Poster session at SDLA Conference in Sioux Falls

Cindy Messenger, Lynda Lewis and Ronelle Thompson at the West River Rural Libraries poster session for the 2010 South Dakota Library Association Annual Conference in Sioux Falls.

Conference Tips

These were tips for ALA this year. Very adaptable to our conference.

I Love Libraries

Something to think about for 2011


Nominate your librarian for the third year of the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award!

The award really is a big deal:up to 10 librarians in public, school, college, community college and university libraries nationwide will win $5,000 and be honored at an award reception in New York, hosted by The New York Times.

You can read about the 2009 winners here.

Keep up the exercise

A great way to get your upper and lower body warmed up here

While your there check out the mini workout videos.

Old Book Journals

Just Something I Made blog
- Check out these journals. (scroll to the bottom of the blog entry) I like her music too.

Does anyone have a binding tool? We could make these for convention.

Thinking Outside the Box

Hello Everyone, I googled 'thinking outside the box' or 'thinking off the page' and found these sites.


What's So Hard About "Thinking Outside the Box?" of course with a HAPPY FACE

11 Ways to think outside the box

Think outside the box

TOB puzzles

I like this photo

Think Outside the Bun - Taco Bell .....

Think Outside the Book ...library


TOB card Game .. has anyone heard of this?

100 online brainstorming tools to think outside the box

Creativity is the ability to think outside the box.

Libraries supporting their communities

Here's a terrific article about what some bigger libraries are doing to help support their community through difficult times.  My boss sent it on to me and I think it has some great ideas for partnering with your community.  I hope it gives you some ideas too.

http://webapps.icma.org/pm/9208/public/cover.cfm?author=Molly%20Donelan%20and%20Liz%20Miller&title=Public%20Libraries%20Daring%20to%20Be%20Different

Paula