BCLA Course – Introduction to Web Scripting with PHP Oct 18&19

The BCLA Continuing Education Committee presents

Introduction to Web Scripting with PHP

www.bcla.bc.ca/php

Date:
Sat. Oct. 18 & Sun Oct. 19

Time:
9:00 – 4:30
Lunch is NOT included, but there will be a one hour break.

Location:
Central Branch
Vancouver Public Library,
350 West Georgia St.,
Vancouver, BC

Course Description:
This course will introduce the creation of dynamic web pages using the popular PHP scripting language. Participants will learn how to create web pages that vary their output based on user input. The basic building blocks of PHP and web programming will be covered in a series of hands-on exercises, including: variables, arrays, control structures, sessions and security. No prior knowledge of programming is required.

The workshop will be hands-on.

Benefits for the participants:

• Ability to use basic PHP variables, data types, control structures, and functions
• Ability to check PHP scripts for the most common security vulnerabilities
• At the end of the course, participants will write a basic "feedback form" in PHP

(Due to time constraints, this course will not cover using PHP to interact with databases, XML, or library-specific data structures.)

Who should participate:
Anyone who maintains a web site that needs to accept and process basic user input. Web managers, library systems staff, and people investigating the use of PHP-based Content Management Systems will benefit from this course.

Prerequisites: basic knowledge of HTML and web page creation, and the ability to use a plain text editor. No prior knowledge of programming is required.

About the presenters:

John Durno is Coordinator, Information Technology Services, University
of Victoria Libraries

Mark Jordan is Head of Library Systems, Simon Fraser University

Costs:
$250 members
$325 non-members

Class Size:
16 Students

Registration:
http://www.bcla.bc.ca/php

Please note – if you have successfully registered, you will receive a confirmation email. If you are unable to register please contact the BCLA Office at office@bcla.bc.ca

Deadline for registration: Tuesday, Oct 14, 9:00 AM (but please register as soon as possible, as this event is likely to sell out quickly).

BCLA Course – Building a Better Website: Website Redesign Oct 3

Upcoming BCLA Course
Building a Better Website: Website Redesign

A North Vancouver District Public Library – BCLA Co-Presentation

http://www.bcla.bc.ca/redesign

Presenters:
Kay Cahill
Cecily Walker

Date:
October 03, 2008

Time:
9:30am – 4:30pm

Location:
Lynn Valley Main Library
North Vancouver District Public Library
1277 Lynn Valley Road
North Vancouver

Description:
Building a Better Website

During this session we’ll cover all the basic elements you need to know to create a user-friendly, practical website. We’ll look at gathering requirements to ensure a user-centred design, the advantages and disadvantages of content management systems, how to design a great user interface, and how to use existing web tools, technologies, and social media services to enhance your site and create a rich and compelling user experience that isn’t gimmicky. Attendees will also have the opportunity to build and customize a small site in www.wordpress.com.

Who Should Participate:
This workshop will be of interest to anyone working in a library who would like to learn how to design a user-friendly website, and make the most of the myriad opportunities that exist on the modern web for enhancing and promoting your library’s website.

Outcomes:
Participants will:

• Understand the importance of requirements gathering and user-centred design
• Become familiar with the key advantages and disadvantages of content management systems
• Have an overview the range of tools available to enhance websites and improve user experience

About the Presenters:
Kay Cahill is Vancouver Public Library’s Librarian II for Website and Community Development, and was part of the project management team for the redesign and relaunch of www.vpl.ca. With fourteen years’ experience in public libraries in the UK and Canada and a passionate interest in developing and delivering library services in the online space, she is committed to creating websites that are all about the user.

Cecily Walker is a Librarian with Vancouver Public Library who has a keen interest in user experience, information architecture, social media, and building online communities. Prior to joining VPL, she worked as a User Expeirence Architect with HSBC, and as a Usability Analyst for Sage Software. With fifteen years of self-taught web creation experience, she is committed to helping libraries and library staff create “websites that stick”.

Fees & Registration:
Members $100
Non-Members $115

Online registration is available at www.bcla.bc.ca/redesign - Visa, Mastercard and American Express accepted. If you have any questions about registration, please contact the BCLA Office at office@bcla.bc.ca

Class Size:
13 Students

Please note – if you have successfully registered, you will receive a confirmation email. If you are unable to register please contact the BCLA Office at office@bcla.bc.ca

Upcoming BCLA CE session - Intercultural Communication Oct 25 & 26

Your BCLA Continuing Education Committee is pleased to announce the presentation of the 2-day workshop, Intercultural Communication Training for Library Trainers. This 2 day workshop will be held Thu Oct 25 and Fri Oct 26.

More information and registration can be found at:
www.bcla.bc.ca/intercultural

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Intercultural Communication Training for Library Trainers

Date:
Thu. Oct. 25 and Fri. Oct 26

Time:
9:00-4:00
Lunch will be provided

Location:
Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch
350 West Georgia St, Vancouver (map)

Course Description:
Virtually every library in British Columbia serves users from diverse cultural backgrounds. This workshop has been designed to address this communication challenge by members of BCLA's Diversity and Multi-lingual Services committees, with assistance from UBC's Centre for Intercultural Studies.

Created for library staff with an interest in or responsibility for staff training, this 2 day session includes basic training in the theory of intercultural communication and a review of adult education techniques. At the core of the 2-day workshop is a 2.5 hour mini-workshop in intercultural communication for library staff that participants in the longer workshop will learn to deliver at their home institutions.

Both the two day workshop and the 2.5 hour workshop within it will feature activities, group work, energizers, gentle role-playing, mini-lectures, quizzes and problem-solving from real-life library examples

Benefits for Participants:
Participants will leave with materials for delivering the 2.5 hour workshop in their home libraries; experience in delivering one or more segments of the workshops plus membership in an informal network of co-trainers, including continuing access to members of BCLA's Diversity and Multi-Lingual Services Committee.

About the Presenters:
A subcommittee of BCLA's Diversity Committee, the Multilingual Services Committee is made up of librarians from the Interlink Libraries and its mandate is to improve services to ethnic communities and to improve access to collections in languages other than English. Reflecting many of the cultural groups in British Columbia, committee members together have more than a century of library work experience. They share an enthusiasm for making libraries a welcoming place for newcomers and long- time residents alike.

Over the past 20 years, UBC's Centre for Intercultural Studies has been a leader in providing training - nationally and internationally - for people working, managing, studying, teaching and living across cultures.

Cost:
BCLA Members - $175
Non-members - $225

More information and registration can be found at:
www.bcla.bc.ca/intercultural

YAACS Puppetry Workshop Sept 18

The YAACS and BCLA CE Committee is proud to announce the upcoming Puppetry Workshop on Sept 18th.

More information and registration
http://www.bcla.bc.ca/puppetry

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Date: Sep 18, 2007
Time: 09:00AM-12:30PM
Description:
5 presenters will provide you with a wide range of puppetry information and tips, including: sample scripts, puppetry demonstrations, shadow puppet construction, and information about supplies and suppliers.

More information can be found at:
http://www.bcla.bc.ca/puppetry

Cost:
BCLA Members $15.00
Non-members: $25.00

Coffee & Refreshments Included

Please note:
If you do not receive an e-mail confirmation after registering, or if you are unable to register on line using a credit card, please e-mail the BCLA Office at office@bcla.bc.ca

We need a minimum of 20 registrations for this event to take place, so please register as soon as possible! If registration reaches capacity, we will be taking a wait list.

Upcoming BCLA CE session - Training Delivery Skills Sept 10 & 11

Your BCLA Continuing Education Committee is pleased to announce the presentation of the 2-day workshop, Training Delivery Skills - Level 1.

More information can be found at:
www.bcla.bc.ca/tds

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Course Name: Training Delivery Skills - Level 1

Presenter: Reva Kalef

Date: Sept. 10 & 11 2007

Time: 9:00 - 4:30
Lunch is not included, but there will be a one hour break

Location:
Burnaby Public Library
Bob Prittie Metrotown Branch
6100 Willingdon Ave.
Burnaby, BC
MAP

Description:
In this highly interactive 2-day workshop, participants will increase their understanding of how to help adults learn more effectively. Participants will also have two opportunities to practice instructional delivery in a supportive, coaching environment.

Throughout the 2 days, participants are encouraged to add to their knowledge base, ask questions, solve problems, try out new ideas, disagree, share experiences, practice skills, and give and receive feedback. Emphasis is on building a collegial atmosphere in which participants can both increase their understanding of how to help adults learn and practice instructional delivery.

About the Presenter:
Reva Kalef (www.kalefconsulting.com) has been involved in the field of adult education as an instructor, instructional designer and consultant since 1984. She works with post-secondary institutions, business & industry, government agencies and non-profit organizations. Reva specializes in assisting instructors and instructional designers in their ongoing professional development.

Please note, Reva will to contacting the participants for a brief telephone interview about 10 days prior to the workshop.

Class Size: 10 max.

Cost:
$475 members (all participants must be BCLA members)
An administration fee of $25 will apply to any cancellations.

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Due to the popularity of this session, participants will be chosen by lottery, with one person per institution attending. Individual members are also encouraged to apply if they are paying for the workshop themselves. If you or your library is interested in attending, please send an email to the BCLA at cont.ed.bcla@gmail.com with one of the following subject lines:
TRAINING DELIVERY SKILLS LOTTERY--INDIVIDUAL
TRAINING DELIVERY SKILLS LOTTERY--LIBRARY

Email applications must be received by 12 noon, Friday August 10. Successful libraries/individuals will be contacted on Monday August 13th and will have until 12 noon, Thursday August 16 to finalize payment.

When sending the email, libraries do not need to supply the name of the participant at that time. The name of the participant (with contact information) will be needed at time of registration.

This workshop will be also offered in Victoria in Feb 08. More information about that session will be announced later in the fall.

Upcoming BCLA Course Sept 15&16 Data Manipulation Using Perl

Introduction to Data Manipulation Using Perl

www.bcla.bc.ca/perl
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When: 09/15/2007 (09:30AM - 05:00PM)
Where: 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver BC

BCLA's Continuing Education Committee presents Introduction to Data
Manipulation Using Perl

Date:
Sat. Sept. 15 & Sun. Sept. 16

Time:
9:30-5:00
Lunch is NOT included, but there will be a one hour break.

Location:
Vancouver Public Library Central Branch

Course Description:
Library staff encounter structured data daily, but the tools for
manipulating that data are often inflexible or tied too closely to a
library's Integrated Library System to suit the task at hand.

Many common scripting languages like Perl offer alternatives to the
desktop and ILS-specific utilities used to create and manipulated
batches of MARC records. XML is also an increasingly common format for
exchanging data between applications. At the same time, many content
vendors can only provide data in spreadsheets or other delimited
formats.

This workshop will teach participants how to use Perl, a common,
cross-platform scripting language, to manipulate data in the formats
mentioned above. The workshop will be hands-on.

Benefits for the participants:
- Learn to recognize where the use of scripting tools is preferable to
using graphical data manipulation utilities (and vice versa)
- Learn to write Perl scripts that are specific to their library's
needs and to the task at hand
- Decide if learning more about scripting languages is a worthwhile investment

Key topics to be covered:
- Introduction to Perl features, syntax and script structure
- Reading and writing MARC records using Perl
- Reading and writing XML using Perl

Who should participate:
Library staff who need to create or modify vendor or local data files
in MARC or XML, or who need to create MARC or XML files from delimited
or other structured formats. Staff from technical services,
collections, and systems will find this course useful.

Students should be comfortable with using a text editor and an
operating system command prompt. It is assumed students will have
little to no prior knowledge of Perl or other scripting languages.

About the presenters:
John Durno is Coordinator, Information Technology Services, University
of Victoria Libraries

Mark Jordan is Head of Library Systems, Simon Fraser University

Cost:
$250 members
$300 non-members

We need a minimum of 4 registrations before August 8 for this event to
go forward, so please register as soon as possible! If registration
reaches capacity, we will be taking a wait list. An administration fee
of $25 will apply to any cancellations.

Contact: office@bcla.bc.ca