Maximize your Atla Annual Experience with Pre-Conference Workshops

Make the most of your conference experience at Atla Annual 2019 with pre-conference workshops on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. There will be morning sessions starting at 8 am and afternoon sessions starting at 1 pm. This is the perfect opportunity to mingle with peers and learn from the foremost names in theological librarianship, scholarly communication, and more.

Haven’t registered for the conference? Register by May 10 to secure the best ticket price. If you have already registered for the conference simply log into the My Atla Web Portal, select My Events and then Edit. You will be able to add any additional sessions and pay for the remaining balance in the portal.

Morning Sessions – 8:00 am

1,000 Women in Religion – A Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Presenter: Colleen Hartung

The 1,000 Women in Religion Project, a major initiative of the AAR/SBL Women’s Caucus, is working to raise up the under-recognized work of women in the world’s religious and wisdom traditions by adding 1,000 women in religion onto Wikipedia. workshop participants will sign up as wiki-editors, learn the basics of editing, create their personal talk pages, do hands-on editing and start their first article by outlining the all-important lead paragraph. This is not a workshop for the technologically elite. We will walk you through the process one easy step at a time.

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Python for Research and Automation

Presenters: Shawn Goodwin & Michael Hemenway

Information professionals are increasingly dealing with electronic data, and as this data demand increases exponentially, librarians need to develop more efficient tools and capacities. With this in mind, our workshop will introduce the programming language of Python as one of the important emerging tools for aiding librarians in their work and research. Python can help librarians process, link, and visualize data more efficiently and effectively.

This workshop will be very hands-on, requiring participants to bring a device with a keyboard that supports a web browser.

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The Unintentional Library Publisher: Considerations and Strategies When You Create, Disseminate, and Curate Digital Content

Presenters: Miranda Bennett, Matthew Collins, Leslie Engelson, Christine Fruin

Participants will learn about various approaches to library publishing, craft mission statements and goals for their own programs, and consider policy issues such as preservation and copyright. The second half of the program will delve more specifically into publishing modalities relevant to digital humanities projects.

This workshop will be led by members of the Atla Press Coordinating Council and Atla’s Scholarly Communication and Digital Projects Manager.

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Afternoon Sessions – 1:00 pm

Building Collaboration with Faculty and Instructional Designers

Presenters: Beth Kumar, Dr. Kyle Sciefelbein-Guerrero

Our session will focus on approaches that a small team (one librarian and one instructional designer/faculty member) has developed to collaborate across their departments to build a suite of services and collections to serve their patrons. The workshop will allow time to develop a plan of action to bring away three concrete items with which to collaborate with the faculty or instructional designers at your school.

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Digital Project Management for Theological Collections

Presenters: Liz Bishoff, Tom Clareson, and Christine Fruin

This half-day workshop will include presentations on selection for digitization, metadata best practices, the scanning/digitization process, legal and rights issues, and services available through the Atla Digital Library to help you make your digital materials accessible.

Learn More – $30 per person

Register for Atla Annual 2019 today!