On March 9, 2005 State Librarian of California Susan Hildreth led the first in a series of quarterly webcasts with the State Librarian hosted by Infopeople, a statewide grant project that provides a wide array of training and workplace education to staff in California libraries.

In the Infopeople webcasts, Hildreth touches on hot topics in the California library world, discussing emerging library trends and the services available to the field from the California State Library. The series lets people ask Hildreth questions such as “What is happening at the California State Library?" "What new services or grant opportunities may be forthcoming from Library Development Services?" "What are the State Library’s latest published research reports?" "What does the State Librarian really do?”

The next webcasts are at 1 pm on August 3, and December 7, 2005. Each live webcast session can accommodate up to 150 simultaneous connections. The webcasts will be archived on the Infopeople website at

http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/archived.php.