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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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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