Resources to accompany the workshops held March 15, 2011:

Ebooks & Digital Audiobooks (morning session, 9:30am - Noon):

• Keetra Baker covered both OverDrive audiobooks & ebooks and NetLibrary ebooks. She demonstrated finding, placing holds, downloading, and transferring digital media onto ebook readers and other mobile devices.
• Continuing education contact hours: 2.5; CE activity report form for morning session
• OverDrive training sessions online:
  • Browse, Check Out, Download
    April 8, 2011
    9:30 am
    Attend via your computer
  • Patron Assistance: Become an OverDrive Download Library Specialist
    April 29, 2011
    9:30 am
    Attend via your computer
• Library Journal Virtual Ebook Summit
  October 12, 2011
  9 am - 5 pm
  Winnefox plans to purchase a site license so staff may gather at Oshkosh Public Library to attend all or part of this one day conference. 
  Plans are to feature hot-button issues, panels and presentations on ebooks best practices for libraries, and up-to-the-minute information on ebooks and the library market.

Ebook Reader & Gadget Petting Zoo (afternoon session, 1-3:30pm):

• The afternoon session provided self-paced hands-on time with an iPad, Nook, Kindle, iPod Touch, Flip video camera, and other gadgets.
• WPLC Gadget Pack:
  • Tip sheets and trainer info for gadgets
  • Reserve a gadget pack for your library: if your library is in Winnefox Library System, contact Joy Schwarz at schwarz@winnefox.org or 920-236-5218.  Otherwise, contact your local library system to reserve it for you.
• QR codes:
  • overview, with links to QR code generators and QR code reader apps for smartphones
  • examples of libraries using QR codes
  • article: QR Codes – Using Mobile Phones To Deliver Library Instruction And Help At The Point Of Need.
• Continuing education contact hours: 2.5; CE activity report form for afternoon session