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PLA Webinar – Transforming Our Image
Webinar: Transforming Our Image Date: November 15, 2010 Time: 1:00 p.m. (CST) Instructor: Valerie Gross, President & CEO, Howard County (Md.) Library WORDS make the difference. Learn about a simple, effective strategy that will make you, your library, and your profession indispensible. It does not require changing anything you do…only modifying what you say. Based [...]
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION GLBTRT COMPILES “SPEAKING OUT AGAINST BULLYING” RESOURCES
In response to recent tragic events involving GLBTQ teens, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) has compiled “Speaking OUT Against Bullying,” a list of resources for kids in trouble and the people who care about them. Reports of several teen suicides resulting from bullying have brought [...]
Time Flies…But Where? Time Management Tips and Tools
Tick tock. Tick tock. These days you’re all asked to do more with less time to do it in. PLA’s new digital training tool, “Time Flies…But Where?” provides all the pieces you need to lead a day-long time management training session for library staff. Make time for this! Time Flies…But Where? Time Management Tips and [...]
New BBC Production of Sherlock Holmes
MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! is introducing a new BBC production of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories later this month. The premiere episode on Sunday, October 24th is based on Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet,” (published in 1887), the story in which readers were first introduced to the character of Sherlock Holmes, a brilliant but eccentric detective [...]
