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  Sharpening Career and Networking Skills for Fun and Profit

  Tracy Z. Maleeff

  Presented on 11-15-2016

  Congratulations, you will have an MLIS degree soon! Now, what? Whether library and information science is your first, second, or third career, learn how there are skills to be honed that you can use in both your professional and personal life. Learn tricks and tips about networking, public speaking, and research that can help you reach your life goals. Tracy Z. Maleeff will share her story of recognizing her transferable skills along her career path as well as how fine-tuning her networking skills brought great results.

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  UX for Libraries

  Aaron Schmidt

  Presented on 4-26-2016

  Design is more than choosing pretty colors. It’s all about solving problems and even if you don’t know it, you are a designer. Schmidt will introduce the concept of User Experience (UX) thinking and illustrate how it can help improve your website, programs, services, and more. After this interactive workshop you’ll have a keener critical eye, and a framework with which you can make your library the most important place in your community.

  In the past fifteen years Aaron Schmidt has been a circulation clerk, reference librarian, and library director. Currently he is the principal of Influx Library User Experience Consulting, is a lecturer at the San Jose School of Library and Information Science, and writes a column called “The User Experience for Library Journal. Current projects include a UX guided overhaul of the Chapel Hill Public Library and coaching 10 libraries in Florida through UX improvement projects . Schmidt serves on the editorial board for Weave: the Journal of Library User Experience, and he coauthored the book “Useful, Usable and Desirable,” a guide to applying UX to libraries. He has presented internationally on the topic of library innovation and design.

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  Technical Tools and Information Security for Librarians

  Tracy Z. Maleeff

  Presented on 3-22-2016

  Learn what applications, programs and websites are useful for librarians and information professionals in the real working world. In this one-hour webinar, Tracy Z. Maleeff (@LibrarySherpa) will give a high-level overview of the resources that will enhance your professional development. The second-half of the program will feature information security. Learn the vocabulary, best practices and resources on how to be safe with your personal and professional passwords and data. All combined, this hour will leave you with a foundation on which tech to use and how to utilize it safely in the workplace.

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  Information Visualization Meets LIS: Opportunities and Challenges

  Michelle Chen

  Presented on 2-8-2016

  Information visualization is considered one of the prime emerging technologies for large-scale data analysis and is an important topic for information professionals to understand. It deals with analyzing, displaying, communicating and interpreting massive amounts of abstract data effectively and efficiently via visual representations. In this webinar, Dr. Chen will present and discuss how information visualization can be used to help libraries and librarians utilize the abundant data resources (to which they now have more and more access) to provide better patron services through enhanced collection analysis, resource allocation, and user engagement.

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  Leveraging Your Professional Activities and Relationships

  Dee Magnoni

  Presented on 12-9-2015

  You’ve heard the advice before: get involved with a professional association. Why is this important? What are the synergies? How do you determine your association fit? What about finding a mentor, then cultivating that relationship? Dee Magnoni started her professional involvement while in grad school, and grew her career while seeking opportunities to learn, grow and give back. In this practical session Dee will share tips, stories and potential paths.

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  The Path Less Traveled: Career Directions for Librarians and Information Professionals

  Tara Murray

  Presented on 11-11-2015

  Join Tara Murray, a librarian with experience in public, academic, and special libraries, for a discussion of emerging and non-traditional career paths for information professionals. This talk draws on Tara’s experience providing information services in a variety of environments as well as knowledge she has gained through her leadership in SLA and other library associations.

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  Always Be Networking: How to Create, Maintain and Sustain Professional Relationships

  Tracy Z. Maleeff

  Presented on 9-10-2015

  In this one-hour webinar, Tracy Z. Maleeff outlines the importance of networking as a professional development skill and competency for students to excel in the working world. Understand techniques and strategies to network both in person and online. Hear how you can develop those skills and then convert an introduction into a lasting professional relationship. Shed any thoughts you have about being an introvert, extrovert or ambivert, this label-free discussion will teach you how to hone networking as a professional skill in order to enhance your career.

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  Prep for Success: Your Career in Special Libraries… and Beyond

  Tracy Z. Maleeff

  Presented on 5-4-2015

  Wondering how to jumpstart your career — and how social media and professional networking can help get you the job of your dreams?

  Tracy Z. Maleeff has 10+ years of special libraries experience and wants to help you get on a road to professional success. Using the theme of networking, she spoke about seeking, landing and thriving in a special libraries job. She also discussed the importance of professional associations to your career, and what they can do for you. Lastly, we got a peek into a day in the life of a private law firm librarian as she detailed the inner workings of this specific special libraries position.

  Tracy, a regular contributor to I Need a Library Job! (INALJ), is active on Twitter @LibrarySherpa and blogs at LibrarySherpa.

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  Useful, Usable, Desirable: Library User Experience

  Aaron Schmidt

  Presented on 3-5-2015

  Aaron, a principal at Influx Library User Experience Consulting, a website usability blogger at walkingpaper.org, and a regular contributor to the Library Journal, is the author of Useful, Usable, Desirable (ALA, 2014). He has presented on the topic of library technology and usability throughout the United States, and in Canada, the UK, the Netherlands and Spain. In 2005, Schmidt was named a Library Journal “Mover & Shaker.”

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  Digital Asset Management

  Ian Matzen

  Presented on 2-12-2015

  High fashion? Haute cuisine? Cinema ephemera? All need the skills of a talented librarian!

  Ian Matzen recently received an MLIS from the San Jose State University School of Information. He is currently the lead Digital Asset Management Specialist at America’s Test Kitchen, a publisher of cooking-related content in Boston, where he is designing an enterprise taxonomy.

  Digital asset management, digital video metadata, and digital preservation are among the subjects he enjoys writing about on his blog www.tameyourassets.com. His professional experience producing commercials, episodic television, and corporate videos in Los Angeles and San Francisco informs his work.

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  Influencing Skills for Special Librarians

  Stephen Abram

  Presented on 4-4-2014

  Stephen Abram, MLS, a strategy and direction planning consultant for libraries and the information industry, is principal of Lighthouse Partners, an associate of Dysart & Jones. He is also CEO of the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries. He is a library trend watcher, keynote speaker, innovator and author of Stephen’s Lighthouse blog. He has held executive leadership positions at Gale-Cengage Learning, SirsiDynix, Thomson, ProQuest and IHS. Stephen is also a former SLA president and SJSU SLIS faculty member; and he’s currently a member of the SJSU SLIS International Advisory Council

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  Alternative Careers for Librarians

  Rachel Berrington

  Presented on 3-5-2014

  Rachel Berrington is the Director of IEEE's Client Services, nine professional librarians who are responsible for global customer outreach, training and awareness. Rachel was first hired in January 2002 as a Customer Relations Manager for Western North America. Prior to joining the IEEE, she was the Corporate Librarian at Mentor Graphics, an electronic design automation company in Portland, Oregon.

  
  Rachel was President of the Oregon Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) in 2002 - 2003. She was also a member of IEEE's inaugural Library Advisory Council from 1999 - 2001. She is an active member of both the SLA and ASEE's Engineering Libraries Division.
  
  Rachel received her Masters in Library and Information Science at the University of Arizona and her Bachelors Degree at Colorado College. IEEE is the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.

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  Big Data Webinar

  Amy Affelt

  Presented on 9-18-2013

  Amy Affelt is director of Database Research at Compass Lexecon, a global economic consultancy. She is also an author and conference speaker on topics such as adding value to information, evaluating information integrity and quality, and marketing information services. You can follow her @aainfopro.