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ALCTS offers a wide variety of online continuing education opportunities through e-Forums, webinars, and web courses. Below is a list of upcoming events beginning in January, 2012. Additional details, fees and other information (including links to registration) will be posted at  http://www.ala.org/alcts/events  as they become available.

E-forums:

E-forums are still being planned and finalized for the winter. Currently two e-forums are scheduled, with details to be posted to the website soon.

-         The Incredible Shrinking Cataloging Department: How to Do More with Less, hosted by Wade Wyckoff and Xiaoli Li (Jan. 11-12)

-         Transforming Collections, hosted by Lisa German and Sarah Simpson (Feb. 22-23)

If you have additional e-forums ideas, please contact Kristin Martin, e-Forum Coordinator, kmarti@uic.edu.

Webinars:

-          Services Lead to Success: Strategies for Repository Growth (IR series) (February 8)

-          Effective Subscription Management and Alternatives (February 15)

-          The Black, White, and Gray Areas of Licensing: A Review and Update for Librarians and Publishers (February 29)

-          Preservation Workflow (March 7)

-          RDA and Moving Images (RDA series) (March 14)

-          Holdings: What They Are and Why They Are Important (March 21)

-          RDA and 3D Objects and Kits (RDA series) (March 28)

-          Staffing the IR for Small and Medium-sized Libraries (IR series) (April 4)

-          More Product, Less Process: Why It Matters to Archivists, Librarians, and Researchers (April 11)

-          You Ought to be in Pictures: Bringing Streaming Video to Your Library (April 18)

-          Preservation Week: Preserving Digital Photographs (April 26)

-          Using the Library of Congress Classification H Schedule (May 2)

-          Using the Library of Congress Classification P Schedule (May 9)

Web Courses:

-          Fundamentals of Acquisitions (February 27-March 23)

-          Fundamentals of Collection Assessment (February 27-April 6)

-          Fundamentals of Collection Development/Management (March 19-April13)

-          Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions (March 5-March 30)

-          Fundamentals of Preservation (March 26–April 20)
(Additional offerings scheduled for Spring, please see website for complete listings)

Questions? Interested in sponsoring or creating an event? Contact alctsce@ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS-CE Committee.