SJRLC Connections

Webinar: Taking your library website mobile

Webinar:

Taking your library website mobile

Led by Doug Baldwin

 

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

10:00 am – 11:30 am (1.5 CEU hours)

Cost: $10

Doug Baldwin of the Cranbury Free Public Library will share why and how he made a mobile-friendly site for his library - it's free and easy!

    Registration:
http://tinyurl.com/sjrlcmobilewebinar 

EBSCOhost Mobile and Alerts Setup Enhancements

An exciting announcement from EbscoHost

We are excited to announce that the anticipated new interface for mobile users, EBSCOhost Mobile, is here! The new EBSCOhost application is tailor-made for the smaller screens of mobile devices, and offers the most important EBSCOhost features and functionality, right in the palm of your hand! To get started on using your mobile device to access your EBSCOhost resources, simply review this FAQ and learn about:

• the many features of EBSCOhost Mobile
• how to access the application
• which devices are supported

Once you have created a profile in EBSCOadmin for EBSCOhost Mobile, this new interface will be available to all users who have access to your account. To help you alert your users, we have created posters that you can download and print; one of which includes a special, customizable message field. If you (or your library administrator) need assistance setting up a new profile for EBSCOhost Mobile, please communicate with EBSCO's Technical Support Representatives online, via EBSCO's Support Form, and remember to allow one to two weeks for setup time. For more information, please see this top story.

Also new on EBSCOhost are several enhancements to streamline the Alerts creation process, described here.

Visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebsco.com) to learn about all of EBSCO's products, search among thousands of FAQs, and download tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides.

New Tech Talk on Mobile Services

South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative presents   A New Tech Talk...  SERVICE ON THE RUN Delivering mobile services and content to phones and handhelds  registration form: http://www.sjrlc.org/spice/2007_03/mobile.pdf  Led by Ralph Bingham, Information Technology Librarian Gloucester County Library System Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:00-Noon (9:30 Coffee; Free lunch 12-1) Cost:  FREE Gloucester County Library HQ, Mullica Hill, 389 Wolfert Station Road, Mullica Hill www.sjrlc.org/directions/gcls I can deliver service to a cellphone? YOU BET! There are many options for delivering a variety of content and services directly to your customer's cell phone.  And the options grow every day! From program reminders, to holds notices, to reference and information, libraries are using SMS Text messaging, Instant messaging (IM) and phone-friendly webpage designs to put library services in the palm of customers' hands. Don't miss what promises to be an interesting and provocative Tech Talk!  Stay for lunch and an open technology discussion --- Earn  2 Professional Development Hours   for attending this program.       ---  Registration form: http://www.sjrlc.org/spice/2007_03/mobile.pdf

Workshop: Connecting with IM

Connecting with Instant Messaging (IM)
Led by Heather Huey, NJIT

Thursday, March 8, 2007
1:00 - 4:00
Cost: $30

CAMDEN COUNTY LIBRARY
3rd floor computer lab
203 LAUREL ROAD, VOORHEES
Directions: http://www.sjrlc.org/directions/ccl

For complete details and registration form, click here.

Let the blogging begin

This is SJRLC's inaugural post!  Following up on last week's workshop with Michael Stephens, SJRLC has created this blog to keep South Jersey libraries up-to-date on all relevant activities, news, trends and ideas.  The Connections blog will be a little more informal than our official website, and we invite you to participate with us by sharing your comments, feeds, blogs, pictures and posts.  Let's think of this as our "web 2.0" sandbox.  Are you ready to play?

As promised, the handouts from the workshop and the results from our brainstorming session on July 20 are available here.  If you would like to add (or, um, revise) anything on the brainstorming list let me know by leaving a comment on this post. We've also posted some pictures from the event to our new Flickr account. 

Now I saw some amazing looking blogs being created in the lab.  Let's see what y'all have come up with!   If you're willing to share, send me your blog (and/or Suprglu) links and I'll start adding them to the sidebar. 

So add us to your bloglines, and we'll add you to ours.   Thanks everyone, I can't wait to see where this leads!