We offer more than 35 half-day, full-day, evening, and weekend institutes and workshops each semester at our Boston and Mount Holyoke campuses, online, and elsewhere throughout New England. Our workshops are scheduled on weekends or online for the convenience of practicing librarians and other professionals.
Digital Image Curation: Creating a New Field of Practice
GSLIS CE is pleased to offer a special three-day workshop on digital image curation. The workshop will take place March 11 - 13, 2010, and will be taught by Simmons GSLIS Visiting Professor Ross Harvey and Simmons GSLIS Adjunct Faculty Member Martha Mahard. If you are interested in attending, please click here to enter your name and email address; you will receive more information about the workshop as it becomes available.
Upcoming Workshops - Fall/Winter 2009
Online workshops
- Taxonomies and
Controlled Vocabularies
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
September 1-30, 2009 PDPs: 15SESSION FULL
Register for the March session! - Make Your
Point! Using Google Maps at your Library
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
October 1-31, 2009 PDPs: 15 - Creating Web
Site Indexes
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
October 1-31, 2009 PDPs: 15 
Strategic Information Arrangement:
Theory and Techniques
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
October 1-31, 2009 PDPs: 15- Information
Entrepreneurship
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
October 1 - 31, 2009 PDPs: 15 - Talking Walls, QR Codes, Hidden
Clues . . . Mobile Delivery, Mobile Services, and Your Library
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
October 1 - 31, 2009 PDPs: 15 - Isn't Otaku a
Kind of Sushi? Graphic Novels, Manga and Anime
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni Price $200)
October 1 - 30, 2009 PDPs: 15 - Instructional
Design: Creating Effective Materials for Online Learning
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
October 5 - November 8, 2009 PDPs: 15 - Keeping Up With New
Technologies, While Keeping Your Sanity
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
November 1 - 30, 2009 PDPs: 15 - Taxonomies and
Controlled Vocabularies
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
November 1 - December 5, 2009 PDPs: 15SESSION FULL
Register for the March session! - The Career-Savvy Information
Professional
Special pricing! Only $85 for all registrants!
November 1-30, 2009 PDPs: 15SESSION FULL
Register for the March session! - Technology
Programming for Teens
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
November 1-30, 2009 PDPs: 15 - Digital
Copyright
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
November 1-30, 2009 PDPs: 15 - ILL and Resource
Sharing: Best Practices, Practical Innovations, and New Directions
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
January 1-31, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Taxonomies and Controlled
Vocabularies
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
January 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15SESSION FULL
Register for the March session! - Business Research 101: Sources and
Strategies
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
January 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Marketing Your Academic
Library
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
January 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Managing the
One-Person Library
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
January 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Using Social Bookmarking
Services for Subject Guides, Course Reading Lists, and Reader Alerts
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
January 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Getting Beyond "It's Good
. . .": Evaluating and Reviewing Books for Youth
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
February 1 - 28, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Human Resources
Management
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
February 1 - 28, 2010 PDPs: 15 - The Open
Movement and Libraries
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
February 1 - 28, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Teen Films: Media, Viewing,
and Fandom
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
February 1 - 28, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Writing for
Publication
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
February 1 - 28, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Private Company
Research: More Sources Than You Think
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
March 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Secret Formula
for Successful Searching: Search Engines,
Social Media, Government Sources and More
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
March 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Wikis in Libraries:
Building Interactive Collections and Knowledge Repositories
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni Price $200)
March 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Winning Library
Grants
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni Price $200)
March 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Introduction
to Virtual Worlds
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni Price $200)
March 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Pop Culture in
Libraries
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni Price $200)
March 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Taxonomies and Controlled
Vocabularies
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
March 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15
Limited to 12 students. - The Career-Savvy Information
Professional
Special pricing! Only $85 for all registrants!
March 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15 - Discovering Game: Game Design
for Librarians
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
March 1 - 31, 2010 PDPs: 15
Boston Campus Workshops
- Kindle, iPhones, Twitter
and Libraries
$160 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $125)
October 3, 2009 - 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - PDPs: 3.5 - Indexing
Applications in Print and Digital Media
$220 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $175)
October 17, 2009 - 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - PDPs: 7 - Creating a Mashup Using
RSS Feeds
$160 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $125)
October 17, 2009 - 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - PDPs: 3.5 - Using Visual Display Tools
on Your Website
$160 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $125)
October 17, 2009 - 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - PDPs: 3.5 - Taxonomies and
Controlled Vocabularies
$220 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $175)
October 24, 2009 - 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - PDPs: 7 - Video Tutorials - When,
Why and How to Use Them
$220 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $175)
TBD - PDPs: 7 Project Management 101CANCELED
$220 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $175)
November 14, 2009 - 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - PDPs: 7- Dreamweaver 1
for Information Professionals
$160 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $125)
November 14, 2009 - 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - PDPs: 3.5 - Dreamweaver 2
for Information Professionals
$160 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $125)
November 14, 2009 - 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - PDPs: 3.5 - Photoshop for
Information Professionals
$160 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $125)
December 5, 2009 - 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - PDPs: 3.5 - How Much Space
Do You Really Need and How Much Will It Cost?
$220 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $175)
March 20, 2010 - 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - PDPs: 7 - Managing Social Media to
Lead Digital Natives
$160 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $125)
March 20, 2010 - 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - PDPs: 3.5 - Practical
Tagging and Keyword Invention
$160 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $125)
March 20, 2010 - 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - PDPs: 3.5
Blended Workshops
- Podcast Boot
Camp
$275 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $220)
Please see workshop description for details
Mt. Holyoke Campus Workshops
- Digitization Strategies,
Technologies and Practices
$220 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $175)
March 13, 2010 - 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - PDPs: 7
Current GSLIS Student Discount
Current Simmons GSLIS students, Simmons College full-time faculty and staff, and Mount Holyoke College full-time faculty and staff are encouraged to enroll and receive the benefit of a 50% discount in workshop prices.
Simmons GSLIS Alumni Discount
Simmons GSLIS Alumni attending CE workshops receive a discounted price. You must be an alumni of Simmons GSLIS to receive this discount.
