[Libs-Or] Register Now for Upcoming ACRL eLearning Events!

[Robin A. Paynter]

ACRL is excited to announce registration for the following upcoming 
eLearning events!  Space is limited, so reserve your seat today!

*Life-Work Balance*
Format: ACRL Live Webcast
Date: October 28, 2008 (11 a.m Pacific | 12:00 p.m. Mountain | 1:00 p.m. 
Central | 2:00 p.m. Eastern)
Presenter:  Melanie Hawks
Description:
Personal and professional commitments can collide at any career stage. 
What does a healthy life-work balance look? How should you use limited 
resources in the face of limitless possibilities? How can you accomplish 
your goals, fulfill your obligations, and still get a decent night's sleep?

This webcast will provide you with tools you can use to:

    * Define what "balance" means to you
    * Explore your assumptions about what you should (and shouldn't) be 
doing with your time
    * Set clear priorities and maintain them, even under stress

Registration fees are as follows:

ACRL member: $50
ALA member: $75
CACUL member: Can$90 (charges will be made in U.S. dollars)
Nonmember: $90
Student: $40
Group*: $295

* Webcasts take place in an interactive, online classroom environment 
with one user/one login. If you select the group rate, one person must 
register, login, and keyboard during the event. A group registration 
allows an institution to project the Webcast to participants in the same 
location.

For more information on this event as well as registration, please visit 
the event page at 
http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/proftools/courses/lifeworkbalance.cfm.  
Registration for this event is limited, so reserve your seat today!
 

*Virtual Reference Competencies, Part 2: Practice and Expand 
Communication Skills and Knowledge*
Format: ACRL Online Seminar
Dates: October 27 - November 15, 2008
Presenter: Diane Kovaks
Description:
Virtual reference service requires all of the same professional 
communications skills and knowledge as face-to-face reference service. 
The challenge is to apply, practice, imagine, and understand how to 
communicate professionally within the technology context and using good 
reference skills and knowledge. During this course, engage in learning 
activities supported by readings as well as lecture and discussion, to 
practice and expand the communications competencies required by 
effective virtual reference librarians.

Registration fees are as follows:

ACRL member: $135
ALA member: $175
CACUL member: Can$195 (charges will be made in U.S. dollars)
Nonmember: $195
Student: $60

For more information on this event as well as registration, please visit 
the event page at 
http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/proftools/courses/virtualref2.cfm. 
Registration for this event is limited, so reserve your seat today


*Teaching Portfolios for Librarians*
Format: ACRL Online Seminar
Dates: November 3 - 22, 2008
Presenters: Judith Arnold, Joan Ruelle and Beth Woodard
Description:
Participants in the three-week course will learn the concept and 
structure of teaching portfolios, articulate their teaching philosophy, 
identify supporting materials to include in their portfolio, and more. 
The course will provide the opportunity to learn from one another 
through online peer interaction and review.

Registration fees are as follows:

ACRL member: $135
ALA member: $175
CACUL member: Can$195 (charges will be made in U.S. dollars)
Nonmember: $195
Student: $60

For more information on this event as well as registration, please visit 
the event page at 
http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/proftools/courses/portfolios.cfm. 
Registration for this event is limited, so reserve your seat today!


*Electronic Collection Development for the Academic Library*
Format: ACRL Online Seminar
Dates: November 3 - 22, 2008
Presenter: Diane Kovaks
Description:
In this hands-on, three-week course, participants will learn to create 
an academic e-library collection development plan for free and fee-based 
Web-accessible resources for a patron community of their choice. 
Participants will end the session with a completed collection 
development plan for the e-library collection they wish to develop.

Registration fees are as follows:
ACRL member: $135
ALA member: $175
CACUL member: Can$195 (charges will be made in U.S. dollars)
Nonmember: $195
Student: $60

For more information on this event as well as registration, please visit 
the event page at 
http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/proftools/courses/ecolldev.cfm. 
Registration for this event is limited, so reserve your seat today!

Questions?  Please contact Jon Stahler at jstahler at ala.org 
<mailto:jstahler at ala.org>.

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ACRL is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), 
representing more than 13,000 academic and research librarians and 
interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership 
organization in North America that develops programs, products and 
services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians.  
Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the 
role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research 
environments.

Jon Stahler
Web Services Manager
Association of College and Research Libraries
(312) 280-2511



FYI, Robin--

Portland State University logo

*Robin Paynter*
Social Sciences Librarian
220D Library
Portland State University

503.725.4501
503.725.4524
paynter at pdx.edu
http://www.pdx.edu/library/paynter.html

"The fragmentation of rational knowledge in the postmodern world has 
produced a focus on information that is unaware of its history." -- 
Marcus Breen (1997)

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