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Northwest
Central invites you to check out some of the upcoming </font></span></font></b><br><div style="text-align:center"><b><font color="#cc0000" face="arial narrow,sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><font size="6">continuing
education webinars and events happening this November!<br><br></font></span></font></b><div style="text-align:left"><b><font color="#cc0000" face="arial narrow,sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"></span></font><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">FREE!</span> 11/12/13</span>
<a href="http://nwcentral.org/evolution-usage-statistics">The Evolution of Usage Statistics</a></font></span></b><br><br>The ability to prove library value enables institutions to maximize
budget dollars, properly allocate their spend, and improve user
satisfaction. We have come a long way in the types and quality of data
as well as methods for collecting and analyzing that information. Join
our webinar to discuss how metrics have evolved to their current state
and what direction we can take with new and alternative metrics in the
future. Our panelists will address their methods for measuring library
value from the data they choose to evaluate, to the tools they utilize,
and how they perform their analysis and utilize it in real practice.<br><br><b><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">FREE!</span></span><span class=""> 11/13/13</span>
<a href="http://nwcentral.org/implementing-change-realizing-results-collaborating-cloud">Implementing Change: Realizing the results of collaborating in the cloud</a></font></span></b><br><br>Libraries share many common challenges: scarce resources, increased user
demand and ever more complex collections, systems and workflows. To
help manage these challenges, today’s cloud-based library management
services are offering workflows that save time and discovery solutions
that meet users’ expectations. Libraries using these services are seeing
drastic reductions in the time it takes for routine tasks because of
the integration in the cloud between libraries, applications, partners
and data. Not only can information be shared between departments, but
between libraries, improving quality and relevance as it’s enhanced
along the way.<br><b><font size="4"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">FREE!</span></span><span class=""> </span><span class="">11/14/13</span>
<a href="http://nwcentral.org/become-expert-google-searcher-hour-1">Become an Expert Google Searcher in an Hour</a></span></font></b><br><br>Do you use Google every day? Mastering Google's powerful search
refinement operators and lesser known features could, over a year's
time, save you days scouring over irrelevant results. Even more enticing
is the promise of elusive nuggets of market research and competitive
intelligence out there waiting to be discovered — IF you know how to
wield Google. The majority of our search queries are surprisingly
unsophisticated and thus the true power of the Google search engine, for
most of us, remains untapped. Learn how you too can become an expert
Google searcher and extract invaluable data about your competitors and
about the market like never before — with laser-like accuracy and
extreme efficiency.<br><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><font size="4"><b><br><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">FREE! </span></span><span class="">11/19/13</span>
<a href="http://nwcentral.org/designing-your-library-interactivity">Designing Your Library for Interactivity</a></b></font></span><br><br>As libraries around the world embrace rapid technological changes,
they’re offering services and resources—like maker-spaces and
collaborative computing—that would have been flights of fancy just a
decade ago. From community forums to hacker-spaces, the way patrons
interact with their library and each other is driving new visions of
what libraries need to be. Our panel of expert architects will explore
how new design philosophies can help patrons and librarians get the most
out of their spaces while blowing the lid off traditional ideas of
what a library is for. We’ll look at model projects that are flexible;
respond to advances in technology; offer community space; make smart use
of indoor and outdoor space; and have successfully incorporated
maker-spaces.<br><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><b><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">FREE!</span></span><span class=""> 11/20/13</span>
<a href="http://nwcentral.org/graphic-novels-adult-readers-recommending-best">Graphic Novels for Adult Readers: Recommending the Best</a></b></span><br></font><br>Even though graphic novels continue to become more visible in library
collections, adults often don’t consider reading in this format. Staff
providing reader’s advisory may also feel at a loss when attempting to
include graphic novels as suggestions. This hour-long webinar will help staff broaden their skills by adding
graphic novels to their recommendations. It will show how to locate
satisfying and often little-known graphic novels that respond to both
the subject interest and personal appeal factors in readers who have
little experience with the format. Ideas for encouraging experienced
comics readers to move to graphic novels will also be discussed.<br><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.nwcentral.org"><font size="6">www.nwcentral.org</font></a><br></div><div style="text-align:left">
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