payments from your library website:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;* Works with all leading ILS products&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;* Available 24 hours a day&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;* PCI Compliant&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;* Accurate Reporting by Revenue Code&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;*  View documentation  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-2143124559026122835?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/9bLk--voqWY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/9bLk--voqWY/smartpay-webinars.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2011/12/smartpay-webinars.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-5809093719671520792</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-05T11:08:03.264-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">e-books</category><title>NEFLIN launches Digital Collection site</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FhzkmeTxcPQ/TtzrQUiqJmI/AAAAAAAAAdE/_E2Y8uDYxrM/s1600/overdrive.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="205" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FhzkmeTxcPQ/TtzrQUiqJmI/AAAAAAAAAdE/_E2Y8uDYxrM/s400/overdrive.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Today is the launch of NEFLIN's Digital Collection, with audiobooks and ebooks from Ovedrive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The four participating libraries have been hard at work the last few months designing the site, purchasing the collection, training staff, using their new ereaders, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://neflin.lib.overdrive.com/8FDA81A7-569C-4CA1-AA70-F738393F1A3E/10/860/en/Default.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;Check it out!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-5809093719671520792?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/PJbsn3Z_Fgk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/PJbsn3Z_Fgk/neflin-launches-its-ebook-website.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Brad Ward)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FhzkmeTxcPQ/TtzrQUiqJmI/AAAAAAAAAdE/_E2Y8uDYxrM/s72-c/overdrive.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2011/12/neflin-launches-its-ebook-website.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-4776248331528574520</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-23T08:00:05.068-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">webinars</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">media specialists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">continuing education</category><title>Transforming Information Literacy for Students K-12</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tuesday, February 21, 3:00 - 4:00 pm on your DESKTOP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn how high school students are taking an inquiry stance on information literacy in a participatory library culture to cultivate themselves as connected learners. We will explore how students are using cloud computing and web 2.0 tools as authoritative sources of information, for content and knowledge creation, and for information management as they construct personal learning environments.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Virtual Trainer: Buffy Hamilton, media specialist/teacher-librarian, Creekview High School, Canton, GA and blogger at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/"&gt;The Unquiet Librarian&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://alalearning.org/blog/"&gt;ALA Learning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Register at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A311997"&gt;http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A311997&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-4776248331528574520?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/IYzu0F_afF8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/IYzu0F_afF8/transforming-information-literacy-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Patricia Morris)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2011/11/transforming-information-literacy-for.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044757794654021210.post-9139267337875824496</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-22T08:47:47.049-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">florida electronic library</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">technology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">webinars</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">google</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">continuing education</category><title>NEFLIN Winter Schedule Announced</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FWoFPLdTfBY/TsulNaQIx8I/AAAAAAAAAmU/KvW2xxVFS18/s1600/winter2012schedule.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FWoFPLdTfBY/TsulNaQIx8I/AAAAAAAAAmU/KvW2xxVFS18/s320/winter2012schedule.png" width="289" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;January-February-March Classes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin"&gt;See Complete Schedule Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Florida Electronic Library workshops and webinars&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Facilitation Skills with DeEtta Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Readers Advisory with Joyce Saricks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wordpress - Basic and Advanced&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Photoshop Level 2&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Two Carole Fiore workshops: Marketing for Youth Services and Bridging the Gender Gap&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tech Tuesday webinars: VOIP, Google Apps, Browser Extensions and Plugins and more&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Assessment Basics for Library Instruction webinar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Accidental Technology Trainer webinar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Job Hunting for a Library Position webinar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;More!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;b style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Over 50 events&amp;nbsp;online&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;and in-person. Classes fill up so register early to get a seat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1044757794654021210-9139267337875824496?l=neflin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~4/R8V2nCA6KHY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/yhJP/~3/R8V2nCA6KHY/neflin-winter-schedule-announced.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Patricia Morris)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FWoFPLdTfBY/TsulNaQIx8I/AAAAAAAAAmU/KvW2xxVFS18/s72-c/winter2012schedule.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://neflin.blogspot.com/2011/11/neflin-winter-schedule-announced.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

