BlogJunction Connecticut
A weblog for the WebJunction Connecticut community
In January and February the Division of Library Development will be offering two new continuing education workshops – Introduction to Using Your Community’s Demographic Data (1/16 at Bristol PL & 2/13 at Willimatic Library Service Center) and Connecticut Legal Research Strategies for Librarians (1/30 at Groton PL) .
You may register for these workshops [...]
Seven towns will see new or improved public libraries thanks to public library construction grants approved at today’s State Library Board meeting. The legislature recently increased the maximum grant to one-third the cost of construction up to $1 million.
Brooklyn Public Library, the Albany Avenue Branch of Hartford Public Library, the Atwater Memorial Library in [...]
You probably heard about the NEA report on reading that was released this week “To Read or Not to Read: A question of National Consequence”.
Whatever you opinion about the report, I thought it a good time to remind you of the wealth of statistics on WebJunction Connecticut in case you get a call from [...]
There are people these days who do 100% of their holiday shopping online. They never need to fight the shopping crowds or stand in line to check stuff out. There are libraries in Connecticut that do the same thing, but they shop all year long and they aren’t buying stuff, they are borrowing [...]
Mother Goose Early Literacy Program Training
Sally Andersen, executive director of Mother Goose Programs, will present a day long overview of the early literacy leaning materials and programs developed at the Vermont Center for the Book. There are resources for early literacy development (such as “Beginning with Mother Goose or “Especially for Dads”), materials for care [...]
…and you use WebJunction Connecticut a lot, then consider installing and using the new WebJunction Connecticut Toolbar!
This toolbar is a Google-search ad-on for Firefox or Internet Explorer. The toolbar provides a Google search of WebJunction, as well as pre-set quick links to the major WebJunction Connecticut web pages. There are also pre-set RSS [...]
A message from the Institute of Museum and Library Services: “Public [...]
In November and December the Division of Library Development will be offering several new continuing education workshops. New workshops include: MySpace & Internet Safety (11/26, 11/28, 11/29), Teen Technology Programming (11/26, 11/28, 11/29), Teen Library Behavior (12/10), Get Your Game On (12/10), Romantic Reader’s Advisory (11/27), Sci Fi & Fantasy Reader’s Advisory (11/27), [...]
The Connecticut State Library will be conducting a brief survey during the week of October 22nd to determine the volume of items being shipped on Connecticar. For planning purposes we like to periodically get a sampling of the volume on Ccar. Our last two surveys showed very different figures so we plan on [...]
Are you finding it hard to keep up with what is new in libraries? Are you tired of sifting through all those emails from discussion lists just to find out if that course on Dreamweaver is going to be offered? The RSS feed is for you.
Maybe you are one of those people who [...]