Stephanie Zimmerman

Training Coordinator

Library System of Lancaster County

Contact Information

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Millennium Training Manuals

Feel free to use these manuals that I have produced. All I ask for is acknowledgement. I received a lot of input from other IUGers to help me with these and you can see their names in the acknowledgement sections of my manuals. Why reinvent the wheel when we have this great community of people willing to share?!

You will find manuals at this link titled:

• Millennium Circulation Manual
• Millennium Create Lists Manual
• Millennium Web Management Reports Manual
• Millennium Web Management Reports Quick Reference
• Millennium Holds Manual
• OPAC Manual
• OPAC Quick Reference

IUG Clearinghouse

Find great resources to help you on the Clearinghouse site. And PLEASE, if you have something that would help the masses; CONTRIBUTE!!

Remember, these sites require the iug username and password.

Use a Blog

Don't know what a blog is? Read THIS from Wikipedia.

I think a blog is a great way to communicate with staff without inundating them with loads of email. Nobody wants to have to sort through their email to find important notices about upcoming trainings and other events. I train all of the staff I serve to check my blog regularly to know what's going on. Right now I'm just using a simple free blog from Bloglines. Hopefully, in the future we will have something available at our system for everyone to use with all the bells and whistles of comments and trackbacks, etc. For now, it's serving me well.

Stephanie's LSLC Training Blog

Use an RSS Reader/Aggregator

Don't know what RSS is? Read THIS from Wikipedia.

I work alone in my Library System. My boss is in charge of all Information Technology, so I don't have someone to go to and say "How do I launch such and such training?" This is the first job I've had where I'm sort of on my own. My boss is very supportive, but as he always says "You're the training expert". So, I've developed a Social Network online to help me in what I call my "Professional Development". I read other Tech Librarians' blogs and many other sites that I find very helpful. Rather than go to each site, I pick up their feeds in my aggregator. I love Bloglines which I've already mentioned.

See the Library section of my Blogroll, at the bottom of the page, to find the key people to follow.

Use a Social Bookmarking Service

Don't know what Social Bookmarking is? Read THIS from Wikipedia.

Why have access to your favorite websites from only one computer? With Social Bookmarks, you can access the areas of the Internet important to you from any computer. See this presentation I have done to help others get started with my favorite service: delicious. Feel free to check out my bookmarks. I must admit, I'm not the best tagger in the world and I haven't gotten it very organized yet.

Listen to Podcasts and watch Vodcasts (aka vlogs)

Don't know what a Podcast is? Read THIS from Wikipedia.

Don't know what a Vodcast is? Read THIS from Wikipedia.

We're on a tight budget here at my System. I would LOVE to go to all the great conferences out there, but time and money are not on my side. However, most conferences now post podcasts or vodcasts after the conference. So many that I will NEVER have enough time to listen to them all. You can listen to these right on your computer, or you could use a Podcast/Vodcast Aggregator like ITunes and then download them to your mp3 player. I spend a lot of time in the kitchen each day, so I use that time to listen to these wonderful resources to further my professional growth.

Check out the Podcasts and vlogs sections of my Blogroll at the bottom of the page.

Try a Wiki

Don't know what a Wiki is? Read THIS from Wikipedia. Oh, and by the way, you are currently reading a wiki!

This is actually my first attempt at setting up a wiki. I do not have an extensive web development background. In fact, the most I ever did was use Notepad and straight HTML almost 10 years ago in a class. So, this is very user friendly. It's a great way to collaborate with others online so that all of the work does not fall on one person. The ability for anyone with a password to edit the wiki is phenomenal!

Check out the Wikis section of my Blogroll for some great library-realted wikis out there. An endless supply of resources are available for training.

My Blogroll

My Blogroll from Bloglines