This is a great chance to spend time on your personal and professional development. And it’s free! And you get to learn new, fun stuff on work time.

Stay Current
Let’s face it. All library staff members need to be up-to-date with the latest trends and technology tools that Web 2.0 is bringing to the world everyday. We need to take time to learn how the tools can be used in libraries.

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Library Reasons

• More and more library users and non-users are using Web 2.0 technologies. The more we know about them, the more we can help and the more we can connect to their lives.
• Libraries have a unique and important role in the communities we serve. Web 2.0 technologies provide extraordinary possibilities for us to reach out into the community and to enhance our services.
• Web 2.0 technologies have the potential to help us improve internal communications.

Embrace Change
Technology is not going away. It’s just changing all the time and becoming mainstream. This program will help you learn how to manage the change. You’ll experiment with technologies that may frighten you. But you won’t do it alone. Your friends and colleagues around the state will be doing the same things, and we can all help each other.

This program is about:

• Learning
• Experimentation
• Discovery
• Confidence
• Play

Continuing Education Credits
You can earn up to 13 contact hours in the Technology competency which can be applied to the Library Practitioner Certificate.