Intended audience: Liaisons and others interested in e-resources licensing
Learning outcome: Participants will learn what is covered in license contracts for purchased e-resources, how the libraries negotiates them, what to ask vendor reps, and how to get from selection to access more quickly. Licensing can be a source of delay in e-resource purchases, but negotiating license terms is necessary to get what we're paying for (including: accessibility accommodations, patron privacy, lending rights with other institutions, appropriate reuse in research publications, computational access).
Date/time: July 2024
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Data Management Services: A Deeper Dive
Trainers: Christine Malinowski and Amy Nurnberger
Intended audience: Liaisons and others interested in advanced data management services
Learning outcome: Participants is this session will be able to explain what data and data management are and what the Data Management Services team knows and does, identify a data management question from the community and know how (and to whom) to refer it, describe current data management activities happening within the Libraries, the Institute, the country, and globally, and how they may impact our researchers and services.
Date/time: May 2024
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
MIT Theses: Behind the Scenes
Trainers: Jenn Morris and Jessika Myers
Intended audience: Liaisons, Ask Us staff, chat staff, and others interested in thesis reference.
Learning outcome: Participants in this session will learn about the production work done on theses to prepare them for posting online, and how to search them.
Date/time: October 2021
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Advanced Google Scholar
Trainer: Jen Greenleaf
Intended audience: Liaisons and others interested in advanced topics about Google Scholar.
Learning outcome: Participants in this session will explore advanced techniques when using Google Scholar.
Date/time: November 2022
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Copyright & Open Access Update
Trainers: Katharine Dunn and Katie Zimmerman
Intended audience: Liaisons and others interested in copyright and open access.
Learning outcome: Participants in this session will learn about recent important developments in copyright and open access.
Date/time: Tuesday, January 2023
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Citation Management and Writing Tools: A Deeper Dive
Trainers: Jennie Murack
Intended audience: Liaisons and others interested in advanced topics in CMWT.
Learning outcome: Participants in this session will know how to use citation management and writing tools to help their community members.
Date/time: February 2023
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Advanced Geographic Information Systems
Trainer(s): Jennie Murack
Intended audience: Liaisons and others interested in advanced GIS.
Learning outcome: Participants in this session will go through the process of doing a GIS project: Find & download data, add the data to GIS software, and create a map.
Participants must register at least one day prior to the session to download materials.
Date/time: May 2023
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Open Access Agreements with Publishers: Who, What, When, How, Why!
Trainer(s): Katharine Dunn
Intended audience: Liaisons and staff interested in learning about MIT Libraries’ new agreements with publishers.
Learning outcome: We’ve now signed more than a half dozen contracts that give authors free OA publishing. We’ll talk about who can take advantage of OA publishing, how the agreements work, why we in the Libraries are opting for this kind of "gold" open access, and how best to get the word out to researchers.
Date/time: May 2023
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Overview of Library Spaces
Trainers: IDLA ASMs
Intended audience: LIRS/DSS staff
Learning outcome: Participants in this session will be made aware of unique collections, study rooms, and equipment at each library.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Teaching and Discovery with Distinctive Collections
Trainers: DDC
Intended audience: Liaisons
Learning outcome: Participants in this session will learn about distinct collections and how they are used.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Rights Issues in our Repositories
Trainers: MDCS in collaboration with SCCS, DDC, and the Rights Working Group
Intended audience: Liaisons and Ask Us staff
Learning outcome: Participants in this session will learn an overview of digitization projects and their addition to our repositories.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Discovery of Uncataloged Collections
Trainers: LIRS and LSA
Intended audience: Liaisons
Learning outcome: Participants in this session will learn how to search for uncataloged collections.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Conceptualizing and Supporting Digital and Computational Projects for Patrons
Trainers: DDC
Intended audience: Liaisons
Learning outcomes: Participants in this session will be made aware of the digital and computational projects that DDC supports, and questions to ask their community members about these projects.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Faculty/DLC Donations of Materials
Trainers: DDC
Intended audience: Liaisons
Learning outcome: Participants in this session will learn about the materials DDC accepts for donation, questions to ask faculty, and how to refer to DDC.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Discovering and Understanding Archival Metadata
Trainers: Chris Tanguay and Rachel Van Unen
Intended audience: Liaisons, IDLA staff, and others interested in archival metadata.
Learning outcome: Participants in this session will get an introduction to archival metadata and learn how to find and use the archival metadata at MIT.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
