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Northwest
Central invites you to check out some of the upcoming continuing
education webinars and events happening this October!<br><br></span></font></b><br><div style="text-align:left"><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b>FREE!</b></span> <b>10/01/13</b></span><b><a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/romance-mayhem-young-adultteen-book-buzz"> Romance & Mayhem: Young Adult/Teen Book Buzz</a></b><br>
<p>Doesn’t it seem that wherever romance goes, mayhem follows? And we all know that life as a teenager is full of both of these!</p>
<p>Join SLJTeen’s Dodie Ownes as she moderates a free one-hour webcast
featuring titles presentations from Soho Teen, Tor Teen, and Harlequin
Teen,who will offer sneak previews of their new titles for Fall 2013 and
2014. You won’t believe some of the cover art—shocking, sexy, and
sensational—that will have your young adult readers picking the book
display clean. <a href="http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=685939&s=1&k=5DC09504FEB2D6B1E9AEFFE10DC14B65&partnerref=sljwebYoungAdults10012013">Register Now!<span class=""><br></span></a></p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b>FREE! </b></span></span><b>10/02/13</b></span><b>
<a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/if-you-give-library-nickel%E2%80%A6-fundraising-tips">If You Give a Library a Nickel… Fundraising Tips</a></b></p><p>Looking for additional funds to support library programs and services?
Want to share the great ways you bring in gifts and support to your
library? Join us for CSL In Session – an interactive online discussion
forum. Our October topic will cover fundraising from the basics to a
bonanza of alternative fundraising ideas. Take away strategies for
improving both your library support and awareness in your community.</p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b>FREE! </b></span></span></span><a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/books-boys-0"><b>10/02/13</b></a></span><a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/books-boys-0"><b> Books for Boys</b></a></p>
<p>Learn about fall’s collection of new books for boys during this School
Library Journal webcast event. From illustrated books to chapter books,
and even audio books topics will range from superheroes to farmers, and
then some! Attendees will learn some tips to promote and support genres
that boys like, including comic books, graphic novels, sports, and
nonfiction, as well as some ideas for creating reading role models and
communities for boys grades K-12. If you want ways to get books in the
hands of your guys this session will inspire you. Register Now!</p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b>FREE! </b></span></span></span></span><b><span class="">10/03/13</span>
<a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/baking-discovery-pie-driving-exploration-within-eresources">Baking Discovery into the Pie: Driving Exploration within eResources</a></b></p>Discovery service not doing what you hoped it would? Your library
just bought a brand new video collection, but you can’t you find
anything in it? As models like PDA and EBA become prevalent in all
media formats, ensuring patrons can find what they are looking for is
more essential than ever. But many types of content simply don’t rise to
the top of discovery service searches, and other searches return too
many unrelated results to be truly useful.
<p>Here’s an idea: how about baking discovery into the actual resource?</p>
<p>Let two product editors and a librarian walk you through their
philosophy of search–that discovery shouldn’t mean losing
discipline-specific searching, that videos and scores should be just as
easy to find as books and periodicals, and cross-search should be a
given – and then see examples of the impact this has on ease of use,
findability, and ultimately, patron satisfaction.</p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b>FREE!</b></span></span></span></span><b><span class="">10/07/13</span>
<a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/moocs-and-virtual-worlds">MOOCS and Virtual Worlds</a></b></p><p>MOOCs (massive open online courses) provide educational opportunities at
no cost or low cost online. Online learning brought distance education
into the mainstream over the past few decades, but the MOOC, currently
popular in higher education, brings learning to more students through
large-scale interactive participation. This session will describe MOOCs,
advantages and disadvantages shared with virtual worlds, and the future
of the MOOC through examples of various types.</p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b>FREE!</b></span></span></span></span><b><span class=""> </span>10/08/13</b></span><b>
<a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/instructional-design-real-world-tricks-speed-it-make-it-less-painful-and-amaze-your-friends">Instructional Design for the Real World: Tricks to Speed It Up, Make It Less Painful, and Amaze Your Friends</a></b></p>
<p>Join in for a fast, fun tour of quick tools and tricks that will support
rapid instructional design, cut to the heart of needs analysis, and
improve communication with subject matter experts and managers and
others requesting training solutions.</p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b>FREE!</b></span></span></span></span><b><span class=""> </span></b></span><b>10/09/13</b></span><b>
<a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/you-seek-grant-checklist-new-nonprofits-2">Before You Seek a Grant: A Checklist for New Nonprofits</a></b></p><p>This class is designed for new nonprofits or community groups with very
little experience in grantseeking. We focus specifically on foundation
fundraising.</p><p><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b>FREE!</b></span></span></span></span><b><span class=""> </span></b></span></span><b>10/10/13</b></span><b>
<a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/oregon-encyclopedia-community-meeting-contribute-your-knowledge-malheur-county-history-oregon-encycl">Oregon Encyclopedia Community Meeting: Contribute Your Knowledge of Malheur County History to the Oregon Encyclopedia</a></b></p>
<p>The Oregon Encyclopedia (The OE) is coming to Malheur County this fall to hold a public community meeting on Oregon history and culture. Test your local history knowledge with a fun trivia quiz, learn about some of the important people, places, and events in Malheur County, and contribute your knowledge of local history to the encyclopedia project.</p>
<p>The meeting will be held in Ontario on Thursday, October 10, 2013, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Four Rivers Cultural Center located at 676 SW 5th Avenue in Ontario, Oregon. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Four Rivers Cultural Center and is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. The meeting will include a presentation by the Four Rivers Cultural Center’s Executive Director Matt Stringer, who will describe the local historical resources available at the museum which support the research and writing of local history. Ulrich H. Hardt, Oregon Encyclopedia Co-Editor-in-Chief will lead a discussion on how to write an Oregon Encyclopedia entry and work with participants to identify Malheur county topics that should be included on the web site.</p>
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