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sponsored webinar, “Best Practices for Delivering Workforce Development Services in Public Libraries”, the webinar has been archived here.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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