LTS Seminar Program Includes New Offerings

Library and Technology Services (LTS) has offered computer and library application, instructional, and resource seminars to the Lehigh University community for more than ten years. 

The seminars are developed, written, and presented by LTS staff members who have years of support and training experience with the software.  The seminars are designed to provide attendees the opportunity to learn software functionality, perform hands-on exercises, and to pose questions.

Recognizing that computer applications are constantly changing, LTS is always redesigning seminar offerings to meet new needs and challenges for our clients.  LTS Seminars that have been introduced in the last year, apart from new Course Site and Lehigh Google Apps offerings and recently updated productivity and Mozilla seminars, include:

Come Face-to-Face with Facebook: an introduction to the social networking site.

Google's Greatest Hits: an introduction to the latest capabilities offered by Google and how those enhancements potentially affect the Lehigh community.

Online Apps for Productivity: more than 60 Web 2.0 tools that make productivity easier.

Become a Google Super Searcher: tips for using the Google search engine more effectively.

Excel Macros: use macros to enhance productivity in Excel.

The seminar program has traditionally included seminars in office productivity applications, such as Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word), graphics (Adobe Photoshop), Web browsing and e-mail, and High Performance Computing.  Over time, because the list of software supported by LTS has grown to include course management, web-based, and many other applications, the list of seminars has expanded accordingly. 

The seminar program is designed to meet the needs of those who need to learn an application for a specific task, those who want to learn about software that may improve office workflow, or those who simply have an interest in the latest software technology.

The feedback given by attendees at the end of each seminar, by way of a survey, is an important factor to ensure that seminar offerings continue to be applied and current.  A committee of LTS staff, lead by LTS Client Services Director Tim Foley, meet shortly before every semester to review seminar offerings, to discuss the potential need for seminars to introduce new software, and improve on existing seminars.

Registering for any seminar is easily done from the LTS Computing homepage (http://www.lehigh.edu/computing/), under the “LTS Seminars” heading.

Article posted March, 2011

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