Free Wbinar: Tools for Building Digital Skills

Thursday, September 26

1:00 - 2:00pm (Central)

Public libraries have long been leaders in bringing people into the digital world, providing programs and services that help patrons get jobs, gain knowledge, increase productivity, and engage with others online. Leveraging and strengthening existing library and community resources can help reduce staff burden and increase the library’s impact on digital literacy. In this webinar, a panel of digital literacy experts will share tools, resources, and partnership strategies to help you enhance digital skill development among patrons and library staff.

This webinar is presented as part of the Public Library Association's (PLA) DigitalLead: Rural Libraries Creating New Possibilities project. PLA and Microsoft Corp. are helping rural populations reap the benefits of broadband internet connectivity.

PLA thanks Microsoft Corp. for its support of this webinar and the DigitalLead project.

Find out more and register HERE.

Patron Attraction

The title of this post is not referring to that cute guy or girl who you noticed in the stacks the other day, but rather is the beginning of a question: what's your best method to attract patrons? Do you use conventional methods (school visits, newspaper blurbs, word-of-mouth, etc.)? Or do you have a secret up your sleeve?

And what about those more controversial methods? Check out this article from the NY Times:

New York Region
Urban Fiction Goes From Streets to Public Libraries
By ANNE BARNARD
Published: October 23, 2008
Many libraries are embracing a sometimes controversial genre of “street lit” in an effort to attract new readers.

Let's use the comments section to discuss!