South Dakota State Library Services

Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures brings together the community and collective expertise of library workers in the core functions of collections and metadata, management and leadership, and technology. Core members play a central role in every library, shaping the future of the profession by striking a balance between maintenance and innovation, process and progress, collaborating and leading.

Does your library or organization provide computers for the public? Would you like to know more about basic troubleshooting on a Windows PC so you can minimize downtime? This introductory level webinar will introduce you to tips and techniques that will help you understand how to fix common problems.

The Build a Better Library Website Boot Camp is designed to provide library staff with the knowledge, tools, and support to improve their websites. Its purpose is to empower library staff tasked with initiating an internal redesign or design project, contribute to decision making on a website committee, or continue with additional training on specific website technology. Participants will learn about key aspects of User Experience, visual design principles, and the web design process, which involves multiple audiences and stakeholders.

The Build a Better Library Website Boot Camp was created by the New Jersey State Library and made possible in part by a 2020 award from the Catalyst Fund at LYRASIS. It is modeled on the New Jersey State Library’s UX Boot Camp, an in-person training program that launched in 2019.

This hour-long webinar will provide an overview of how to offer a basic technology or computer class, including how to promote your class, best practices for planning your class, and how to engage with patrons before, during, and after the class to ensure you are meeting their technology needs. The webinar will also cover ways to make you feel more confident and comfortable teaching patrons technology skills and fun, engaging technology programming ideas to implement in your library.

Having a technology plan for your library is critical for receiving technology-related funding, keeping your library's technology up-to-date, and provides a clear roadmap for current and future employees with the library's technology.

This hour-long webinar will provide an overview of how library administration, staff, and board members can work together to create a successful technology plan. We will cover how to form a technology plan team, walk step-by-step through how to write your technology plan, and discuss strategies to ensure that the technology plan is followed effectively - even months and years after the plan was originally written. We will practice writing technology-related goals, and participants will be given tools to use after the webinar to help them throughout the technology plan writing process.

American Libraries, June 2020
Library thinkers on the most exciting technology and noteworthy trends.

An industry disrupted.

Sergey Gladkiy (2018). UX Planet
User-centered design (UCD) is an optimistic approach to invent new solutions.