<div dir="ltr">FYI,<div><br></div><div>Suzanne L. Sager</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Wood</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org">dwood@ala.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:28 AM<br>Subject: [alacro-l] ALA Office for Research & Statistics offers free webinar -- Mapping Inclusion: Public Library Technology and Community Needs<br>To: "<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>><br><br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mapping Inclusion: Public Library Technology and Community Needs<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Free Webinar<b> -- </b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="https://alapublishing.webex.com/mw0401lsp12/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=alapublishing&service=6&rnd=0.13288063188023969&main_url=https%3A%2F%2Falapublishing.webex.com%2Fec0701lsp12%2Feventcenter%2Fprogram%2FprogramDetail.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26internalProgramTicketUnList%3D4832534b000000024b64036e45bacf22f83eab9d6ac2c10b7c995f48111ac21d1425d5c10295852e%26internalProgramTicket%3D4832534b000000024b64036e45bacf22f83eab9d6ac2c10b7c995f48111ac21d1425d5c10295852e%26cProgViewID%3D1288167%26siteurl%3Dalapublishing" target="_blank">Click to register</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Webinar date and time: Friday, March 6 at noon central time.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Contact:<span style="color:#1f497d"><br></span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Liz Steiner<span style="color:#1f497d"><br></span>Marketing Manager<span style="color:#1f497d"><br></span>ALA Publishing<span style="color:#1f497d"><br></span><a href="mailto:esteiner@ala.org" target="_blank">esteiner@ala.org</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This <a href="https://alapublishing.webex.com/alapublishing/onstage/g.php?PRID=68b8a9fd58c578cb7a45db409661dc7c" target="_blank">webinar</a> presents findings from the Digital Inclusion Survey and explores the intersections of public access technologies and education, employment, health & wellness, digital literacy, e-government and inclusion. It will share new tools and demonstrate how to locate and interpret <a href="http://digitalinclusion.umd.edu/content/reports" target="_blank">national</a> and <a href="http://digitalinclusion.umd.edu/state-details" target="_blank">state</a>-level results from the survey for planning and advocacy purposes, as well as present cases for the interactive mapping <a href="http://digitalinclusion.umd.edu/content/interactive-map" target="_blank">tool</a>, with suggestions for creating a digital inclusion snapshot of your public library.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Learning Outcomes<u></u><u></u></span></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Participants will become more aware of the status of digital inclusion services in public libraries.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Participants will be able to locate and use survey results at the national and state level.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Participants will be able to use the interactive mapping tool that combines community level data with 2013 Digital Inclusion Survey data.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Participants will become more familiar with how library data can be used and “mashed up” with other public community data to identify service gaps and make the case for added library capacity to meet local needs.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Who Should Attend?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">All public librarians who have an interest in digital inclusion; library directors who must make decisions about what types of resources and services to fund; CIOs; library board members; and youth services librarians who often lead to way to new technologies in the library.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div><br><br clear=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