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Gamifying the Onboarding Process Webinar 
Onboarding can be scary for new employees, ineffective for trainers, and frustrating for all involved. By gameifying the process, you can improve information retention while increasing motivation. Learn how to create a new employee challenge that is interesting, consistent, and fun!

The State Library has submitted to IMLS our Five Year Plan for 2023-2027.  This plan takes into account findings and recommendations from the required evaluation of our current Five Year Plan (2018-2022) along with a needs assessment. 

The State Library of North Carolina announces the 2022-2023 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant awardees. This year's federal allotment will be distributed on behalf of North Carolina's libraries through programs and services available under the North Carolina LSTA Five Year Plan. The 37 awards, totaling $2,047,954, go to local library projects that:

     • Strengthen Capacity



     • Expand Access



     • Engage Communities

The State Library of North Carolina recognizes that deeper learning about bias, structural racism, and racism in libraries is essential for moving the profession forward to create truly diverse and inclusive institutions. Available for all statewide library staff through the SLNC Niche Academy, the Racial Equity in Libraries Toolkit has been created to increase awareness and knowledge around structural racism in the United States, North Carolina, and within the library profession. The interactive nature of this Toolkit makes it one of a kind within the public library world.

The Adapting Technology program accepted applications that will allow for libraries to improve library operations through the purchase of technology that supports efforts to enable libraries to reach residents, especially in support of education, health, and workforce development needs.

NC Cardinal Resource Sharing Consortium Celebrates 10th Anniversary!  
NC Cardinal celebrates its tenth anniversary this year! This growing consortium of North Carolina Public Libraries began with a group of public library directors envisioning a library card that could be used throughout the state. In 2011 the first five public library systems joined, using the open-source Evergreen Integrated Library System software for their shared catalog. In 2013, sixteen member libraries began sharing materials, including books, videos, audiobooks, and music. By the end of June

Best Practices for Virtual or Socially Distant Programs Online is part of the webinar series Making the Most of Going Digital: Optimizing Virtual Services for Customer Engagement.

Best Practices for Virtual or Socially Distant Programs Online

Now that you have created an engaging virtual or socially distant program that meets your customers’ wants and needs, what are some best practices that you can use to increase awareness, participation, and engagement?

Developing Virtual Programming Online

Libraries have been offering programming for decades, and in many cases, the model has been, “Let’s plan a program, promote it, and see who shows up.” This approach hasn’t changed much, even with the proliferation of virtual and streaming programs. In this session, we will discuss a method for planning programs that begins with the end in mind. Starting with identifying your customer’s needs and wants, then developing programs and services to meet those needs and wants. We’ll discuss how to use research – quantitative and qualitative – to plan virtual