6 week Online Course starting Monday May 7
For first-time supervisors and staff new to the library workplace, supervising and leading can be a daunting task. In addition to working with customers, supervisors need to deal with administration, staff motivation and performance management. Based on the hugely popular Supervisory Skills for Library Staff course in BC's Ministry of Education's Community Library Training Program, this six-week online course is a mix of practical exercises and management theory and will give anyone new to libraries or those needing a refresher a chance to strengthen their skills as a team leader.    

You’re invited to join the Facebook Boot Camp and find out how your library can get the most out of the most popular social network in the world.  We’ll go beyond the ordinary and share our experience using Facebook in a medium-sized public library.   If you’re skeptical about the value of Facebook, or want to take Facebooking to the next level, this session is for you.  Learn why Libraries should offer Facebook training, and how we do it with Facebook Coach and the Facebook Road Show.  You will leave Facebook Boot Camp filled with ideas and enthusiasm.

Geolocation, Native Video, Offline storage, Semantic markup elements, Canvas elements, Drag and Drop, Opacity, Gradients... HTML5 and CSS3 have been released and are changing the way web developers will work. With wide support in mobile browsers and the latest browser releases from Google and Firefox, HTML5 and CSS3 are poised to be the new technologies that will help build the next version of the Web. In this session, we'll look at some of the possibilities, trends, and enhancements that HTML5 and CSS3 enable. We'll talk through specifics of implementation and how you can get started using HTML5 and CSS3 in your apps today.

In the world of blogs, twitter, and FaceBook, we all have online presences that may effect how we're seen as professionals. This talk will look into how being yourself online can have a positive effect on your career.

To register go to: http://www.thepartnership.ca/partnership/bins/calendar_page.asp?cid=2488-2320-4378

3 week course starting Wednesday April 25
Each week consists of a one hour web conference.
If working in HTML and CSS don’t scare you off, there are some powerful options for etending the epub format and creating objects that work across all standard patforms. This session is being conducted online in a web conference environment for hands-on experience and to demonstrate the tools on your own desktop. Come and learn to build your own projects. This is a three part course starting on Wednesday April 25 at 2pm ET, each session will last for one hour and the instructors will give practical assignments to work on between sessions.

Booklist Online editor Keir Graff will preview Mystery Month, from Booklist’s May 1 Mystery Showcase to a wealth of Booklist Online exclusive content. Publishers Felony & Mayhem, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Random House, and Severn House will share the best titles for libraries from their forthcoming lists.
To register go to: http://bit.ly/HbKmWu

Explore how children's reference has changed over the years, and how publishers are creating new publications and innovative delivery methods to help librarians meet new challenges. Representatives from World Book will present during this free, hour-long webinar moderated by Rebecca Vnuk, Booklist Reference and Collection Management editor.

To register go to: http://bit.ly/HoSQIO

6 week online course starting Monday April 2, 2012 (at your own pace)

Governments around the world have embraced the Web as a major publication tool for government documents, laws, statistics, and citizen-based information. Web-based government information is a great enhancement to a library collection - if you know how to find and use these resources.

Course Content:

FREE 1 hour Webinar
Bullying has become a growing problem, made worse by the advent of social networking and the internet. Using literature to discuss bullying allows children to experience the problems of fictional characters, and opens discussion about the consequences of bullying and positive ways to change. Picture books and novels ranging from kindergarten to high school that look at different types of bullying from teasing to cyber bullying will be used.

Sponsored by S&B Books, limited to first 100 registrants.

To register go to: http://www.thepartnership.ca/partnership/bins/calendar_page.asp?cid=2488-2320-4375

Hamilton Public Library has been offering after-school Reading and Homework Clubs for children in grades one to six for a number of years, using a range of approaches and funding models. This session will share what works, what doesnít work, and what new ideas we have up our sleeves to help you create great, sustainable homework help and curriculum support for school-aged children and volunteering opportunities for teens!

To register go to: http://www.thepartnership.ca/partnership/bins/calendar_page.asp?cid=2488-2320-4374