Minitex Cooperative Purchasing and Electronic Resources Services (CPERS) training

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM (Central Time)

The Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors in Charleston, SC, in November. It is designed to be a collegial gathering of individuals from these different areas who discuss issues of interest to them all—including discovery, sustainability, pricing, and usage—in a non-threatening, friendly, and highly informal environment. If you’re interested in any of these issues or curious about the Charleston Conference in general, please join us for a quick and informative summary of conference highlights.

http://www.minitex.umn.edu/events/tr...binars.asp#267

MINITEX/OCLC Online Training Session

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (CST)

Are you involved in a digital project at your institution? How will you describe your digital objects in order to provide online access to them? One option is to use the Dublin Core, an international metadata standard used to describe digital content.

This two hour webinar will introduce you to Dublin Core and the 15 elements. As we look at several examples, the Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices will be used as a guideline.

Who should attend?: This webinar is intended for staff who work in libraries or cultural heritage institutions as catalogers, archivists, special collections librarians, or anyone who has responsibilities for the description of and access to digital collection materials.

Prerequisites: None


FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.minitex.umn.edu/events/tr...binars.asp#201

Mintiex Reference Training Webinar

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (Central Time)

This session will take a look Gale's General Science Collection and EBSCO's Science Reference Center. Specifically at the broad spectrum of reference information from the areas of life sciences, physical sciences and earth & space sciences, including scientist and mathematician biographies, science videos and science experiments contained in Science Reference Center.

http://www.minitex.umn.edu/events/tr...binars.asp#258