Use this site to help community members and library staff find job hunting and computer basics resources. We encourage you to link to the site from your website or library catalog. Be sure to check the “Who we are” section. This is part of the project funded by state funds (SYNG) through TSLAC.
If you are offering a community training session that you’d like listed in the schedule of classes, let us know!
Program for Job Hunters..A Model for Other Libraries?
The Noon Network – The Irving Public Library Job Center’s monthly networking opportunity for job seekers continues at noon March 1 at the Central Library, 801 W. Irving Blvd. Attendees are invited to bring their lunches, business cards and to share job hunting tips, leads and interview stories. Program attendance has doubled each meeting since the inception of the program three months ago. For more information, call (972) 721-2606 or visit the Job Center online at www.cityofirving.org/library.
GRANT APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED …
Jenny Jones’ Hometown Heroes program accepts simple grant requests to better communities. Apply here, recent awards for $6,000 each.
ILL PROJECT
Track the progress of the ILL Pilot Program – NETLS region participants are the Atlanta, Frisco, and Texarkana libraries.
There is a new TexShare website! Check it out here. This promotional video is available as a screensaver for your library computers. Find it and other promotional items here.
Texas Reading Club / Texas Teen Read
Materials are now available – don’t miss the Governor’s proclamation declaring June 5 Texas Reading Club Day and June 7 Texas Teens Read! Day.
OPPORTUNITIES…Online
School-library cooperation and lap-sit self-paced workshops here.
SURVEY THESE GRANTS
Local Walmart request guidelines
Some communities may be interested in Playful City USA opportunities for recreation
A TECH TIP
Sometimes staff or library users are hindered from using library technology because their computers don’t permit pop-up windows to open. Use these nifty resources to check for the presence of pop-up blockers and instructions on how to turn off the blockers if needed.
DOMAIN CHANGED?
Let us know – we don’t want your mail to bounce back. We know you want to get everything we send you!
LET’S ALL SHARE…
If your library or funding authority has a gone through a formal bid process for some library commodity let us know. We’ll announce the awards as we become aware of them and perhaps save other libraries some time and expense if they can piggy-back on your contract.
DESPERATELY SEEKING ….
Well, maybe not desperate but if you can help us out …
- Meeting room policies – if you have your policy online please send me the link through this form and I’ll share on our website
- Links to long range or strategic plans, post to the form above and your link will be shared on our website.
- Needed – one book truck for forming church library
- Needed – tables and chairs for library use (From the request: If another library has discarded tables chairs or any other furniture please call me and I will be glad to pick them up.)
- Needed – used laminator for 16X20 film
NETLS Training Resources:
February & March Literacy For The Very, Very Youngest
May Magazine Management Mutation
Non-NETLS webinars
From TSLAC
March webinar calendar. Did you miss a webinar? Check the TSLAC webinar archive for a second chance to attend the Annual Reports and Grants webinars.
From WebJunction
Programs of interest to public libraries at upcoming 2010 TLA Annual Conference
Ongoing Gale database training webinars(newest products are listed first)
Ongoing E-Library training – see blog post here
Ongoing NETLS *Wild Card* LE@D classes. Finish this month!
Also available: Archives of SirsiDynix Institutes
By March 3 Tocker Foundation stipend applications for TLA Conference 2010
March 4 Storyline Online Oh, the places you’ll go read by iCarly’s Nathan Kress for Read Across America
March 7 – 13 Teen Tech Week
March 9 Focus Groups: Perceptions for Planning webinar
March 11 Getting Grounded: Legal Issues Facing Libraries Non-technical issues. Free webinar.
March 11 – 14 Tejas Storytelling Festival, Denton
By March 15 Get your library and community ready Community Preparedness funding program
By March 31 Apply for Picturing America *programming grants* $2,000 to 30 libraries
April 7 Creating A Successful Teen Advisory Board webinar
April 11-17 National Library Week, Communities Thrive @ the library – see the pr tools
April 14-17 TLA Annual Conference San Antonio (Note room/ride share tool at the bottom of the page)
By May 3 Applications due Baker & Taylor’s grants (.pdf) to FOL groups (ALTAFF members only)
By May 19 Get early-bird librarian registration $95 for BookExpo rates May 25-27 NYC
Below the line …
Librarian charged!!
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