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It's not too late to join the summer reading program! Programs and prizes available for all ages, including adults. To learn more about signing up you and your family for summer reading at the library, view the detailed web page here, or talk with one of our librarians during your next visit. The library district also has plenty of physical and digital reading resources available year-round. Browse the library catalog here, or find additional online reading resources here. The rest of this newsletter highlights a variety of resources that can help you start, advance, or improve your career experience.
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Explora by EBSCO This database provides reference guides toward starting and maintaining a small business. |
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Idaho Department of Labor This Idaho website allows you to find a job, list a job, learn job skills, and more! |
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics This website provides current information about various jobs, occupations, and industries in the United States. You can also access this information through the CareerInfo app, available to download for free from the Google Play and Apple App stores. |
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Uptime : a practical guide to personal productivity and wellbeing
by Laura Mae Martin
"Google's Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the new way of work work for you, providing actionable steps to optimize your productivity, accomplish more, prevent burnout, and cultivate a harmonious work-life balance"
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The cure for burnout : how to find balance and reclaim your life
by Emily Ballesteros
Combining scientific and cultural research, a burnout management coach and TikTok influencer shares the tried-and-true strategies she successfully implemented with clients around the globe to demystify burnout for our post-pandemic world—and set us on a path toward a life of personal and professional balance. Illustrations.
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Second class : how the elites betrayed America's working men and women
by Batya Ungar-Sargon
Based on her travels and interactions, the author shares the stories of working-class Americans who explain the struggles and triumphs of their increasingly precarious lives, showing how America has broken its contract with its laboring class and what we can do to get back the American dream.
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Welcome to AI : a human guide to artificial intelligence
by David L. Shrier
"Artificial intelligence is driving workforce disruption on a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution. In schools and universities AI technology has forced a reevaluation of the way students are taught and assessed. Meanwhile, ChatGPT has become acultural phenomenon, reaching a hundred million users and attracting a $10 billion investment in its parent company, OpenAI. The race to dominate the generative AI market is accelerating at breakneck speed, inspiring breathless headlines and immense public interest. Welcome to AI provides a rare view into a frontier area of computer science that will change everything about how you live and work. Read this book and better understand how to succeed in the AI-enabled future"
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Lead through anything: harness purpose, vitality, and agility to thrive in the face of unrelenting change /
by Dustin Seale
"In today's world of near-constant disruption, every leader faces a slew of conflicting demands involving employees of different generations, cultures, and age groups; one of history's tightest labor markets; and never-ending geopolitical, climate, financial, and health challenges. Lead Through Anything provides simple, tested and actionable strategies to help you continually level-up your impact as an individual, manager, and leader. It walks you through the process of developing a leadership mentality that balances three key elements to achieve sustainable success: Purpose: Create and share a vision that motivates collective achievements and aspirations Vitality: Generate a high level of connection and trust within your teams and organization Agility: Inspire and empower yourself and others to continuously learn and improve Lead Through Anything focuses on a wide variety of skills, such as aligning people and energy to a common cause, building effective teams and helping them work together more selflessly, establishing positive confidence more often in oneself and others, increasing engagement and retaining top talent, and shaping a positive, impact-driven organizational culture"
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