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Digital Learning Center

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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

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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