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ALCTS Webinar: Using the Power of Excel to Help with Cutting a Budget

Wednesday, September 10 , 2014

 

Sessions begin at 11 am Pacific | 12 Mountain | 1 pm Central | 2 pm Eastern and last about an hour.

 

In this session, the presenter will show ways to use Excel spreadsheet functions and features to compile, organize, and evaluate data for many purposes, not the least of which is planning with a reduced budget. Content covered will include Excel and other spreadsheets, usage data, and data downloaded from an integrated library system.

 

Learning Outcomes

Attendees will learn ways to use Excel to compile, organize, and evaluate data for collection development planning in a reduced budget environment.

 

Who Should Attend?

Collection development and collection management librarians and support staff for collection management units.

 

Presenter

Karen Harker is Collection Assessment Librarian at the University of North Texas. She has more than twenty years of experience in public, academic, and medical libraries, in which she has worked analyzing systems, evaluating processes, managing research data sets, performing statistical analyses, and using qualitative and quantitative techniques to analyze collection strengths and weaknesses. Karen is a member of ALCTS and the Texas Library Association.

 

Fee

ALCTS Member (individual) . . . $43

Nonmember (individual) . . . $59

International (individual) . . . $43

 

Groups

(Applies to a group of people who will watch the webinar together from one access point.) 

Member group . . . $99

Nonmember group . . . $129

 

All webinars are recorded and the one-time fee includes unlimited access to the webinar recording. All registered attendees will receive the link to the recorded session, so if you are unable to attend the webinar at the time it is presented, you will have the opportunity to listen to the recording at your convenience.

 

How to Register

To register, complete the online registration form or register by mail for the session you would like to attend.

 

Contact

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager, at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or jreese@ala.org.

 

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.