Archive for August, 2011

Help! #7 = health

Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents… Good Health (Information) in North Carolina on September 7

The Government Resources Section of the North Carolina Library Association welcomes you to a series of webinars designed to help us all do better reference work by increasing our familiarity with government information resources, and by discovering the best strategies for navigating them.

North Carolina state government agencies and public universities publish a great deal of interesting health and healthcare information of value to researchers and reference librarians. In this webinar, learn about the important data sources and how to get access them.

Rebecca Hyman is the Reference and Outreach Librarian, Information Services Branch, and Kurt Brenneman is the Agency Outreach Librarian, Resource Management Services Branch, both at the Government & Heritage Library. The Library is part of the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.

We will meet together for Session #7, online on September 7 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (EDT). Please RSVP for the Session by September 6 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session7

Technical requirements: We will be using collaborative software called Elluminate. It requires that you be able to download Java onto your computer, but you do not need any special software. After you RSVP, we will send you a link that you can use to test the software. If you have any questions, please contact Lynda Kellam (lmkellam@uncg.edu). You do not need a microphone as a chat system is available in the software, but you do need speakers or headphones.

The session will be recorded and made available after the live session, linked from the NCLA GRS web page (http://www.nclaonline.org/government-resources).

Talking about data with Adventures in Library Instruction

I recently had a fun conversation with Jason, Rachel, and Anna at Adventures in Library Instruction about data, data literacy, data reference, and more (well, the book). It was nerve-wracking at first, but the group did a great job keeping things light and fun.

ALI is a wonderful blog (or plog?) with lots of great interviews and resources. You should definitely tune in! I’m currently working my way through the archive. Good times.

A presentation on presentations at ShareAcademy

Jenny Dale, Amy Harris, and I are presenting again tomorrow. This time for ShareAcademy. We are presenting on presenting. So meta; baby, take me to your leader! I will be posting all the wonderful things we learn. If you will be at ShareAcademy, stop by and say greetings!

Here is our slidedeck. Kudos to Jenny Dale for being a PowerPoint ninja! She is an inspiration, really, to those of us who are novice image users. I’m so proud of her.


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