Staff members from public and state libraries meet to share best practices from Project Compass, an IMLS grant funded project focused on public libraries’ efforts to assist the needs of job seekers in their communities.

For WebJunction webinars, we have always purposefully chosen practitioners from the library world to present their own expertise based on their real-world experience in the library field. On May 16, however, we will be stepping away from that model to host professional futurist Garry Golden, who will be presenting on Libraries and the Era of the Learner. You can read a little about Garry's background on his blog here: http://www.garrygolden.net/about-garry/ You'll see there that he has done a lot of consulting about the future of energy, but that he also has spoken with library, museum, and other non-profit organizations. In... Read more

The resources shared about Pinterest during our recent webinar are worth diving into.

I'll admit that I had not heard of Pinterest, the latest trend in online photo sharing, until a couple weeks before our webinar this month. My extremely brief investigation told me that Pinterest took the photo-sharing website concept (like Flickr) and added some new ways for users to organize and display their image collections. My colleague Jennifer collected some links about the tool and posted them to WebJunction in anticipation of the April 10 program. After having lived through so many of these launches and trends in... Read more

The word leadership connotes pinnacles of achievement reserved for war heroes, presidents and CEOs, rare heights beyond attainment for most of us. We would hesitate to raise a hand if asked, “are you completely comfortable with calling yourself a leader?”  This is the question that Drew Dudley, founder of Nuance Leadership Development Services, asks in his February 2012 TEDx Toronto presentation on Everyday Leadership.

“We have made leadership into something bigger than us, something beyond us. We have made it about changing the world.”