The Montana History Portal encourages cultural institutions to digitize historic and contemporary resources reflecting Montana's rich cultural heritage and to make them freely available for lifelong learning.

Course Objectives

Participants will get a basic overview of the Montana History Portal including:
  • Navigation
  • Searching
  • Creating an account
  • Saving
  • Tagging
  • Recollections
  • Permissions
  • Reproductions
Estimated Course Length: 1.5 hours
Continuing Education Units: 1.5 Library Services to the Public
Course Open Date: December 7, 2023

Participants will:

  • Understand why library services focusing on youth are important
  • Learn about the basics of collection development and resources they can use to help with collection development.
  • Explore different approaches to library programming and program development
  • Consider different methods of library outreach and how to apply it in their specific context. 
Estimated Course Length: 1 hour
Continuing Education Credits: 1 for Library Services to the Public
Course Open Date: June 14, 2023



Participants will:

  • Understand the major physical, emotional, and mental developmental milestones of children from birth to age six and reflect on how that might influence library services, space, and policy;
  • Learn about library services for young children and consider how your library’s services best support their needs;
  • Learn about different kinds of library programming for young children.
Estimated Course Length: 1 hour
Continuing Education Credits: 1 for Library Services to the Public
Course Open Date: July 25, 2023


Participants will:

  • Understand why library services focusing on youth are important
  • Understand why library services focusing on youth are important
  • Understand the major physical, emotional, and mental developmental milestones of school-age children and reflect on how that might influence library services, space, and policy
  • Learn about different kinds of library programming for school-age children
  • Learn about library services for school-age children and consider how your library’s services best support their needs
Estimated Course Length: 1 hour
Continuing Education Credits: 1 for Library Services to the Public
Course Open Date: September 1, 2023



Participants will:

  • Understand the major physical, emotional, and mental developmental milestones of teens and tweens and reflect on how that might influence library services, space, and policy;
  • Learn about library services for tweens and teens and consider how your library’s services best support their needs;
  • Learn about different kinds of library programming for teens and tweens.
Estimated Course Length: 1 hour

Continuing Education Credits: 1 for Library Services to the Public

Course Open Date: October 23, 2023



This course is for registered participants of the 2025 Virtual Ready to Read Rendezvous only.

Participants will learn:

  • How to access and use support in early literacy
  • The value of your role in the library
  • Think about how you might build upon your existing programs.
  • Ways to talk about the work you do in your communities
  • To identify the impact of story time on children, development, community, culture, and positive interpersonal connection
  • To create an outline to envision and create an updated or enhanced story time experience.
  • Practice communicating the story of your program to build experience and efficacy sharing the importance of this work
  • To grow programs based on their vision as described in their stories.

Estimated course length: 18-hour

Continuing Education Units: 18 credits in Library Services to the Public

Course Open Date: January 1, 2025