Monday, June 2, 2008

Training meetings scheduled

PLS has added more training!

Friday, June 6th from 10 - Noon at the PLSHQ new meeting room -
Lindsay will be holding a training class titled 'Item Search Intensive'.
This session will focus on Item Search techniques, with an emphasis on searching items to be added to the OWWL database, but also for general reference and readers' advisory purposes. This is a lecture/demo, with group discussions and problem solving.

and

On Friday, June 13th from 10 - Noon -
Holdings Maintenance, Part 2.

This lecture/demo/group discussion class will continue exploring the critical skills of Holdings Maintenance activities, with an emphasis on:

1. Identifying key descriptive elements for books, audiobooks, videorecordings, sound recordings

2. Identifying matching elements in an item's catalog record

3. "Acceptable" catalog record differences

4. The Workflows procedures used for holdings

5. Common sense ways we can all improve the OWWL catalog

To sign up for either of these training sessions, please log onto www.pls-net.org and register on the 'Calendar of Events'.

Thanks!

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