[Tasl] TLA Pre-Conference Registration Extended

[Susan Rogers]

Register this week for these exciting sessions!
TLA Pre-Conference Programs 
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
College and University Libraries Conference 
Featuring Katie Clark, Universityof Rochester
You’re smart and see how students work, but how much of the full story
do you know? Come hear the results of an ethnographic study of how
students study and discuss implications with one of the study’s authors,
Katie Clark from the University of Rochester. Watch CULS for more
details! 
Promoting Customer Service with Creative Branding and Marketing
Strategies 
James Keller, QueensLibrary Marketing Director
Sponsored by the TLA Public Library Section.
The best way to serve your community is to ensure that they know about
you and all you offer. This workshop will over such important topics as:
Understanding Your Target Audience(s); Identifying Key Stakeholders;
Creating a Strategic Positioning Statement; Developing a Marketing Plan;
Utilizing Available Resources; and Evaluating Your Efforts. 
The Better Every Minute Workshop: Creating Bite-Sized Training Sessions
to Improve and Empower Library Staff 
Ann Clapp and Maria Sochor, BrentwoodLibrary
Join us for a hands-on session in creating a Skill Builder Training
Program for your library. Bring a laptop or share with a friend.
Participants will design and outline a customized training strategy and
create or adapt several training Skill Builders. 
Black Belt Librarians, Making Your Library Safe for Employees and
Customers 
Warren Graham, Warren Davis Graham Training and Consulting 
Practical advice and techniques for developing a security plan for your
library. Graham, who has 25 years’ experience as a security professional
and served for 17 years as the Security and Safety Manager for the
Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, will provide dynamic
and realistic security procedure training that teaches library personnel
a variety of security techniques from dealing with problem patrons to
self defense. To be held at NashvillePublic Library. 
Hands-On Reinforcement Training for TennesseeNACO Funnel Members 
Mark Danley, Universityof MemphisLibraries
This pre-conference will provide hands-on reinforcement training for
catalogers who already have NACO training and whose institutions are
members of the Tennessee NACO Funnel. To be held at
TreveccaNazareneUniversity.
An Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice in a Magnetic World 
Sheila Snow-Croft, National Network of Libraries of
Medicine/Southeastern Atlantic Region   
 
Sponsored by the TennesseeHealth Sciences Libraries Association.
 
This course  provides an introduction to two of the most  important
movements in  nursing – evidence based practice and magnet  recognition.
Evidence based  practice is an established part of health care but many
still do not  know how to easily define or apply it. Magnet Recognition
is one of the hottest topics in nursing today.  


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MaryPomClaiborne
CommunicationsAdministrator
KnoxCountyPublic Library System 
865.215.8767