PLA Virtual Symposium – Notes, Thoughts and Links

Pardon my stream of conscience note taking style…

Hands on! Innovative YA with Steve Teeri from Detroit Public Library

Find your Etsy patrons – they can come in and do crafts with your teens
Making the Future Grant
Downton Abbey Paper Dolls by Vulture

Do a gap analysis — does your school still provide Home and Careers classes?  Do they have electives in high school?  Is there another community organization that teaches these skills to teens?
Bring these classes to your library’s makerspace –> sewing, bicycle repair, graphic design, caligraphy, etc…

Arduino breadboarding: circuit making/basic electronics

Handout

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National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grants

The National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grants are open for applications.

Grant Summary: “Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions—such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities—improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials.Continue reading

Digital Learning Center

digitallearn
The www.DigitalLearning.org site will contain self-directed tutorials and a community of practice for people at libraries and community organizations who are working to bridge the digital divide.

The site launch coincides with the launch of the Connect2Compete EveryoneOn initiative, a 3-year national service marketing campaign that is working to ensure all Americans have the access and skills needed to get online and become digital citizens. More information about Connect2Compete can be found at www.connect2compete.org