The
Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) invites interested instructors
and presenters to submit proposals for online professional development courses
and webinars to be offered starting in early 2011.
RUSA
currently offers several online courses in the areas of reference and readers
advisory, and is looking to expand its available course topics, and also
include webinars among its offerings. Topics of particular interest include
skills for assisting patrons with job searches, collection development and
introductory reference and user services skills. There is also significant
interest in offering online learning opportunities that go more in-depth with
business reference skills as a follow-up to the consistently sold out Business
Reference 101 course currently offered by RUSA.
Additional topics
for online learning proposals might include but are not limited to company and
industry research; international business; small businesses; entrepreneurship;
consumer demographics; fundamentals of reference; providing reference in
virtual libraries; providing reference in the one-person library; reference
services in church and synagogue libraries; customer service fundamentals for
reference staff; reference service fundamentals for embedded librarians;
marketing the library and reference services; government documents fundamentals
for reference librarians; legal reference for non-law librarians.
More
information about how to submit proposals is available at the RUSA blog:
http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2010/10/15/2010callforprofdevelproposals-1/
Please
share this information with any colleagues, friends or distribution lists that
might find it of interest.
Thank
you!
Liz F. Markel, M.A.
Marketing Specialist
Association of Specialized
and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA)
Reference and User
Services Association (RUSA)
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