{"id":6575,"date":"2018-04-14T23:47:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T23:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=6575"},"modified":"2018-04-14T23:47:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T23:47:57","slug":"call-for-proposals-rusa-webinars-and-online-courses-deadline-april-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/call-for-proposals-rusa-webinars-and-online-courses-deadline-april-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Proposals: RUSA Webinars and Online Courses (Deadline April 30)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">(via Elizabeth Kocevar-Weidinger, Virginia Military Institute)<\/p>\n<div id=\"x_divtagdefaultwrapper\">\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rusaupdate.org\/2018\/03\/teach-for-rusa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TEACH FOR RUSA<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\">RUSA invites experienced librarians and subject matter experts to submit proposals for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScWqzBhBvj-Q0DdF6EX9Uc9sOb7KEdLMsXdTAhejlnFZr5kBw\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webinars<\/a>\u00a0and online\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdblVK0qxmvlh5xhw62w-X6cbk_D9T5VTM4HjphjLp2UooP0A\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">courses<\/a>\u00a0to be added to RUSA&#8217;s online learning offerings. We particularly encourage submissions that address innovative services and trends, emerging technologies, management and leadership or, staff-training in following topic areas for all libraries: public, school, special and academic:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\" type=\"1\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Reference services<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">User instruction<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Assessment of services<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Collection development<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Resource discovery and usability<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Resource sharing\/ILL<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Hot or trending topics<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\"><b>Proposals will be accepted through April, 2018.\u00a0<\/b>Webinars and online courses approved for presentation will be offered between May 1, 2018 and August 31, 2019. Webinar presenters and online learning instructors are compensated for their work and will receive training and support for Adobe Connect, the webinar technology platform used by the division, and Moodle, the online tool used for courses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\">Please note, there are separate forms for course and webinar proposals:<br \/>\n<u><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdblVK0qxmvlh5xhw62w-X6cbk_D9T5VTM4HjphjLp2UooP0A\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Online\u00a0<b>course<\/b><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdblVK0qxmvlh5xhw62w-X6cbk_D9T5VTM4HjphjLp2UooP0A\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">submission form<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScWqzBhBvj-Q0DdF6EX9Uc9sOb7KEdLMsXdTAhejlnFZr5kBw\/viewform Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScWqzBhBvj-Q0DdF6EX9Uc9sOb7KEdLMsXdTAhejlnFZr5kBw\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Online\u00a0<b>webinar\u00a0<\/b>submission form<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\">The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) is a division of the American Library Association.\u00a0 RUSA serves all types of libraries in reference, user services, adult readers advisory and collection development as well as resource sharing, genealogy and archives, business reference and reference technology. RUSA has six specialty sections that are free to RUSA members:\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/rusa\/sections\/brass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BRASS<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>(Business Reference and Services Section),\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/rusa\/sections\/codes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CODES<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>(Collection Development and Evaluation Section)\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/rusa\/sections\/history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HS<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>(History Section),\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/rusa\/sections\/ets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ETS<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>(Emerging Technologies Section),\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/rusa\/sections\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RSS<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>(Reference Services Section) and\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/rusa\/sections\/stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">STARS<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>(Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section).<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Questions about submissions or about RUSA&#8217;s online learning programs should be sent to Jessica Hughes, RUSA Executive Director, at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jhughes@ala.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jhughes@ala.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Elizabeth Kocevar-Weidinger, Virginia Military Institute) TEACH FOR RUSA RUSA invites experienced librarians and subject matter experts to submit proposals for\u00a0webinars\u00a0and online\u00a0courses\u00a0to be added to RUSA&#8217;s online learning offerings. We particularly encourage submissions that address innovative services and trends, emerging technologies, management and leadership or, staff-training in following topic areas for all libraries: public, school,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-and-requests","category-webinars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}