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News from your District Team
From Nina:
New professional development books at the District Center! These books were made available by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries: Including Families of Children with Special Needs, Diversity Programming for Digital Youth, After School Clubs for Kids, Artsy Toddler Storytimes, and several more. Simply request a book through interlibrary loan. We hope you are inspired by something new!
Charles is working on getting everyone's web sites on to the new mobile responsive WordPress platforms by April 1st. He expects to make a lot of progress in the next few weeks. If you have contacted Charles previously about your web site, it is on its way. If you have not contacted Charles but would like to make changes to your web site, please contact him and copy the district consultant. Once all the web sites are on the new platforms, Charles would like to help you promote and market your libraries through your web sites and has some tools in which you may be interested. One is a cloud based survey and polling service that uses mobile, web and Facebook to get user engagement and conversations going. Another is a form and survey software product called Jot Forms, and the the last is a cloud based graphics page creator. Libraries can use the drag and drop simplicity to create web pages for programs, events, book sales or what ever you want to promote and the pages can be printed to be used as flyers.
Jerry is writing "how to" documents for you to use in house with staff and others. He is available to do technology assessments for district members. These assessments will be useful for planning and budgeting. Contact Jerry if you would like a tech assessment. Jerry has also worked on some language that can be included in job descriptions and announcements for frontline staff and other library employees: "Technology - Basic knowledge of computer hardware and software, email applications, such attachments and formats, and ability to assist patrons with basic technology questions, such as downloading books on personal computers, tablets, or phones."
June has been working on District Advisory Council structure. We now have full representation on the council and meeting dates and places have been set according to the new bylaws. The DAC will meet in March (March 25, 9AM at JVB), June (June 17, Degenstein, 10AM) and October (October 21, Blossburg, 10AM). You'll be receiving more information as meeting dates get closer. The district has decided to go forward with creating training materials for library directors and a committee met last week to discuss format and content. We hope to have these materials ready for you to review at the end of April and welcome your input. Thank you for taking the district survey. Your input will help the continuing education committee plan and budget for the year.
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Overdrive
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