Sacramento Public Library held its annual Staff Training Day today and it was a great time! Folks from 27 branches across the county as well as all of our important support departments came together at the Central Library to meet, eat, hear an exciting keynote from our new Library Director Rivkah Sass, and most importantly, learn from one another in an impressive series of workshops throughout the day. Workshop topics ran the gamut from computer and database training sessions, customer service-related courses, retirement planning, programming ideas, project management skills, supervision techniques, volunteer coordinating, ergonomics, and my favorite, the technology petting zoo!
Judging by the turnout, I wasn't the only one who loved the petting zoo, either! Check out the turnout in this shot:
SPL's Digital Services Library Megan Wong put together an exciting session that let people get their hands on a wide variety of tech toys. There were digital cameras, flip video cameras, a Skype set-up, a magic jack, a netbook, an iPod Touch, a Kindle and a Sony eReader, Guitar Hero, Nintendo DSI's, a Wii, and even a robotic lawn mower (though I'm not sure how that one figures into the library setting)! I was really excited to see the enthusiasm that exists at the Library for learning about new technologies as evidenced by the turnout for this program; even more impressive to me, though, was how familiar so many of the attendees were with most of what we had to offer. The staff at SPL are really a pretty tech savvy bunch!
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