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NILRC Professional Development Fall Webinars

The NILRC Professional Development Committee (PDC) will be hosting the following webinars this Fall.

Please login to the Member Portal to access the links to the webinars. Contact Lois Bruno, NILRC Director for the password at director@nilrc.org.

 October 21st at 10 AM

 Title: Mental Health Awareness-Get to know NAMI

 Presenter: Teri Latter, ​State Program Director, NAMI Illinois

 Description: Take this opportunity to learn about NAMI-National Alliance on Mental Illness, what they do, and the resources they offer.

November 10th at 10 AM

Title: Library Outreach During COVID-19

Presenter: Valerie Moore, Prairie State College
Description: During the 2020-2021 academic year, the Prairie State College Library was only open by appointment. While we knew that faculty, staff, and students were overextended in their personal and professional lives, we wanted to continue offering programming and communications to showcase our work. This presented a unique opportunity to experiment with fully digital programming. We did so with low expectations and had mixed results. This presentation will cover what we did, what worked, what didn't, and how we intend to continue working with our students remotely, even now that the building is open again. 

December 7th at 10 AM

 Title: Introduction to MarcEdit

 Presenter: Natalie Hall, Moraine Valley Community College

 Description: Have you heard about MarcEdit but aren’t sure how to get started? This webinar is for you! This one hour presentation will introduce the most commonly used functions and tools in MarcEdit as well as best practices for working with MARC data within MarcEdit. Intended to be a practical introduction, it will use real-world examples to demonstrate how to add and delete fields, edit subfield and field data, change indicators, build new fields, and more! It will also cover some supplemental tools to make bulk editing easier including task lists and how to use MarcEdit to find errors in your MARC records.

Please login to the Member Portal to access the links to the webinars. Contact Lois Bruno, NILRC Director for the password at director@nilrc.org.

Hope to see you there!

 

Professional Development Webinar: Data Forecasting – An Introduction

Data forecasting is the process of making predictions based on past and present data. It is also the basis of all strategic decisions. For example, one could use forecasting for scheduling, inventory, budgetary, and circulation planning. This webinar will serve as an introduction to forecasting methods and ways to gauge whether a forecast is accurate and/or reliable.

Join the webinar with Sam Suber on Tuesday, May 11th at 10 AM to learn more. No prior experience is necessary!

Pivot Tables: Establishing Relationships – Part Three

Pivot Tables: Establishing Relationships – Part Three Pivot tables are a way to view and manipulate your data. Queries are ways to import data. Power Pivot is way to create a shared pivot table through multiple data sets. Measures are ways to create formulas based off a shared pivot table. The next step (next webinar) will highlight the limitations of a shared pivot table and solutions to fix this. Database relationship theory will be discussed and practiced through sample scenarios. No prior experience with database design is necessary.

Join Sam Suber on Friday, November 20th at 10AM to learn new ways to make the most out of your data. This is Part Three of a three-part webinar series on Pivot Tables. No registration is required; Zoom link is available on the Members Portal Page under Member News. Please contact Lois Bruno for password for portal page access by emailing director@nilrc.org.