Ask A Librarian at FLA
| Ask A Librarian at FLA Come join the Ask a Librarian team at the Florida Library Association Annual Conference in April! We will have a TBLC/Ask a Librarian booth in the exhibitors hall during the conference. Please stop by booth #111, and say hello!We will be holding a small meet and greet on Thursday, April 19th from 12:00pm -1:00pm at booth #111. We hope you can join us for some sweet treats!Exemplary Reference Winners 2011 We would like to honor our 2011 Exemplary Reference Winners at FLA this year. If you are an Exemplary Reference Winner for Brief, Detailed or a Teaching Chat in 2011, we would like you to join us during the meet and greet on Thursday at the TBLC/AaL booth #111 for recognition of this wonderful award.Pat Barbier (co-chair of the QA Workgroup) as well as other members will be at the meet and greet handing out ribbons to our winners. Please stop by during the meet and greet on Thursday so we can take a group picture of our winners! If you have any questions, please contact Jessica Riggins at |
Last Chance Webinars in Ask a Librarian
E-Books! Putting OverDrive e-Books onto e-Readers
Monday, April 2, 2012 (registration closing soon!)
2-3 pm ET
Free Online Health Resources
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 (registration closing soon!)
2-3 pm ET
Ask a Librarian 1.5-Hour Refresher
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
2:30-4 pm ET
Audiobooks! Putting OverDrive Audiobooks onto Portable Players
Monday, April 16, 2012
2-3 pm ET
Time is ticking for these upcoming webinars, so why risk it? Register today!
Chat, Text, and Email Statistics – February 2012
The following statistics are now available for the month of February 2012:
New Marketing Campaign
Our new marketing campaign, designed by LURE Design and Th!nk Creative, just won the Silver award in the Orlando Addys! The Addy awards are presented by the Orlando American Advertising Federation. What an amazing accomplishment and great exposure for the Ask a Librarian program! 
OCLC webinar: “What the @#$? Dealing with Rude Patrons Online”
“What the @#$? Dealing with Rude Patrons Online” is an OCLC best practices in virtual reference webinar. Not all virtual reference exchanges are friendly chats, despite our best efforts. Hear and share some effective ways to deal with rude users without losing your cool. Click here to register.
Thurs., June 14, 2012
1-2 pm ET
OverDrive E-Books & Audiobooks Webinar Series
We’re talking two webinars on OverDrive… register for both today!
Hot Topics: E-Books! Putting OverDrive E-Books onto eReaders: A Guide For Library Staff
Monday, April 2, 2012, 2-3 pm ET
Hot Topics: Audiobooks! Putting OverDrive Audiobooks onto Portable Players: A Guide For Library Staff
Monday, April 16, 2012, 2-3 pm ET
OverDrive audiobooks & ebooks are popular with library patrons. But many of them have a hard time putting it all together: finding available e-books or audiobooks on the digital download site and then transferring them to their PC, e-reader, or listening devices. With information presented by TBLC’s own resident genius & System Administrator Al Carlson, these two webinars will equip public service staff of all library types with the skills they need to assist patrons at any stage of the process.
Topics include:
- Finding immediately available audiobooks (Hot Topics: Audiobooks!) or e-books (Hot Topics: E-Books!) on an OverDrive site and installing needed components.
- Downloading audiobooks (Hot Topics: Audiobooks!) or e-books (Hot Topics: E-Books!) to a PC, and transferring (sideloading) them to e-readers/listening devices.
- Direct downloads to smart phones, iPads, and other web-enabled devices.
Register for both webinars today!
Email Workshop
Space is still available – register today!
Ask a Librarian Email Workshop
Tues., Mar. 13, 2012
2:30-3:30 pm ET
Space is still available in this webinar. If you need training to help answer emails in the Ask a Librarian software for your library system, or if you currently utilize your own email system but would love a sneak-peek on how email works inside the agent console, this workshop is for you!
Tweet About your Library Work!
Here is a message from FLA who is inviting all librarians to tweet about their jobs! They want everyone to be a part of their Virtual Job Shadowing Project! Take a look at the description below!
Tweet about your library work! The Florida Library Association (FLA) would like to invite librarians in all types of jobs to be part of our Virtual Job Shadowing Project (library school students who are currently employed in libraries can also participate). Choose a day between April 2 and April 14th to tweet your daily activities using the hashtag #libjobshadowFL. Inform potential (and current) librarians about your workday. Users can also visit the FLA Twitter page at http://www.twitter.com/libjobshadowFL.
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. Sharing our daily activities will help to illuminate the depth and breadth of our profession. We want to hear from all types of librarians, whether new or time-tested, about the roles you are creating every day.
For a list of our tweeters and the days they will participate, stop by the Virtual Job Shadowing Project Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/FLAVirtualJobShadowing. The FLA Virtual Job Shadowing Project is coordinated by the Florida Library Association Library Personnel Recruitment Committee. To volunteer to tweet about your workday, please contact Susan L. Smith via email: ssmith1@hodges.edu or phone (239) 598-6134.