The Utah Attorney General’s Office has produced a handbook about how to make sure your meetings (such as Board Meetings) comply with Open Meetings Laws. http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/cmsdocuments/The_Open_Book_2008.pdf
This handbook would be a great resource for board meeting training. . . . → Read More: Open meeting laws handbook
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 Are you in need of that perfect Utah photo for your library website? Did you know that U.S. Federal government agencies offer some of the richest collections of photos relating to Utah? If you rely on Google Images for finding photos of Utah, you’re missing the big picture. The Bureau of Land Management, for example, has recently launched an enhanced version of their BLM Photo Library, http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/bpd.html, that contains 60,000 digital photographs in the public domain of landscapes and historical images that primarily of public lands in 12 Western state including Utah. The Utah photos include those of arches, rock formations, scenery, rangeland, wild mustangs, cowboys, Indian rock art, and oil and mineral extraction. The collection cannot be browsed and retrieving images using the search is dicey because search terms have to match those in the limited metadata associated with each photo. Searches for features and places seem to retrieve the best results. Because the photos are in the public domain, this may be a great resource for teachers, webmasters, local governments, and those needing photos for tourism and related needs. A shopping cart feature allows users to collect several images and then download them in a compressed folder. Some other federal government agencies that have large public collections of photographs of scenes in Utah include:
Continue reading Utah Photos in Online Government Digital Libraries Use this link to get Overdrive logos for . . . → Read More: Overdrive logos link I am. Mostly! Here’s what we’ll be going over: Share some successes and rants and what’s going on with your site. What’s new in WP 2.6 Colleen and I are hoping we can get through this stuff in the morning, leaving us all afternoon for hands on time with . . . → Read More: Are you ready for next week? |
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