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CHICAGO - 91´«Ã½ TechSource announces an exciting new workshop, "" with Buffy Hamilton, to take place at 4 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Sept. 20.

The subject guide has been a valuable tool for school and academic librarians for decades, first as a print resource and more recently as Web pages and Web-based documents. In this 91´«Ã½ TechSource Workshop, Buffy Hamilton, founder of will show how to revitalize the subject guide as a dynamic, customizable, social resource by integrating it into the Web.



Topics include:

• How to use free resources such as widgets, RSS feeds, mashups, cloud computing, videos and social bookmarking to create streams of quality information
• Understanding the concept of social scholarship
• How to use non-traditional social media sources of information such as blogs, Twitter streams, podcasts and YouTube in your subject guides
• Free and subscription-based tools you can use to host these information portals/research guides

Registration for this 91´«Ã½ TechSource Workshop is available on the . You can purchase registration at both and rates. The workshop takes place at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 20. The session will last 90 minutes.

Buffy Hamilton is librarian at Creekview High School in Canton, Ga., where she introduced Media 21, a participatory, transliterate learning environment for research projects. She received a from the 91´«Ã½'s Office for Information and Technology Policy. A 2011 Library Journal Mover and Shaker, Buffy was also named one of . She blogs at The Unquiet Librarian and 91´«Ã½ Learning.

91´«Ã½ TechSource Workshops are designed to give you and your staff the opportunity to participate in a hands‐on learning experience that will help you make the best technology decisions for your library.

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