Presentation by Sarah Washburn (TechSoup) at the ARSL-ABOS conference in Denver, CO (Oct. 2010)

1. No Need to Reinvent the WheelARSL and ABOS joint conference Oct. 2010

2. Meet your neighbor. Flickr user: Aidan Jones

3. What’s your challenge? Flickr user: stuant33

4. Challenges from the audience Board created a policy to keep kids off PAC if they aren’t supervised by adult (KS) Updating PCs and keeping them consistent (Centurion Guard, SteadyState) Bookmobile: consistent connection (CO) [suggestions from group: Mi-Fi, Sprint hotspot]

5. TechSoup for Libraries What might be “that’s nothing” to you may be an “aha!” to someone else. Listen Share Learn }

6. TechSoupforLibraries.org = stuff DONATED Products (save 80-90%) FREE content FREE events FREE resources +

7. Donated Products webinar & phone conferencing* FLICKRstaff scheduling* refurbished computers*financial management *FLIP VIDEO* keyboarding for patrons * educational software *photocopiersMICROSOFT * web site design* graphic design video cameras* virus protection* label makers*donor management*SYMANTEC*GIS (mapping) *WikisADOBE *hard drives* remote desktop *firewalls postage machines*enterprise applications telephony* computer–based courses

9. Story of an open source library

10. Security Basics: keep your computers safeThis is how we do it: Webinars (all archived!) PAST archived webinar: Flip’n out at your library!

11. This is how we do it: Spotlights

12. This is how we do it: Guest bloggers

13. Some topics we cover

14. We rely on you.

15. TechSoup is here to help. sarah@techsoupglobal.org TechSoupforLibraries.org