Training Events

Training Events

Wed, Jan 22, 2025 / 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Recordings from the sessions will be posted; please do not register just for the recording if you will be unable to attend the session.

To Register: Use the "Register" tab at the top of this page.

Planned topics:

  • Overview of Alma Fulfillment
    • How to log into a fulfillment workstation and change locations
    • Review of Alma screen for fulfillment staff
  • Staff searching for item records
    • Review of item records
  • Staff searching for user records
    • Review of user records
    • Creating Internal user record
    • Editing Internal user record
    • Review of External user records
  • Fulfillment functions:
    • Checking an item out
    • Modifying due dates at time of charge
    • How to check in items
    • How to check an item in or out when the barcode is missing or illegible
    • How to set an item status to "missing"
    • Loan renewals

We plan for these sessions to be "hands on" with examples provided to attendees so they can follow along.
If the Alma Sandboxes are too slow for this in real-time (we will find out!), attendees will be asked to watch during the session, and will be provided with a recording of the session to do the examples on their own time (contacting CARLI staff with questions).

Fri, Jan 24, 2025 / 10:00am to 12:00pm

Recordings from the sessions will be posted; please do not register just for the recording if you will be unable to attend the session.

To Register: Use the "Register" tab at the top of this page.

Planned topics:

  • Overview of Alma Fulfillment
    • How to log into a fulfillment workstation and change locations
    • Review of Alma screen for fulfillment staff
  • Staff searching for item records
    • Review of item records
  • Staff searching for user records
    • Review of user records
    • Creating Internal user record
    • Editing Internal user record
    • Review of External user records
  • Fulfillment functions:
    • Checking an item out
    • Modifying due dates at time of charge
    • How to check in items
    • How to check an item in or out when the barcode is missing or illegible
    • How to set an item status to "missing"
    • Loan renewals

We plan for these sessions to be "hands on" with examples provided to attendees so they can follow along.
If the Alma Sandboxes are too slow for this in real-time (we will find out!), attendees will be asked to watch during the session, and will be provided with a recording of the session to do the examples on their own time (contacting CARLI staff with questions).

Wed, Jan 29, 2025 / 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Recordings from the sessions will be posted; please do not register just for the recording if you will be unable to attend the session.

To Register: Use the "Register" tab at the top of this page.

Planned topics:

  • How to manage:
    • fines and fees
    • lost processes
    • patron blocks
    • patron notes
    • fulfillment notes

We plan for these sessions to be "hands on" with examples provided to attendees so they can follow along.
If the Alma Sandboxes are too slow for this in real-time (we will find out!), attendees will be asked to watch during the session, and will be provided with a recording of the session to do the examples on their own time (contacting CARLI staff with questions).

Fri, Jan 31, 2025 / 10:00am to 12:00pm

Recordings from the sessions will be posted; please do not register just for the recording if you will be unable to attend the session.

To Register: Use the "Register" tab at the top of this page.

Planned topics:

  • How to manage:
    • fines and fees
    • lost processes
    • patron blocks
    • patron notes
    • fulfillment notes

We plan for these sessions to be "hands on" with examples provided to attendees so they can follow along.
If the Alma Sandboxes are too slow for this in real-time (we will find out!), attendees will be asked to watch during the session, and will be provided with a recording of the session to do the examples on their own time (contacting CARLI staff with questions).

Wed, Feb 5, 2025 / 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Recordings from the sessions will be posted; please do not register just for the recording if you will be unable to attend the session.

To Register: Use the "Register" tab at the top of this page.

This session will have pre-requisite video to watch that explains some of the background in I-Share policies and workflows.

Planned topics:

  • Logging in and Retrieving Requests
  • Processing Requests that Can Be Filled
    • Processing Requests that Need Additional Attention
  • Processing Requests that Cannot be Filled
  • Preparing Filled Request for Sending
  • Route Items in for the Hold Shelf
  • Charging Materials from the Hold Shelf to the Patron
  • Return Items to Item's Home Library
  • Route Items in to "Return Home"
  • Review of documentation on these topics:
    • Determining the current status of your patron's request
    • Staff Workflow for Placing Requests on Behalf of a Patron
    • Best Practices: Alma Hold Shelf Maintenance
    • Best Practices: Handling Local/AFN Requests When Library is Closed

We plan for these sessions to be "hands on" with examples provided to attendees so they can follow along.
If the Alma Sandboxes are too slow for this in real-time (we will find out!), attendees will be asked to watch during the session, and will be provided with a recording of the session to do the examples on their own time (contacting CARLI staff with questions).

Fri, Feb 7, 2025 / 10:00am to 12:00pm

Recordings from the sessions will be posted; please do not register just for the recording if you will be unable to attend the session.

To Register: Use the "Register" tab at the top of this page.

This session will have pre-requisite video to watch that explains some of the background in I-Share policies and workflows.

Planned topics:

  • Logging in and Retrieving Requests
  • Processing Requests that Can Be Filled
    • Processing Requests that Need Additional Attention
  • Processing Requests that Cannot be Filled
  • Preparing Filled Request for Sending
  • Route Items in for the Hold Shelf
  • Charging Materials from the Hold Shelf to the Patron
  • Return Items to Item's Home Library
  • Route Items in to "Return Home"
  • Review of documentation on these topics:
    • Determining the current status of your patron's request
    • Staff Workflow for Placing Requests on Behalf of a Patron
    • Best Practices: Alma Hold Shelf Maintenance
    • Best Practices: Handling Local/AFN Requests When Library is Closed

We plan for these sessions to be "hands on" with examples provided to attendees so they can follow along.
If the Alma Sandboxes are too slow for this in real-time (we will find out!), attendees will be asked to watch during the session, and will be provided with a recording of the session to do the examples on their own time (contacting CARLI staff with questions).

Thu, Feb 20, 2025 / 11:30am to 1:00pm

In this first webinar of a two-part OER for Faculty Series, the CARLI OER Committee invites institutions to share with their teaching faculty this opportunity to attend a webinar to learn about open educational resources including open textbooks.

This workshop will identify:

  • what are open educational resources (OER);
  • benefits and motivations for using OER;
  • how to find and evaluate OER;
  • how to integrate OER into your class.

After attending, CARLI-member teaching faculty will be invited to write a short review of an open textbook in the Open Textbook Library.

Presenters:
Lauren Kosrow, College of DuPage
Evangeline Reid, Aurora University
Elizabeth Clarage, Michele Leigh, and Nicole Swanson, CARLI

Register to attend.

Learn more about session two in the OER for Faculty Series, "Open Pedagogy Workshop."

Sponsored by the CARLI OER Committee

Thu, Feb 27, 2025 / 11:30am to 1:00pm

In this second webinar of the two-part OER for Faculty Series, the CARLI OER Committee invites teaching faculty to an online workshop on open pedagogy.

When you use open pedagogy in your classroom, you are inviting students to be part of the teaching process, participating in the co-creation of knowledge. In this workshop, you will learn the definition and context of Open Pedagogy, view innovative examples being applied in a variety of subjects and formats, and work with other attendees to create an assignment that you can use in your own class. 

Presenters:
Kelly Hallisy, DePaul University
Chris Sweet, Illinois Wesleyan University
Elizabeth Clarage, Michele Leigh, and Nicole Swanson, CARLI

Register to attend.

Sponsored by the CARLI OER Committee

Wed, May 21, 2025 / 10:00am to 1:30pm

Weds. May 21, 2025

More details to come.