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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">If you need to build or majorly overhaul your library website, you might be interested in an upcoming eCourse from ALA Editions. It’s all about using WordPress to build a library website. Or, check
out the April 2011 <i>Library Technology Reports</i> which has the same theme. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">ALA eCourse Teaches How to Build Library Websites with WordPress<br>
</span></b><span class="caps"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">“ALA</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> Editions announces a new facilitated eCourse on Using WordPress to Build Library Websites. Amanda Goodman and Polly-Alida Farrington
will serve as instructors for a six-week facilitated eCourse </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#00B050">starting on Jan. 16, 2012</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">. WordPress is an open-source content management system that helps
you create, develop and maintain a website. Its intuitive interface means that there’s no need to learn complex programming languages - and because it’s free, you can do away with purchasing expensive Web development software. Skilled Web developers Farrington
and Goodman will guide you in applying WordPress tools and functionality to library content. You will learn the nuts and bolts of building a library website that is both user friendly and easy to maintain.” The course costs $250 and will require about 5 hours
of your time per week. Weekly work can be done when it fits best into your schedule. <br>
<a href="http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/new-ecourse-will-show-you-how-build-library-websites-wordpress">
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/new-ecourse-will-show-you-how-build-library-websites-wordpress</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3618">http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3618</a> (& source of image below)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Library Technology Reports’</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> April 2011 Issue Focuses on Using WordPress as a Library Content Management System<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">ALA TechSource publishes <i>
Library Technology Reports</i>, and the </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#00B050">April 2011</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> edition (vol. 47, no. 3) is all about how to use WordPress as a library content management system.
It has both how-to and showcase articles. Those interested in learning more can read the issue electronically in Gale or ILL the print issue from the State Library.<br>
About the issue: <a href="http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3397">
http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3397</a> (& source of image below)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> Gale access to issue:
<span class="infomark-url-green"><a href="http://bit.ly/vek8GE">http://bit.ly/vek8GE</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="infomark-url-green"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> I created the PURL (permanent URL) above from OSLIS. If you are prompted to log in and do not have a user name and password,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in"><span class="infomark-url-green"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">click on your library’s link to
<i>Academic OneFile</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in"><span class="infomark-url-green"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">click on Publication Search in the orange toolbar at the top,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in"><span class="infomark-url-green"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">enter “library technology reports” (no need for quotes) and click on the search button,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in"><span class="infomark-url-green"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">click on the journal title, and
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in"><span class="infomark-url-green"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">click on April 1, 2011.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="infomark-url-green"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> Request issue from OSL:
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/school/index.shtml#Requesting_Materials_from_OSL_">
http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/school/index.shtml#Requesting_Materials_from_OSL_</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="infomark-url-green"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><img border="0" width="120" height="180" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CCB343.A973A190"></span><span class="infomark-url-green"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="infomark-url-green"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">FYI,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Jen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Jennifer Maurer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">School Library Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Oregon State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">250 Winter Street NE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">503.378.5011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">jennifer.maurer@state.or.us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">OSLIS ||
<a href="www.oslis.org">www.oslis.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Learn to Research. Research to Learn.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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