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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 for Spring 2012. Additional details, fees and other information (including links to registration) will be posted at http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents as they become available.

E-forums:

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

· Managing Datasets (March 26-27)
· BISAC and Beyond: Making Word-Based Classification Your Own (April 17-18)

If you have additional e-forums ideas or are interested in moderating an e-forum, please contact Kristin Martin, e-Forum Coordinator, kmarti@uic.edu.

Webinars:

- 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)
- Taking Care of Family Textiles (April 24)
- 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)
- Rare Materials and RDA (RDA series) (May 23)
- Archival Materials: Using RDA with DACS (RDA series) (May 30)

- Cooperative Collection Development (June 6)

Web Courses:

- Fundamentals of Acquisitions (April 16–May 11)
- Fundamentals of Collection Assessment (May 14–June 22)
- Fundamentals of Collection Development/Management (May 7–June 1)
- Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions (April 23–May 18)
- Fundamentals of Preservation (May 21–June 15)
(Additional offerings scheduled for Spring and Summer, please see website for complete listings)

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

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.