NN/LM MAR Announces Spring 2010 Online Classes
It’s time to spring back to school with the Middle Atlantic Region! Join MAR staff and network members for online classes in April – May, 2010 —all you need is an Internet-connected computer and a telephone. Classes are FREE.
To sign up for a class, e-mail us at rml@med.nyu.edu with the title and date of the class (es) you wish to attend. Please include your name, e-mail address, and mailing address.
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Clever Evaluation
Date: Wednesday April 7, 2010 Time: 11:30a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Evaluating programs and projects is a lot like exercising: most of us know it’s very important and we plan to start doing it as soon as we have time. Cindy Olney, evaluation specialist for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Outreach Evaluation Resource Center (OERC), will present a 90-minute session on evaluation methods that are quick, resourceful, and useful. Her strategies include using existing data, combining evaluation with other project activities, and enlisting the help of others in data collection. Cindy Olney has been an evaluation specialist since 1991 and has worked with the OERC since 2004. She specializes in planning and evaluation of health information outreach and public health projects.
Valuing Library Services and Cost Benefit/ROI Calculators
Guest Speakers: Betsy Kelly, Assessment and Evaluation Liaison (NN/LM MCR) & Barb Jones, Advocacy Liaison (NN/LM MCR)
Date: Thursday April 22, 2010 Time: 2:30-4:00 PM
MAR is hosting an online class to enable health sciences librarians to determine the return on investment and cost benefit of their libraries and services. The instructors will discuss and demonstrate two tools to show the value a library brings to its institution:
1. The Retail Value Calculator, adapted from one originally provided by the Massachusetts Library Association, and then adapted for the web by Chelmsford Public Library, helps to determine the library’s worth to the institution, and how much would it cost to replace library services on the retail market;
2. The CBA and ROI Calculator helps to determine a library’s contribution to the institutional bottom line, and how much benefit the institution (i.e., the patrons) receives for every dollar spent by the library.
Free Productivity Tools
Date: April 27, 2010 Time: 2:00-3:30.
Library’s budgets are always pinched for one thing or another. Did you know that there are a multitude of free software packages out there that do just about everything that commercial software packages can do? In this 90-minute class we’ll take a look at some of these software packages, their usefulness, their limitations and things to think about if you decide to go the free software route.
Basic Nutrition Resources
Date: May 18, 2010 Time: 10-11am.
Consumers, students, clinicians, and you! Where do you begin when looking for nutrition information for consumers or for clinicians? This course will take you through basic resources available to you from NLM, NIH, and others. We will also briefly review how to search for nutrition information literature.