CLC/OCLC course descriptions
For additional information regarding the CLC/OCLC Direct Training Program, or to register for an upcoming class, please refer back to the CLC Web site.
Searching for Catalogers
This three-hour workshop introduces technical service users and catalogers to searching WorldCat. Students will learn numeric, keyword and scan title searching strategies, and how to navigate search results. Participants will also learn how to select the most effective search and how to use qualifiers to narrow search results. Examples and exercises will be based on the OCLC Connexion Client interface.
Perfect for
Staff members who have some experience using OCLC Connexion Client, or those who wish to improve their searching skills in the cataloging module.
Introduction to OCLC Connexion Client
This three-hour, hands-on workshop will introduce users to the OCLC Connexion Client interface. Students will work through the basic cataloging workflow. The course will also show students how to customize Connexion Client, including saving authorizations and passwords, creating and applying constant data records, controlling headings, creating bibliographic records, exporting, and using the online save file.
Perfect for
Staff members who currently copy catalog as well as those library staff who have a cataloging background and are new to OCLC Connexion Client.
WorldCat Collection Analysis Webinar
This two-hour webinar introduces the user to WorldCat Collection Analysis, which allows you to evaluate your library's collection in order to reveal its strengths, gaps, and overlaps in comparison to the holdings of peer libraries and institutions contributing to the WorldCat database. Participants will learn how to use WorldCat Collection Analysis for peer and group comparisons, comparison to the WorldCat database, comparison to their interlibrary loan statistics, and comparisons to lists and predefined groups.
Perfect for
New users as well as those institutions interested in learning more about the WorldCat Collection Analysis service.
MARC Basics Webinar
This two-hour webinar provides an overview of the coding of Machine Readable Catalog records. You will learn how to employ bibliographic standards and the OCLC-MARC format for the creation of original and editing of existing bibliographic records in WorldCat.
Perfect for
New users to cataloging, those libraries that are considering implementing MARC format for your local database or library staff wishing to be able to read their local catalog.
Web Design Usability
This course introduces libraries to a practical, easy, budget friendly technique for improving Web site usability. Workshop participants will learn the principles of user-centered design and how they can be effectively applied to building usable Web sites and intranets. By utilizing usability testing as an evaluation tool, you can recruit participants anytime the library adds new databases, electronic and digital resources and/or specialized resources.
Perfect for
Anyone who is interested in learning how people are using your library’s Web interface to access the catalog, databases, electronic/digital resources, hours of operation, and reference services.
Cross Cultural Communications Skills
The ability to work effectively across cultures—gender, age, ability, nationality, religious/spiritual affiliation, geographic location, socioeconomic class, ideology, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity—is a necessity for anyone in a position of leadership or influence. As with any discipline, there are core principles that are the foundation upon which to build a solid and more broad-based skills set. This two-day course describes effective cross-cultural communication skills—and skills that enhance workplace communication effectiveness generally—and provides opportunities for participants to practice some new techniques.
Perfect for
People with human resources responsibilities, managers and supervisors, team leaders and group facilitators and project coordinators. It will help you develop and strengthen effective workplace communication skills.
Advanced Google
With the possible exception of Yahoo!, no Internet search tool has become as much a household word as Google. This three-hour workshop introduces the student to Google Scholar, Google Books, Google Customized Search Engines, and other Google tools, beyond the basic Google search engine itself.
Perfect for
Web users who want to use Google to its fullest capacity and learn about resources that provide unique information at no cost and use these tools to meet patron information needs.
Wikis For Libraries
This three-hour workshop will look at wikis from several perspectives—as reference tools, with both strengths and weaknesses, and as collaborative working tools used by libraries and other organizations in internal operations.
Perfect for
Participants who want to learn how wikis are developed, constructed and edited and which wikis are of greatest value to researchers and librarians.
