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Free Online Library Science Course!

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Thanks to Idaho Commission for Libraries (ICfL), a staff with no formal Library Science training can take courses for FREE!

ICfl has designed two Free Library Science Courses: ABLE and SABLE.

Alternative Basic Library Education (ABLE) – A program geared to help those who people who work in libraries but have no formal training in Library Science acquire basic skills in Collection Development, Technical Services and Public Services. Complete with Self-Evaluation Survey, a student can take the course online at his own time and pacing. Another good thing about the program is that you can pick the topic that interests you the most. Find out more through this link: http://libraries.idaho.gov/page/able

Supplemental Alternative Basic Library Education (SABLE) – Similar to ABLE, the program offers courses that will provide additional skills needed to work in libraries. Such courses are: Early Childhood Services, Services to School Aged Children and Young Adult (YA) Services.

Wait there’s more: ICfl is also giving special courses on Cataloging Music Sound Recordings and Intelibrary Loan. Interested? Visit this link: http://libraries.idaho.gov/page/sable


Both ABLE and SABLE provide a Certificate of Completion. You learn, you get a certificate! A plus to your credentials right?

Whether you are a para-professional with LS units or a professional but feel the need to refresh your knowledge on LS, ABLE and SABLE is just a click away. 

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Posted by Janice de Castro Peñaflor

Creating Fillable PDF Forms

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Imagine filling-out a form in Word document where lines move whenever you type. Hassle right!? Now, I'm sharing a trick that will make your life a lot easier (especially if your job requires you to fill-out forms like mailing forms, library forms even filling out Leave forms in Word format).

What you need:
Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional (or the latest). I use Acrobat 8.

Steps: (Just Briefly)
1. Convert your file to PDF. (I know that Miicrosoft 2007 has a built-in feature to convert Word to Pdfs. If you don't have, there are free softwares on the web like : convert.neevia.com/ or www.freepdfconvert.com/. I prefer the former.)
2. Once your document in in PDF click Forms then Create New Form. (this is for Acrobat 8).
3. Create a fillable form through the Wizard or you may do it yourself. You'll surely find your way around how you want your form to look like through trial and error. There's a Preview tab where you can easily test your form, spot errors and areas needed changing.
4. SAVE!

There's also a tutorial HERE.

I guarantee fillable PDF forms will save you time.

Till then...


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Posted by Janice de Castro Peñaflor

Convert PDF to Word!

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Converting Word to PDF is a known possibility to me but PDF to Word? Never thought that was possible. Until recently...

I'm raving about this new FREE software that I found out on the net. Just recently I badly needed to convert a PDF (read-only) to a Word (editable) document. And an idea to "Google it!" came to me. So I did and amazingly, there are a number of softwares that offer quick and easy conversion of PDFs to Word Docs. I have 273-pages file that needed converting. I tried several and was unsatisfied. Giving-up is out of the question so I tried downloading a software that promises to do what I require. Voila! It did. All 273 pages of them. Now... this is the part where I'm going to reveal that software. You can download it form here : www. free- pdf- to- word- converter. com

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