by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 28, 2018 | Calendar
The October 2018 Wyoming State Library training calendar is now available with with 76 live offerings and four to watch “At Your Leisure.” Every training opportunity on this list is free and offered online. Topics include advocacy, planning, careers, children and...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 28, 2018 | Schools
September 2018; 13 minutes Download the slides. Join Paige Bredenkamp, School Library Consultant at the Wyoming State Library, on an updated tour of the resources that are freely available to all K-12 librarians and staff in Wyoming. This is a chance to see what the...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 27, 2018 | WSL News
Have you heard about blockchain? Learn all about it at “The Way We’ll Work: Blockchain.” See the event on Facebook. On Thursday, October 4, from 6:30-8pm in the Cottonwood Room, the Laramie County Library in conjunction with the Wyoming State Library will host...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 27, 2018 | Articles and Information
By Mary J. Soucie, North Dakota State Librarian Adapted with permission from the August 2018, NDSL Flickertale Libraries are so much more than book repositories these days. Libraries are still about books but we’re about so much more than books. Libraries, more than...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 27, 2018 | Schools
PBS Learning Media offers storyboards as an instructional tool for educators and students 13 and up. Storyboards are a way to illustrate a concept or topic through a collection of videos, text and images. Just save your storyboard to access a URL to share with your...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 26, 2018 | Trustees and Foundations
From Colorado Virtual Library By Amy Hitchner, Colorado State Library Statewide Collaborative Programming Coordinator Is your library considering writing a grant proposal in the near future? Many libraries rely on grants to fund projects of all sizes, yet few of us...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 26, 2018 | Articles and Information
From the American Association of School Librarians To raise awareness of the overly restrictive blocking of legitimate educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries, The American Association of School Librarians...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 25, 2018 | Trustees and Foundations
Donations through your friends or foundation gives you the resources to enhance your basic library services. Wild Apricot has put together more than 200 fundraising ideas for you — everything from art auctions to cow pie bingo. They’ve rated them by complexity,...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 24, 2018 | Schools
From the Library of Congress The Library of Congress, in collaboration with educational organizations, has launched two new web- and mobile-based applications related to Congress and civics for use in K-12 classrooms. Students can investigate complex questions through...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 24, 2018 | Calendar
Free, online, continuing education events for this week of from the Wyoming State Library Training Calendar. Descriptions are below. You can subscribe and view the events in your calendar software, or you can find all the events...
