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Libraries Ready to Code Opens Call for Applications: Mini-Grants for Digital Skills Programs
In advance of Digital Learning Day, 91´«Ã½ is opening a call for applications for $700 mini-grants to school, tribal, public, and academic libraries to design and implement programs using Google’s Applied Digital Skills resources. Applications are due...
New course on health insurance enrollment added to PLA’s DigitalLearn website
CHICAGO — In coordination with Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment for 2020, which runs Nov. 1–Dec. 15, 2019, in states that use the Federal Marketplace Platform, the Public Library Association (PLA) has released a new online tutorial to help...
Libraries Ready to Code Opens Call for Applications: Hour of Code Mini-Grants
In advance of Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek), an annual event to get students excited about coding, 91´«Ã½ is opening a call for applications for $300 mini-grants to school and public libraries to facilitate an Hour of Code activity for youth...
PLA to share digital skill-building tools in free September webinar
CHICAGO – Public libraries have long been leaders in bringing people into the digital world, providing programs and services that help patrons get jobs, gain knowledge, increase productivity, and engage with others online. Leveraging and strengthening...
Upcoming webinar offers guidance on starting a WiFi hotspot lending program at the library
CHICAGO -- Last month, PLA announced a new project, supported by Microsoft Corp., called DigitalLead: Rural Libraries Creating New Possibilities, which seeks to increase digital skills programming and access to technology in rural communities. Through...
CHICAGO — Today, the Public Library Association (PLA) announced a new effort, supported by Microsoft Corp., to increase digital skills programming and access to technology in rural communities. Through $400,000 donated by Microsoft Philanthropies, PLA...
How media consumption and technology impact the learning of K–12 students: an updated text
CHICAGO — Though media literacy and information literacy are intertwined, there are important differences; and there has never been a more urgent need for an incisive examination of the crucial role librarians and other educators can play in teaching the...
Anonymity is examined in new book from the Center for the Future of Libraries
CHICAGO — " Anonymity,” by Alison Macrina and Talya Cooper, is the newest volume in a series from 91´«Ã½’s Center for the Future of Libraries. The Library Futures Series is edited by Miguel A. Figueroa, Director of the Center for the Future of Libraries, and...
CHICAGO -- Today the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) and Public Library Association (PLA) announced the names of another 36 libraries across five states, which have been selected to receive funding from Libraries Lead with Digital Skills, an initiative...
A guide to successful community technology projects
CHICAGO — As a newly minted librarian, Margaret Heller volunteered at a grassroots independent library founded to bring together the work of disparate art communities of Chicago. Since then she has participated in many library technology communities with...
CHICAGO – The Public Library Association (PLA) is working with Capital One Financial Corporation to bring innovative financial literacy resources to public libraries across the U.S. Through this project, PLA and the 91´«Ã½ will help...
Metaliterate learning for the post-truth world
CHICAGO — Metaliteracy, Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson’s revolutionary framework for information literacy, is especially well suited as a tool for ensuring that learners can successfully navigate today’s information morass. Indeed, it is starkly...
How to judge a book by its cover—and everything else
CHICAGO — Paying attention to subtext is a crucial component of literacy. However, the concept of peritextual analysis takes such examination much further, teaching readers how to evaluate information and sources using elements that precede or follow the...
CHICAGO — Digital literacy is a powerful subject, which supports inclusivity, social mobility and digital citizenship globally. “ Digital Literacy Unpacked,” published by Facet Publishing and available through the 91´«Ã½ Store, brings together thought...
91´«Ã½'s Libraries Ready to Code to Release Beta Collection at 2018 Annual Conference
The 91´«Ã½’s (91´«Ã½) Libraries Ready to Code initiative, sponsored by Google, is releasing the beta version of the Ready to Code Collection at the 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans. A release reception will be held...
