Library staff are expected to embrace technology advancements and keep their skills sharp and their libraries relevant. But what about library boards—how tech savvy are your trustees? The more that trustees are dialed into a personal use of technology, the better advocates they will be for the library’s technology needs. Learn some fun and practical ways to inspire greater tech savviness in your trustees. You don’t need a board of IT specialists, just a board that has a sharper set of digital tools.

This webinar, hosted by WebJunction in collaboration with the Association for Rural and Small Libraries, is an encore presentation of a session presented at the 2016 ARSL conference.

Presented by: Bonnie McKewon, Consultant, State Library of Iowa, Northwest District

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Related Resources and Links

• Association for Rural & Small Libraries
• Friends & Trustees on WebJunction, and other resources
• Handout: Tech Savvy Bingo (doc)
• The Salmon of Doubt: hitchhiking the galaxy one last time, by Douglas Adams
• Pew Internet Research http://www.pewresearch.org/
  
  • Libraries 2016
  • Lee Rainie presentation, How the public grades libraries – and uses libraries
• Public Library Standards, State Library of Iowa (pdf)
• Green library boards
  
  • Minot Public Library
  • North Liberty forges a paperless future with iPads
  • Gretna Public Library - Applications for Joining the Library Board
  • City of Sioux City
  • Village of McFarland
  • Forsyth County
• Grand Forks Public Library - Online Resources
  
• Common Craft
  
• United For Libraries
• Libraries Transform 
• Project Outcome 
• Techopedia 
• TechSoup