[Irtalk] "Social Media for Librarians" LIASA Webinar Series

[Ina Smith]

Dear LIASA Members

We would like to invite you to a series of webinar training sessions aimed at acquiring social media skills which can be used within your specific library community. Learn to use these tools - to increase your productivity, reach out to your users, promote services, train users (young & old) and pass on social media skills, become part of global discussions, and more.

Please register for the webinar workshops - click on the registration link indicated.

The webinar workshops will be presented via LIASA Webinar, using BigBlueButton. Minimum requirements:  Stable Internet access, speakers. More details will be communicated to registered participants closer to the time.

The workshop details are as follows:

Date

Time

Topic/Tool

Presenters

Register

07 Nov. 2015
Closing date for registration: 5 Nov.

09:00 - 11:00

Webinars for Librarians
This workshop will be presented both virtually & physically. Click here for more details<http://www.liasa-new.org.za/conference/index.php/wc/web>.

Nikki Crowster & Ina Smith

Click here to attend virtually<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13GoxX3-YdHyCmivIJ-II6s34g2FGoXt8Q9S4DNHcMic/viewform?c=0&w=1>

Click here to register to attend in person<http://www.liasa-new.org.za/conference/index.php/wc/web> (participants attending event in person at Ulwazi,
Chancellor
Oppenheimer
Library, UCT

10 Nov. 2015
Closing date for registration: 8 Nov.

10:00 - 11:00

Gmail & Google Groups for Librarians

Ina Smith

Click here to register<http://goo.gl/forms/Rz37DP7W1U>

12 Nov. 2015
Closing date for registration: 10 Nov.

10:00 - 11:00

Google Forms for Librarians

Ina Smith

Click here to register<http://goo.gl/forms/Rz37DP7W1U>

25 Nov. 2015
Closing date for registration: 23 Nov.

10:00 - 11:00

Blogs for Librarians

Karen du Toit

Click here to register<http://goo.gl/forms/Rz37DP7W1U>

27 Nov. 2015
Closing date for registration: 25 Nov.

10:00 - 11:00

Twitter for Librarians

Ingrid Thomson

Click here to register<http://goo.gl/forms/Rz37DP7W1U>


Brief biographies

Nikki Crowster holds the portfolio of LIASA National Public Relations Officer (2014-2016) and in her day job is the Coordinator of the Cape Library Consortium (CALICO), the Western Cape based academic library consortium, a project of the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC). Nikki has more than 30 years library experience starting off in the public library sector before moving onto the sphere of academic libraries. Current responsibilities include the management of consortium operations and of the shared library and information system. Her areas of interest include educational technology particularly the study of the impact of ICT on teaching and learning in higher education and, instructional design; strategic management; business systems analysis; ICT governance and social media. She holds an MBibl, a Post-graduate Diploma in Educational Technology and Certificate in Business Systems Analysis

Karen du Toit has been a librarian and archivist for more than 25 years. The last ten years she has been working at the SABC Radio Archives<http://www.sabc.co.za/wps/portal/rbf/librariesdetail?id=ce4eca804c14b0e48f6f8f8f9f800553> as an Afrikaans archivist. She has been blogging from 2008 in a personal capacity. From 2009 she and another colleague were tasked to start a Web 2.0 presence for the SABC Media Libraries<http://www.sabc.co.za/wps/portal/rbf/librariesdetail?id=ce4eca804c14b0e48f6f8f8f9f800553>. That included a website as well as a blog, with all the other social media platforms incorporated in the mix. She is passionate about blogging as a way to further one's own professional development, but also to increase the awareness and reach of libraries and archives in the local community, as well as reaching a global audience.

Ina Smith is the LIASA Exco Convener ICT Development and LIASA HELIG Chair. Read more.<http://www.liasa-new.org.za/about-ina-smith/>

Ingrid Thomson has been actively involved in LIASA related activities and governance for many years. She is Chair-elect HELIG, and is currently enrolled as a student for the MPhl (Digital Curation) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Read more<http://www.liasa.org.za/sites/default/files/documents/LoY_2010_Ingrid_Thomson.pdf>.

Kind regards
Ina

Ina Smith
SciELO Planning Manager
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

LIASA Exco Portfolio ICT Development (2014-2016)
LIASA HELIG Chair (2014-2016)

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Tel: +27 12 349 6641
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Email: ina at assaf.org.za<mailto:ina at assaf.org.za>

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