Join Paige Jaeger on Friday from 1-3 in the SALS training lab
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Workforce Development Best Practices for Public Libraries
If you missed the The State Library sponsored webinar, “Best Practices for Delivering Workforce Development Services in Public Libraries”, the webinar has been archived here. This was a wonderfully informative presentation with a ton of resources for libraries. For those of you wondering where to begin with offering workforce development services at your library, Library Development has posted some best practices and a large curriculum on their website. The curriculum includes how-to’s on job searching, resume writing, basic computer use, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, iTunes, Facebook and much more.
Big Talk from Small Libraries Online Conference Redux
On Thursday February 27 I attended the all day online conference sponsored by the Nebraska Library Commission and to co-sponsors IMLS and the Association for Rural & Small Libraries*
Some of the speakers from libraries across the U.S. put our Raquette Lake Free Library, serving 132 people in a league with others. Remember Brant Lake’s one room stone building on the water? We saw pictures of how the Wall Community Library in South Dakota, re-invented their 600 sq of space and made it look big and most importantly functional. They also did this in phases with very little money.
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