Postcards from the Cracker Coast

I recently read a post about open sources options for education resources. 50 Open Source Tools That Replace Popular Education Apps has a list of resources in various categories, not just for K12 folks, but for home-schoolers and academics too.

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Helen Moeller, Director of the LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library, announced this week that she would be retiring at the end of the month. PLAN is once more losing one its founding members. Helen served on the first Board of Directors as Vice-President from 1991-1993. She also served on the Board [...]

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National Library Week is just around the corner.  Bay County Public Library has a week full of activities planned.  Be sure to check out their website for the entire list of National Library Week Activies.
Also be sure to check out award winning Kathy L. Patrick, author of The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life.  [...]

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Fort Walton Beach Library held a birthday party for Elmo on February 6.  The kids had a fantastic time.   Just check out the pictures on Flickr!�

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The Lyrasis Preservation staff is presenting a series of articles on developing a disaster plan by May Day. You can find the Step One and Step Two on the Lyrasis blog, “Check it Out.”
Remember that the Lyrasis Preservation department can provide valuable assistance both before and after a disaster strikes your library. Check [...]

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Do you have trouble getting in touch with your tech support department. Then, when you finally do, they ask, ” Did you try this, this and this?” The suggestions in this post from Web Worker Daily provide a list of tactics to try before you call. No more waiting for Tech Support [...]

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With funding from an LSTA grant, Wilderness Coast Public Libraries has produced a series of online training videos on a variety of topics. All handouts and videos are in the public domain. Topics include

Computer basics
MS Word
MS Excel
Photoshop
PowerPoint
Genealogy programs

These courses can provide an alternative or supplement to the classes your staff provides for the [...]

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Is your organization struggling with policies for social media applications? Check out the post on Mashable entitled “Social Media Policies From 80+ Organizations.” If your governing body hasn’t brought this up yet, now would be a good time to start investigating.

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In the Open Source workshop on September 17 Nicole Engard provided dozens of free open source alternatives to software that libraries normally could not afford to buy. Here are just a few:

OpenOffice - office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more; great alternative to Microsoft office for your public access [...]

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September is Library Card Sign-up Month and the Bay County Public Library wants to make sure that all children in Bay County have the smartest card of all — a library card.
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Studies show that children who are read to in the home and who use the library perform better in school and are more [...]

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