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Everything you need to know about training you learned in summer reading programs: what if technology trainers used some of the paths already forged by summer reading program planners?
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Computers in Libraries
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September 1, 2003
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Fall is here and children's librarians everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief; summer reading programs are over for another year. Or are they?
I spent 4 1/2 years traveling to public libraries around the U.S. as a computer trainer in The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's U.S. library program, and no matter where I went it seemed the librarians were in some way thinking about or working on summer reading programs, regardless of the season and regardless of the size of the library. When I would teach PowerPoint, librarians would use the program to create summer reading program slide shows. When I would teach Microsoft Publisher, they would want to use it to make signs and ...
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