RACE Webinars

Learn how to build partnerships between your library and other community agencies and organizations for win-win results: improving citizens' lives, combining staff time and talents, and increasing library support. Participants will leave this session ready to create and implement an action plan for reaching out to your community.

Learn about state and federal government resources that you can share with your patrons to help their information needs. In addition, learn about how the State Library is now putting SD state government digital publications online, searchable via the SDLN catalog.

You better weed, you better do what you should
Don't wanna see no ugly shelves and old info
You wanna be tough, Mary Bushing would
So weed it, weed it!

Increase your circulation, you need it
Your library is important, and you gotta show how
Just weed it!

-sung it to the tune of Michael Jackson's Beat It

What the heck are all these kids twittering about? Social media has been dominating the library landscape, but how comfortable are you? This webinar will discuss some of the basic social media tools — Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. We'll look at who's using social media and how social media can help your library connect to your patrons.

Is your school library still operating under 20th century guidelines? Or, has your school library already moved forward into the 21st century and could use some further direction? Join us to learn about ways you and your administrators can use the new 21st Century Self-Assessment tool to assess and guide your current practices. The new tool is based on the SD School Library Guidelines and also contains everything you need to know to apply for South Dakota's new 21st Century School Library Award.

Every year the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) has fantastic, original artwork created to enhance the summer reading program manual that it produces. Just like any original piece of artwork, there are copyright rules for this artwork. Join the CSLP Copyright and Rules of Use Committee Chair for this one hour webinar explaining how you can use the artwork on the disc that accompanies the summer reading program manual you will be receiving in October.

Information comes at us in all kinds of media! How do we know what's true? How can we help patrons select sources wisely? Join Julie Erickson and Jane Healy to learn factors that make a good source. Evaluating websites will be the primary focus, with other media types considered.

Raise your search skills beyond basic Google. Learn to use the best source for the topic, search tips and tricks and more. Finding the best information efficiently & effectively will pay off in school and work. This session will look at Google Advanced search, subscription library resources and what to expect in the future.

Interlibrary loan will continue to change as digital options and budgets change. Beginning with school year 2012-2013, school libraries are asked to keep more detailed statistics for interlibrary loan. The State Library needs more exact data to determine ILL patterns and trends. For this reason starting with the 2013 School Library Survey we will be collecting more detailed information. This webinar covers ILL basics and what data you need to collect and how to collect it once school begins in the fall of 2012.

The South Dakota State Library invites all interested librarians, trustees, and citizens to participate in an LSTA 5-Year Plan focus group. The purpose of the LSTA 5-Year Plan focus group will be to review and comment on the draft of the State Library's LSTA 5-Year Plan. Comments and suggestions will be used to make changes to the plan before it is submitted to the Institute of Museum and Library Service. A draft of the 5-Year Plan can be found on the State Library's web site, library.sd.gov (last revised June 1, 2012).

Join us for a sneak peak at the 2011-2012 School Library Survey. We'll review the basics of the Collect program and answer all of your questions. This will be a helpful discussion whether you are new to the process or have completed the survey many times. The survey opens April 1 and closes May 16 this year.

Join one of these 1 hour webinars about the 2011 Public Library Survey. We will discuss changes and answer your questions.

Reference Librarian Brenda Hemmelman will help you answer these and many other questions. What documentation do I need for a driver's license? Finding state and federal government information online will be covered, as well as a discussion on how libraries are stepping up in times of need to help local citizens with information needs.

Ready, Set, Go! trainings are designed to increase non-military youth workers, educators, counselors and other community members understanding of:

• the unique issues facing military youth
• military culture
• the deployment cycle
• fostering resilience in youth and
• to engage them in building State and Local community networks to provide support for military children and youth.