Vendor Spotlight Webinar: PowerNotes - New tools to maximize library resources and improve digital learning - October 27th and 28th

NILRC and PowerNotes have partnered to provide discounted pricing and subscription benefits for member institutions. Join us on Tuesday, October 26th from 9 - 10 am OR Wednesday, October 28th from 3 - 4 pm for an introductory webinar to see what the PowerNotes tools can do. Current subscribers will also benefit from attending!

Please log in to the Member Portal to access links to the webinars. Contact Lois at director@nilrc.org for the password to the portal.

What is PowerNotes?

PowerNotes addresses the challenges inherent to source-based research and writing in the digital environment and seeks to improve writing quality with tools that provide an efficient and continuous workflow through the entire digital reading, research, and writing process. Learn how PowerNotes can:

• increase the accessibility of your databases with integrated OCR;

• improve reading comprehension and retention in the digital environment;

• prevent unintentional plagiarism and contract cheating;

• combat procrastination while allowing students to reflect on their reading and writing activities;

• enable students to gather, annotate, and save content and citation information efficiently;

• put students in the best position to write by providing an efficient organizational framework;

• provide instructors and librarians with visibility into the students’ research process;

• prepare students to become proficient college-level readers and writers.

Kyle will also be showcasing their latest Automated Citations, Group Annotation, and Source Notes/Information Literacy features.

Contact Kyle Zegarac | Kyle@powernotes.com with questions

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!