CE HEAD'S-UP: Free Databases and Marketing!

Two classes have just been added to the State Library CE Catalog. You’ve probably seen them on your calendar and now you can register for them!

FREE DATABASES FOR LIBRARIES
CE Credit: 1

As reference books become more and more obsolete because of the wealth of information available electronically, how do we steer our patrons to the best sources of information on the web on a budget? Join us and explore free (and a few low cost) online databases, learn how to market them, and play a little seek and find game with them!

SLS Wimba Room
Tuesday, April 29th
10 am to 11 am

SLS Wimba Room
Wednesday, April 30th
2 pm to 3 pm

GET IT OFF THE SHELF! MARKETING YOUR LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
CE Credits: 2

Books don’t just fly off the shelves on their own, they need to be marketed! Connect your patrons to all of the parts of your collection, and introduce them to items they’ll probably never find on their own. Additionally, effective marketing creates a professional, vibrant and exciting physical space drawing in patrons and keeps them coming back for more! Learn some basics of collection marketing and explore the lessons bookstores and other merchants can teach us.

SLS Wimba Room
Friday, June 13th
10 am to 12 pm

SLS Wimba Room
Friday, June 20th
1 pm to 3 pm

As always, the State Library CE catalog is available at: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/cecat/index.cgi