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The Florida Electronic Library—your gateway to superior electronic resources that offers access to comprehensive, accurate, and reliable information—offers a training program designed to meet the needs of all library staff. With its blended curriculum, you can take advantage of the training that best suits your learning style. Choose from on demand, live webinar or on-site in your library.

New FEL Resources Overview: Small Business Resource Center and DemographicsNow

This course will provide attendees with an overview of the two newest FEL resources – Small Business Resource Center and DemographicsNow. Both resources are useful for small business owners and entrepreneurs; Small Business Resource Center covers all major areas of starting and maintaining a small business, and DemographicsNow can help determine who and where customers are. Attendees will learn the most efficient and effective search strategies and tools of both resources.

This session is ideal for all library staff.

• Always available on demand
• Live webinar Thursday, July 15 at 11:00 a.m.
• Live webinar Thursday, July 15 at 2:00 p.m.
• Live webinar Friday, July 16 at 9:00 a.m.
• Live webinar Monday, August 2 at 9:00 a.m.
• Live webinar Tuesday, August 24 at 10:00 a.m.

Register online at http://www.flelibrary.org/training/.

Other courses available include:

• The World of FEL/Gale Resources: A General Product Overview
• Homework Help: Using FEL Resources
• Patron Outreach: Creating Easy Access and Increasing Usage of FEL Resources
• A Healthy Perspective: Health Research Using FEL Resources
• FEL QuickStart: General and Academic OneFile Searches
• The Power of Web 2.0: Best Practices Using FEL Resources
• Following the Trends: Understanding FEL Reports and Analysis Data
• Making It Personal: Customizing Your FEL Products

questions – contact:
Stephanie F. Race
State Library and Archives of Florida
sfrace – at – dos.state.fl.us

I am excited to announce a new hot topics workshop on July 20th from 1:30pm-3:30pm ET:

The not-so secret tools, tips and tricks of the Ask a Librarian interns. How to provide assistance to statewide customers with grace and ease

One of the most difficult tasks on Ask a Librarian is assisting users from institutions other than your own with “local” questions. Learn from the Ask a Librarian Interns Kira Smith and Renee Patterson, how to answer questions you didn’t think you could with relative ease. The interns will be joined by Traci Avet, the AAL Virtual Reference Coordinator and together they will take you through the resources, tips and tricks on helping users from institutions other than your own.

Register today at: http://www.tblc.org/ws_info.php?ws=1141