Additional Handout Topics include:

• View the presentation (91 slides, via Slideshare)
• Your Library's Web Presence: Four Organizational Issues - Priority, Time, Skills, Attitude (4 page PDF)
  Everyone is online: advantages and challenges of encouraging staff contributions
  Through candid quotes, frontline staff/bloggers at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library illuminate the four organizational issues facing libraries who want to open up their website content to staff contributors
• Social networking applications, suggestions and examples from small and large libraries (1 page PDF)
  Engage your customers in conversation using these social networking tools
• If you don’t do anything else – go back to your library and do this… (2 page PDF)
• Innovative and practical examples that you can implement at your library today, including:
• • customer contributors to a book review blog
  • book, movie and music recommendations from teens
  • Photos and video used to market your library and engage your community

   

Friday, November 6, 2009 at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library

Handouts or booklists from some presenters will be added to support their presentations and share their expertise.

Here are a few of the articles and resources that librarians at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library used when beginning to plan our first Neighborhood.

• "Extreme Library Makeover ONE YEAR LATER." Authors: Bernstein, Joan E. Schalk-Greene, …

Handouts and Resources from April 2009 Texas Library Association Presentation including video, photos and pdf handouts

Access the handouts from the March 2008 PLA presenation and tour the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library's travel neighborhood and crime section with a flickr slideshow and youtube video tour.