The Pat Carterette Star Award

Last week WebJunction recognized Shirley Biladeau, Continuing Education (CE) Consultant at Idaho Commission for Libraries, with the Pat Carterette Star Award.

WebJunction Idaho is made available to all publicly-funded library staff throughout our great state of Idaho.  Here you will find a wealth of self-directed learning resources, from library management and technology, to collection development, technical services and reference.  This resource is brought to you through a grant from

Idaho Commission for Libraries will provide upon request a workshop on WebJunction Idaho tailored to meet your staff's needs. This is a great opportunity to learn about navigating the site, social networking tools, and continuing education opportunities -- all of which are available to anyone who works in an Idaho library at no cost.

I just finished a WJ Idaho course via the vendor Skillsoft. This is my third course and I took time to play with the course. Sometimes, I am linear and forget to look go beyond the bounds. This happens a lot of times when I am learning ... a product of how I behaved during my educational years 6-18!!

If you have missed either an online or a face to face training session, click on the links below to access the participant guides and archived sessions.

Blogging, Bookmarking and Tagging on ICFL and WebJunction Idaho
Part 1 ICFL

The "It's All Good" blog sent out information about a new WebJunction report. The report - Latinos and Public Library Perceptions - is on the WebJunction site and is part of the Spanish Language Outreach effort which WebJunction coordinates and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded.

FLASH: WebJunction Idaho will be launching in October-- more information to follow soon!

In the meantime here is a list of free WEBJUNCTION WEBINARS for July and August .. be sure to register and enjoy!

Rural Webinars: Motivating Your Board -- Money, Lawsuits, and Facilities

Ohio? Michael Samuelson and I are learning about the new Web 2.0 platform that Web Junction will be debuting later this summer. Today we learned about the ways that the content management system handles content, how to brand our community partner page, and build community.