Idaho Commission for Libraries

Hands-on Training

Hands-on training for new participants is offered each year. Invitations to scheduled training sessions will be sent to participating libraries and promoted via LibIdaho for those libraries that want to send new staff or receive a refresher on the topics. Scheduled training events are always posted on the Events Calendar.

Using the LiLI Unlimited Catalog

Art Museum Image Gallery - Video Demo
Automobile Reference Database - Flash video demo

In this issue:

• Meet Francine Rudeen, American Falls Library
• Library to Library: Idaho Family Reading Week; Highlights of Eastern and Southwestern Fall Trainings
• Young Adult Corner: Taking Risks with Teen Programming, by Ray Lusk; Teens and Tech Course Returns
• Book Look: Lists from Fall Trainings
• Upcoming Events

The LiLI Databases (LiLI-D) are online services providing full-text articles from magazines, professional journals, newspapers, and reference books free to all Idaho residents. Some of the databases for 2009 are new!

The National Library Service (NLS) is in the process of converting the books and magazines it circulates from analog to digital format. The digital format has many advantages including:

• Improved sound quality;
• A lighter, easier to use player;
• The ability to download books and magazines from a website if desired

Celebrate Teen Read Week Oct. 18-24!

This year's theme is Read Beyond Reality @ your library, which encourages teens to read something out of this world, just for the fun of it.

Creativity Rewarded!

LiLI Steering Committee Meeting Records:

September 24, 2009
June 24, 2009
April 2, 2009
December 16, 2008
August 21, 2008
January 24, 2008

The Idaho Commission for Libraries (ICFL) will offer public and school librarians an exciting opportunity this winter. A cohort of 20 people will participate in an online class February 1-28, 2010 to learn how teens’ use of technology to play, learn, and create improves their text-based literacy skills. This group of people will meet face-to-face in Boise before and after the online course.

For Libraries/Schools

Publications/Materials

School Library Partnerships: Building strong libraries, building powerful students