BlogJunction Connecticut
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YouTube, Twitter – the Conversation goes mobile, and the library is not in control!
Are your patrons taking photos and short videos with their cell phones of the library? Of children in the library? Do they need permission, and if so, when? What copyright, privacy and other concerns you should address?
What do you do when you [...]
Western Union’s Family Scholarship Program is intended to help two members of the same family move up the economic development ladder through education.
Scholarships may be used for tuition for college/university education language acquisition classes, technical/skill training, and/or financial literacy.
Eligibility criteria include
All applicants must be age 18 or older
At least one of the applicants must be [...]
Fiskars is offering funding for gardens and/or gardening projects geared toward community involvement, neighborhood beautification, sustainable agriculture, and/or horticultural education. The two-part application asks for information about the garden, the community, and your plans and also has a creative assignment component.
Application deadline: Feb 19, 2010.
No matter where you are or what kind of library you’re in, times are tough and money’s tight. Your library budgets are most likely getting slashed, and it’s quite likely that your patron’s wallets are a little less thick than they used to be, too. We all know that in dark economic [...]
Use these Automatic Chart-Makers to create statistical charts for your library. In just 3 simple steps, you can create Excel charts that can be pasted into any document or presentation. The charts use statistical measures such as circulation, library visits, income, expenses, collection size, childrens programs, and more. You can use a Chart-Maker to compare [...]
Strategies for Overcoming Barriers will be presented January 26 at 3PM EST by Melody Kinnamon, Consumer Health Librarian, Johnson County Library, Overland Park, KS and Chris Engleman, consumer health librarian/consultant. They will speak of their experiences in outreach at their libraries.
Click here for more information on this series of webinars; the backup documentation also looks [...]
Youth Service America and Miley Cyrus have partnered to create Get Ur Good On a social network that brings together youth to support each other in their mission to do “good” in their communities. Children and youth ages 5 to 25 are eligible to apply.
One hundred $500 grants will be awarded to projects that [...]
Partners Scholastic and Welch’s are providing Welch’s Harvest Grants to help teach the value of sustainable agriculture and healthy eating through school gardens; hands-on experiences with planting, tending, and growing gardens provide children a dynamic setting for learning.
Two schools in each state will be selected to receive a grant. Winners receive a customized indoor or [...]
More and more organizations are benefiting from using social media tools like blogs, Facebook, and Twitter in their online communications. While the tools can be relatively straightforward to learn and adopt, many organizations struggle with how to effectively align messaging and communications across their online channels.
This webinar will focus on best practices for integrating social [...]
Tough times call for tough choices, and one of those choices is how to get the most out of every resource at hand. One way to do this is through strategic and intentional partnerships and collaborations. But how do you form these partnerships so that the library, the partner, and, most important, the community all [...]