South Dakota State Library

Does your library offer a summer reading program? Are you looking for books to recommend to students while on summer break? Match your readers’ interests with Gale Books and Authors, a reader’s advisory database available from the South Dakota State Library, that makes finding a great read much less challenging. With lots of ways to browse, an intuitive design, read-alikes, reviews, award winners and themed book lists, and more this resource answers the age-old question, “What do I read next?” Join us to explore this fun and helpful resource! This session will be recorded for those who can’t attend; an attendance certificate will be provided to those who attend live.

Miss Humblebee’s Academy is a fun, interactive, and award-winning, online kindergarten-readiness learning solution for children ages 3 to 6. Available through the South Dakota State Library, it includes hundreds of guided lessons with sound cues across language and literacy, art, music, math, science, and social studies. Miss Humblebee’s Academy also assesses cognitive skills at regular intervals for measurable improvement toward kindergarten readiness and offers a developmental observation checklist allowing parents to review and record additional conditions of preparedness. Parents can track their child’s learning outcomes through weekly progress reports that are emailed and available online 24/7. Join us as we walk through how to use Miss Humblebee’s Academy and answer your questions.

This session will be recorded for those who can’t attend; an attendance certificate will be provided to those who attend live.

Your collection in Gale eBooks from the State Library of South Dakota offers a wide variety of sources that help meet reference desk and classroom needs in an easy-to-use platform that offers the best of both worlds – streamlined search results and book browsing capabilities. Join us for this session to explore your available titles and pick up best practices for work with the platform. This session will be recorded for those who can’t attend; an attendance certificate will be provided to those who attend live.