Next Website in a Box training

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Colleen Eggett

Instructor: Shelly Drumm, BCR
Audience: Public librarians who have websites through this project
Location: Utah State Library, Computer Lab, 201

We will review the basics of setting up your pages, adding posts, adding links, news feeds, your online library catalog, and anything else you want. The last part of the session will be for help with your individual site. Come prepared to learn and do! This is a working session. Bring all those who work on your website.

Don’t own a public library website in Utah yet? Contact Colleen Eggett ceggett@utah.gov
See details about the project

Financial Wellness Programs

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Ray Matthews

Salt Lake County Libraries and the Utah State Law Library have partnered with local experts to present a series of financial wellness programs to the Salt Lake community.

These free classes will be offered in March and April. Feel free to attend any or all of the classes. Registration is not required.

Estate Planning
East Millcreek Library, Tuesday, March 31 at 7:00 p.m.

Bankruptcy 101
Columbus Library, Tuesday, April 7 at 7:00 p.m.

Foreclosures 101
East Millcreek Library, Tuesday, March 17 at 7:00 p.m.
West Jordan Library, Thursday, March 26 at 7:00 p.m.
Taylorsville Library, Wednesday, April 29 at 7:00 p.m.

Overview of Landlord/Tenant Law
East Millcreek Library, Wednesday, April 15 at 7:00 p.m.
Columbus Library, Wednesday, April 22 at 7:00 p.m.
West Jordan Library, Thursday, April 23 at 7:00 p.m.

Visit the Salt Lake County Library Services map for location information.

Want more information? Contact the Utah State Law Library at 801-238-7990 or library@email.utcourts.gov.

What do you want from me???

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Colleen Eggett

I am interested in what training you want in the next couple of years. UPLIFT Children's Service Training

Please take this short survey or comment below.

As a result of the last survey, we trained to all of the top topics. Here’s what you said, in order by the most requested, and when we offered it:

# 1. Community support for your library (taught Oct. 06 & March 08, Rural Library Sustainability & Turning the Page)

# 2. Library space planning (taught 4/28/08, Mary Bushing)

# 3. Grant writing (taught 2006-08, 9 sessions, Rose Frost)

# 4. Book Repair (coming 3/09, 3 sessions, Scott Simkins)

# 5. Children’s services (taught March/Apr 08, 2 sessions, Janell Mattheus)

# 6. Long range planning (taught 2007/08, 3 sessions, Colleen Eggett & Rose Frost)

Book Repair training

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Colleen Eggett

Scott Simkins of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City will present a one day workshop on book repair. It will be held at Utah State Library, 250 North 1950 West, Salt Lake City. Register for the class on our workshops page.

Other dates for the training are March 18th at the State Library and April 9th, 2009 at the Delta City Library. These two classes are totally full.

Gaming in the Library

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Colleen Eggett

By Linda Fields, Richfield Public Library Director

I received a Professional Excellence Grant from the Utah State Library to attend the Association for Rural and Small Libraries Conference in Sacramento in September. I’ve attended the ARSL conference when it was only being held in Columbus, OH and I felt I gained enough from those meetings to make it worthwhile to attend again.

One of the programs I attended was “Video Games in the Library” by Kieran Hixon. I chose to attend this because I thought “Gaming in the Library? No way!” Sometimes I find it wise to learn about something when I have a poor attitude toward it.

The misconception that gaming is done on the internet was the main basis for my attitude. Over the years, children and internet use has proved a challenge to libraries and it was a challenge I didn’t want to tackle. So gaming is not a new activity. If you think about gaming as internet games, board games and card games, gaming has been done in libraries for years. Continue reading →

Open meeting laws handbook

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Colleen Eggett

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. Colleen

Are you ready for next week?

Posted on September 5, 2008 by admin

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
Changes in Menu
Theme activation
Media Manager
Sidebar manager
One Click Installer plugin updated
Google Analytics

Colleen and I are hoping we can get through this stuff in the morning, leaving us all afternoon for hands on time with your sites. As always, bring questions, image files, anything you might want to add to your site!

Also – Please make sure you have a Google account set up before we start. If you’re using any Google products (gmail, blogger, picasa, google docs, iGoogle, etc) then you already have an account – and we can definitely use that!

See you next week!

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