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.
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Estimated course length: 18-hour
- Continuing Education Units: 18 credits in Library Services to the Public
- Course Open Date: January 1, 2025