The contents of the course are from webinars and the Connecting with Local Government Officials handbook.
Participants will learn about
- How to develop better relationships with local government officials
- How to talk about the value of libraries
- Estimated Course Length: 1 hour
- Course open date: September 6, 2024.
Participants will learn what it means to be an effective and ethical board member from the experts!
- Tracy Cook, Montana State Library Consulting Librarian
- Dan Clark, MSU Extension Local Government Center Director
- Ashley Kent, MSU Extension Local Government Center Associate Director
- Estimated Course Length: 2 hours
- Course Open Date: April 21, 2025
- Learn about different forms of local government and about how the form of government impacts the library
- Learn about the work of key local government officials and how the library interacts with those officials
- Be able to better understand some of the sources of tension between local government and library boards and why they exist
- Learn about techniques for managing areas of tension
Estimated course length: 1-hour
- Learn about Montana’s public library standards
- Learn about what the public library standards look like in practice
- Learn about resources to help plan and evaluate how your library can meet the standards
- Estimated course length: 1 hour
- Course Open Date: January 16, 2026