Articles and Discussions http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass 2012-01-24T20:29:56Z 2012-01-24T20:29:56Z Zola Maddison, Betha Gutsche http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/132562903 2012-01-24T20:29:56Z

IMLS funded Project Compass Year 2 Report<br><p>If you would like to request print copies of the report, please contact Zola Maddison <a href="mailto:maddisoz@oclc.org?subject=Project%20Compass%20Report%20Order">maddisoz@oclc.org</a>.</p>

Zola Maddison, Betha Gutsche Project Compass Trainers http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/112950791 2011-11-28T16:50:48Z

A summary of the trainer presentations at the train the trainer institute in Chapel Hill, NC on February 8, 2011<br><h3>Ashlee Clark, State Library of Ohio</h3><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=112950797&amp;name=DLFE-31200003.ppt">Slides Attached</a></p><ul><li>Library Responds to Community Loss DHL cuts jobs</li><li>Libraries respond to play significant part in workforce recovery efforts</li><li><b>Southern State Community College Library</b> formed task force with employees, DHL and community</li><li>Learning Express and other resources identified</li><li>Worked with local OneStop centers</li><li>Unemployment benefits and legal aid assistance</li><li>Impact: <ul><li>Served as place for social gathering of those impacted</li><li>One on one help provided</li></ul></li><li>Key strategies identified: <ul><li>Key community info resource</li><li>Partnerships</li><li>Enterprise center for small business support</li><li>Looking to expand services: job fair and gallery night (how individual transformed hobbies and interests into careers), food and book drives, reading campaigns.</li></ul></li><li>Received National Library Week Grant as a result of their efforts!</li></ul><h3>Jay Burton, Director of SE Regional Library System, Ohio and Columbus Metropolitan Library</h3><ul><li>People don't think of the library in their job searching or increasing skills</li><li>At CML, created job help center, but still try to place in position the awareness of center and services. Findability of job help on library websites.</li><li>2 types of folks coming to the center: people looking for jobs AND those developing new skills for career change.</li><li>Many coming because no internet at home, too slow or kids always on the internet.</li><li>Lots of self-paced online tutorials.</li><li>New job mobile.</li></ul><h3>Tonya Badillo, New Jersey, Long Branch Free Public Library</h3><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=112950797&amp;name=DLFE-31200006.ppt">Slides attached</a></p><p>Get Back to Work Job Search Initiative, since 2007</p><ul><li>Project Goals and Steps</li></ul><ol><li>Community Collaborative with state, city and community agencies</li><li>Design Virtual Career Center</li><li>Share and Gather Resources - statewide</li><li>Host Job Transition Courses</li><li>Create Webcasts of Job Programs</li><li>Focus on Challenged Populations (in partnership with Kingdom Fighters) including ex-offenders.</li></ol><ul><li>Outcomes: <ul><li>Grants</li><li>Classes</li><li>Publicity</li></ul></li></ul><h3><b>Edith Beckett, New Jersey State Library</b></h3><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=112950797&amp;name=DLFE-31300001.ppt">Slides Attached</a></p><p>NJWorks@yourlibrary</p><p>Community Assessment:</p><ul><li>Unemployment rates vary around state (between 6.2 and 13.2), suggests need for local response</li><li>10 different language groups, communities changing</li><li>304 library organizations in 556 municipalities</li><li>shrinking funding base and increased need for library services</li></ul><p>What we did:</p><ul><li>Applied for and rec. BTOP grant, and matching funds to leverage all possible sources of funding.</li><li>NJWorks! provides resources and training</li><li><a href="http://btop.njstatelib.org/">btop.njstatelib.org</a></li></ul><h3>Lindsey Wesson, CE Coordinator, Tennessee State Library and Archives</h3><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=112950797&amp;name=DLFE-31200011.ppt">Slides attached</a></p><p>LSTA Direct Service Grants to establish Job Centers in their library (&quot;grants in a box&quot;)</p><p>Workshops provided:</p><ul><li>Collaborate</li><li>min of 8 2-hour classes</li><li>Tennessee Electronic Library</li><li>Survey of participants</li></ul><p>Unexpected outcomes:</p><ul><li>Job search related workshops poorly attended</li><li>Basic computer skills workshops better attended</li><li>little partnerships, depended on agency</li><li>one-on-one help provided was phenomenal</li></ul><p>Ardmore Public Library</p><ul><li>traditional grant activities completed</li><li>non-traditional...did community assessment and IDed need for local GED classes, hosted in the library, paid part-time retired teacher to do additional tutoring</li><li>Huge success! 39 people passed the GED through program and grants and partnerships continue</li><li>broad marketing include success on Facebook.</li></ul><h3>Bette Jo Jervis, Tennessee State Library and Archives</h3><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=112950797&amp;name=DLFE-31200007.ppt">Slides Attached</a></p><p>Moore County Public Library</p><ul><li>Making the library welcoming, provide jump drives, donuts, coffee...</li><li>Walk through creating an email with patrons, taught patron how to do powerpoint and database searching after job interview required this knowledge.</li></ul><p>Memphis Public Library</p><ul><li>JobLINC mobile</li><li>job fairs</li><li>After bus broke, continued booths at job fairs, blog, one-on-one assistance</li><li>JobLab provides hands-on assistance</li></ul><p>Assistance provided through staff or networking, bringing community closer together!</p><h3>Julie Walker and Alan Harkness, Georgia State Library</h3><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.gaworkready.org/">Georgia Work Ready</a></p><ul><li>residents to earn a &quot;work ready certificate&quot;</li><li>2009 libraries offered a role 31 of 69 library systems provided the training program on PAC's to earn the certificate.</li><li>Math, reading for information and information seeking</li><li>When the funds ran out in fall of 2010 libraries would have had to pay to continue with the service.</li></ul><p>Other GA efforts:</p><ul><li>Atlanta Fulton library provides free GED training</li><li>Clark County financial training provided</li></ul><h3>Annie Brown and Alisa McLeod, Alabama State Public Library Service</h3><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=112950797&amp;name=DLFE-31200010.ppt">Slides Attached</a></p><p>AL unemployment has been high, 9.1 with, 15 counties 11.5-14.9, one county has 25% unemployment.</p><p>Black Belt area (named for soil of the region and where many freed slaves settled). Libraries not seen as essential service and libraries wearing multiple hats</p><ul><li>Selma-Dallas County Public Library <ul><li>Partnerships</li><li>Career Center</li><li>Computer access</li><li>Local business partnerships**This is a critical relationship, successful.</li><li>GED tutorials and classes and Literacy Center</li></ul></li><li>Macon County - Tuskegee Public Library <ul><li>Largest employer closed (casino)</li><li>Classes</li><li>how to post and attach resumes online</li><li>how to navigate web</li></ul></li><li>Greene County - James C. Poole Memorial Library <ul><li>Kelly Temp recruits at the library</li><li>Patrons do online classes</li><li>Computers to file for unemployment</li></ul></li><li>White Hall Public Library <ul><li>17.30% unemployment</li><li>No industry in community</li><li>one librarian</li><li>library robbed, computers stolen</li></ul></li><li>Wilcox County Public Library <ul><li>25.1% unemployment</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Linda Bruno, Florida</h3><p>Ideas from 2 libraries, Orange County and Alachua County</p><p>Identify the need:</p><ul><li>Workforce board had grant $ and asked how library can help spend it</li><li>Internship program</li></ul><p>Strategies most effective:</p><ul><li>List of resources the library provides</li><li>Right service at the right time icon on the library website</li><li>Classes</li><li>Resume research, ask businesses in areas what resumes are getting attention, and help patrons do these kinds of resumes</li><li>Making the library safe, feel like home.</li><li>Technology petting zoo</li></ul><h3>Cheryl Gould, California State Library</h3><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.infopeople.org/workshop/390">Technology Petting Zoo</a>, Infopeople training</p><ul><li>how to turn it on</li><li>how to get around</li><li>what do you use it for</li></ul><p><a target="_blank" href="http://infopeople.org/workshop/452">Jobs and Workforce Recovery: Libraries Helping Individuals and Communities</a> course available through Infopeople</p><h3>Margery Orell, North Carolina</h3><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=112950797&amp;name=DLFE-31200004.ppt">Slides Attached</a></p><p>Charlotte Mecklenburg Library</p><ul><li>20 branches serving 900,000 people</li><li>Job Help Centers <ul><li>Library Community Engagement Committee=grant money for workforce projects</li><li>Online, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.plcmc.lib.nc.us/jobs/">Job Help at the Library</a></li><li>Reserving a computer in the Job Help Center gives 3 hour timeslot to patron</li><li>Job Help Blog and Twitter <a target="_blank" href="http://jobhelpcenter.tumblr.com/">http://jobhelpcenter.tumblr.com/</a></li><li>Big screen in job help center scrolls through continuous slide show of job seeker success stories from those who have found jobs via library resources</li><li>105 classes for over 600 people.</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Kathy Smith and Charles Dunham, Tigard Public Library, Oregon</h3><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=112950797&amp;name=DLFE-31200008.ppt">Slides Attached</a></p><ul><li>Population density, OR is defined by its urban and rural areas</li><li>1 out of 5 are unemployed</li><li>Deschutes Public Library District (rural central OR) <ul><li>former logging, now recreational industry, retirement mecca, small tech businesses</li><li>5 branches one bookmobile</li><li>167,000 people across 3,000 sq miles</li><li>well organized and active community partner</li><li>homelessness has climbed 66%</li><li>Partnerships: Created intergovernmental council across 3 counties, Community College, Worksource</li><li>Provide one-on-one services</li><li>Database kiosks</li><li>Library opened to be spaces for worksource auxiliary services</li><li>Crosstraining</li></ul></li><li>Albany Public Library <ul><li>50,000 residents/ ~27,000 card holders</li><li>14% unemployment</li><li>$22,000 per capita income</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Karren Reish and Shannon White, Michigan</h3><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=112950797&amp;name=DLFE-31200012.ppt">Slides Attached</a></p><ul><li>Capital Area District Library, Lansing <ul><li>State gov, auto, biotech, insurance, higher ed and healthcare industries</li><li>13 libraries in 11 communities, one bookmobile</li><li>Patron needs shifting: word processing, searching, writing skills, email, education resources.</li><li>Created videos, web links, tech classes, helpful staff</li><li>YouTube videos on how to use the resources at library</li><li>Web Resources: Job Seekers Page and Job Hunting Guide</li><li>Then broader marketing campaign: Lean on Us! <ul><li>coping when unemployed</li><li>find a job</li><li>lend a hand</li><li>education, training, exam prep</li></ul></li><li>Partnerships with Michigan Works! <ul><li>Shared calendar</li><li>Flow of info between staff members</li><li>Marketing campaign</li><li>Meeting space</li><li>Additional campaign &quot;Keep Learning...our future depends on it&quot;</li></ul></li><li>Find an expert...looking outside library</li><li>Impact: other partners have come to the table after seeing the benefit via Michigan Works</li><li>What's the most effective strategy: Interpersonal communication: networking, emotional support, personal contact</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Lisa Barnhart and Bill Erbes, Illinois</h3><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=112950797&amp;name=DLFE-31310002.pdf">See handouts</a></p><p>Lisa: presenting best case scenario, Skokie Public Library</p><ul><li>&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.chicagojobs.org/">Chicago JobTalk.org</a></li></ul><p>Bill:</p><ul><li>his library uses job monitors, who provide one-one-one help whenever possible, always on call to help</li><li>survey of IL lilbraries</li><li>Library employment boot camp (see <a href="http://www.webjunction.org/job-seekers/-/articles/content/113363166">overview and templates for Job Searching Boot Camp</a>): 4 intensive training days in job search process: <ul><li>people invited to bring their kids...programming available for kids</li><li>no cost to attend, but attendance mandatory</li><li>participant assessment, if they didn't have basic skills they were sent to other resources to bring them up to speed for boot camp before admitted</li><li>Interview after boot camp with chamber of commerce, other community reps at the end</li><li>Universal? via Recorded Books</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Jacquie Brinkley, California State Library</h3><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=112950797&amp;name=DLFE-31200005.pdf">California Literacy and Unemployment</a></p><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=112950797&amp;name=DLFE-31200009.ppt">Slides Attached</a></p><p>Statewide 12.4% unemployment but up in 20's some places</p><p>Targeting highest need areas: overlay of low literacy rates with unemployment rates</p><p><b>California Workforce Association</b><b> Partnerships</b></p><ul><li>made initial contact via neighbor, fellow bus rider who had Workforce connection</li><li>48 workforce investment boards, and one-stop career centers and other partners</li><li>Library invited to Workforce conference to present</li><li>Preconference panelists invited from: Library Directors, Workforce Investment Board directors, board presidents</li><li>Showcased <ul><li>One-Stops co-locatd in libraries</li><li>former library computer center re-opened as workforce Library Job Center using OneStop and library staff</li><li>Library literacy program</li></ul></li><li>Results <ul><li>Libraries as incubators for small business entrepreneurs</li><li>Library book kiosks in Onestops</li><li>Training with both library and Onestop staff</li></ul></li></ul><h3>What stands out?</h3><ul><li>Looking at 21st c skills set, lots of libraries already facilitating these skills.</li><li>Need to emphasize the small business support at library</li></ul><p><b>Other comments? Leave them below!</b></p>

Project Compass Trainers Betha Gutsche http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/120266767 2011-10-17T18:29:28Z

A list of state library association conferences where Project Compass programs will be presented in the fall of 2011<br><p>Members of the <a href="/project-compass">Project Compass</a> team will deliver programs at the state library conferences listed below. Programs vary in length from short overview presentations (45-75 minutes), to 1/2-day and full-day workshops covering the project workforce recovery curriculum.</p> <p><b>Session Description: </b>Library staff are first-responders to increased demands for job-related assistance. Yet during these tough times, increased demands often outstrip our time to build resources and services. This IMLS-funded Project Compass session will provide participants with real-world success stories and a foundation of skills to take the guess-work out of building programs and services in response to patron workforce recovery needs in the 21st Century. We will explore best practices for building programs and services for job seekers and local business development, building partnerships with your local workforce agency, and providing financial literacy and technology training.</p> <h2>September</h2> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.arlib.org/Conf2011/home.html"><b>Arkansas Library Association Annual Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Sep 24-27, 2011</li> <li><i>September 27</i>: 1-hour presentation</li> <li>Presenter: Pam Jaskot, State Library of North Carolina</li> </ul> <h2>October</h2> <p>(in chronological order)</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://palibraries.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&amp;subarticlenbr=291"><b>PaLa (Pennsylvania) 2011 Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 2-5, 2011</li> <li><i>October 2</i>: 3:15 PM to 5:30 PM</li><li><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=120266772&amp;name=DLFE-34960002.pptx">Slides attached</a></li> <li>Presenters: Jennifer Peterson, WebJunction, and Pennsylvania libraries providing services and programs in their communities.</li> </ul> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nelib.org/conference/onlineregistration?eventId=312703&amp;EventViewMode=EventDetails"><b>NELA (New England Library Association)Annual Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 2-4, 2011</li> <li><i>October 4</i>: 1/2 day workshop</li> <li>Presenter: Jennifer Pratt, State Library of North Carolina</li> </ul> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.idaholibraries.org/conferences/2011"><b>Idaho Library Association Annual Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates:Oct 6-9, 2011</li> <li><i>October 5</i>: 1/2-day pre-conference workshop</li> <li>Presenter: Kendra Morgan, WebJunction</li> </ul> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://nebraskalibraries.org/conference2011/home"><b>NLA/NEMA (Nebraska Libraries) Annual Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 5-7, 2011</li> <li><i>October 5</i>: 1/2-day workshop</li> <li>Presenter: Betha Gutsche, WebJunction</li> </ul> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://sdla.affiniscape.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&amp;subarticlenbr=24"><b>South Dakota Library Association Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 5-7, 2011</li> <li><i>October 5</i>: full-day workshop</li> <li>Presenter: Zola Maddison, WebJunction</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://www.wvla.org/conference/index.html"><b>WVLA (West Virginia Library Association) Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 5-7, 2011</li> <li><i>October 6</i>: 1 hour overview presentation</li> <li>Presenters: Susan Hayden, Amy Lilly, Eva McGuire, Pamela Thompson,</li> </ul> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://molib.org/conference/index.html"><b>Missouri Library Association Annual Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 5-7, 2011</li> <li><i>October 7</i>: 45-min overview presentation</li> <li>Presenter: Lauri McIntosh, WebJunction</li> </ul> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nevadalibraries.org/conference11/2011conference.html"><b>Nevada Library Association Annual Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 6-8, 2011</li> <li><i>October 7</i>: 80-min presentation</li> <li>Presenter: Betha Gutsche, WebJunction</li> </ul> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.iowalibraryassociation.org/index.cfm"><b>121st Iowa Library Association Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 12-14, 2011</li> <li><i>October 12</i>: full-day workshop</li> <li>Presenter: Kendra Morgan, WebJunction</li> </ul> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cal-webs.org/conference.html"><b>CAL (Colorado Association of Libraries) Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 13-15, 2011</li> <li><i>October 13</i>: 1/2-day workshop</li> <li>Presenter: Jennifer Pratt, State Library of North Carolina</li> </ul> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://mnlibraryassociation.org/mlaconference2011/"><b>Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 12-14, 2011</li> <li><i>October 13</i>: workshop in 3 1-hour sessions <ul> <li>Session 1: Libraries at the Front Lines of Workforce Recovery (<a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=120266772&amp;name=DLFE-34860003.pptx">slides attached</a>), with Jennifer Peterson and Chad Lubbers</li> <li>Session 2: Libraries Supporting Job Seekers (<a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=120266772&amp;name=DLFE-34890004.pptx">slides attached</a>), with Jennifer Peterson and Mary Moran</li> <li>Session 3: Libraries Supporting Small Business Development (<a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=120266772&amp;name=DLFE-34860002.pptx">slides attached</a>), with Jennifer Peterson and Melinda Ludwiczak</li> </ul></li> <li>Presenters: Jennifer Peterson, WebJunction; Mary Moran, Roseville Library, Ramsey County Library; Chad Lubbers, Washington County Library; and Melinda Ludwiczak, MELSA.</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://library.msstate.edu/mlaconf/index.php"><b>MLA (Mississippi Library Association) Annual Conference </b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 18-21, 2011</li> <li><i>October 18</i>, 1/2-day pre-conference workshop</li> <li>Presenter: Zola Maddison, WebJunction</li> </ul> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://scla.org/content/scla-annual-conference-2011"><b>SCLA (South Carolina Library Association) Annual Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 19-21, 2011</li> <li>1 hour over view presentation</li> <li>Presenter: Pam Jaskot, State Library of North Carolina</li> </ul> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.vla.org/?p=1851"><b>VLA (Virginia Library Association) Annual Conference</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Conference dates: Oct 27-28, 2011</li> <li><i>October 28</i>: 45-minute overview presentation</li> <li>Presenter: Pam Jaskot, State Library of North Carolina</li> </ul>

Betha Gutsche Wyoming State Library http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/99501960 2011-03-10T19:38:52Z

Brief description of Wyoming Department of Workforce Services and the Wyoming Workforce Alliance<br>

Wyoming State Library Cassandra Artale and Elizabeth Carrature http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/97861377 2011-03-10T19:38:13Z

New York State libraries partner with workforce development agencies and One Stop Centers to help job seekers.<br><p><i><span style="font-size: larger;">To hear the fully narrated presentation, open the attached PowerPoint slides and play the slide show from the beginning.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-size: larger;">New York state has a solid history of partnering with other agencies and providing services to the workforce. Collaborative efforts with the Department of Labor include:</span></p><ul> <li><span style="font-size: larger;">One StopCenters </span></li> <li><span style="font-size: larger;">Career Zone Portal </span></li> <li><span style="font-size: larger;">Smart 2010 skills matching software technology </span></li> <li><span style="font-size: larger;">Joint Webinar with NYSL and regional libraries (2010)</span></li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: larger;">Other strategic partners include:</span></p><ol><li><span style="font-size: larger;">NYS Department of Labor <br type="_moz" /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: larger;">NYS Department of Civil Service <br type="_moz" /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: larger;">NYS Department of Correctional Services <br type="_moz" /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: larger;">NYS Public Broadcasting <br type="_moz" /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: larger;">New York Library Association <br type="_moz" /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: larger;">Public Library Systems <br type="_moz" /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: larger;">School Library Systems</span></li></ol>

Cassandra Artale and Elizabeth Carrature Donna Jones Morris, Colleen Eggett, and Juan Tomas Lee http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/99501950 2011-03-10T19:37:42Z

A narrated slideshow about Utah State Library programs addressing the needs of patrons and libraries during the economic downturn.<br><p>Narrated by Donna Jones, Coleen Eggett, Juan Lee.</p> <embed height="510" width="640" src="http://blip.tv/play/gZZrgejkQwA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Donna Jones Morris, Colleen Eggett, and Juan Tomas Lee Martha Reid and Mara Siegel, VT Department of Libraries http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/97448316 2011-03-10T19:37:19Z

In challenging times, Vermont Department of Libraries supports the state&#039;s libraries with workshops for finding jobs and starting a business.<br>

Martha Reid and Mara Siegel, VT Department of Libraries Heather Stephenson http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/99501911 2011-03-10T19:35:00Z

Review of the outcomes, challenges faced, and future plans for providing training and programs for job seekers.<br>

Heather Stephenson M. Clare Zales and Susan Pannebaker http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/97685774 2011-03-10T19:34:23Z

The Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Office of Commonwealth Libraries seek to assist library staff and patrons in the economic downturn.<br>

M. Clare Zales and Susan Pannebaker Ann Joslin and Shirley Biladeau http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/99501383 2011-03-10T19:33:44Z

Workforce development tools at Idaho public libraries and BTOP grant proposal overview and budget and a narrated slideshow discussing the IdahoWorks partnership, addressing workforce recovery efforts statewide.<br><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=99501390&amp;name=DLFE-27000018.pptx">Attached presentation</a> by Ann Joslin (Notes section below the slides in the attached PowerPoint presentation provides additional information)</p> <p>Below presentation narrated by Shirley Biladeau.</p> <embed height="510" width="640" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://blip.tv/play/gZZrgejkNwA"></embed> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Ann Joslin and Shirley Biladeau Missy Lodge http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/104401962 2011-03-10T19:33:21Z

A narrated slideshow on the activities of the State Library of Ohio that support workforce development efforts statewide.<br><p>Narrated by Missy Lodge.</p> <p><embed height="510" width="640" src="http://blip.tv/play/gZZrgejkQQA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></p>

Missy Lodge Mary Boone, State Librarian http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/99501553 2011-03-10T19:32:14Z

Bringing NTIA, BTOP, and PCC federal stimulus funds to North Carolina<br>

Mary Boone, State Librarian Norma Blake and Joan Divor http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/97448192 2011-03-10T19:31:42Z

New Jersey State Library initiative creates awareness and support community needs in economic tough times and narrated slideshow discussing regional efforts by the Burlington County Library System addressing workforce recovery efforts in New Jersey.<br><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=97448198&amp;name=DLFE-26310005.pdf">Attached presentation</a> by Norma Blake about the New Jersey State Library campaign to portray libraries as transformative forces. Strategies include:</p> <ul> <li>Tell Us Your Story Campaign</li> <li>Get Help Forums</li> <li>Snapshot: One Day in the Life of New Jersey Libraries</li> </ul> <p>Presentation below narrated by Joan Divor.</p> <embed height="510" width="640" src="http://blip.tv/play/gZZrgejkPwA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Norma Blake and Joan Divor Honore Bray http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/99501535 2011-03-10T19:27:48Z

Overview of statewide database purchase, computer training, e&#045;resources, and partnerships<br>

Honore Bray Barbara Reading http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/104343693 2011-03-10T19:27:21Z

A narrated slideshow of workforce recovery efforts from the Missouri State Library<br><p>Narrated by Barbara Reading and Ann Roberts.</p> <embed height="510" width="640" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://blip.tv/play/gZZrgejkOwA"></embed> <p>Slide deck attached.</p>

Barbara Reading Mary Ann Van Cura http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/99501501 2011-03-10T19:25:33Z

Initiatives to raise awareness of digital literacy needs, partnering to provide resources and training<br>

Mary Ann Van Cura Robert Maier, Marlene Heroux, Donna Maturi http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/97448412 2011-03-10T19:24:34Z

Libraries in Massachusetts prepare residents to meet economic challenges through web resources, patron training and partnerships with non&#045;library agencies and narrated slideshow on workforce recovery efforts by the Northshore Networking Group.<br><p><a href="/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=97448418&amp;name=DLFE-26310009.pdf">Attached presentation</a> by Robert Maier and Marlene Heroux</p> <p>Presentation below narrated by Donna Maturi.</p> <embed height="510" width="640" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://blip.tv/play/gZZrgejkOgA"></embed> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Robert Maier, Marlene Heroux, Donna Maturi Nini Beegan and Rebecca Sullivan http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/97685646 2011-03-10T19:24:08Z

The Maryland library community responds to the current economic environment with resources and training for the workforce.<br>

Nini Beegan and Rebecca Sullivan State Library of Louisiana http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/99501472 2011-03-10T19:23:10Z

How BTOP Round 1 funds are being used to provide laptops and access to online training and resources<br>

State Library of Louisiana Wayne Onkst http://www.webjunction.org/project-compass/-/articles/content/99501450 2011-03-10T19:21:40Z

Using grant funds to expand and update computers and technology training to help unemployed and underemployed Kentuckians.<br>

Wayne Onkst