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Upcoming Webinars

Webcast: LSCM GitHub Repositories Webcast Series: American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian (AIANNH) Subject-Based Resources

A new webcast, "LSCM GitHub Repositories Webcast Series – American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian (AIANNH) Subject-Based Resources," is now available for viewing.

  • Speaker: Todd Scudiere, Technical Services Librarian, Metadata and Collection Services (MCS), Library Services & Content Management (LSCM), U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO)
  • Learning outcomes: LSCM uses GitHub, the web-based computer source code sharing and publishing service, to offer resources based on the bibliographic records in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) to Federal depository libraries. In this webcast series, MCS staff introduce the goals of our GitHub program and the MARC record sets and other files that are available in our repositories. In this webcast, MCS staff will describe the American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian (AIANNH) Subject-Based Resources Collection. 
  • Duration: 2:42 minutes
  • Webcast Series: This webcast is part of the GitHub Series.
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Webinar: Discovery of Indigenous Publication Records by Using USGS Geology Research Tools

Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EDT)

Register to attend the live training webinar, "Discovery of Indigenous Publication Records by Using USGS Geology Research Tools ."

Speaker: Emily C. Wild, Chemistry, Geosciences and Environmental Studies Librarian, Princeton University

Learning outcomes: This session will provide an overview of USGS geology library tools to help indigenous researchers and to obtain publications by indigenous authors for humanities and natural science librarians, students, faculty and researchers. The learning objectives for this webinar include the following:

  • Deepen an awareness of geographic, geologic, hydrologic names for indigenous communities.
  • Explore geology and hydrology maps.
  • Find historical land-use information in geology publications.
  • Obtain environmental history of indigenous sustainability practices for historical research.
  • Learn the geographic name change proposal process.
  • Deepen an awareness of geographic, geologic, hydrologic names for indigenous communities. Explore geology and hydrology maps. Find historical land-use information in geology publications. Obtain environmental history of indigenous sustainability practices for historical research. Learn the geographic name change proposal process.

Library of Congress

Join Us Thursday, October 10, for an Introduction to Congress.gov Webinar

Join instructors Barbara Bavis and Robert Brammer on Thursday, October 10th at 2:00 p.m. EDT for a Congress.gov Webinar. This orientation is designed to give a basic overview of Congress.gov. While the focus of the session will be searching legislation and the Congressional member information attached to the legislation, the new features of Congress.gov will also be highlighted.

Please register here.

 

Training Resources/ Recorded Webinars

 

Recorded webinars

 

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Tools and Resources Webinar Series

Free webinars typically held the third Wednesday of every month from 3:00-4:00 PM (ET). 

"EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) hosts this monthly public webinar series to translate EPA research and share research resources and information that are useful, practical/applied and available to meet stakeholders' research needs. In addition, the EPA Tools and Resources Training Webinar Series provides in-depth overviews and step-by-step tutorials on popular EPA science-based models and tools."

FDLP Academy Training Repository

Title
We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We’re in the Public Record: Federal Government Documents on the LGBTQ Movement: 2023 Update
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Institutional Repository (IR) Implementing Public Access

 

HELP! Accidental Government Information Librarian

Help I'm and Accidental Government Information Librarian

The Government Documents Round Table welcomes you to a series of webinars designed to help us all do better reference work by increasing our familiarity with government information resources, and by discovering the best strategies for navigating them.  These sessions will be recorded and made available after the live sessions on our The Help! Webinars YouTube Channel.

National Archives

Records Management Training Videos and Webinars

NOAA

National Marine Sanctuaries 

"The National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series provides educators, students, and the interested public with educational and scientific expertise, resources and training to support ocean and climate literacy. This series generally targets formal and informal educators that are engaging students (elementary through college) in formal classroom settings, as well as members of the community in informal educational venues (e.g. after school programs, science centers, aquariums, etc.). However, the series is open to anyone interested in the topics listed below."

United State Census Bureau

USGS

National Map Training
"The National Map (TNM) is the collection of mapping products and services produced by the USGS National Geospatial Program. Understanding the complexity and richness of TNM is now made easier for geospatial data users, scientists, and the public, with this series of video lessons that show how to use TNM services, applications, interfaces, data, and tools. Topics include but are not limited to: using 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) data, the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), TNM viewers and applications, topographic maps, 3DEP collaboration tools, and EarthExplorer."