{"id":12431,"date":"2015-08-03T17:12:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/pnr\/dragonfly\/?p=12431"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:08:04","slug":"webinar-technology-planning-tips-for-small-libraries","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/webinar-technology-planning-tips-for-small-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: Technology Planning Tips for Small Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arsl.info\/\">The Association for Rural &amp; Small Libraries (ARSL)<\/a> announces&#8230;<br \/>\nPlease join us for this free webinar, geared specifically to the needs of small libraries (and featuring one of our ARSL board members, Julie Elmore!):<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technology Planning Tips for Small Libraries<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Wednesday, August 19, 11:00am-12:00pm PDT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How do you maximize your technology resources? When should you replace computers? How do you manage software updates? Do you have enough bandwidth to support patron Internet use? Technology decisions can be difficult to make, but a technology plan can help you focus your efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Join us for this free webinar to learn from small libraries that have used technology planning to make better decisions, be more prepared, and improve services to their communities. Even with limited time and resources, a technology plan can help your library stay up-to-date. We will share tips and tactics to help you create a plan for your library\u2019s technology.<!--more-->Our guests for this webinar come from two small libraries with successful tech planning processes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Julie Elmore, Library Director, Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library (IN)<\/li>\n<li>Travis Montgomery, Technology Specialist, Liberty Lake Municipal Library (WA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This webinar will be recorded and archived on the TechSoup for Libraries website. Please register for this webinar to receive an email notification when the archive is available. Email questions to <a href=\"mailto:cschimpf@techsoupglobal.org\">cschimpf@techsoupglobal.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association for Rural &amp; Small Libraries (ARSL) announces&#8230; Please join us for this free webinar, geared specifically to the needs of small libraries (and featuring one of our ARSL board members, Julie Elmore!): Technology Planning Tips for Small Libraries Wednesday, August 19, 11:00am-12:00pm PDT How do you maximize your technology resources? When should you&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/webinar-technology-planning-tips-for-small-libraries\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12431","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-training-education"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16923,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431\/revisions\/16923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}