Always learning

The Brookings Public Library staff is taking a 10 week online course on Web 2.0, sponsored by the South Dakota State Library. This South Dakota Library Challenge course will teach us about blogs, RSS, podcasting, Flickr, wikis and more. Some of this is already known by the more "hip" staff (there's a term that dates me!). The rest of us are keeping up with a little help from our friends.

Learning new things can be challenging, fun, and, at times, frustrating. It is part of our mission to keep up with or ahead of what's happening in the world and that includes technology. So if you see staff members bent over computers, muttering in acronyms, it's just us learning about the next new thing.

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Looking to the future

The Library is beginning its next round of strategic planning in order to set the direction of the library for the next five years. To do this, a committee of eleven citizens, library board members, and library staff members are meeting to review the community vision, assess where there are needs, determine what response the Library might have to those needs, and select appropriate library service roles. If it sound like a lot of work, well, yes, it is. But work that is very rewarding and exciting.



The future awaits us.



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