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Library Rescue!

PLAN is now accepting applications for our Library Rescue Grant which provides Texas libraries project support and crisis management by providing up to a week of hands-on support to complete projects. The grant application can be found HERE. Click the image for more information.

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Comanche Public Library Rescue!

April 6th, starting at 9 am, we are helping out the Comanche Public Library! Director Deborah Hanson is ready to genrefy her children’s collection. We will be pulling books into chosen subject collections and playing with lots of colorful stickers. Join us for a fun day of creating a more dynamic children’s nonfiction collection for the Comanche community.

If you are interested in helping, please contact Dayna Williams, Assistant Executive Director of PLAN at dayna@libaction.net or at 361-212-0099.


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Geek Your Library – Training Opportunity

What is a geek, and how can you embrace geek culture at your Library? Bring in often underserved communities into your Library with collections, displays, and programs inviting patrons to flaunt their fandoms. From role-playing, anime, and science fiction, to football, Bridgerton, and , (yes) books, invite lovers of specific genres to find the Library and each other.

Join Lisa Youngblood, director of the Stewart C. Meyer Harker Heights Public Library, for this free, virtual training and will take place March 20th from 10am-11am. While this training is meant for rural libraries, anyone is able to attend. Register now to join!

Register HERE to attend!

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Saving Time and Taking Requests – Training Opportunity

When it comes to collection development, time is money, space is money, and money is…also money. How do you develop a collection that meets community needs and engages readers when you’re working with limited resources? Becca and Bethni, from the Georgetown Public Library, will tell you how you can leverage tools from professional organizations, vendors, and your ILS to save time while curating a responsive, diverse collection.

This will be a free, virtual training and will take place March 21st from 10am – 11am. While this training is meant for rural libraries, anyone is able to attend. Register HERE to join!


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Shhhake It Off! – Training Opportunity

We all know how hard it is to get tweens and teens into the libraries right? They think that there’s nothing there for them, that we’re all just old librarians wearing cardigans at the ready to shush them, right? WRONG! We’re going to learn some new ways to break down those stereotypes and reconnect with tweens and teens and prove them that no, we aren’t all just little grey-haired old people wearing boring cardigans and that we really do want them back in the libraries and even have programs just for them!

Join Kansas Terry for this free, virtual training, which will take place March 28th from 10am – 11am. While this training is meant for rural libraries, anyone is able to attend. Register HERE to join!

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Digital Navigation for Rural Libraries – Training Opportunity

Join Dianna Landes, director of the Lakehills Area Library, as she guides us through digital navigation. Find out how we can help our patrons learn technical skills that are vital in our highly digitized world.

This will be a free, virtual training and will take place April 26th from 10am-11am. While this training is meant for rural libraries, anyone is able to attend. Register HERE to join!