New Courses: Document Detective Work and Exploring Access and Privacy
Legal Issues
*Professional Development Institute
at the School of Information Studies
at UW-Milwaukee *
Document Detective Work
September 17 - October 26
http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/CE/
Do you need to identify, interpret, or catalog historical
documents and photographs for your job or research? Document
Detective Work is an entry-level course designed to provide
methods to gleaning information from unidentified documents and
photographs such as approximate date of creation, addressee,
subject, or context.
We will practice looking at variety of elements to help us form a
clearer picture of the document or photograph:
. visual clues in photographs
. the age of substrates/document forms
. genealogy
. document "forensics"
. reference tools
*Instructor: Dr. Kimberly Anderson
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Exploring Access and Privacy Legal Issues for Archivists,
Librarians, and Information Professionals
September 24 - November 2
http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/CE/
Instructor Menzi Behrnd-Klodt will provide an in-depth course to
access and privacy legal issues encountered by today's archivists,
librarians, and curators. Taught by an archivist and attorney with
extensive experience in both fields, the course will examine some
of the most perplexing and vexing issues for archivists today --
how to balance provide open access with preserving personal
privacy, including the privacy of unknowing third parties
represented in archival collections. Through a variety of
readings, participants will be explore these challenging issues,
share their own experiences and then address some of these issues
through case studies. This course will provide useful information
to new and experienced professionals in public and private
archives, libraries, special collections, and museums.
*Instructor: Menzi Behrnd-Klodt
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Designing Marketing Materials Using Adobe's Creative Suite
November 12 - December 14
http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/CE/
Learn the tools and techniques used to help you develop materials
that effectively promote and inform your library community or
organization. This 5-week,hands-on workshop will introduce you to
industry standard software (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Acrobat) used to create high impact and professional
promotional materials -- newsletters, program announcements,
reading programs, advocacy materials, literacy campaigns, etc.
Students will have access to the School of Information Studies
Online Computer Lab -- /no software purchase is required/.
*Instructor: Rebecca Hall*
Resource Description and Access: An Introduction to RDA, FRBR and
Linked Data
September 17 - November 9
http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/CE/
*Only a few spots left!*
This eight-week online workshop will first introduce participants
to the FRBR and FRAD conceptual models that underlie RDA. (FRBR
and FRAD = Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and
for Authority Data.) It will go on to introduce participants to
the structure of RDA, the use of the online RDA Toolkit, how to
catalog using RDA, and how to create RDA MARC records. It will
also show how RDA may be applied in enhanced database structures
and in the Linked Data environment. The workshop is intended for
people with a working knowledge of AACR2 and MARC but not
necessarily of FRBR or RDA.
*Instructor: Steven Miller*
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We've partnered with Ed2Go to offer online courses including
beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses covering all
the Microsoft & Adobe products, we design, and CSS. Explore
all these options at: http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/CE/
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