FYI the early-bird registration deadline for MLA's Emerging Technologies Webcast has been extended to today, Friday, October 20. Register now for "Moving at the Speed of Byte: Emerging Technologies for Information Management," November 8, 2006, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m., central time. The early bird fee for members is $75. If you wait any longer you will need to pay $125!
Don't miss out!

Web-Based Courses:
Sixteen MLA CE Institute Web-based courses are being readied for e-learning opportunities for members. Visit MLANET to preview the listof offerings, instructors' names, and course descriptions. All of the courses look interesting. There are your consumer health classes (including No Comprende: Spanish Health Information Resources for English Speaking Librarians), nursing resources classes, and evidence based library classes, but there are also some classes that are little different from typical library classes (Surveys Made Easy and Thinking Like an MBA: Time, Money, Resources, and Management in the Library) which also sound great.

Only two courses are ready for member participation according to MLANET. However, it is not real obvious which two are ready and how one would go about registering for them. In fact only one course has date, CE hours, cost, and minimum attendence information. I am sure that information will be comming soon.