Camp Read-A-Lot 2020 – Virtual
Virtual Camp! Register for Virtual Camp Read-A-Lot! Visit the Camp Read-A-Lot Site! Like so many other meetings, the Covid-19 Pandemic will greatly influence the final look of Camp this year. Reading Lists [...]
Public Library Association – Nashville, TN by Vicki Bartz / Ortonville/Graceville Library
Thank you so much for the grant to attend PLA in Nashville. I had a wonderful time. I met many new librarians, authors, and vendors. I attended a session called "Serving Patrons With Mental Illness and Promoting Wellness". This session fit in well with my library. We have 3 different "houses" of patrons who are [...]
Teen Summit on Social Emotional Skills
Presented by the University of Minnesota Extension "Social emotional skills are powerful and complicated. There are no cookie cutter methods that work with every young person, but youth workers can influence how social emotional skills are caught and taught within their program. This training builds an understanding of how to support social emotional learning (SEL). [...]
Counting Every Minnesotan
State Library Services has partnered with the Minnesota State Demographic Center to provide support to library staff in helping patrons complete their 2020 Census forms. Because the 2020 Census will be available online, people who lack internet connectivity, a device, and/or digital literacy skills may visit your library for any of these three essentials. Join [...]
Lake Superior Libraries Mid-Winter Unsymposium
Registration Is Now Open Registration is now open for the 8th Annual Lake Superior Libraries Mid-Winter Unsymposium at the Superior Public Library! Join us on January 10th, 2020, for an afternoon of networking, discussion, and collaborative problem-solving! Sometimes you need a break from the average conference: you need an UNCONFERENCE! At the LSLS Unsymposium, you [...]
St. Cloud State University Fall Semester by Courtney Walsh / KMS Public Schools (Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg)
I took the course IM (Information Media) 696 from St. Cloud State University, Portfolio, fall semester. This was an online course in which my final master's portfolio chapters 1-3 were planned, researched, and written. I used refereed articles to research, met with my culminated project committee to discuss changes that were needed, and made necessary [...]
ASCLA Online Course: Library Services for People Living with Alzheimer’s by Erin Conway / Marshall-Lyon County Library
Last month, I completed an online course on library services for people living with memory loss. As of 2019, over 5.8 million people in the United States suffer from Alzheimer’s dementia, with the numbers projected to keep growing. The course covered the importance of serving those who are caregivers for loved ones with memory loss. [...]
Sphero Fundamentals Online Training by Mackenzie Schley / Jackson County Library System
Over the last month, I have worked through the online course created by Sphero to better learn how to utilize the Sphero SPRK+ robots that the library owns. The course taught me the basics of how to create programs using the draw, blocks, and text options. It also helped further explain what the terms on [...]
Scholarship for Fall Semester at Emporia State University by Mariah Ralston Deragon / Pioneerland Library System
This semester I completed courses in Collection Development and Management and Introduction to Web Design for my Master's of Library and Information Science. I enjoyed both classes, and felt especially challenged by the Web Design Class, where I hand coded my own website's HTML and CSS. Collection Development was also challenging, and one of our [...]