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Sarah’s LTR is Here!

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A must for every training librarian, staff development librarian, or adminstrator who wants to get the training and competency ball rolling!

http://www.techsource.ala.org/ltr/technology-competencies-and-training-for-libraries.html

Allen County PL is incredible!

Checkout the phone training video! What a long way we’ve come from the days of pulling everyone into a library training room for step-by-step instructions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EramdKlwzS4

Tamara writes, referencing a slide in our Technology Training PPT from ILI2006: Can you explain the concept of a “Gadget Garage”? I’m not sure what that is!

On a tour of Princeton Public Library when our Roadshow was on the East Coast this summer, Janie Hermann showed us a cabinet in their technology training room filled [...]

http://librarytrax.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/tecktrack-classes-for-sc-public-library-staff/

Nice work South Carolina Library Folk! I see the p[otential for experience, play and exploration in these course listings!

Via NEKLS:

Brenda has eight tips for would-be technology trainers:
1. Stop trying to provide step-by-step directions
2. Encourage independence.
3. Expect success.
4. Encourage exploration.
5. Provide context.
6. Treat training as a collaborative project.
7. Use storytelling.
8. Be real-world.

http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2006/04/library-staff-and-technology-buy-in.html

My earlier posts point out the observation that companies that have successfully adopted disruptive technologies did so only when they created a separate organization to deal with the technology. The idea of a group within the library being organized and responsible for investigating emerging and disruptive technology issues fits into the pattern of companies that [...]

Great post at Librarians with Class that links to this article.

Reading this article is a bit hard for someone who has devoted a great deal of time and energy to the preparation of training materials and the delivery of training classes. I don’t think that I’m ready to just give up on training. I think [...]