The online Annual Report Form for FY10 is now ready and available. You will find it here: http://collect.btol.com

Usernames and passwords are the same as last year, but if you do not know, or have forgotten them, please call us and we will get that information to you. If we are not in the office you can leave a message on our answering machine and we will return your call.

Responses to the 2009-2010 Public Library Funding & Technology Access survey at www.plinternetsurvey.org increased significantly in the last week. A big thank you to those who have completed it!

Please help the Idaho library community document our growing needs for technology and connectivity by participating in the 2009-2010 Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study online survey, open through November 6, 2009 at www.plinternetsurvey.org.

What is this study?

If you have two minutes, please participate in a five question survey about our new website...even if you haven't visited it!

We'll use your responses to figure out what we are doing right and what we could improve upon.

Thanks!

“Site visits to 63 public libraries reveal the power of technology on staff and users.”

I just read an article in the October 2008 issue of American Libraries titled “Libraries Connect Communities.” Authors Peggy Barber and Linda Wallace share what they learned as part of the team conducting the Public Library Funding and Technology Access Study.

The study included a nationwide survey of libraries (the 2008 survey is underway now); focus groups with library employees, trustees, and users; and library site visits.

Thank you for helping the Idaho library community document our growing needs for technology and connectivity. If you are a public library director, please read on.

Did you know?

According to the 2007-2008 “Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding and Technology Access Study”

Summer Reading Coordinators,