Subscribe in a readerDec/January 2010, Volume 2, Issue 1
Check Your Calendars!!
SDLA Legislative Day
Jan. 14, 2010
ALA MidWinter
Jan. 15-19, 2010
2010 National African American Read-In
February, 2010
Read Across America Day
March 2, 2010
Teen Tech Week
March 7-13, 2010
PLA National Conference
March 23-27, 2010
Featured e-Resources of the Month
AncestryLibrary and HeritageQuest answer family trivia questions
In this month's issue
South Dakota's own Star Libraries
Hazel L. Meyer Memorial Library, De Smet, and Centerville Community Library are named among America’s Star Libraries
Creating a Nation of Readers
The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. Deadline for this grant application is February 2.
- Young Adult Library Services Association offers news via Web 2.0
- Winter weeding can eliminate those awful books
- Phillip Hoose wins 2009 National Book Award
- ALSC offers catchy marketing idea
Featured eResources of the Month
AncestryLibrary and HeritageQuest answer family trivia questions
- Qwest Foundation/South Dakota DOE Teachers and Technology Program
- E-Government Librarianship Scholarship Program
- ING Unsung Heroes Program offers grants for K-12 educational projects
In Focus: Barb Nickolas
Meet Barb Nickolas, the Government Publications Associate at the South Dakota State Library
- The Role of Public Libraries in Local Economic Development
- News about librarians and libraries across the state
- Listservs, e-mail lists, e-mail groups and you
- Kick-off using Lexile measures in the library, classroom and at home
- Online book group opportunity focuses on inquiry circles
- Improving Literacy grant provides professional development and resources
- The digital branch - a new and essential branch on the library tree
- SDSL Research Staff recommends science and health resources
- What is Library Development reading?
Why didn't I think of that? - Lead-Deadwood re-purposes the old card catalog
- Green Thumb Gala raises funds and involvement at the Sturgis Public Library
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